BOOTS
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$200
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A verb meaning "to walk in water" is in this alternate name for a fisherman's rubber hip boots
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waders
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$400
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Chukka boots are said to get their name from a period in this sport
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polo
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$600
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Chelsea boots are also called this music group's boots since they popularized them in the 1960s
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The Beatles
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$800
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Familial name for the women's lace-up boots in imitation of a 19th century style
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granny boots
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$1000
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You put these spiky plates on your hiking boots if you don't want to slip in the ice or snow
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crampons
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THE WORLD OF THE 1800s
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$200
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Based on a comment by the czar, this declining empire begun by Turkish tribes was known as "The Sick Man of Europe"
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the Ottoman Empire
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$400
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She wrote a letter to Napoleon asking if she could join him at Elba but she died in 1814 before hearing that just couldn't happen
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Josephine
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$600
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Mocked by other docs, Ignaz Semmelweis used antisepsis to vastly reduce women's death rate during this event
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childbirth
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$800
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This translation of certain plates was published in 1830; a much, much different version came to Broadway in 2011
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the Book of Mormon
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$1000
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In 1845 this 2-word phrase describing the inevitable expansion of U.S. territory was first used regarding Texas' annexation
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Manifest Destiny
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STOP IT!
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$200
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You can do this to your dog or your "enthusiasm"
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curb
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$400
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To fire from a job, or to attempt to kill Sarah Connor, onscreen
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terminate
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$600
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To refuse to proceed, or a pitcher's faux pas
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balk
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$800
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Legally, sending a this & this letter notifies someone of their misconduct & orders them to cut it out, pronto
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cease & desist
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$1000
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To not say anything impulsively, or another word for a song's chorus
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refrain
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WEBSITES
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$200
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(Sarah of Clue Crew presents from the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum.) Federal funding covers only about 2/3 of the Smithsonian's expenses, so to ready Neil Armstrong's space suit for Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, the Air and Space Museum raised more than $500,000 via a "Reboot the Suit" campaign on this community funding website
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Kickstarter
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$400
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Kenneth Lerer helped found this website to provide a liberal counterpart to the Drudge Report
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The Huffington Post
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$600
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wordpress.com says, "Everyone has a point of view" & their site is "the world's greatest" tool to create these online journals
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blogs
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$800
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To give a more personalized listening experience, this website uses its music genome project
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Pandora
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$1000
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Alexis Ohanian was still a student at UVA when he doodled what became the alien mascot for this website that he co-founded
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Reddit
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AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON
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$200
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Novelist Henry & playwright Arthur, both Brooklyn boys
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Miller
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$400
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Journalist Tom & novelist Thomas, both southern boys
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Wolfe
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$600
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Jackie, Suzanne, Wilkie
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Collins
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$800
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E.B., T.H. & Australian Nobelist Patrick
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White
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$1000
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Henry & Helen, who both wrote about title characters with the last name Jones
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Fielding
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BIG PLAY IN THE TEAM'S SUPER BOWL WIN
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$200
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2012: Mario Manningham makes an amazing 38-yard tiptoeing catch & beats the Pats
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the New York Giants
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$600
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1986: William "The Refrigerator" Perry ices the win with a 1-yard TD rumble
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the Bears
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REBOOTS
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$400
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Melissa McCarthy & Kristen Wiig were out to stop an otherworldly invasion of NYC in this 2016 film reboot
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Ghostbusters
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$800
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Eric Carter had Jack Bauer's very big shoes to fill on the reboot called this: "Legacy"
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24
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$1200
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Jay Hernandez wears Hawaiian shirts as the title P.I. on this CBS reboot
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Magnum P.I.
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$1600
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Liam Neeson was Hannibal Smith & Quinton "Rampage" Jackson was B.A. Baracus when this TV series was rebooted as a movie
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The A-Team
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$2000
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He took on the role of Spock when "Star Trek" jumped to the big screen in the 21st century
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(Zachary) Quinto
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CAPITAL ISLANDS
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$400
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Backed by the Blue Mountains, Kingston is the capital of this island country
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Jamaica
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$800
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This city on Luzon became the Philippine national capital in 1946, took a break & was reinstated in 1976
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Manila
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$1200
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The Caribbean capital city of St. John's is not on Barbuda but on this paired island
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Antigua
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$1600
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The capital, Cockburn Town, is on Grand Turk in this island group
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Turks and Caicos
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$2000
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This European capital is spread across the islands of Zealand & Amager
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Copenhagen
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THAT'S POLITICS
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$400
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In his political campaigns, Robert Francis O'Rourke has used this childhood nickname
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Beto
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$800
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In a 2008 presidential ad, Chuck Norris gave Huck facts & this governor gave Chuck facts
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(Mike) Huckabee
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$1200
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This avian term for an office holder of limited power dates back to the 18th century
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a lame duck
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$1600
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Pennsylvania's 7th district, shaped like "Goofy kicking Donald Duck", got nixed by a court in 2018 for going too far in this process
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gerrymandering
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$2000
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The word "oppo", short for this 2-word term, really took off in the 1992 presidential campaign
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opposition research
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Y IS THE ONLY VOWEL
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$400
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It's a place to find dumbbells
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a gym
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$800
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It replaces "your" in the Lord's Prayer
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thy
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$1200
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British clergyman Charles Wesley was a notable writer of these
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hymns
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$1600
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It's a short-tailed feline of European forests
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a lynx
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$2000
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It's a fluid-filled sac under the skin
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a cyst
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MEDICAL PROCEDURES
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$400
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This procedure involves the removal of a small piece of tissue for microscopic analysis
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a biopsy
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$800
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Aka a lumbar puncture, this procedure is used to diagnose such problems as polio & meningitis
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a spinal tap
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$1200
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Body fat is vacuumed out of tissues below the epidermis in this elective cosmetic surgery
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liposuction
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$1600
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Cross hatching is shading a drawing; this is checking recipient-donor compatibility for a blood transfusion
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cross-matching
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$2000
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A keratoplasty is another name for one of these eye part transplants
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cornea
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WHO SPEAKETH IN THE BIBLE?
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$400
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"I am innocent of the blood of this just person"
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Pontius Pilate
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$800
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"Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other"
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Solomon
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$1200
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"Suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me. And I fell unto the ground"
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Paul (Saul)
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$1600
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"Let me die with the Philistines"
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Samson
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$2000
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"Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God"
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Gabriel
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ADVERTISING & MUSIC
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N/A
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In 2008, 34 years after it made Billboard’s Top 10, this song title was used by a southern state in a tourism campaign
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"Sweet Home Alabama""
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