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AROUND OHIO
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Toledo is a major port on this Great Lake
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Erie
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Walsh University & the Pro Football Hall of Fame both opened in this city in the 1960s
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Canton
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30 miles of historic byway in Ohio are dedicated to this 19th century planter; the area includes some of his original nurseries
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Johnny Appleseed
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Through a narrow valley known locally as "The Flats", the Cuyahoga River divides this metropolis
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Cleveland
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It's your Ohio newscaster audition: pronounce this seat of Allen County, & remember it's not said like the city in Peru
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Lima
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WHERE DOES IT HURT?
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Dermatalgia
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skin
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Hepatalgia
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the liver
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Odontalgia
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teeth
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$800
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Arthralgia (these parts, whether hinge or ball-&-socket)
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joint
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Myalgia (these parts)
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muscles
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GIVE US ONE LETTER
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Type of shirt that proverbially suits you to this letter
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T
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Let's pull this unit of acceleration equal to the acceleration of gravity at the earth's surface
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G
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$600
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Chess notation for the piece that can move exactly one square in any direction
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K
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$800
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It begins 2 Mexican states but is the only letter not present in the names of the 50 U.S. states
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Q
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In 1927 Ford introduced its next generation of cars, the model this
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A
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IRRITABLE OWL SYNDROME
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Like others, this owl familiar of Harry Potter perished in "Deathly Hollows"
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Hedwig
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This owl named for its shrill cry gets very irritable when it is mobbed by the songbirds it normally preys on
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a screech owl
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It's safe to say Woodsy Owl would be peeved if you did this; he did ask us to "Give a hoot" & not to do it
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pollute
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Mr. Owl never does quite figure out exactly how many licks it takes to get to the center of one of these lollipops
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a Tootsie Pop
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When Winnie the Pooh & Piglet go to see Owl's tree house in this forest, the wind knocks the tree over
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the Hundred Acre Wood
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MONUMENTAL TELEVISION
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A Milwaukee statue of Henry Winkler's "Happy Days" character is rhymingly called "The Bronze" this
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Fonz
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A statue in Salem, Massachusetts honoring this 1960s sitcom has the main character riding a broomstick
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Bewitched
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This Kansas "City" that attracts western-loving tourists has a life-size statue of Marshal Dillon from "Gunsmoke"
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Dodge City
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Complete with carved Johnny, Johnny Carson Park is in this L.A. suburb, the longtime home of "The Tonight Show"
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Burbank
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A statue of this Jackie Gleason character graces the New York Port Authority Bus Terminal
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Ralph Kramden
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IN THE ENVIRONMENT
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It's the name in common to Paris' subway & Washington, D.C.'s rail system
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Metro
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It's another name for a winemaker
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a vintner
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It can mean the countries of eastern Asia, or to familiarize yourself with your surroundings
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Orient
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APOSTOLIC NAMES
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The OED lists "traitor" as a definition for this biblical name
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Judas
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As luck would have it, an oft-injured NFL quarterback with this apostolic name retired before the 2019 season began
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Andrew
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This apostolic name is also a game of flashing red, blue, yellow & green lights
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Simon
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In a Seuss tale a boy with this apostolic name had 500 hats
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Bartholomew
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The Spanish Diego is the equivalent to this apostolic name
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James
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NEWER WORLD HERITAGE SITES
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UNESCO mentioned the picturesque & romantic movements when it added this English "district" beloved by Coleridge
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the Lake District
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In 2019 UNESCO added Vatnajokull National Park, which contains Iceland's largest this... for now
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a glacier
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In 2018 UNESCO added Ivrea, an industrial commune near Turin where this Italian company made typewriters, not cooking oils
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Olivetti
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HELLO!
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This greeting is a shortening of Hebrew for "Peace be with you"
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shalom
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The OED spells this Australian greeting with an apostrophe
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g\'day
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$1200
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Unlike a more popular synonym, welina means "greetings" in this language but does not mean "goodbye"
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Hawaiian
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This 2-word Spanish greeting means "what's happening"
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que pasa
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Also a dance, this word is commonly used as a Swahili greeting
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mambo
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I ALSO COMPOSE FILM MUSIC
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Ludwig Göransson won Grammys for composing "Black Panther" & co-writing this 2018 Childish Gambino song
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"This Is America""
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Anyone who has seen "Birdman" can guess that its composer Antonio Sanchez is mostly known for playing these instruments
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drums
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$1600
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This man has composed music for some of the movies he's directed like "Flags of Our Fathers" & "Mystic River"
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Clint Eastwood
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In the 1930s this Russian composed "Peter & the Wolf" & scored the movie "Alexander Nevsky"
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Prokofiev
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ADMIRABLE ADMIRALS
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In 1864, Admiral David Farragut's forces sealed off this Alabama city, one of the last major southern supply ports
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Mobile
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After his victory at Manila Bay in 1898, he was given the rank of Admiral of the Navy
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George Dewey
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On July 30, 1588 Admiral, Howard left this city's harbor to meet the Armada; 2 years later, another ship set sail from there
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Plymouth
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Admiral Yi Sun-shin, who repelled multiple Japanese invasions in the 1590s, is this country's national hero
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Korea
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This admiral's tombstone at Arlington National Cemetery calls him the "Father of the Nuclear Navy"
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Hyman Rickover
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TL;DR
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1,200+ pages? Gimme the gist of this novel...the French invade Russia, m-hm ...500 characters?! ...Prince Andrey Bolkonsky...got it!
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War and Peace
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$800
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This 17th century adventure opens in La Mancha & about 800 pages later, its title guy renounces chivalry as foolish & dies
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Don Quixote
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$1200
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Dickens' tale of a seemingly endless lawsuit is contained in the 900+ pages of this "homely" novel
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Bleak House
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Formerly imprisoned in a château, our hero first spots the island in this title around 1/5 of the way through the 1,000 pages
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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Nearly living up to its name, this novel by David Foster Wallace boasts nearly 1,100 pages, including 10 on the disassembly of a bed
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Infinite Jest
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MAMMALS
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N/A
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A drawing of it by John Hunter, naturalist & governor of New South Wales, published in 1802 labels it Ornithorhyncus paradoxus
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a (duck-billed) platypus
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