WORLD LEADERS
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He reigned from 1066 to 1087 & one of those years should really help you
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William the Conqueror
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In 2003 it all came crashing down around him, including his statue on April 9
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Saddam Hussein
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He led from 1799 to 1814, took an unwanted vacation, returned & then was gone for good in 1815
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Napoleon
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Nicknamed "Uncle", this Communist was a leader in Vietnam from 1945 to 1969
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Ho Chi Minh
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Popular in 37 A.D., this man whose name means "little boot" was sent walking 4 years later
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Caligula
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NEWSPAPERS & MAGAZINES
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In 2007 Rupert Murdoch bought this newspaper that was started by Charles Dow in the 19th century
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the Wall Street Journal
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Marca, a Spanish sports daily, reports on this sport in particular
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soccer
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MT for short, this magazine for car enthusiasts celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2019
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Motor Trend
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In 2010 this mayoral name began appearing above "Businessweek" on a magazine that's been around since 1929
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Bloomberg
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Atlanta's top newspaper has this hyphenated name
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Journal-Constitution
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STATE SONGS
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Its state folk song is "Roll On, Columbia, Roll On"
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Washington
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Appropriately, it has a state bluegrass song, "Blue Moon of" itself
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Kentucky
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Maryland's state song "Maryland, My Maryland" is sung to the tune of this Christmas song
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"O Tannenbaum""
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In the lyrics of Vermont's state song, "these" title lofty peaks "are my home"
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the Green Mountains
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Wyoming's second state song, official since 2018, mentions this 4-letter river named for strong gusts in the area
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Wind
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NICKNAMES
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In the 1980s a Californian won the contest to nickname Seattle, with this entry out of Oz
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the Emerald City
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The grand scale of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 in C Major earned it this nickname, after the chief Roman god
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Jupiter
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This matinee idol and grandfather of actress Drew had good looks and an aquiline nose, which got him the nickname "The Great Profile"
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John Barrymore
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TEXTING ABBREV.
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F2F: let's get together this way
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face to face
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JK: only a joke
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just kidding
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ROTFL: you've made me hysterical
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rolling on the floor laughing
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$800
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OT: not pertaining to the issue at hand
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off-topic
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YBS: I'm trying to warn you
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you\'ll be sorry
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MOVIES ACROSS AMERICA
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(Hi, I'm Bill Ritter from New York's ABC7 [He presents from Queens, NY].) Philip Johnson designed the soaring towers of the New York State Pavilion at the 1964 World's Fair in the futuristic Googie style which fit perfectly in this 1997 film that featured them
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Men in Black
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(I'm Anne Elise Park with TXA21. [She presents from the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Dallas, Texas].) George W. Bush's Oval Office is one setting for the movie "W.", directed by this man who entered Yale the same year as Bush
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Oliver Stone
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(Hi, I'm Betty Davis from Local 10 [She presents from Miami, FL].) Miami Beach's Carlyle Hotel was a setting for this 1996 comedy starring Robins Williams & Nathan Lane
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The Birdcage
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(I'm Robert Hadlock from KXAN [He presents from Austin, TX].) The state capitol appears in 1982's "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas" which starred this late actor as Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd
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Burt Reynolds
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(Hi, I'm Chris Tanaka from Cleveland 19.) In "A Christmas Story", the huge box marked "fra-jee-lay" (actually, that's "fragile") contains this alliterative 2-word award
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the leg lamp
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A COLORFUL CATEGORY
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Avoid the sting of this creature named for its coloration
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yellowjacket
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These sea discolorations that can be caused by Karenia brevis can kill fish & be toxic to humans
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red algae (red tides)
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$1200
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Hurricanes and Dolphins both played home games in this now-demolished venue
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the Orange Bowl
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Formed in 1952, the U.S. Army's special forces are also known by this name
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Green Berets
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(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE)Here's this mountain range mentioned in the opening of "Take Me Home, Country Roads"
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the Blue Ridge Mountains
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ON THE MEDITERRANEAN
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Politically, this country is divided into 14 provinces, including the city of Damascus, which is considered its own province
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Syria
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Listen, sweetheart, Casablanca in this country isn't on the Mediterranean, but Nador is
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Morocco
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This island that boasts Messina but not Loggins is always getting the boot
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Sicily
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The ancient city of Carthage is in this country that borders Algeria & the Mediterranean
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Tunisia
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60 miles up the coast from Tel Aviv is this city, Israel's main port
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Haifa
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SHOW TUNE RHYMES
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In "The Music Man" there were "copper bottom tympani in horse platoons... double bell euphoniums & big" these instruments
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bassoons
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Evita rhymes, "All through my wild days, my mad existence, I kept my promise, don't keep your" this
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distance
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In "Cats", "Every streetlamp seems to beat a fatalistic warning, someone mutters & the street lamp gutters, & soon it will be" this
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morning
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In "Spamalot" the Lady of the Lake sings, "Do not fail, find your" this one word
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grail
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In "it's The Hard-Knock Life", Annie laments, "No one cares for you a smidge, when you're in" this place
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an orphanage
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"THE "IDE"S OF FEBRUARY
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On February 24, 2019 hundreds of bicyclists showed up for Portland, Oregon's "Worst Day of the Year" this
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Ride
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Spike Lee was among the stars sitting here at the February 17, 2019 NBA All-Star Game in Charlotte
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courtside
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On Feb. 3, 2019 the slogan "There's enough money when no one steals" gave Nayib Bukele this type of win in El Salvador's election
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a landslide
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Port Townsend, Washington experienced a king one of these on February 23, 2019
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the tide
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Because it took the life of Portugal's king & his heir apparent, a February 1908 assassination is known as the "Lisbon" this
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Regicide
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GENETIC DISORDERS
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Unusual bleeding after vaccinations & swelling & warmth in joints are symptoms of this blood-clotting disorder
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hemophilia
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Treatment for this tremor-causing malady first described in 1817 may include freezing small areas of the brain
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Parkinson\'s
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Duchenne MD--MD short for this--is an inherited disorder that affects about 1 in 3,500 male births around the world
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muscular dystrophy
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AUTHORS' NAME CHANGES
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Joanne is her first name; she has no middle name but Kathleen was added for literary purposes in honor of her grandmother
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J.K. Rowling
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Perhaps in an act of "Civil Disobedience", this transcendentalist reversed the order of his first & middle names
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Thoreau
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This author who grew up in Oxford, Mississippi added the letter "U" to his last name
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Faulkner
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Marguerite Johnson was a singer when she took this stage name & used it when she wrote poems like "Still I Rise"
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Maya Angelou
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New Yorker Nathan Weinstein fittingly changed his name to this & eventually moved out to Hollywood
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Nathanael West
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AMERICAN HISTORY
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N/A
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At Harpers Ferry, John Brown & his rebels were defeated by troops commanded by this man who 2 years later led a rebel army himself
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Robert E. Lee
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