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O CANADA PROVINCE
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Some familiar names in this eastern province--Annapolis, Sydney, Liverpool--but New Glasgow might help you the most
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Nova Scotia
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The 5,420-foot Mont D'Iberville is this province's highest point
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Quebec
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This province includes the Haida Gwaii island group, 60 miles off the mainland
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British Columbia
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The Winnipeg metro area is home to more than 50% of the population of this province
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Manitoba
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This one of Canada's maritime provinces is highlighted here
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New Brunswick
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SONGS FOR EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY
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George Michael: "___ Figure"
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Father
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Kansas: "Carry On Wayward ___"
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Son
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Elmo & Patsy: "___ Got Run Over By A Reindeer"
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Grandma
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D.J. Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince: "___ Just Don't Understand"
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Parents
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Pearl Jam, 1993: "___"
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"Daughter""
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CARS
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Chrysler, General Motors & this are the "Big 3" automakers
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Ford
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With a Latin name meaning "I roll", this Swedish automaker began rolling out its cars in 1927
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Volvo
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This maker of the Impreza says that 97% of its vehicles sold in the last 10 years are still on the road today
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Subaru
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Headquartered in Munich, it built aircraft engines before transitioning to motorcycles & cars
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BMW
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A charging bull graces the hood of the Aventador, a model of this Italian sports car
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Lamborghini
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WOMEN'S MEMOIRS
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"Fight Like a Girl" & "Unbecoming" recount women's experiences in this "most masculine" branch of the U.S. military
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Marines
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"My Life in France" is the story of how this chef found her true calling
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Julia Child
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"I Feel Bad About My Neck", about the travails of aging, is by this late, great writer & director of "You've Got Mail"
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Nora Ephron
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Award-winning screenwriter Diablo Cody's record of her time as one of these performers is titled "Candy Girl"
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a stripper
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This advisor to Barack Obama wrote "Finding My Voice: My Journey to the West Wing and the Path Forward"
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Valerie Jarrett
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WHERE'S THE BEEF?
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On a menu "beef" or "steak" this means it comes only one way--raw!
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tartare
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Clara Peller famously asked, "Where's the beef?" in TV ads for this "old fashioned hamburgers" chain
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Wendy\'s
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Mmm! Here's this Southern favorite with a different type of meat in its name
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chicken-fried steak
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The name of this French boeuf dish, beef braised in red wine, means it's prepared in the style of Burgundy
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bourguignon
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Though best known, Kobe is just one variety of this expensive beef whose name translates to "Japanese cow"
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Wagyu
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BEYOND MEAT
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Stick your nose into other people's business
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meddle
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Like Hessians in the American Revolutionary War, it's a professional soldier hired to serve in a foreign army
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a mercenary
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When an egg became the most popular post on Instagram, it became popular as one of these. Perhaps you missed this one
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a meme
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Another name for a bullhorn
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megaphone
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This dark pigment determines skin & hair color
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melanin
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CIVIL RIGHTS & WRONGS
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In 1958 African-American activist Clennon King was sent to an asylum for trying to register at this state U. in Oxford
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University of Mississippi
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The Congress of Racial Equality planned these 1961 trips to enforce desegregation of interstate transportation
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Freedom Rides
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In 1828 actor Thomas Rice began playing a blackface character named this, a term later used to describe racist laws
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Jim Crow
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Civil rights activism often includes VRDs, these "Drives" to help people participate in our democracy
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voter registration
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This discriminatory practice comes from the colorful borders on maps around areas where minorities found it hard to get loans or credit
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redlining
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MUSIC HALLS
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Ryman Auditorium, this city's country music hall, is more than a century older than Schermerhorn, its classical hall
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Nashville
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This New York City venue a shimmering gold stage curtain that is said to be the largest in the world
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Radio City Music Hall
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One of America's oldest opera houses, the Academy of Music in Philadelphia was modeled on this Milan venue
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La Scala
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The Palau de la Musica Catalana is an ornate treasure in this city
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Barcelona
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A Miami concert hall is home to this symphony co-founded by Michael Tilson Thomas; its name sounds like a Dvorak piece about America
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the New World Symphony Orchestra
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FRED(E)RIC(K)S OF HOLLYWOOD
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Born Frederick Austerlitz, this actor was free to create his own dances on film
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Fred Astaire
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This former child actor is now a busy TV director & even directed brother Ben in "Boy Meets World"
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Fred Savage
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With the help of makeup artist Wally Westmore, Fredric March won an Oscar in this dual role from a literary classic
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Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
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This funnyman improvised his way to greatness in films like "Waiting for Guffman" and "A Mighty Wind"
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Fred Willard
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This actor who played a killer in "Double Indemnity" was a sweet dad to "My Three Sons" on TV
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Fred MacMurray
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AWARDS & HONORS
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Instituted in 1782, it was the first U.S. military decoration
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the Purple Heart
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After World Champion, the highest title in chess is International this; today there are more than 1,600 of them
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a Grandmaster
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The 2019 Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show gave this distinction to a fox terrier, with a Havanese taking the reserve title
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Best in Show
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A silver lantern is given by the JFK Library with "The Profile in" this award to recipients who exemplify the spirit of JFK's book
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Courage
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Damien Hirst & director Steve McQueen have won the British visual arts prize named for this 19th century British painter
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J.M.W. Turner
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SLANG TERMS
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To "make out like" this, meaning to do well, may refer not to a robber but to slang for a slot machine
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a bandit
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Alliteration abounds in this 3-word phrase, a very uncomplicated game where you ring someone's doorbell & run away
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ding dong ditch
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To garner extremely high marks in a school examination is more slangily to do this 3-letter word to "that test"
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ace
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Like the feedback type, in a "compulsion" this, you endlessly cycle through checking your social media apps
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a loop
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This numerical term for the first person to catch a certain disease now can mean the first person affected by something
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patient zero
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EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY
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Bastet was a goddess in the form of one of these still-common domestic pets
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a cat
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Sometimes depicted as a human head on a bird, the ba was this eternal part of a human
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a soul
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Seen on amulets, this beetle was a sacred symbol of revival
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a scarab
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The Egyptian sun god known as Khepri at dawn & Atum in the evening was known by this 2-letter name at midday
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Ra
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With his distinctive head, he was the god of embalming
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Anubis
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QUOTES ABOUT 19th CENTURY AUTHORS
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This author "showed that abysses may exist inside a governess", a heroine who was a "commonplace spinster"
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Charlotte Brontë
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