COUNTRY DROP A LETTER
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When a big Asian country loses its last vowel, it becomes this body part
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chin (from China)
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$400
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A Nordic country loses its first letter & becomes this area away from the coast
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inland (from Finland)
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$600
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Drop the fourth letter from an Iberian country & you get this general term for a distance
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span (from Spain)
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$800
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Subtract a letter from a 4-letter African country & you get this man who behaves badly, especially to women
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a cad (from Chad)
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$1000
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When a Mediterranean isle loses its last letter, it becomes this soda fountain drink
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a malt (from Malta)
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THE ILIAD
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Thought to contain material transmitted orally over centuries, the "Iliad" is attributed to this poet
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Homer
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In book 3 Menelaus fights Paris, who ran off with this wife
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Helen
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There's quite a bit of graphic violence, as when Patroclus kills a Trojan with this long weapon, then hauls him up on it like a fish
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a spear
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$800
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The main character & the greatest Greek warrior, he leads the Myrmidons against the Trojans
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Achilles
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This Trojan warrior is saved by Aphrodite, or there might never have been that epic by Virgil
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Aeneas
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COUSIN EFFECT
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In 2011 this weatherman told "TODAY" show viewers he & Lenny Kravitz are cousins
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Al Roker
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Jenny McCarthy's first cousin is this scene-stealing co-star of "Bridesmaids"
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Melissa McCarthy
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In 2011 Gwyneth Paltrow said she'd never met this cousin & Arizona congresswoman, but her prayers were with her
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Giffords
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"The Man with the Golden Gun", Christopher Lee can thank this cousin for creating James Bond
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(Ian) Fleming
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THE REST OF THE SAYING
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Very alert: "bright-eyed &" this
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bushy-tailed
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Important people: "movers & " these
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shakers
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Completely settled: "cut &" this
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dried
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$800
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With little hope of success: "on a wing &" this
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a prayer
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$1000
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"All dressed up &" this problem
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nowhere to go
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NO BELL
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Let me give you a hand with a practical joke using a "joy" this
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a buzzer
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The Motorola LS350 is this type of device also called a pager
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a beeper
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Types of this attention getter are slide, train & wolf, but it's probably best not to employ the wolf one anymore
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whistle
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$800
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In Greek myth, sailors resisted the calls of these sea nymphs by putting wax in their ears
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sirens
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Chicago Blackhawks owner Bill Wirtz liked the sound of this on his yacht & used it when his team scored; the custom spread
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a foghorn (a horn)
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PRIZE
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midwestiiving.com posted a mouth-watering slideshow of 12 foods that won this prize at state fairs--mmm, butterscotch pie
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a blue ribbon
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For 300 years the French government gave young artists the prize of a stay in this city. On winner's work is seen here
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Rome
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Tata Steel of India was a 2008 winner of the Deming Prize in the field of TQM, total this management
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quality
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The Abel Prize in this field is named for Niels Abel, famed for his work on the quintic function
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math
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Seen at the ceremony of the Breakthrough Prize for scientific discoveries are co-sponsors Mark Zuckerberg and this physician wife
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(Priscilla) Chan
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WINTRY READING
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In a kids' book, on a snowy day Nicki loses this item of clothing, just like the 3 little kittens
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mittens
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Dostoyevsky's autobiographical novel "The House of the Dead" has been published with the subtitle "or, Prison Life" here--brrr!
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Siberia
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The 2019 book "The Enchanted Forest" is a tie-in with this long-awaited animated sequel
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Frozen 2
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$1600
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Set in Iceland, the sixth novel in the Detective Erlendur series is titled not "Frostbite" but this condition
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hypothermia
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It's 1954 & tensions are high on an island with a lot of Japanese Americans in David Guterson's novel "Snow Falling on" these
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Cedars
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MEET YOUR WATERLOO
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When the Republic of Texas decided to move the government there in 1839, Waterloo, Texas got this new name
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Austin
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For work on lasers, Donna Strickland of Ontario's University of Waterloo became the first woman Nobel laureate for this in 55 years
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physics
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In the 1890s a fossil one of these mammoth relatives was unearthed near Waterloo in DeKalb County, Indiana
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a mastodon
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BEFORE & AFTER AT THE MOVIES
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Cameron Diaz sings & dances as the magical British nanny of Ben Stiller's desire
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There\'s Something About Mary Poppins
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A holiday classic where an angel gets his wings & Roberto Benigni gets an Oscar
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It\'s a Wonderful Life is Beautiful
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Edward Norton tries to convince his brother Edward Furlong not to hate or join up with mutants like Wolverine
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American History X Men
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Struggling in Hollywood, Emma Stone & Ryan Gosling time travel with paleontologist Will Ferrell & befriend a primate named Chaka
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La La Land of the Lost
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George Clooney & Will Smith team up & hunt Nazi art thieves & alien bugs
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The Monuments Men in Black
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SATURN
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Made up primarily of dust & ice, these of the planet Saturn are divided into 7 groups, A through G
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the rings
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In an epic poem by Keats, Saturn turns for help in regaining his throne to this rather "hyper" other titan
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Hyperion
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In 1610 this man was the first to observe Saturn through a telescope
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Galileo
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Saturn has more than 60 moons, including this second-largest named for Zeus' mother
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Rhea
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Saturn was the Roman equivalent of this Greek father god
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Kronos
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PRESIDENTIAL HOMES
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(Sarah of the Clue Crews is in Massachusetts.) A national park in Massachusetts preserves the adjacent birthplaces of these two presidents--the first born in 1735, in that cottage, and second, born in 1767 in the other
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John Adams & John Quincy Adams
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From 1955 until Jerry became president, the Ford family lived in a 4-bedroom Colonial in Alexandria in this state
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Virginia
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$1200
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His hat hangs from an elk antler at Sagamore Hill, his Oyster Bay, New York home
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Teddy Roosevelt
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He wrote part of 1809's "History of New York" while staying in what would later be Martin Van Buren's home, Lindenwald
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Washington Irving
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Dead just 3 months after retiring, James K, Polk was buried at Polk Place in this state capital
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Nashville
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A UNIQUE SYNONYM
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It's between the toes & the heel
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sole
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Lacking small fire-lighting sticks
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matchless
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$1200
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Without a member of the House of Lords
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peerless
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$1600
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Confinement in a separate prison cell by oneself
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solitary
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$2000
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Unhitched
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single
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SPORTS TERMS
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N/A
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A member of the British Amateur Athletic Club wrote this 1867 set of 12 regulations whose name honors nobelman John Sholto Douglas
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the 12 rules of Queensbury
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