WOMEN AUTHORS
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In 1988 she scored her first No. 1 bestseller with "Queen of the Damned", the third novel in her Vampire Chronicles
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Anne Rice
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Anna Deavere Smith's play "Fires in the Mirror" looks at the 1991 riots in the Crown Heights neighborhood of this NYC borough
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Brooklyn
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The Hudson series is a sequence of novels by this "Flowers in the Attic" author
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V.C. Andrews
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QUOTABLE 21st CENTURY MOVIES
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2012: "I volunteer as tribute!"
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The Hunger Games
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2010: spoken by Natalie Portman, "I was perfect"
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Black Swan
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2008: "Why so serious?"
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Dark Knight
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Sulley: "I can still hear her little voice" Boo: (from down the hall) "Mike Wazowski! "
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Monsters, Inc.
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2005: "Noooo, Kelly Clarkson!"
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The 40-Year-Old Virgin
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HISTORIC NAMES
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) On his last voyage to search for the Northwest Passage, this captain discovered the Hawaiian Islands
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Cook
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In the early 900s Rollo the Viking founded this duchy in France from which England was conquered 150 years later
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Normandy
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Benito Mussolini's parents were admirers of this Benito, a reformist president of Mexico
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Benito Juarez
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This Prussian who helped train the Continental Army left his name on a "ville" that's one of Ohio's oldest communities
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Friedrich von Steuben
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Gandhi is seen here with his mentor, Gopal Gokhale, who also worked for the rights of these low or no-caste folks, also known as Harijan
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the untouchables
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ANIMAL VERBS
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To remove a stain using an absorbent item, or to live at the expense of others
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sponge
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To flutter your eyelashes
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to bat
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Aggressively peddle goods in public by calling out
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to hawk (your wares)
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Defeat an opponent overwhelmingly, especially by shutting them out
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skunk
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A weasel-like animal gives us this verb meaning to uncover or bring to light by searching
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ferret
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20-20
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"Animal, vegetable or mineral?" is the classic starter for this parlor game
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Twenty Questions
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Now a saint, Anterus was the 20th of these; his predecessor Pontian was exiled to the Sardinian mines
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a pope
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In old British currency, there were 20 of these to a pound
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a shilling
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Most sports teams attempt to do this, also a term for a grouping of 20
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score
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These two journalists worked on "20-20" together for 20 years
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Hugh Downs and Barbara Walters
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HEINZ SITE
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The Heinz website has multiple offerings for this French fry condiment, including jalapeno & sriracha styles
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ketchup
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Of course, there are yellow, spicy brown & honey varieties of this to peruse
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mustard
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Heinz notes that this product is made from 100% cage-free eggs, lemon juice, oil & vinegar
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mayonnaise
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Heinz offers cocktail sauce with a shrimp on the label & this type of sauce with a bit of fried fish on the label
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tartar sauce
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Heinz offers a type of gravy made from "savory beef stock" with this 2-word French designation
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au jus
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TREES GROW ON MONEY
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In 1955 a young tree symbolizing the healthy growth of Japan first appeared on the 1-this coin
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yen
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A 2-franc coin from French Polynesia depicts an outrigger canoe beside 4 of these trees
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palm trees
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One the earliest American coins, the 17th century Massachusetts pine tree shilling was minted from this precious metal
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silver
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On the reverse of the current U.S. $10 bill, trees frame this building
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the Treasury Building
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A former Italian 100-lire coin shows Minerva grasping one of 4 these trees big in Italian agriculture
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an olive tree
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TV VILLAINS
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Even though they had pulses, the Governor & Negan made this show a little more terrifying
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The Walking Dead
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Kasius, Graviton & a Kree were bad guys on this Marvel series on ABC
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Seen here, Jodie Comer kills it as the villainess Villanelle on this drama
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Killing Eve
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Crowley, a charming villain on this show, was known to give the Winchester boys a devil of a time
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Supernatural
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On "Brooklyn Nine-Nine", Jake Peralta's occasional nemesis, the Pontiac Bandit, is portrayed by this veteran funnyman
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Craig Robinson
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DEFENSE MECHANISM
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In World War I a line of these defensive fortifications ranged from Belgium to Switzerland
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trenches
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The part of the sword that protects your hand is called this, a word whose French equivalent is spoken by fencers
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the guard
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In myth, Athena had an Aegis, a shield adorned with the head of this hideous Gorgon
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Medusa
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More than 50 years old, this DuPont material known for its anti-bullet qualities is now used in aerospace & mining applications
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Kevlar
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On Reddit, there's an entire subreddit enamored with this weapon seen here, and they're not big fans of catapults
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trebuchets
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THE BODY HUMAN
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The gallbladder, which stores bile, lies immediately below this organ
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the liver
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Not surprisingly, the name of this longest nerve is derived from Latin for "pain in the hip"
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the sciatic nerve
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One of the spleen's main functions is to filter out worn & damaged these
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blood cells
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Your metabolic rate is controlled by hormones secreted by this gland at the front of your neck
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the thyroid
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Found in the ear, the body's three smallest bones are known as the anvil, hammer, and this, after their shapes
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a stirrup
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LONDON BOROUGHS
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The 33 boroughs that make up London include this one that helps us keep time worldwide
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Greenwich
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2 boroughs, Richmond & Kingston, are more properly followed by "upon" this body of water
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upon Thames
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Take a walk down memory lane in the borough of Camden and name this thoroughfare made famous by The Beatles
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Abbey Road
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More than 1,300 bombs were dropped on the especially hard-hit borough of Croydon during this 1940-41 German-named assault
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the Blitz
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This borough's name is synonymous with Britain's Parliament
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Westminster
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X MARKS THE WORD
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A person or thing that brings bad luck
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a hex (jinx)
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A social gathering for people to get to know each other
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a mixer
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An ability score in Dungeons & Dragons, it refers to skill with the hands or body
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dexterity
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From the Latin for "leap up", it means to feel triumphant jubilation
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exalt
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A relative of the elephant, this herbivorous mammal is also called a rock rabbit
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a hyrax
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FAMOUS FIRST LINES
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N/A
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These 7 words precede, "The rain fell in torrents, except at occasional intervals"
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"It was a dark and stormy night""
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