POLITICS: WHO SAID IT?
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1976: "The Iron Lady of the Western world... a cold war warrior... well, yes"
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(Margaret) Thatcher
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1992: "I didn't like it, and didn't inhale"
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Bill Clinton
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1848: "The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles"
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Marx
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$800
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1950; "I have here in my hand a list of 205 that were known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party"
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McCarthy
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1969: "There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full"
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Henry Kissinger
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BOULDER DASH
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In this 1937 animated classic, the wicked queen tries to kill the title septet with a boulder, but it ends up backfiring
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
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He's been known to try & kill a certain roadrunner with boulders, but the big rocks usually end up coming his way
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Wile E. Coyote
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In this 1981 movie Indiana Jones gets covered in webs while outrunning a large rock
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (*Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark)
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$800
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In a 2018 animated sequel, this superhero patriarch has to dodge rocks & stuff while trying to thwart the Underminer
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Mr. Incredible
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In "The Princess Bride" this big guy, as Fezzik, dashes a big rock at Westley
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Andre the Giant
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MYSTERIES & THRILLERS
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In Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries, "H is for" this killer crime
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homicide
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For his novel "Inferno", Dan Brown drew on a poem by this Italian
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Dante
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$600
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After a fatal stabbing in this classic mystery, Hercule Poirot asks for "a plan of the Istanbul-Calais Coach"
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Murder on the Orient Express
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$800
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Time magazine named this Gillian Flynn thriller one of the "10 Best Fiction Books of the 2010s"
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Gone Girl
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A review for this Ruth Ware bestseller set at sea says it "just may do to cruise vacations what 'Jaws' did to ocean swimming"
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The Woman in Cabin 10
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MUSTARD OR MAYO
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Hampton Creek, maker of "Just Mayo", convinced the FDA to let it keep the name, though J.M. doesn't contain these
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eggs
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A red flag that says "Since 1904" means you're using this mustard brand
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French\'s
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$600
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Best Foods & this other brand of mayonnaise have the same ingredients & the same blue bow on their labels
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Hellmann\'s
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$800
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Combining mustard & fruit, Mostarda di Cremona is often compared to this vinegar & fruit condiment that accompanies curries
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chutney
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This bulb is the key flavoring of the Provencal mayonnaise called aioli
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garlic
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IS IT BIGGER THAN A CHICKEN?
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Yes, it's this Acropolis temple completed in 438 B.C.; the foundation seems good, but it could probably use a little roof work
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the Parthenon
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No, but the 2-inch "Midnite Minichamp" version of this pocketknife comes with tools that perform 17 different functions
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the Swiss Army knife
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Yes, & as the largest ships in the U.S. Navy, each is powered by 2 nuclear reactors & can displace 100,000 tons
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an aircraft carrier
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No--the bee variety of this is the world's smallest bird at only about 2 inches long
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a hummingbird
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Yes, & the massive Three Gorges Dam generates 22,500 megawatts stretching 1.4 miles across this river
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the Yangtze River
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"DE" PLUS 3
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Your first appearance on stage or screen
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a debut
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A railway station, often a small and quaint one, as seen here
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a depot
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The typically triangular mouth of a river
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a delta
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My god, your god, any god
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a deity
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Named for a city, it's a specific type of Dutch earthenware
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Delft
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LET'S LOOK AT SOME MATH
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It's what the symbol here means
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greater than or equal to
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Conjure up this name for a grid in which the numbers add up to the same total in each column, row and main diagonal
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a magic square
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In a Venn diagram, an upside down "U" is used to represent this set that contains all elements in common to both "A" and "B"
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the intersection
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The symbol here is telling you to perform this calculus function
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integration
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The number in each cell is the sum of the two numbers directly above it in the triangle named for this 17th century French mathematician and philosopher
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(Blaise) Pascal
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ABBREVIATIONS
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It's the "T" in the name of the international alliance abbreviated NATO
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Treaty
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When going on a journey, your ETA is this
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your estimated time of arrival
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Get there early if you hear FCFS, short for this
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fist come, first served
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A college student may consult with this helpful member of the faculty abbreviated AA
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academic advisor
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In a car, SRS is this system that serves as a backup to seat belts; your airbag is one
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a supplemental restraint system
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OPERA & BALLET
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British choreographer Matthew Bourne took a different tactic when restaging this Tchaikovsky ballet
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Swan Lake
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This Puccini opera is set in Nagasaki in the early 1900s
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Madame Butterfly
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Pat Garrett is a character in the ballet named for this outlaw
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Billy the Kid
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Ramfis is the high priest in this opera
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Aida
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The 2 parts of this Stravinsky ballet are "Adoration of the Earth" & "The Sacrifice"
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Rite of Spring
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BACK IN THE 20th CENTURY
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After the completion of this feat of engineering in 1914, ships had an 8,000-nautical-mile shorter journey from N.Y. to Calif.
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the Panama Canal
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In April 1946 this international org. formally gave up the ghost, though it did give a lot of its stuff to its replacement
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the League of Nations
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In 1991 the IRA attacked John Major & his cabinet with mortar fire during a meeting at this address, Major's residence
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10 Downing Street
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This future world leader was wounded in his attempt to assassinate the Iraqi prime minister in 1959
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Saddam Hussein
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In October 1983 the U.S. invaded this Caribbean island & tourist destination; by December, most U.S. troops had left
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Grenada
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HOT STUFF!
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In the 1930s Solomon Harper invented the electric curlers now called "hot" these
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rollers
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A massive atmosphere produces an enormous greenhouse effect, making this second planet the hottest in the solar system
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Venus
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Regarded as one of the hottest of these, the Carolina reaper is rated at more than 1.6 million Scovilles
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a pepper
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In this book of the Bible, Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego are thrown into a furnace, but the intense heat does not harm them
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the book of Daniel
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Scientists at CERN using this device have created perhaps the highest recorded temperature ever, 9.9 trillion degrees Fahrenheit
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the Large Hadron Collider
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FOUNTAINS
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Lotta's Fountain in this city became a meeting place for survivors of the 1906 quake & is still the site of commemorations
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San Francisco
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Beginning in 1998, the fountains at this Las Vegas casino shoot 460 feet in the air & dance to various songs nightly
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the Bellagio
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This landmark Chicago fountain is named for a local steel family, not a London palace
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Buckingham
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Fittingly, the Latona Fountain built by Louis XIV in Versailles was named for the mother of this Roman god
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Apollo
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For centuries, barrels of water from this Roman fountain at the Palazzo Poli were sent across the Tiber to the Vatican
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the Trevi Fountain
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EUROPEAN LANDMARKS
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As described in an 1831 book, it has "three recessed and pointed doorways... immense central rose window...two dark and massive towers"
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Notre-Dame
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