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JUST DESSERTS
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This cake was named for being made with 16 ounces each of flour, butter, sugar & eggs
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pound cake
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$400
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A Vienna library has a recipe from 1696 for this flaky pastry & ja, the filling is apple
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strudel
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$600
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Different from the New York style, the Japanese variety of this dessert is known for extreme fluffiness
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cheesecake
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$800
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Literally "lightning" in French, this long, thin chocolate-covered pastry really gives me a charge
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an eclair
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This 4-letter caramel custard dessert associated with Spanish recipes dates back to Roman times
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flan
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LITERARY HODGEPODGE
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It's the only play that Shakespeare set in Scotland
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Macbeth
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Previously bought at a pawn shop, Cormac McCarthy's light blue Olivetti one of these sold at auction in 2009 for over $250,000
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a typewriter
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$600
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In "The Jungle Book", he's the "sleepy brown bear who teaches the wolf cubs the "law of the jungle"
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Baloo
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$800
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Best known for his "Leatherstocking Tales", he also wrote "The Pilot", one of America's first novels about the sea
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(James Fenimore) Cooper
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Mary Ann Evans published her novels, including "Adam Bede", under this pen name
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(George) Eliot
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POLITICAL CONVENTIONS
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The 1840 Democratic gathering was the first time this 8-letter statement of principles was adopted at a convention
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a platform
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At the 1980 convention, Reagan wanted as his running mate this recent former president, who declined
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(Gerald) Ford
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At the 1924 Dem. convention, a proposal to condemn this 3-word racist org. by name lost by 1 vote after a bitter debate
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the Ku Klux Klan
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$800
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In 1880 this former president lost a chance for a 3rd term when Garfield topped the 36th ballot at the GOP convention
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(Ulysses) Grant
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$1000
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1864 saw the only convention of the Natl. Union Party, a new name for the GOP to attract the faction called these Democrats
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the War Democrats
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"CONTROL "ALT" "DEL"
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2-word Latin term meaning a second self
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alter ego
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This ever-circling ballroom dance is in triple time
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a waltz
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$600
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An unalterable mark that can never be erased can also be described as this
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indelible
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$800
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The Bonneville these smooth out nicely over 40 square miles
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salt flats
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California is known for this dry red wine from a black-skinned grape
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Zinfandel
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SOME QUARTER GIVEN
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Georgia's 25-cent piece offers "Wisdom", "Justice", "Moderation" & oh yeah, this fruit, naturally
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a peach
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$400
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Massachusetts has had this type of soldier at the ready on its 2 bits since its release on January 3, 2000
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a Minuteman
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$600
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Washington is shown crossing the Delaware on the quarter of this state, George's destination
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New Jersey
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$800
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This motto that offers 2 very different options adorns New Hampshire's quarter
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Live Free or Die
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South Carolina's coin features this tree that gives the state its nickname as well as that nickname itself, written out
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the palmetto
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OTHER SPORTS
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I hereby challenge Pat Sajak to this sport where we'll attempt to stay on a spinning piece of floating wood
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log rolling
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Armand Duplantis broke the world record in this sport on 2 consecutive Saturdays in 2020, the second time clearing 20' 3"
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pole vaulting
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$800
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In Basque & Spanish regions, pelota vasca is another name for this fast-moving game
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jai alai
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Shooting, swimming & tossing a grenade-like projectile are included in the military version of this 5-event sport
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pentathlon
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JUST DESERTS
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$400
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Home to Burning Man, Black Rock Desert is in the northwest part of this state
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Nevada
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$800
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The Taklamakan desert spans over 100,000 square miles of the Uyghur autonomous region in this country
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China
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$1200
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"P" is for this desert that takes up large parts of Argentina & Chile
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the Patagonian Desert
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$1600
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Named for a founding father of Israel, Ben-Gurion University of this desert area is a leading research university
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the Negev
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$2000
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Locals call the bleak Skeleton Coast where the Atlantic meets this desert "The Land God Made in Anger"
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the Namib
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PUBLISHERS
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Children's book publisher Puffin is an offshoot of this other bird-y publisher
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Penguin
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The name of this publisher known for its book fairs is a word meaning "related to education"
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Scholastic
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$1200
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The name of audiobook publisher Tantor comes from an elephant in the series about this ape man
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Tarzan
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$1600
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In 1990 William Collins & Sons was bought by News Corporation, which smushed this other publishing name in front
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Harper
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$2000
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Random House's Lenny Books imprint is run by this creator of the TV show "Girls"
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Lena Dunham
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ACTORS & ACTRESSES
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The divorcing spouses in "Marriage Story" were played by Adam Driver & her
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(Scarlett) Johansson
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Josh O'Connor played budding writer Lawrence Durrell on "The Durrells in Corfu"; on season 3 of "The Crown", he's this royal son
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Prince Charles
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She based her stage name on the word "awkward", which she says describes her
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Awkafina
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If you really want to call this young actor by his name, pronounce it the French way, Tim-o-tay
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Chalamet
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Not many actors do cranky as well as this man, who plays Norman on "The Kominsky Method"
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(Alan) Arkin
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PHYSICS GLOSSARY
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A nucleon is either of these 2 basic constituents of an atomic nucleus
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a proton or a neutron
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$800
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This colorful-sounding type of radiation has wavelengths between the visible part of the spectrum & X-rays
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ultraviolet
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$1200
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The linear type of this device increases the speed of particles as they move toward a target at the end of a tunnel
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an accelerator
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$1600
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Every second, our sun creates energy by the nuclear fusion of 600 million tons of this element into helium
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hydrogen
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A baryon is a particle made of 3 of these, which come in "flavors" including charm & strange
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quarks
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ALL ABOUT ART
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Rembrandt painted many biblical scenes, including "The Blinding of" this strong man
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Samson
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This Impressionist's series paintings, done under different light & weather conditions, included haystacks & the Houses of Parliament
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Monet
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Sinners are headed down, down, down in a detail from this part of the Sistine Chapel with a final-sounding name
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The Last Judgment
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This artist is seen here in New Mexico, holding one of her own canvasses
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(Georgia) O\'Keeffe
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WORDS COINED IN THE 1920s
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A trademark name for tissue, it began making the rounds in the 1920s as a cold cream remover
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Kleenex
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$800
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We got this word from a 1920 play by Karel Capek about mechanical men & women
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robot
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On the rise & entering English in the 1920s was this political movement led by Mussolini
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fascism
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The 8-letter name of this female sex hormone was coined in 1927
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estrogen
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Right on "Q", this designation for a standard keyboard, first developed for the typewriter, came into use in 1929
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QWERTY
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18th CENTURY NOVELS
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N/A
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The title character of this 1726 novel reaches 4 different lands as a result of a shipwreck, a storm at sea, pirates & a mutiny
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Gulliver\'s Travels
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