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CLUES ACROSS THE SMITHSONIAN
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$200
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(Bill Kelly presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) I'm Bill Kelly from ABC7: the Air and Space Museum's Pioneers of Flight Gallery include such treasures as the bright red Lockheed Vega in which this woman became the first woman and second person to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932
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Amelia Earhart
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(Michelle Marsh presents from outside the National Museum of African American History & Culture.) Hi, I'm Michelle Marsh from ABC7: this Georgia congressman and veteran of the Civil Rights Movement began pushing for an African-American History Museum in the 1980s, and at the 2016 dedication said he felt like singing Mahalia Jackson's "How We Got Over"
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John Lewis
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(Bill Kelly presents from the National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C.) The Air and Space Museums's Milestones of Flight Hall is filled with historic crafts, like this plane that made headlines around the world in the spring of 1927
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the Spirit of St. Louis
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( Jonathan Elias presents from outside The Castle in Washington, D.C.) Hi, I'm Jonathan Elias from ABC7: the architect of the Smithsonian's Castle said the color of the sandstone he used was close to ashes of roses; it was quarried in Maryland along this nearby river
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the Potomac
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(Veronica Johnson presents from the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, D.C.) Hi, I'm Veronica Johnson from ABC7: the atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian displays boats, including a birchbark canoe of this people of Lake Superior, also known as the Ojibwe; many of their customs are depicted in "The Song of Hiawatha"
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the Anishinaabe (Chippewa)
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U.S. ISLANDS
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Tradition says Peter Minuit bought this island from local Native Americans for the equivalent of $24
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Manhattan
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$400
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A tourist spot, Maryland's Kent Island is the largest island in this body of water
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Chesapeake Bay
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$600
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Since 1895 most of this northern Michigan island has been part of a state park
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Mackinaw
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$800
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Money from the BP oil spill is being used to restore this state's Queen Bess Island, a pelican habitat
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Louisiana
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$1000
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In a famous annual event, ponies swim from Assateague Island to this state's nearby Chincoteague
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Virginia
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ADD AN E
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$200
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A word meaning great delight is happy to add an E to be a young 'roo
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joy & joey
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$400
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A word denoting vigor doubles its E to make the cry of a young bird
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pep & peep
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$600
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A word meaning angry takes on an E to enjoy a honey & water alcoholic concoction
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mad & mead
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$800
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To experience again in your mind becomes a word meaning to ease pain
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relive & relieve
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$1000
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A unit of fluid capacity takes on an E to become a 16th century sailing vessel
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gallon & galleon
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AUTOMAKER FOR THE PEOPLE
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$200
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Charge down the road in its Charger
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Dodge
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$400
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Someone will call 911 if you go too fast in its Macan GTS
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Porsche
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$600
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In 2017 you could get its V90 during its King of Sweden Day sales event
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Volvo
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$800
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This German company makes the A3 sedan
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Audi
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ANIMATED TV
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This title Springfield family doesn't seem to have aged a bit in 31 years
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the Simpsons
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$400
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Isaac Hayes was the voice of Jerome "Chef" McElroy on this TV show
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South Park
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$600
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Despite all his scheming on "Looney Tunes" , Wile E. Coyote never quite catches this prey
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the Road Runner
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$800
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These neighbors of the Flintstones had a son named Bamm-Bamm
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the Rubbles
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$1000
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"Double Indecency" & "Skytanic" are episodes of the show about this title spy whose codename is "Duchess"
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Archer
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THE HOLE TRUTH
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$200
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In 2019 Berkeley removed gender-specific language from its municipal code, making these into "maintenance holes"
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manholes
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$400
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The notorious Winter Park sinkhole of 1981 in this state swallowed a house and several automobiles
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Florida
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$600
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An atrioventricular septal defect is a hole or holes in this organ
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the heart
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$800
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Under new rules of golf for 2019, there's no penalty for leaving this in the hole while putting
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the flag
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ANTHROPOLOGY
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$800
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Ruth Benedict analyzed this country in her classic book "The Chrysanthemum and the Sword"
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Japan
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$1200
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This flowy top is in an anthropology book as "the most universal of civilized garments" & in Anthropologie stores sells for $95
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a tunic
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$1600
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Douglas Owsley has studied Jamestown & Branch Davidian skeletons to do this kind of anthropology that figures out how people died
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forensic
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$2000
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The 1st prehistoric individual IDed with parents of different human groups lived around 90,000 B.C. & was half Denisovan, half this group
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Neanderthal
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SEEING RED
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$400
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A brilliant red, it can come before macaw or fever in nature
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scarlet
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$800
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This pinkish red color is named for the external skeletons of certain marine organisms
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coral
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$1200
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Not plum but this purplish red comes from a fruit tree, scientifically Prunus avium
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cherry
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$1600
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Gemstones that are also types of red include the ruby & this 6-letter dark, clear mineral
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garnet
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$2000
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As seen in Titian's "Assumption of the Virgin" from the year 1518, this wormy, vivid red was widely used in medieval and Renaissance art
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vermillion
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AN(IMAL)AGRAMS
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$400
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A slitherer we hope doesn't live up to its anagram: ANKLE TASTER
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rattlesnake
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$800
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It's not a fan of "under glass":HATES PAN
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pheasant
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$1200
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If it charges: HI CORONERS!
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a rhinoceros
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$1600
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Specific type of bird in a Stevie Nicks tune: EVIDENT WHO WE DIG
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white-winged dove
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$2000
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What one lion said to the other: PLATE ONE!
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an antelope
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HERE'S THE PLAY
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$400
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In this 1955 play Brick tells Maggie, "I don't want to lean on your shoulder, I want my crutch!"
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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$800
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David Frost gets a drunken late-night call from this other title man just before the final interview
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(Richard) Nixon
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"God of Carnage" starred Hope Davis, Jeff Daniels, Marcia Gay Harden & this "Sopranos" boss
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James Gandolfini
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$1600
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Kevin Bacon was not in this "numeric" play in 1990 but you could go trace his connections to Courtney B. Vance & Stockard Channing
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Six Degrees of Separation
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Neil Simon won a 1991 Tony for "Lost in" here, which actually isn't too far from Broadway
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Yonkers
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IT'S GONNA BE CLOSE...
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$400
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Steve Kerr joked, "Well, I guess I got to bail Michael out again" describing a game-winning shot for this team in the 1997 NBA Finals
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the Chicago Bulls
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$800
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At the 2008 Olympics he won his 7th gold by a fingertip, beating Milorad Cavic to the wall in the 100m butterfly by .01 of a second
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Michael Phelps
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On May 24, 1992 Al Unser Jr. held off the perfectly named for his sport Scott Goodyear by .043 of a second to win this event
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the Indianapolis 500
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$1600
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It doesn't get much closer than the 2009 Wimbledon final, where this Swiss Mr. beat Andy Roddick 16-14 in the fifth set
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Roger Federer
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$2000
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In 2015, after 8:08:32, just 8 seconds would separate the 1st & 3rd place finishers in this type of race
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a triathlon
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HE'S OUT!
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$400
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As Baghdad fell in 2003, this president took some pocket money... $1 billion from Iraq's Central Bank
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Saddam Hussein
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$800
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The Fascist Grand Council booted this leader on July 24, 1943 but in a George Costanza-like move, he went to work the next day--didn't fly
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Mussolini
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COUNTRY NAMES
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N/A
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5 U.N. member countries have one-syllable names: Chad, Laos & these 3 in Europe
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Spain, France & Greece
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