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MAGNA CARTOGRAPHY
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$200
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A map of Great Britain delineates these 3 constituent parts of the island
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Wales, Scotland & England
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$400
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A topographic map of this "Great" range would show Clingmans Dome peaking above Knoxville & Asheville
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the Great Smoky Mountains
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$600
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North America has a group named this, the map here shows Africa's Lake Kivu & Tanganyika
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the Great Lakes
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Found in this country's Western Cape Province, the plateau basin known as Great Karoo may be listed as Groot Karoo on a local map
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South Africa
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A map of the waters off the coast of Queensland will show you the Great Barrier Reef in this aptly named sea
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the Coral Sea
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DEATH OF A LITERARY CHARACTER
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"Upon the wall a splendid portrait of their master as they had last seen him... lying on the floor was a dead man... withered"
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Dorian Gray
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$400
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"The harpoon was darted... (he) stooped to clear it... but the flying turn caught him round the neck"
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Captain Ahab
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$600
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Nobody at the fair "knew that a grey spider had played the most important part of all. No one was with her when she died"
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Charlotte
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$800
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"On the bosom where she had drawn her first breath, she quietly drew her last... when morning came... Jo's place was empty"
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Beth (March)
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"'For the rabbits', (he) shouted... George raised the gun and steadied it... the crash of the shot rolled up the hills"
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Lennie
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FAILED CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS
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The "Every Vote Counts" amendment tried to abolish this "College" but went nowhere
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the Electoral College
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$400
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After a Kentucky congressman shot & killed a rep. from Maine in 1838, an amendment against this practice was proposed
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dueling
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$600
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The Crittenden Compromise of 1860 suggested 6 amendments to protect this institution
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slavery
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$800
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In 2017, 35 years after its congressional deadline had passed, Nevada ratified this failed amendment
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the ERA (the Equal Rights Amendment)
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$1000
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An amendment replacing the 23rd Amendment with a grant of statehood to this area expired in 1985
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District of Columbia
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PIECES OF GAMES
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$200
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In a standard Monopoly game, there are 32 green houses & 12 of these that are red
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hotels
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$400
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A case file envelope is put in the middle of this game's board, which has 9 rooms
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Clue
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$600
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This Hasbro game has infantry, cavalry & artillery pieces in different colors
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Risk
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$800
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Harry, Henry, Homer & Happy were the original names of these triply alliterative marble munchers
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the Hungry Hungry Hippos
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$1000
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2, 4, 8, 16, 32 & 64 are marked on the die called a doubling cube in this game
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backgammon (shesh besh)
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BEHIND THE SONG
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$200
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Paul Schrader asked this singer to act in a film titled "Born In The U.S.A."--he turned Paul down but liked the title
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Bruce Springsteen
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$400
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The ambiguously gendered name of "A Christmas Story" writer Jean Shepherd inspired Johnny Cash's "A Boy Named" this
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Sue
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$600
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The title of Julian Lennon's drawing of classmate Lucy became this song
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"Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"
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$800
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With his lustrous locks, Motley Crue's Vince Neil is said to have inspired the "Dude" in the title of this Aerosmith song
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"Dude (Looks Like A Lady)"
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$1000
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In 1940 Woody Guthrie wrote this song because he was sick of hearing "God Bless America"
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"This Land Is Your Land"
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ALL THE SMALL "LING"s
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$200
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Another one of your parents' offspring
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a sibling
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$400
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An abandoned child, perhaps on a doorstep
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a foundling
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$600
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A Robert McCloskey children's book wanted you to "Make Way" for these small mallards
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ducklings
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$800
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A young tree bigger than a seedling but not yet timber size
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a sapling
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$1000
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Let's roast up some of these potatoes & serve them with a juicy steak
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a fingerling
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AFRICAN AMERICANS
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$400
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Robert L. Johnson, the first African-American billionaire, launched this cable network back in 1980
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BET (Black Entertainment Television)
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$800
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An argument with her mother over money matters inspired this jazz great's lyrics to "God Bless The Child"
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Billie Holiday
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$1200
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Sadly, this rapper, activist & entrepreneur known for giving back to his South LA community lost his life there in 2019
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Nipsey Hussle
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$1600
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This author who inspired generations to trace their genealogy is buried at his ancestral home in Henning, Tennessee
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(Alex) Haley
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$2000
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One of the great stunt pilots of the 1920s, she was the first African-American woman to earn her pilot's license
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Bessie Coleman
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ANCIENT HISTORY
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$800
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The ancient Assyrian capital of Nineveh was located at the intersection of trade routes on this river
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the Tigris
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$1200
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This formation of soldiers overlapping their shields was vulnerable from its flanks, as the Macedonians found in the Battle of Pydna
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the phalanx
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$1600
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Beginning around 1200 B.C. in what is today Mexico, this people built the 1st major pre-Columbian civilization in Mesoamerica
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the Olmecs
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$2000
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Seen here is a depiction of this great guy, the ruler of the Persian Empire who defeated the Babylonians in 539 B.C.
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Cyrus (II the Great)
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EARS TO YOU
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$400
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The incus bone in the middle ear is also known as this, a blacksmith's implement
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the anvil
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$800
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The inner ear is also called this, after the maze that contained the Minotaur
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the labyrinth
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$1200
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The ear's semicircular canals help maintain this, partly from the Latin for "balance"
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equilibrium
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$1600
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Ring in & tell us it's the medical term for ringing in the ears
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tinnitus
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$2000
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The Organ of Corti, where sound waves are translated into nerve impulses, is found in this spiral cavity of the inner ear
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the cochlea
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WORKING WITH CLAY
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$400
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Absorbent clay used to soak up grease spills in factories became this cat product when repackaged by Edward Lowe
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kitty litter
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$800
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Patrick Swayze & Demi Moore turned pottery making into something romantic in this 1990 film
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Ghost
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A 1999 exhibition at the Met featured the ceramics of this 20th century Spanish artist, work he began at age 66
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Picasso
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In Jewish folklore, a rabbi marks emet, Hebrew for "truth", on the forehead of this creature made of clay
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the Golem
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Formed by a consolidation of clay, this 5-letter rock makes up around 70% of the sedimentary rock on the Earth's crust
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shale
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CINEMATIC CITIES & TOWNS
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"Batman v Superman" placed this city right next to Metropolis
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Gotham (City)
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Much of this 2006 animated film takes place in Radiator Springs
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Cars
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When Nicole Kidman & Matthew Broderick move to this town in a 2004 remake, the neighborhood wives seem a tad robotic
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Stepford
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$1600
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The climax of "The Empire Strikes Back" takes place here, high above Bespin
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Cloud City
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$2000
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At one point in this 1946 film, Bedford Falls is renamed Pottersville
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It\'s a Wonderful Life
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A QUICK STUDY
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$400
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Gerontology
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the elderly or old people (aging)
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$800
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Glossology
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language(s)
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$1200
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Xylology
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wood
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$1600
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Selenology
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the Moon
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$2000
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Brontology
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thunder
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17th CENTURY WRITING
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N/A
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This 17th century work quotes the Book of Job, "Behold the giants groan under water, and they that dwell with them"
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Leviathan
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