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NATIONAL FLOWERS
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Belgium chose this symbol of remembrance
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the (red) poppy
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Turkey's national flower is this one also prominently associated with a Western European country
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the tulip
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$600
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The Holy Ghost variety of one of these exotic tropical plants is Panama's national flower
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an orchid
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$800
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Tunisia's national flower is this fragrant white one, also the name of a revolution that started there in 2010
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jasmine
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$1000
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A Spanish national flower is this one whose name comes from the Latin for "flesh"
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the carnation
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THE WIRE
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Nicknamed the devil's hatband, this fencing material was introduced to Texas in the 1870s
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barbed wire
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On March 7, 1876 he was granted one of the most valuable patents ever--a method of transmitting sound over a wire
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(Alexander Graham) Bell
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Thanks to the book & film "Mommie Dearest", we know that Joan Crawford had a real aversion to these wire objects
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hangers
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On HBO's "The Wire", this state's Governor Robert Ehrlich had a cameo as a security guard
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Maryland
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Born in Germany in 1905, Karl was the patriarch of this family famous for its high-wire act
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the Wallendas
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LEMME PITCH THAT FOR YOU
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If you check out the design on what the pitchman for this company is wearing, you'll see the two initials of the company
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Little Caesars
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For decades, Cocoa Puffs cereal has been repped by Sonny, this type of bird
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a cuckoo
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$600
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Seen here, Milana Vayntrub is keen to get you to try the services of this telecommunications giant
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AT&T
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$800
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In a recent ad Chipotle asked if one of these handheld items could change the world
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a burrito
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Dean Winters has been wrecking people's days as "Mayhem" in ads for this company
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Allstate
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THE U.K. IN THE 1980s
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This PM was re-elected by a landslide in 1983 & her Conservative Party used its majority to usher in wide changes
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(Margaret) Thatcher
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In 1987 a conference of this entity voted by a huge majority for the ordination of women
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the Church of England (the Anglican Communion)
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The Brits exported New Wave bands like this "Wishing" & "Space Age Love Song" group whose singer had a wing-style haircut
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A Flock of Seagulls
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Michael Fagan broke into this residence & spent 10 minutes chatting with the Queen before being arrested
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Buckingham Palace
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A hunger strike at Maze Prison in this U.K. country resulted in 10 deaths & widespread unrest
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Northern Ireland
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SILENT-LETTER WORDS
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A dorsal prominence of a finger joint
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a knuckle
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From Latin for "to climb", it means to rise, as in a dirigible
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ascend
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$600
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The Romans called it dies Mercurii, the day of Mercury
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Wednesday
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It's the "h" in the math formula 1/2 b h
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height
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It can follow bush, Delian or fantasy
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league
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THE TONY AWARDS
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He won Emmys for his portrayal of Tony Sopranop
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(James) Gandolfini
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He garnered an Emmy as the fastidious Felix
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Tony Randall
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Tony Shalhoub won a 2019 Emmy for playing the dad of Midge, the title woman on this show
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The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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$800
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In 2002, when he was a senior at Eastern Illinois University, this QB won the NCAA's Walter Payton Award
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Tony Romo
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This crooner has won 18 Grammy awards--the first in 1963 & the most recent in 2015
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Tony Bennett
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POETIC BOOK TITLES
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For the title of this novel about World War I, Hemingway went back to a 16th century poem by George Peele
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A Farewell to Arms
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E.M. Forster admired Walt Whitman & quoted a poem in "Leaves of Grass" for the title of this 1924 subcontinental novel
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A Passage to India
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$1200
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"Rage, rage against" this title of George R.R. Martin's first novel, a quote from a poem by Dylan Thomas
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The Dying of the Light
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$1600
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From Sonnet 30 by Shakespeare: "When to the sessions of sweet silent thought / I summon up" this Marcel Proust title
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Remembrance of Things Past
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$2000
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The novel title "A Handful of Dust" by Evelyn Waugh comes from this T.S. Eliot poem about our decayed culture
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The Wasteland
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THE "A" LIST
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On July 20, 1969 he said, "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed"
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(Neil) Armstrong
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This medieval monk had an out-of-wedlock child with Heloise
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(Peter) Abelard
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Seen here sketching, he doesn't look especially kooky or spooky
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Charles Addams
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$1600
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The first female president of the Philippines, she brought democracy back after the long dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos
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Corazon Aquino
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This great dramatist fought in & may have been wounded at the Battle of Marathon
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Aeschylus
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ADDITIVES
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These additives like Red No. 2 come with FD&C in front of their name
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dyes (food colorings)
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$800
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STP has a fuel additive that boosts this, from the Latin for "eight"
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octane
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$1200
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This substance, seen here, that's added to beer & milkshakes, comes from cereal grain that's allowed to undergo germination
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malt (malt barley)
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$1600
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The W.H.O. suggests face masks made with polypropylene, which has this water-repelling adjective that means "afraid of water"
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hydrophobic
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An emulsifier is an additive that encourages this process in which particles mix but don't dissolve
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a suspension
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TV COMEDY CHARACTER NAMES
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus, playing D.C. politics really, really dirty
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Selina Meyer
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Julie Bowen, relating to her relatives
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Claire Dunphy
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Jon Cryer, 1 of 2.5 men
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Alan Harper
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Zach Galifianakis--what a clown or "cloon"
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Chip Baskets
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Oh, brother! After some analysis, David Hyde Pierce takes 4 Emmys
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Niles Crane
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PEOPLE FROM THAT STATE
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The GPO insists you call people from this state "Hoosiers"
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Indiana
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Wyoming adds these 3 letters to get the word for a resident, who now sounds like a mineral
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Wyomingite
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This word for someone from New Haven or New Britain rhymes with "butter"
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Connecticutter
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2 of the 3 states whose final "S" becomes an "N" to describe their residents
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(2 of ) Texas, Kansas & Arkansas
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Residents of this state are to be called this state "Residents" to differentiate from the native population
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Hawaii
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BODY WORDS
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This 3-letter region from the waist to the knees on humans only exists when one is seated
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lap
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Aorta comes from the Greek for "great" this other "A" word
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artery
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This ridge over your eyes can also refer to the expression of your face
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brow
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This part of the knee begins with a 4-letter word for the top of the head
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patella
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Iambs are metrical these
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feet
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1960s SONGS
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N/A
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In 2002 Macon, Georgia, where he grew up, unveiled a statue of this man who sits overlooking the water, a nod to his posthumous No. 1 hit
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Otis Redding
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