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FACE THE PERFORMER
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Ming-Na Wen was marvelous as Melinda May, a one-woman cavalry on this ABC series
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Marvel\'s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.
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Loretta Devine checked into this ABC medical drama as Adele Webber in 2005 & checked out eight years later
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Grey\'s Anatomy
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$600
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Stephen Root's roles include the hitman handler for Barry & the stapler-obsessed Milton in this workplace comedy film
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Office Space
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$800
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Graham Greene got a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination for playing Kicking Bird in this 1990 historical drama
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Dances with Wolves
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On "Parks and Rec", this actress told Amy Poehler, "You can trust me because I don't care enough about you to lie"
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Kathryn Hahn
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DECADES IN AMERICAN HISTORY
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"Our American Cousin" infamously plays at Ford's Theatre
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the 1860s
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The telephone is invented by Bell
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the 1870s
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$600
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Lindbergh flies solo across the Atlantic
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the 1920s
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$800
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The Civilian Conservation Corps gets started
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the 1930s
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$1000
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The Battle of Santiago goes all the way up San Juan Hill
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the 1890s
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NAUTICAL WORDS & PHRASES
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A ship getting a "clean bill of" this on leaving a port meant it was deemed free of infectious diseases
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health
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"All" these body parts means the entire crew & if it's a meeting, everyone is expected to come
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hands
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The right of "hot" this allows a nation to chase a boat from its own waters into the high seas
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pursuit
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$800
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This term for a leader without power comes from a part of a ship
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a figurehead
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$1000
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This 3-word phrase for a quick exit implies you sliced off your anchor rope to get away
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cut and run
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JUMBLE GYM
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Exercises often done in a class to music: BASIC ORE
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aerobics
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$400
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Metal bar with weights on both ends: BULB MELD
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a dumbbell
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$600
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Period of reduced intensity toward the end of a workout: OWL CONDO
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cooldown
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$800
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A muscle at the back of the thigh: THIN GRAMS
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a hamstring
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$1000
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Low-impact exercise program that can use the wunda chair: TEA LIPS
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Pilates
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I HAVE TO GIVE YOU CREDIT
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In 1985 Sears launched this credit card with the promise of no annual fees
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Discover Card
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The time between the end of a credit card's billing cycle & the due date is this "period"
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the grace period
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$600
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Rumors abounded about an ultra-exclusive "Black Card"; in 1999 this company made one available--the Centurion Card
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American Express
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$800
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That 3-digit number on the back of a credit card is the CVV, the "card" this 12-letter word "value"
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verification
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$1000
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In 1950 the inaugural charge of this first universal credit card fittingly paid for a meal in New York City
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Diners Club
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HAVING A POSITIVE ALTITUDE
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Zugspitze, Germany's highest peak, is 9,700 feet up in these mountains
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the (Bavarian) Alps
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On the fringes of this world capital, a 17,200-foot volcano called Iztaccíhuatl will take your breath away
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Mexico City
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Lhasa, the capital of this autonomous region in southwestern China, sits serenely at 12,000 feet
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Tibet
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$800
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This southwestern state capital lies at the foot of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, about 1.3 miles above sea level
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Santa Fe
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Located on the lower slopes of a volcano called Pichincha, this capital of Ecuador is up there at 9,350 feet
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Quito
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THE STAGE
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Whoops! John Proctor becomes a victim of the witch hunt in this Arthur Miller drama
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The Crucible
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$800
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The stage manager is a pivotal role in this play by Thornton Wilder
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Our Town
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$1200
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2 of the sets in this Tennessee Williams drama are the Wingfield family apartment & a fire escape
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The Glass Menagerie
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$1600
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In this Albee play, Martha's husband George is an associate professor of history
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Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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$2000
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In this David Mamet play, a junk shop owner has sold a rare nickel for less than it's worth & plans to steal it back
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American Buffalo
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HOME, SWEET ANIMAL HOME
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These high nests for birds of prey, like the osprey, may take their name from the Latin for a "vacant place"
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aerie
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$800
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Poultry reside in a coop or pen & walk around in this 3-letter enclosure
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a chicken run
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$1200
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Just below the overstory, this area of a tropical forest is home to the spider monkey & the sloth
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a canopy
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$1600
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These crustaceans with a "solitary" name seek new shells to live in after outgrowing their old ones
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hermit crabs
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This type of spider creates a deep burrow with a hinged entrance from which it jumps out & snatches prey
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the trapdoor spider
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POP CULTURE TIDBITS
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This "Sesame Street" character fittingly appears as a census taker in a 2020 public service announcement
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The Count
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$800
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The first season of this series said the title location "lies between the pit of man's fears & the summit of his knowledge"
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The Twilight Zone
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$1200
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The French film "Les Traducteurs" was inspired by the real-life efforts to translate this novelist's "Inferno" into many languages
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Dan Brown
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$1600
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"Chernobyl" & this comic book movie won Iceland's Hildur Gudnadottir an Emmy, a Grammy & an Oscar within the same awards season
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Joker
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$2000
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Tony Todd was paid $1,000 each time he was stung by a bee playing the title villain in this 1992 horror movie
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Candyman
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DEFINITELY DEFINITIONS
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A query that expects no real response is this 10-letter type of "question"
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rhetorical
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$800
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Like coward, this cowardly adjective is 6 letters & starts with "C"
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craven
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Church law defines it as the "obstinate post-baptismal denial" of truth "which is to be believed by divine & Catholic faith"
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heresy
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A symphony sounds lovely; this word with the same suffix is a discordant bunch of sounds
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cacophany
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Like prophesize, this 13-letter "pro-" verb means to forecast or predict a future event
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prognosticate
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5 NIGHTS
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Some NCAA basketball teams begin their journey with "Midnight" this; reminds me of March...
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Madness
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Also called Freedom's Eve, Watch Night is a celebration of this edict issued on January 1, 1863
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the Emancipation Proclamation
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One night taken this city on the French Riviera, known for a movie festival & an international pyrotechnic festival
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Cannes
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$1600
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Shakespeare knew that the Eve of the Epiphany also goes by this ordinal name
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Twelfth Night
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Laylat al-Qadr, "Night of Power", commemorates when this angel revealed the Koran to Muhammad
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Gabriel
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AT FREDDY'S
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There were no rooms for Frederick the Great's wife in his Sanssouci Palace; her more modest home was in another part of this capital
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Berlin
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$800
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This red-bearded Fred built a mighty, now ruined castle at Gelnhausen in the 12th century
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Barbarossa
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While holding this British title as heir apparent for 20-plus years, the 18th century's "Poor Fred" lived in Cliveden House
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the Prince of Wales
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Frederick the Wise, ruler of Saxony, protected this controversial reformer at Wartburg Castle in 1521
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(Martin) Luther
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A Dutch Prince Frederick once owned Muskauer Park on the Neisse River, shared by Germany & this country
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Poland
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AMERICAN WOMEN
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N/A
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During her second marriage, she split her time among homes in New York, New Jersey, Paris & Greece & a yacht
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Jackie (Jacqueline) Kennedy Onassis
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