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THE OLYMPIC FLAME
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In 1992 there was a dramatic lighting by Paralympian Antonio Rebollo, who shot a flaming this
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arrow
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In 2012 this soccer star stylishly transported the torch up the Thames in a speedboat
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Beckham
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In 1956 on a flight from Singapore to Jakarta, the Olympic torch crossed this for the first time
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the equator
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PLAIN-NAMED MALADIES
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The injury called this fruit "hand" is on the rise--use a cutting board when making guacamole!
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avocado
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Cercarial dermatitis, this type of athlete's "itch", is not caused by chlorine but by a parasite
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swimmer\'s
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Postural orthostatic tachycardia syndrome is also known as Grinch syndrome because this organ is too small
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the heart
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A type of glossitis, "geographic" this sense organ gives it a map-like appearance
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tongue
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Similar to carpal tunnel syndrome, "baby" this joint affects the parents, not the baby
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wrist
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SOME RANDOM INFO
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Sticky fruits, not blood, are the diet of this type of parrot named for a classic character; check out that hairline
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Dracula
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This country's flag has 5 stars for the 5 lands of the United Provinces of Central America; conveniently, they form an "H"
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Honduras
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The last person to receive a pension from this war died in 2020; the 90-year-old woman's dad changed sides midway through
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the American Civil War
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Bruce Peterson's horrific 1967 crash of Northrop's M2-F2 was in this 1970s TV series opening; Peterson survived, but without bionics
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The Six Million Dollar Man
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This app that took a wild ride in 2021 with stocks like AMC Theatres was formed in 2015 to democratize investing
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Robinhood
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MOVIE TITLE MIDDLE WORD
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Henry Fonda & a jury decide a fate(1957)
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"Angry"
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O'shea Jackson Jr. plays Ice Cube (his dad) (2015)
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"Outta"
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Robin Williams tells his students to seize the day (1989)
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"Poets"
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Hilary Swank hits like a girl--a really, really powerful girl (2004)
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"Dollar"
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Adam Sandler takes out Drew Barrymore over & over (2004)
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"First"
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A BRIEF HISTORY
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To make it more accessible, Stephen Hawking followed up "A Brief History of Time" with this even more concise version
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A Briefer History of Time
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Boris Fausto's "Concise History of" this nation covers 500 years, starting with the arrival of the Portuguese
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Brazil
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"Lifeboat No. 8" by Elizabeth Kaye recounts this disaster in 70 pages from the point of view of a group of survivors
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the Titanic
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Pruning away some of its regal glamour, "My Kingdom for a Horse" is a capsule of this British conflict
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the War of the Roses
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Jonathan Clements' "Brief History of" this group asks, were they "the last pagans or the first modern Europeans?"
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the Vikings
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OF "TIME"
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Aye, it means connected with the sea or nautical activities
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maritime
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In this system, employees choose the hours they wish to work as long as it totals a full day
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flex time
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Louis Chauvin & Thomas Turpin were pioneers of this syncopated forerunner of jazz
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ragtime
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It begins at midnight at 0 degrees longitude & includes a place name
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Greenwich Mean Time
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2-word term referring to a period before recorded history; in law, a claim dating from then needs no proof
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time immemorial
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YOU'RE ALL OVER THE MAP
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This desert stretches more than 3,000 miles from Mauritania to Sudan
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the Sahara
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To sail from the Bahamas to the U.S. mainland, you cross these straits
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the Straits of Florida
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We believe you'll be "Abel" to name this sea between Australia & New Zealand that covers nearly a million square miles in area
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the Tasman Sea
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Extending from the Arctic coast to the Kazakhstan border, this Russian mountain range goes north/south for about 1,500 miles
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the Urals
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Ontario is on the eastern border of this Canadian province that boasts Brandon & Flin Flon
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Manitoba
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POP CULTURE
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In 2020 this character was back in "Subsequent Moviefilm: Delivery of Prodigious Bribe to American Regime..."
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Borat
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Seen Anya-Taylor Joy helped make this miniseries one of streaming TV's most successful
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The Queen\'s Gambit
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In 2020 the plastic crown worn by this "Big Poppa" rapper in his final photo shoot sold at auction for nearly $600,000
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the Notorious B.I.G.
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Watch out, William! Prince Harry said one of his favorite films is this 1994 Disney cartoon with a royal sibling usurper
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The Lion King
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Scandal sang, "Shooting at the walls of heartache, bang bang, I am" this
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warrior
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AUTHORS' THIRD BOOKS
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In this third John Grisham thriller, 2 Supreme Court justices are killed & a journalist helps a law student on the run
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The Pelican Brief
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The title refers to a high-flying rocket in this third Ian Fleming James Bond novel
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Moonraker
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Marine officer & disciplinarian dad Bull Meecham in this third book by Pat Conroy calls himself this, the novel's title
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The Great Santini
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Set in 18th century Italy, Anne Rice's "Cry to Heaven" is about 2 of these male sopranos, adored as singers, yet shunned as men
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castrati
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QUITE A PARADOX
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Olbers' paradox is the fact that the night sky is dark; why don't these light it up?
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stars
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The liar paradox begins with a contradictory statement: the given "sentence is" this
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false
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One of Zeno's paradoxes involves Achilles racing this animal (which had a head start)
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a tortoise
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"No one does wrong voluntarily" is one of the paradoxes this man attributed to Socrates
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Plato
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William Stanley Jevons' 19th century paradox stated if you increase this fuel's efficiency, consumption of it will rise
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coal
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FAMILIAR PHRASES
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Temperature-based phrase for information that's just been printed in a newspaper
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hot off the presses
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Longtime Philly DJ Jerry Blavat helped popularize this "explosive" rhyming phrase for something good out of the old days
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blast from the past
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To the phrase "Safe as" these little creatures, James Thurber added "under a cookstove"
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kittens
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Travis McGee observes, "People who become" these "in their own time usually have very little time left"
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legends
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Shakespeare put "cry" before this word, an order to soldiers to start looting & pillaging
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havoc
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PURPLE HEART RECIPIENTS
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World War I Sergeant Stubby, who warned soldiers of gas attacks, is seen here with his medals & of course, these around his neck
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dog tags
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Future Illinois Senator Tammy Duckworth received the medal after an RPG took down this she was piloting in Iraq in 2004
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a helicopter
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He is the only U.S. president to have received the medal
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John F. Kennedy
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Kurt Vonnegut said his Purple Heart was not for surviving the firebombing of this German city but for frostbite
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Dresden
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Rod Serling was awarded a Purple Heart & this country's liberation medal for his efforts in places like Leyte
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the Philippines
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REFERENCE BOOKS
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Emily Dickinson made frequent use of a work by this family friend & said that for several years, it was "my only companion"
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(Noah) Webster
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