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YOU GIVE ME FEMA
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Let's start with the basics: FEMA is an acronym for this government organization
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the Federal Emergency Management Agency
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FEMA & the U.S. Geological Survey are 2 of the 4 groups in the Natl. Hazards Reduction program for this type of disaster
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earthquake
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5,000 FEMA employees were deployed in the wake of this storm that made landfall in New Jersey Oct. 29, 2012
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Hurricane Sandy
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FEMA declared major disasters due to wildfires in these 2 neighboring western states about a month apart in 2020
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Oregon & California
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FEMA warns, "While" these dikes "can help reduce the risk of flooding... they do not eliminate the risk"
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levees
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FOOD TALK
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November 6th is National these Day; pass 'em around
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nachos
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The flambe dessert called Bananas Foster was created at Brennan's Restaurant in this city in the 1950s
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New Orleans
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Served hot or chilled, it's the 4-letter name for Japanese buckwheat noodles
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soba
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Any way you slice it, this iconic brand with its colorful balloons on the wrapper celebrates its 100th anniversary in 2021
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Wonder Bread
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A popular Thai dish, it's bite-sized skewered pieces of meat usually served with peanut sauce
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satay
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IN THE SCI-FI & FANTASY SECTION
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"The Tributes" is part I of this 2008 book by Suzanne Collins
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The Hunger Games
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One big difference between this 1963 Pierre Boulle novel & the film version--no half-buried Statue of Liberty at the end
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Planet of the Apes
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The only graphic novel on Time magazine's list of 100 Best Novels of All Time was this one featuring Rorschach
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Watchmen
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Artificial intelligence has become self-aware & is not pleased in Harlan Ellison's "I Have No Mouth & I Must" do this
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scream
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Ursula K. Le Guin delighted audiences with her tales of Ged, a wizard of this archipelago
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Earthsea
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BOROUGH WATCH
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Kevin James rules: "King of ____"
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Queens
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J. Lo charms the room: "Maid in ____"
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Manhattan
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Steve Buscemi & Bill Burr are firefighters: "The King of ____ ____"
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Staten Island
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De Niro's directorial debut: "A ____ Tale"
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Bronx
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Eddie Murphy sinks his teeth into a role: "Vampire in ____"
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Brooklyn
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PSYCHOLOGY
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Carl Jung popularized the use of these 2 terms to refer to outgoing & shy personality types
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introvert & extrovert
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According to Freudian theory, the libido originates in this one of the 3 divisions of the psyche
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the id
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From the Greek for "under the ribs", it's the one-word alternate name for illness anxiety disorder
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hypochondria
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For his studies in the early 20th century, this Russian scientist is considered the pioneer of classical conditioning
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Pavlov
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In psychoanalysis, this term refers to a patient projecting emotions from a previous relationship onto the therapist
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transference
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"AL" WORDS FROM ARABIC
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It's a small recess in a wall or room
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an alcove
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It's from Arabic for "calendar" & the first one printed in America was "for New England for the year 1639"
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an almanac
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It will neutralize an acid & it's from Arabic for "the ashes"
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alkaline
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This plant is widely cultivated as feed, but can also be found growing wild
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alfalfa
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A set of rules to be followed in computer calculations, it comes from the name of a 9th century mathematician
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algorithm
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MUSIC HISTORY
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In "We Didn't Start The Fire", Billy Joel sings of "trouble in" this Mideast canal region, the site of a 1956 crisis
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Suez
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A Grateful Dead song plays fast & loose with the story of this heroic train engineer who died in 1900
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Casey Jones
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A "Hamilton" number about the defeat of Adams & Burr is titled "The Election Of" this year
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1800
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"The water took its victim's name", goes a Vampire Weekend song about this English explorer who was set adrift by his crew in Canada
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Henry Hudson
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Tom Russell's "Tonight We Ride" recounts General Pershing's 1916-17 pursuit of this Mexican guerrilla leader
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Pancho Villa
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AROUND THE WORLD
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Referring to semi-arid bush country, it's the term for remote & largely uninhabited interior regions of Australia
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the Outback
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This "diabolical" landmark climbs 1,200 feet above the Belle Fourche River Valley in the Black Hills
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Devils Tower
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Latvia is wedged in the middle of these two other Baltic republics
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Estonia & Lithuania
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The Iguacu Falls extend for nearly 2 miles along the border between Brazil & this other nation
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Argentina
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The fourth-most populous of the British Isles is this holiday isle off the south coast of England
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the Isle of Wight
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PLAYING IN TRAFFIC
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The traffic warning sign for playgrounds features this piece of equipment, with one kid higher than the other
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a see-saw
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In the U.K. a Pegasus crossing has a sign showing this animal & allows it to cross with pedestrians
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a horse
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In 2018, a German town where this rock star was once stationed, honored him on pedestrian lights
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Elvis Presley
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To reduce congestion, if this ends in 1 or 2, you can't drive in parts of Manila on Monday
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your license plate
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A sleeping policeman is British slang for this traffic-slowing road feature
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a speed bump
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DESCRIPTIVE WORDS
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While you're looking out one of these, contemplate that the word fenestral refers to them
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windows
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Connubial refers to these unions
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marriages
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Adenoid as a descriptor refers to these, like the salivary ones
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glands
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Something described as sidereal is like one of these faraway things
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a star
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Cretaceous pertains to this soft rock
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chalk
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SCULPTURE & STATUES
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Want to see a pair of Nikes almost 2,000 years old? Visit the Athens museum named for this hill
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the Acropolis
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Several cities have Lorenzo Quinn's hurricane-inspired sculptures of this not-so-maternal figure hurling a globe
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Mother Nature
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Statues of Dizzy Dean & Ozzie Smith are outside the stadium of this Major League Baseball team
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the St. Louis Cardinals
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Sri Lanka boasts a 37-foot tall statue of this religious figure carved from a single block of limestone
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Buddha
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The only work to which Michelangelo signed his name is this sculpture today in St. Peter's
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the Pietà
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C.G., I
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I can't believe a 1930s MGM casting director said, "My ears made me look like a giant sugar bowl"
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Clark Gable
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TriStar showed me a reported $600,000 for "Jerry Maguire"
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Cuba Gooding Jr.
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You know I fronted Gnarls Barkley & coached on "The Voice", but did you know I sang backup on "Waterfalls"?
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CeeLo Green
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I played Count Rugen & yes, I know your name is Inigo Montoya!
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Christopher Guest
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In the 1970s I had a giant hit with the song "Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue"
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Crystal Gayle
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19th CENTURY LITERARY CREATURES
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The author said the name of this 10-letter creature in his poem meant "the result of much excited discussion"
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the Jabberwock
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