'TIS THE SEASONAL BOOK TITLE
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$200
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P.G. Wodehouse's "____ Fever"
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Spring
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$400
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Jim Harrison's Legends of the ____"
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Fall
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$600
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Daniel Woodrell's "____ 's Bone"
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Winter
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$800
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Herman Raucher's "____ of '42"
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Summer
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$1000
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Laura Ingalls Wilder's "The Long ____"
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Winter
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3-RING CIRCUS
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Staples offers 3-ring these that help keep all your papers in order at school
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binder
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$400
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The top 3 rings in its logo are blue, black & red; there are 2 more below
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the Olympics
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$600
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"Thr33 Ringz" was a 2008 album from this master of Auto-Tune seen here
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T-Pain
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$800
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The 3-ring canopy release system helps to make this risky pastime a bit less risky
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skydiving
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$1000
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents from Flushing Meadows in Queens, New York.) The three rings circling the 1964 Unisphere here in Queens represents the three famous orbits at the time--the Telstar satellite, Yuri Gagarin's flight & this American's February 1962 mission
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John Glenn
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THIS MEANS WAR!
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$200
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A proverbial weight-loss phrase is this "of the bulge"
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battle
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A cornerback or safety goes after the quarterback sack when sent in on this defensive option
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a blitz
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$600
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To come into conflict, as the same-named "Train In Vain" band members certainly did
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The Clash
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$800
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Legally, lifting a fist in a threatening way can be this; battery takes things to the next level
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assault
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$1000
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This 5-letter word borrowed from French describes hand-fighting done by scores of people
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melee
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REAL PEOPLE ON FILM
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In 2013 Idris Elba took the "Long Walk to Freedom" as this man, whose death was announced at the film's U.K. premiere
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Nelson Mandela
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As this title pair, Newman & Redford did leap off a Colorado cliff... onto a mattress a few feet below
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Butch Cassidy & the Sundance Kid
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$600
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Prison cellmate Tommy Chong convinced Jordan Belfort to pen a memoir, which led to this Scorsese movie
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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$800
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He has the same birthday--January 17--as Andy Kaufman, whom he portrayed in "Man on the Moon"
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Jim Carrey
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Played by Benedict Cumberbatch in "The Fifth Estate", he called the film "a mass propaganda attack against WikiLeaks"
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Julian Assange
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5 SCOOPS OF ICE CREAM
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$200
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Tom Carvel is famous for this type of ice cream created when truck problems caused his product to melt
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soft serve
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$400
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This type of ice cream engenders debate about which flavor to eat last & some strange folks take all three in one spoonful
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Neapolitan
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$600
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This brand's first ice cream scoop shop was in a renovated gas station in Burlington, Vermont
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Ben & Jerry\'s
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$800
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This "stately" ice cream dish was originally cooked in the oven, but now blowtorches are used
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Baked Alaska
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$1000
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The Chicago mob had a bad temper when they destroyed this ice cream bar company's fleet for not paying protection in 1929
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Good Humor
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A SIDE OF CHILE
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This mountain range that began forming 200 million years ago takes up most of Chile's eastern border with Argentina
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the Andes
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This capital on the Mapocho River endured an 8.8 earthquake in 2010
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Santiago
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Kristine Tompkins, who gave land for five national parks, joins Chile's president in this region, also the outdoor company she ran
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Patagonia
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$800
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Not including polar regions, this Chilean desert is considered the world's driest
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the Atacama
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In the 1970s this Chilean dictator used Dawson Island as a concentration camp for political adversaries
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Pinochet
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CHURCHILL SPEAKS
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In his first statement as prime minister, Winston Churchill said he had "nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears &" this
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sweat
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In 1932 Winston quipped this European country was "armed to the teeth", but "pacifist to the core"
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France
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$1200
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"Darkest Hour" & "Dunkirk" highlight Churchill's speech that says, "We shall fighti n the hills; we shall never" do this
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surrender
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$1600
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Referencing America's Secretary of State in 1953, Winston said, "Dull, duller," this last name
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Dulles
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$2000
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With his party voted out, Churchill said he couldn't accept this order after being given "the Order of the Boot"
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the Order of the Garter
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BRAND NAMES IN MUSIC
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Kathleen Hanna wrote "Smells Like" this on a wall & Kurt Cobain used it in a song title not knowing it was a deodorant brand
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Teen Spirit
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$800
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In a "Be smooth like Skippy" commercial, Skippy peanut butter uses this song where Bruno Mars mentions the brand
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"Uptown Funk"
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$1200
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Sales at this seafood restaurant chain spiked when it was mentioned in Beyoncé's song "Formation"
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Red Lobster
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$1600
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"Mercedes Benz" was the last song recorded by this woman before her untimely death in 1970
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Janis Joplin
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$2000
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Mattel originally sued the band Aqua over this song, but eventually used it in commercials for the doll
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"Barbie Girl"
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MYTHOLOGY
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This dog who guarded the entrance to Hades is often described as having 3 heads & a serpent's tail
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Cerberus
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In Norse myth, slain heroes chosen by Odin feasted & reveled in this great "hall"
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Valhalla
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An avid hunter, this handsome youth was killed by a wild boar
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Adonis
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The Egyptian sun god Re became identified with this god of Thebes & their names were joined together
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Amun
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A weaver by day & an unraveler by night, she kept suitors at bay during Odysseus' absence by never finishing her shroud
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Penelope
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WORLD HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
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$400
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In Russia, September 1 is Knowledge Day, when children return here
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school
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$800
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On Pitcairn Island, January 23 is celebrated as the date that this ship burned
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the Bounty
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$1200
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Celebrating unattached people, China's biggest shopping holiday is singles day, on this fall date with lots of 1s
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November 11th
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$1600
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If you are on this Indonesian island around the Hindu new year, you may not be able to leave your hotel during Nyepi, the day of silence
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Bali
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$2000
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In Europe, this magical holiday is celebrated the week of the June solstice
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Midsummer
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OFFICIAL STATE FOSSILS
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For its fossil, Alabama chose 70-foot Basilosaurus, now classified as this big marine mammal
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a whale
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$800
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Alaska's fossil is of the mammoth & Michigan's is of this related tusked beast of the Pleistocene
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the mastodon
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$1200
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The skull of a Triceratops, this state's fossil, is on display at the museum of geology in Rapid City
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South Dakota
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$1600
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Maryland goes big & small with its state dinosaur, a sauropod, & state fossil, a type of this shelled gastropod
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snail
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The official fossil of this state is a bivalve called Chesapecten jeffersonius
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Virginia
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ENDS IN "A-D-O"
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It's also called a twister
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a tornado
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Borrowed from Spanish, it's a big fan or devotee of something, perhaps sports
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aficionado
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$1200
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"Tequila Sunrise" is a track from this Eagles album that had an Old-West concept
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Desperado
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$1600
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When you're out of touch or refuse to have contact with someone, you're this 13-letter word
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incommunicado
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$2000
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A "Cask of" this sherry figures prominently in an Edgar Allan Poe tale
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Amontillado
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AMERICAN AUTHORS
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N/A
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"Camelot" , "The Pilgrims" & "A Postscript by Clarence" are chapters in a classic novel by this author
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Mark Twain
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