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REALLY SIMILAR FLAGS
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Australia has six stars, including a Commonwealth one; this island nation to the southeast, just four
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New Zealand
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Compared to the Netherlands, this smaller Low country has a shorter flag with a different blue
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Luxembourg
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The sea named for this nation separates it from Iceland more effectively than their flags, both with Danish roots
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Norway
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Indonesia's flag is longer than that of this country & Indonesia's colors don't represent the Grimaldi family
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Monaco
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Romania's flag dates to 1861; the flag of this 4-letter African nation dates to 1959, just before its independence from France
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Chad
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FAMOUS NAMES
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A hoodlum named Frank Galluccio slashed him across his left cheek, earning him the nickname "Scarface"
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Al Capone
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This Italian's brother Bartholomew was also an explorer & was an expert chart maker
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Columbus
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His artistic career lasted just 10 years, from 1880 until his death from a gunshot in 1890
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Vincent van Gogh
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The founder of China's Yuan Dynasty, he constructed a new capital city in 1267
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Kublai Khan
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This ancient Greek wrote "Parallel Lives", paired biographies of famous Greeks & Romans
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Plutarch
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3's COMPANY
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The logo for this sweet spot incorporates the number 31 in the initials of the company
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Baskin & Robbins
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Big3 is a league that puts a twist on this sport, like scoring with 4-pointers
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basketball
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This "national" adhesive from 3M has been keeping things together since 1930
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Scotch tape
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In 2011 this tech company launched Office 365
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Microsoft
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In 2018 this company met its goal of producing 5,000 Model 3 sedans in a week
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Tesla
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THE SHAPE OF THINGS
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Very obviously, this building was named for its shape
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the Pentagon
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This singer's Purr & Meow! fragrances come in cat-shaped bottles
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Katy Perry
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This largest artery is said to resemble a candy cane
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the aorta
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It's the art of growing & trimming trees & shrubs into different shapes, often animals
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topiary
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When capitalized, this Greek letter looks like an upside down "V"
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a lambda
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PHRASES YOU LIKELY DIDN'T DO FOR REAL
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You forced yourself to do a difficult job, so yes, you had to "bite" this projectile but no, not literally
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the bullet
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Though the cause had a lot of mass appeal, you only "jumped on" one of these conveyances proverbially
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the bandwagon
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Studying for that test until dawn, you "burned" this timely 2-word phrase but probably not for real, as it's not 1855
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the (mid)night oil
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A tailor using a certain number of yards of material to make a suit is one theory of being "dressed to" these
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the nines
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Using every means available, you "pulled out all" these, like pipe organists once did to get full volume
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the stops
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TV IS SO HIGH SCHOOL
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Sunnydale High seems like hell & sits atop an actual hellmouth
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Will Schuester & Sue Sylvester were on staff at William McKinley High in Lima, Ohio
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Glee
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Both on the Upper East Side, Constance Billard School for Girls & St. Jude's School for Boys
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Gossip Girl
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Zack & A.C. roamed the halls of Bayside High in Palisades, California
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Saved By the Bell
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Neptune High, where mysteries abounded
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Veronica Mars
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THE ART OF THE LIMERICK
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This nursery rhyme about a rodent & a timepiece has been called an ancestor of the limerick
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"Hickory Dickory Dock"
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In Ranjit Bolt's book "A Lion Was Learning to" do this, the title Limerick continues, "in the Alps just outside Chamonix"
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Ski
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A Lewis Carroll girl "grew...thinner & thinner / The reason was plain / She slept out in the rain / & was never allowed any" this
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dinner
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This prolific sci-fi & sci writer also produced "Lecherous Limericks" & a "Grossery" of limericks--we'll quote neither
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Isaac Asimov
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19th century first & last lines often ended with the same word, as in this nonsense master's "There was an old man with a beard"
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Lear
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OTHER STUFF HAPPENED IN 1492
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Long in ill health, Lorenzo the Magnificent of this family died in April at age 43, shortly after a meeting with Savonarola
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the Medicis
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Perkin Warbeck was a pretender acclaimed by many as Richard, duke of this royal house that had recently been ousted in England
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York
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This Florentine gave us "Battle of the Centaurs", a relief now in Casa Buonarrotti
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Michelangelo
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Antonio de Nebrija dedicated his "Castilian Grammar" to this queen, having a busy year
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Isabella
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In May hungry peasants called the bread & cheese folk briefly seized this Dutch city; you could call it a rage in...
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Harlem
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ENDS IN THE SAME VOWEL TWICE
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For many decades until 1998, NHL games were officiated by just one
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a referee
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The double-vowel spelling of this African-American festival matches the 7 principles it's based one
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Kwanzaa
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A vodka brand in a blue bottle that sounds quite celestial
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Skyy
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This traditional musical instrument is also called a dronepipe
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didgeridoo
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Likely from Portuguese words meaning "wine" & "garlic", it's a spicy hot Indian curry
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vindaloo
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CANADIANA
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The iconic Canadian department store nicknamed The Bay traces its history to this company founded in 1670
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Hudson Bay
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Hog cholera prompted the founding of North America's oldest of these colleges, at the University of Guelph in Ontario
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veterinary medicine
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The pride of Cardston, Alberta, she played Ann Darrow in "King Kong"
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Fay Wray
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Around the year 1000, the Vikings established a small camp on this large eastern island
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Newfoundland
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Almost 100 billion tons of seawater comes & goes daily in this top vote getter in a CBC poll to determine the 7 Wonders of Canada
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Bay of Fundy
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KISS ME, KATE!
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Kate Mara kissed Sebastian Stan on his spacesuit helmet as he prepped to rescue Matt Damon in this film
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The Martian
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On this spinoff of "Grey's Anatomy" Kate Walsh got some kissy face from fellow doc Taye Diggs
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Private Practice
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Spoiler alert: "How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days" ends with Matthew McConaughey kissing this actress
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Kate Hudson
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On this series, Katee Sackhoff as Starbuck canoodled with Zak Adama & his brother Apollo
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Battlestar Galactica
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Kate Winslet kissed Jim Carrey in this film, but then she faded away
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
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WHAT A FUNGI
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These prized edible fungi come from the genus Tuber
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truffles
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A fungus is the culprit in white nose syndrome, killing more than 6 million of these animals in North American caves
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bats
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A type of rust that infects this beverage crop was discovered in Africa around 1870 & kept out of Brazil for a century
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coffee
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The giant type of this mushroom is named for the way it releases spores; it can contain 7 trillion
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puffball
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LSD was created from this fungal disease of cereals known to create its own hallucinations
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ergot
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HIT SONGS
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Written in 1930, this song was a No.1 hit in 1960 & was covered by The Band to support a 1976 presidential candidate
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"Georgia On My Mind"
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