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BORDERING THE USA
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About 20 minutes after crossing the border into British Columbia, you can be in this big city exploring Stanley Park
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Vancouver
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Goat Island separates the Horseshoe & the American sides of this gorgeous landmark
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Niagara Falls
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This northwestern Mexican peninsula has 2,000 miles of coastline & Las Tres Virgenes, a volcano last active in 1746
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Baja California
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Montana's Wild Horse port of entry sees you through to this Canadian province on your way to Medicine Hat, eh?
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Alberta
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Mexico's 2 largest cities on the U.S. border are Juarez & this one
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Tijuana
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DISNEY MOVIES BY SONGS
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"You've Got A Friend In Me" (the original & the sequels)
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Toy Story
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"Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo"
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Cinderella
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It features "You'll Be In My Heart" by Phil Collins
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Tarzan
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Performed by Baloo in the original & in the remake: "The Bare Necessities"
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The Jungle Book
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"Listen With Your Heart" & "Colors Of The Wind"
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Pocahontas
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THIS & THAT
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On an average day this armed service saves 12 lives & screens 300 merchant ships arriving in U.S. ports for security threats
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the Coast Guard
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The name of this type of umbrella is from words meaning "protecting against" & "sun"
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a parasol
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Many ferns have primitive, narrow leaves called these, from the Latin for "leaf"
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fronds
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The 1893 John Philip Sousa march heard here bears the name of this noisemaker of American history
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the Liberty Bell
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The New York court system says the first word in this 2-word phrase stands for "record of arrest & prosecution"
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a rap sheet
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ANIMALS
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Generally batting leadoff alphabetically, this "earth pig" has a foot-long tongue
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an aardvark
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Wisconsin's state mammal, this weasel family member stores up body fat in summer & fall for long winter sleeps
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a badger
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The Indian gray is a type of this mammal that has no problem going after cobras
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a mongoose
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Sure, this Aussie mammal lays eggs like a bird, has a bill like a bird & dives under-water for 40 seconds, but flying? Nope!
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a platypus
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The adorable pygmy this monkey lives up to its name; it can be less than a foot long & weight just 10 ounces
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marmoset
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4-LETTER WORDS
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A live performance of this musical genre that showed its "age" in the 1920s often includes improvisation
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jazz
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This monarchical title was relinquished for good in 1917
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czar
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It sounds like part of a wheel, but it's a jump in ice skating with one & a half or more turns in the air
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an axel
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A human-eating giant of folklore, or any terrifying person
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an ogre
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This instrument has been in use since the time of the Crusades
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a fife
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THEY DON'T LIVE ON SESAME STREET
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South African-born Ernie Els is a longtime standout performer in this pro sport
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golf
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Bert wasn't a doctor, but Dr. Paul Bert made important studies of divers with decompression sickness, also known as this
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the bends
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Accompanying him on his post-White House trek to the Amazon, Kermit was the second son of this U.S. president
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Theodore Roosevelt
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Big birds of the world include the 6-foot, 30-pound Dalmatian variety of this avian with a large bill & an elastic throat pouch
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a pelican
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The grandfather of this Broadway lyricist was a major impresario of Vaudeville & opera
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Oscar Hammerstein
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KABUL STONES
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Built for protection around 1,500 years ago, Kabul's "Great" this runs atop a mountain that towers over the city
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a wall
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A mosque in Kabul & the Taj Mahal in Agra were both built by Shah Jahan in pure white this stone
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marble
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The workers of the Kabul Museum risked their lives to save stone figures from destruction by this group in 2001
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the Taliban
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In Kabul & the rest of Afghanistan, rocks painted red & white warn of danger in these fields; stay on the white side
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minefields
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A garden in Kabul contains the stone grave of Babur, 16th century founder of this Muslim dynasty of India
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the Mughal Empire
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LITERATURE
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In 1905 you didn't want to eat a pork chop while reading the paper "appeal to reason", as it serialized this stockyard novel
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The Jungle
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At a dinner party in Shakespeare, Banquo's ghost shows up to torment this title character
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Macbeth
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The chapter titles in this Henry Fielding novel include "A Little Chapter, in Which is Contained a Little Incident"
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Tom Jones
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In his 50s Tom Wolfe wrote his first novel, this one about the downfall of a Manhattan bond trader
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The Bonfire of the Vanities
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In this A.S. Byatt novel, a scholar (Aaron Eckhart in the movie) finds letters in a book owned by a long-dead poet
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Possession
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STARTS & ENDS WITH "T"
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Don't place your hot dishes directly on the table; put them on this little stand
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a trivet
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It means to diagnose a problem you're having with a computer or an appliance & then solve it
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troubleshoot
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It's a small castle tower or something that holds a gun on a military tank
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turret
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Mentioned in "A Wrinkle in Time", it's a 4-dimensional analogue of a cube, or what Carl Sagan called a hypercube
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a tesseract
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From Latin for "to go over", it means temporary or fleeting
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transient
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PUT IN OSCILLATION
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A dance with one arm out in front of you is named for this oscillating lawn item
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the sprinkler
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To the naked eye it may look like it's not moving when in use, but here's a slow-motion look at this musical item at work
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a tuning fork
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This vacuum company also makes "Hot+Cool" oscillating air purifiers that take care of 99.97% of pollutants & allergens
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Dyson
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This 3-D imaging technique used in medicine to visualize organs makes use of the oscillations of hydrogen atoms
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an MRI (magnetic resonance image)
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In 1851 this 2-word object bearing the name of its inventor started having a ball (weighing 62 pounds) swinging in Paris' Panthéon
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a Foucault pendulum
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DOCTORED TELEVISION
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John "J.D." Dorian, a rookie doctor at Sacred Heart Hospital
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Scrubs
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Dr. Abigail Bartlet, who put in a D.C. residency
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The West Wing
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Plastic surgeons Sean McNamara & Christian Troy
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Nip/Tuck
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Joel Fleischman, a fish out of water in Alaska
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Northern Exposure
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Early 20th century physician & drug addict John Thackery
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The Knick
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DRUNK HISTORY
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Still in business today, Japan's Sudo Honke brewery has been turning rice & water into this since the 12th century
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sake
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The Bols family began distilling Genever, also known as "Hollands" or "Dutch" this liquor, in 1664
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gin
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This liqueur dates back to the 16th century; in the 20th, it was bottled with brandy as B&B
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Benedictine
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Year in which the photo here was taken
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1933
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Before the Rothschilds bought it, Chateau this was one of 4 top-rated wineries in France's 1855 official ranking
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Lafite
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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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N/A
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On either side of Indochina are these 2 gulfs that start with the same letter
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the Gulf of Tonkin & the Gulf of Thailand
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