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WINNING PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN SLOGANS
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"Compassionate Conservatism" & "Leave No Child Behind"
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George W. Bush
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"Building a Bridge to the 21st Century"
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Bill Clinton
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"He Kept Us Out of War"
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Wilson
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"Are you better off than you were four years ago?"
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Ronald Reagan
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All together, shout it now: "Happy days Are Here Again"
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Franklin Roosevelt
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TOYS & GAMES
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Seen here is a tin from this pie company; Yale students repurposed it later
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Frisbee
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This Sega video game character originally was a hedgehog named Mr. Needlemouse; things have sped up since then
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Sonic
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Milton Bradley used a printer that normally made shower curtains to make this game's floor mat
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Twister
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Acquiring resources is key to winning the game called the Settlers of this island
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Catan
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Founded in 1900, this model train company introduced its switch tower accessory & its porthole window caboose in the '50s
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Lionel
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THE DUKE & DUCHESS OF SUFFIX
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Alphabet, bowdler, cannibal & many others become verbs with this suffix
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-ize
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This 3-letter suffix made the rare jump to being used as its own word, meaning "kind of"
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-ish
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Medically, it follows "erythro" & "leuko" to mean a cell
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-cyte
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Answer this suffix that means "speaker of a language"
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-phone
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Add -er to one-syllable adjectives like "big" or "hot" to get adjectives of this degree
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comparative
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TV ANIMATION
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Kaley Cuoco voices this title DC character who wants to become the "Queenpin" of Gotham City
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Harley Quinn
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Launched in 1961, "Davey &" this dog was originally produced by the United Lutheran Church
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Goliath
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Working names for this cartoon show were "Mysteries Five" & "Who's S-S-Scared?"
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Scooby-Doo
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Like Aang in a previous series, Korra is working on becoming a master one of these; she was already a pro at fire, earth & water
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airbender
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J.K. Simmons voices a toymaker who becomes a Christmas legend in this 2019 Netflix cartoon with a 5-letter title
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Klaus
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SPIDERS
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Each of a spider's these contains 7 segments, so that's 56 segments per spider
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legs
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These largest spiders are also known as hairy mygalomorphs
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tarantulas
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The spider family Uloboridae lacks these glands, so if you want a pet spider, maybe get one of them
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venom
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Some spiders that scuttle sideways & backwards are called this, like the aquatic arthropods they're named for
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crabs
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Many garden spiders are among those classed as these "weavers" of round webs
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orb weavers
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WORKING OUT: THE DETAILS
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Planks, sit-ups & a bridge exercise strengthen this, also a general term for a foundational part of something
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core
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Attached to the femur & originating at the Ilium, this minimus may get maximus attention at the gym
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gluteus
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Sun's out, guns out! Men's Health listed chin-ups & hammer curls as 2 of the 10 best exercises to build this muscle
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biceps
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When working these major muscles seen here, you can use the formal name or the colloquial
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pecs
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The gastrocnemius & soleus are the 2 major muscles making up this leg part; try jumping rope to build them up
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calf
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WOMEN DIRECTORS
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Nora Ephron wrote screenplays like "When Harry Met Sally" before directing this 1993 Tom Hanks-Meg Ryan rom-com
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Sleepless in Seattle
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Barbra Streisand directed & starred in this film about a girl who disguises herself as a boy to enter religious training
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Yentl
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In a female first, in 2010 she won the directing Oscar for "The Hurt Locker"
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Kathryn Bigelow
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Patty Jenkins directed Charlize Theron to an Oscar for this film
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Monster
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Emerald Fennell directed this promising young woman who sought vengeance in the 2020 film "Promising Young Woman"
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Carey Mulligan
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CHAPTER OF THE 19TH CENTURY NOVEL
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"Jo's Journal"
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Little Women
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"Hester and the Physician"
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The Scarlet Letter
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"The Siege of La Rochelle" & "Men of the Robe and Men of the Sword"
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The Three Musketeers
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In this "familial" work: "The First Interview with Smerdyakov"
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The Brothers Karamazov
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By H.G. Wells, "The Reversion of the Beast Folk"
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The Island of Dr. Moreau
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WALL-TO-WALL
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An Aug. 12, 1961 decree by the Volkskammer, or "peoples' chamber", led to the construction of this barrier
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the Berlin Wall
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At the eastern end of the Great Wall of China, the Tiger Mountain section gives tourists a glimpse into this country
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North Korea
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Sycamore Gap is pretty as a picture, breaking up the tableau of this British wall named for a Roman
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Hadrian\'s Wall
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It's the only remaining structure of the Second Temple of Jerusalem
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the Western Wall (the Wailing Wall)
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The site seen here is known as Great this, a name that replaced Rhodesia
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Zimbabwe
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MARSHALL MATTERS
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John Marshall, of Marshall Islands fame, gained notoriety bringing the first convicts to port Jackson in this current country
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Australia
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In 1964 communications guru Marshall McLuhan wrote, in "Practical Fact", this "is the message"
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the medium
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Before his recovery plan, George Marshall helped plan Operation Overlord, taking place in this region of France
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Normandy
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Born in 1834, this Chicagoan revolutionized the department store industry
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Marshall Field
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Before McCulloch v. Maryland, Chief Justice John Marshall dealt with the same M & M initials in this landmark 1803 case
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Marbury v. Madison
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NOT TO BE CONFUSED
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Origami is the art of folding paper; gourami is one of these creatures
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a fish
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Thermal pertains to heat; this 6-letter word means referring to the skin
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dermal
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Baklava is a pastry; Balaklava was the site of a military engagement in 1854 during this war
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the Crimean War
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A quotation is a phrase originally said by someone else; this adjective, from Latin, means occurring every day
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quotidian
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Cinnamon is a spice; this was the first western to win an Oscar for best picture, back in 1931
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Cimarron
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THE "DR" IS IN
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This, this, this is a 4-sided spinning top marked with Hebrew letters
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a dreidel
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This species of camel has one hump
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dromedary
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The original value of this Greek coin in the mid-6th century B.C. was equivalent to that of a handful of arrows
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drachma
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A fleshy fruit with a single seed, like a cherry
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a drupe
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It's the name for the fancy silver ball seen here decorating a cupcake
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a dragée
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ROCK BANDS
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In 2017 this band whose singer goes by a nickname became the first to have No.1 albums in the U.S. in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s & 2010s
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U2
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