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ODD HISTORY
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One of these took place on the Bounty in 1789; there was another of sorts on Skylab in 1973 when the radios were turned off
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a mutiny
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The Great Emu War of 1932 proved disastrous for this country's army; the big birds were no chickens
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Australia
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A 1976 mission in which U.S. forces cut a poplar tree in Korea's DMZ was named for this legendary lumberjack
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Paul Bunyan
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Caligula declared himself a god & decreed that a bridge be built between his palace & the temple of this top Roman god
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Jupiter
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A convert to Quakerism, Inazo Nitobe wrote a bestseller about this samurai warrior code
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bushido
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COOKBOOKS
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Honey glazed carrots & cranberry sauce are in Hannie Scott's "25 Easy... Recipes" for this holiday
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Thanksgiving
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Better digestion is promised with the cookbook called "Go with" this synonym for the stomach
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Your Gut
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She wrote her groundbreaking 1961 French cookbook "For the Servantless American Cook"
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Julia Child
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Anne Byrn helps us make "American" this dessert, including Colonial gingerbread & classic layer ones
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cake
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In 1931 Irma Rombauer spent half her life savings to publish this cookbook that eventually sold 18 million copies
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The Joy of Cooking
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TV SHOWS BY SIBLINGS
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Monica & Ross, always stuck in second gear
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Friends
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Jonathan & Will Byers, confronting the Upside Down on Netflix
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Stranger Things
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Sam & Dean Winchester, hunters of demons & things that go bump in the night
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Supernatural
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The twins Tia & Tamera, played onscreen by real-life twins
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Sister, Sister
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Sisters Kara & Alex Danvers, one with extraordinary abilities
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Supergirl
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WHILE "E"
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An example of this, at the grave of Marguerite Daniels: "She always said her feet were killing her, but no one believed her"
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an epitaph
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Chocolate is a classic type of this delight seen here
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an éclair
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It's the act of a minor legally freeing themselves from their parents
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emancipation
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Long ago, it had a curved shape, but now it's basically a big oboe
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the English horn
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This "-ology" is basically the theory of knowledge
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epistemology
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COYOTE
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Coyotes can run 40 mph & go after the real version of this Warner Bros. foe, which--gulp!--only runs at 15 to 20 mph, max
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a roadrunner
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A coyote is also known as a prairie or a brush this, but is smaller & lighter than a pure one
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a wolf
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To avoid detection, coyotes may practice "digit-grading", which humans call walking this
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walking on tiptoes
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A character in the country song "Coyotes" would "sit out under the stars" & "listen while the coyotes" do this
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howl
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Coyotes prey on the snowshoe hare & the white-tailed this ruminant
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deer
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SUPER GENIUS
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Finding that a nearby magnetron had melted a candy bar in his pocket led Percy Spencer to invent this
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a microwave
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For examining how "labor, identity, & human rights are transformed by the digital economy", Mary L. gray earned this "Genius Grant"
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MacArthur
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In 1975 Gary Dahl marketed a "Pet" this, which sold for $3.95; the ones used were from Mexican beaches & cost Gary 1 cent each
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a Pet Rock
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An experiment turns the low-I.Q. Charlie Gordon & a mouse into geniuses in this Daniel Keyes story
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Flowers for Algernon
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" Non-Cooperative Games", the doctoral thesis from his beautiful mind, made the "Annals of Mathematics" in 1951
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(John) Nash
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CANADIAN PROVINCES & TERRITORIES
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Pro sports teams in Saskatchewan include the Saskatoon Blades & the Regina Pats in this sport
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hockey
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Places of interest in this province include the Citadel Historic Park in Halifax & the Alexander Graham Bell Historic Site
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Nova Scotia
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The Fraser Valley in this Pacific province accounts for much of its agriculture
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British Columbia
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In 2003 it dropped the words "the" & "Territory" from its name
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the Yukon
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Qikiqtaaluk, formerly called Baffin, is a region in this 800,000-square-mile territory
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Nunavut
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FEMALE LITERARY PROTAGONISTS
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Scheherazade is the storyteller in this collection of folk tales
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the 1001 Arabian Nights
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She's the FBI trainee who must seek help from a deranged killer in "The Silence of the Lambs"
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Clarice
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Shakespeare wrote that the sails of her barge were "so perfumed that the winds were love-sick with them"
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Cleopatra
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This Thomas Hardy heroine has an out-of-wedlock child named Sorrow, who sadly dies
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Tess (of the d\'Urbervilles)
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This wife of Theseus had a minor part in Euripides' "Hippolytus" but got her own Racine tragedy
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Phaedra
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MUSIC, IN THE CLASSICAL SENSE
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The 6th & last of these "Concertos" named for a place has no violins, but there's harpsichord, 'cause that's how Bach rolled
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Brandenburg
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At the '84 Olympics Brits Torvill & Dean got perfect 6s skating to gold using this Ravel work but we'd have given them a "10"
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Bolero
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In 1867 this wizard of the piano composed the "Hungarian Coronation Mass"
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Liszt
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The "Bride's Book of Etiquette" suggests "Canon In D" by this 17th century German as the party heads down the aisle
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Pachelbel
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Really putting the "O" in orchestra, E.L.O. did a live performance of "In The Hall Of The Mountain King" by this composer
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Grieg
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EPONYMOUS LEGISLATION
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Named for Reagan's press secretary & adopted in 1993, the Brady bill imposed a waiting period before purchasing these
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guns
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Federal title this number of the education amendments of 1972 was renamed for Patsy Mink, a congresswoman who helped enact it
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Title IX
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The Lilly Ledbetter Act resets this time period whenever an employee receives a paycheck based on discriminatory pay
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the statute of limitations
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A star in Chaplin's "The Kid", he earned millions, but it got spent by others; a law named for him protects the earnings of minors
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Jackie Coogan
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1920's National Prohibition Act was named for this Minnesota congressman
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Volstead
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MR., MISS OR MRS. MOVIES
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1931:A strange potion divides a man's personality
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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1993: Staying in touch with your kids after a divorce can literally be kind of a drag
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Mrs. Doubtfire
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2000:An FBI agent goes undercover at a beauty pageant
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Miss Congeniality
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2005:Married assassins are contracted to kill each other
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
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1942:A British woman & her family work together to survive at the outbreak of World War II
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Mrs. Miniver
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DOUBLE DOUBLE RHYMERS
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Hawaiian dress, & garb worn by a ballerina
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muumuu & tutu
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Item held by a cheerleader, & type of movie like "Pretty Woman"
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pom-pom & rom-com
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To reverse course using the same route, & the star of "Nacho Libre"
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backtrack & Jack Black
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A non-lethal weapon that fires an electric charge, & a 5k engaged in for pleasure
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a stun gun & a fun run
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"Swift" journalism thoroughfare of London & illegal paper during quiz time
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Fleet Street & cheat sheet
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ANIMATION
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These characters first seen onscreen in a 1938 film are known in Spain as Juanito, Jorgito & Jaimito
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Huey, Dewey & Louie
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