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SCHOOL OF ROCK
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We will always love this late, great singer who got her first record offer while still in high school
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Whitney Houston
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As a high schooler in Freehold, New Jersey, he played with a group called the Castiles
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Bruce Springsteen
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This Aberdeen, Washington local ran track & played drums in his school band before becoming the face of grunge
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Kurt Cobain
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Though his life was tragically cut short, the legacy of this California kid, the first Chicano rock star, lives on
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Ritchie Valens
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No fooling, this punk poet was voted her class clown
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Patti Smith
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WHAT'S THAT LITERARY INITIAL?
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The "B" in G.B. Shaw
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Bernard
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The "J" in J.K. Rowling
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Joanne
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The "F" in F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Francis
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The "B" in W.B. Yeats
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Butler
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The "S" in T.S. Eliot
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Stearns
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LAW SLAW
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Under the law of this habitat, there are no rules & the strongest will win out
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the law of the jungle
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Rule by military authority, it was declared in Chicago following the Great Fire of 1871
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martial law
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An office that monitors this law ensuring protection for authors' rights is part of the Library of Congress
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copyright law
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Sir Isaac Newton's 3 laws of this laid the foundation for classical mechanics
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motion
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Prices go up or down based on the law of these 2 things regarding the amount of goods available versus the desire for them
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supply & demand
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DOUBLE THAT T
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1.0567 quarts & scattered rubbish on the street
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liter & litter
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Not on time & hot espresso with steamed milk
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late & latte
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Bestowed excessive love & the line on which you sign
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dotted doted
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Jumped forward from one foot to the other in ballet & jumped onto a 747 & took off
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jetéd & jetted
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More attractive & a single-masted sailing vessel
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cuter & cutter
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IT'S LIGHT OUT
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Proverbially, "It's always darkest just before" this, but when you think about it... not really
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dawn
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The electric industry uses the standard abbreviation POCBS, power outage caused by these rodents
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squirrels
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In a 10-fight run from 1985 to '86, this heavyweight had 9 first-round knockouts; the 10th came in round 2
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Mike Tyson
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Hypnos was the Greek god of sleep; he was Hypnos' son who brought men their dreams, & maybe a way out of the Matrix as well
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Morpheus
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How about some applause for this light-killing device that debuted in 1984, one of Time magazine's top 100 all-time gadgets
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the Clapper
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& AWAY WE GO!
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We'll get sporty in this nation with a 1964 Olympic site at Innsbruck & a Formula 1 race at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg
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Austria
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A visit to this New Jersey capital will include a look at the Douglass House, site of a council of war held by Washington in 1777
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Trenton
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Let's check out this temple complex in Cambodia, built by King Suryavarman II in the 1100s
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Angkor Wat
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Though this West African country has a word for "lion" in its name, it's the chimpanzees we're going there to see
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Sierra Leone
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We'll jet to the middle of a vast desert & find ourselves in this wealthy capital with a name meaning "a place of gardens"
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Riyadh
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THOMAS PAINE
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Paine apprenticed to his father for 7 years making these tight-fitting, shaping undergarments for women
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corsets
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Paine wrote, "I do not believe in" the Catholic or the Protestant creeds; "my own mind is my own" this
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church
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This Philadelphian met Paine in London & helped him emigrate to America by giving him letters of introduction
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Ben Franklin
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A "Captain America" movie got its title by contrasting this Paine phrase meaning someone who only fights when it's pleasant outside
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the summer soldier
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Paine defended the French Revolution in this work that was a response to Edmund Burke's hostile "Reflections"
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the Rights of Man
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BACK FROM THE DEAD IN THE BIBLE
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According to this 1st gospel, at the moment of the crucifixion, bodies of saints came back to life & walked out of their graves
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Matthew
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Before bringing Jairus' daughter back to life, Jesus tells her weeping family she is not dead, but is only this
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sleeping
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When Eutychus dies after falling out of a window listening to a sermon, the speaker, this apostle, brings him back to life
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Paul
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King Saul gets a witch to summon this Hebrew prophet back to life for encouragement, but he only foretells doom for Saul
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Samuel
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Before he was taken up into heaven in a whirlwind, this prophet revived the son of a widow he was staying with
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Elijah
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TIME FOR SCIENCE
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This large colorful mammal's heart rate was first recorded in 2019: as low as 2 bpm while diving, up to 37 bpm when coming up for air
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the blue whale
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The Supreme Court ruled you cannot patent natural genes, like the BRCA1 & BRCA2 ones named for this type of cancer
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breast cancer
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Born hearing-impaired in 1653, Joseph Sauveur studied sound vibrations & coined this word for the science he pioneered
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acoustics
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Percival Lowell thought he saw these on the surface of Venus--some think it was a reflection of the blood vessels in his eye
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canals
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In addition to its acidity, one reason honey doesn't spoil is that an enzyme in bees helps produce this compound, H2O2, a germicide
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hydrogen peroxide
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ARCHITECTS
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Pioneering California architect Julia Morgan designed several residences for this man, including his San Simeon Castle
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Hearst
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Here is this architect outside his famous pyramid
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I.M. Pei
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In the 1600s, Inigo Jones introduced town planning to London by creating this "Garden", considered London's first city square
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Covent Garden
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Oscar Niemeyer's Museum of Contemporary Art in this, his native country, is a landmark of modern architecture
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Brazil
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Appropriately, this French-born man's grave at Arlington overlooks the city beyond, which he designed & laid out
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Pierre L\'Enfant
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BROADWAY MUSICALS BY SETTING
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The land of Oz, before & after Dorothy dropped in
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Wicked
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A junkyard on the night of the Jellicle Ball
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Cats
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The small village of Anatevka in Russia
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Fiddler on the Roof
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In & around the royal palace in Bangkok in the 1860s
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The King and I
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Mushnik's skid row florists
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Little Shop of Horrors
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-OLOGIES
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Rhinology isn't the study of the Rhine River, but of this body part & its related diseases
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the nose
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The etymology of entomology reveals that it's the study of these creatures
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insects
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Malacology is the study of mollusks; this is the specific study of mollusk shells
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conchology
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It's the branch of criminology dealing with prison management & criminal rehabilitation
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penology
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From the Greek for "death", it's the study of death & dying
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thanatology
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BOOK CHARACTERS
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Trying to emulate the title character, he fails & is told "You lack a set of spinnerets, & you lack know-how"
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Wilbur
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