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PODCASTS
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At the end of their 2020 Archewell Holiday podcast, they got little Archie to wish royal fans a "Happy New Year"
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Meghan & Harry
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$400
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Barack Obama & Bruce Springsteen teamed up for this podcast whose name means "rebels" & starts with the same 2 letters
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Renegades
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$600
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Guests reveal discoveries they've made about their families' past on Dani Shapiro's podcast called "Family" these
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Secrets
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$800
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"The Empty Chair" & "Turkey in a Face Mask" are recent episodes of this show hosted by Ira Glass
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This American Life
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$1000
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This podcast company is behind such shows as "Dr. Death", "Dirty John" & "American scandal"
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Wondery
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YES "I" CAN!
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$200
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I can lead the invasion of Normandy & become president under this nickname
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Ike
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$400
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I can massacre the citizens of Novgorod in 1570! Grr!
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Ivan the Terrible
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$600
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I can host "Morning Edition" on NPR, & now you can see what I look like after listening to my voice for all these years
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Inskeep
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$800
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As CEO of Chrysler, I can turn the floundering company around in the early 1980
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Iacocca
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$1000
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I can be sent away by my father Abraham in Genesis but become known as the father of the Arabs
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Ishmael
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WHAT'S IN THE CAVE?
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Austria has the largest cave named for this substance that forms on its walls--dress warm, it's freezing in there
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ice
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A cave system in the Philippines has a 5-mile-long underground one of these flowing into the South China Sea
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river
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$600
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It wasn't just mammoths--these fur-covered rhinos are depicted in 30,000-year-old art in France's Chauvet Cave
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woolly
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$800
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In 1991 a Vietnamese forager discovered a cave so big that these form within it; he saw them billowing out
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clouds
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Calcite honeycombing, called boxwork, is a feature almost unique to Wind Cave National Park in this state
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South Dakota
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AGREE, 2 DISAGREE
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An act of admitting a point, especially on election night; Newsweek detailed "50 Years of Presidential" these "Speeches"
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concessions
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$400
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Harmonious agreement, or a model of Honda
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accord
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$600
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No people surveyed, top 1 answer on the board... this 4-letter word is a bitter rivalry between factions; pass or play?
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feud
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$800
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You "bury" this proverbial item if you agree to cease hostilities
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the hatchet
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When the Supreme Court became more conservative in the 1980s, Thurgood Marshall was called the "Great" this type of disagree-er
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Dissenter
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HEY, WHERE'S THAT DISH?
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$200
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Eggs & milk are whisked up, bread is dipped & fried until golden brown et voila! Enjoy this dish
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French toast
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$400
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Emmentaler, my dear Watson! Wheels of this 2-word product roll in between 165 & 265 pounds
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Swiss cheese
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$600
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Taken from the loin, this "international" breakfast meat traditionally comes in cylindrical form
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Canadian bacon
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$800
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If you're pro-antioxidant, this South American foodstuff, seen here, is rich in selenium
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Brazil nuts
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$1000
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A "Chicago style" hot dog uses beef named for this world capital
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Vienna
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IT'S IN THE CABINET DEPARTMENT!
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$200
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Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
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Treasury
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$400
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Occupational Safety & Health Administration
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Labor
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$600
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Office of the U.S. Special Coordinator for Tibetan Issues
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State
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$800
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Food Safety & Inspection Service
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Agriculture
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$1000
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U.S. Census Bureau
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Commerce
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A TIME OF WAR
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$400
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Herodotus wrote that the long run associated with this battle was actually from Athens to Sparta to ask for aid
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Battle of Marathon
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$800
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The DMZ conflict of the late 1960s is sometimes referred to as the "Second" this
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Korean War
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$1200
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The Battle of Adwa in 1896 was fought between Italy & this Horn of Africa country
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Ethiopia
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$1600
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The Natchez people were nearly wiped out by the French garrison at Fort Rosalie, now the site of Natchez in this state
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Mississippi
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$2000
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After capturing Germans during the WWI campaign of Cambrai, several Canadians got this U.K. military honor created in 1856
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the Victoria Cross
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FIRST NAMES IN THE DICTIONARY
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$400
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A young male horse, or a gunmaker
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Colt
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$800
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It follows witch & precedes nut
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hazel
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$1200
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An old song says "A pretty girl is like" this, a pleasing tune
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a melody
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$1600
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A translucent yellowish fossil resin
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amber
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$2000
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A female donkey, or an early spinning machine
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jenny
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ONE-NAMED AUTHORS
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In the 18th century he wrote numerous novellas including "Zadig" & "Candide"
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Voltaire
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$800
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German poet Novalis pioneered this passionate literary movement & died young of TB in 1801
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Romanticism
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Captain Haddock is the companion & Snowy is the dog of this teenage journalist created by the Belgian cartoonist Hergé
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Tintin
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$1600
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"Frogs" & "Wealth" are one-word titles from this one-name master of ancient Greek comedy
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Aristophanes
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In "The Red & the Black" by this French author, a young man must choose between life in the army & life in the church
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Stendhal
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A VISIT TO PRAGUE
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$400
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U Fleku in Prague is this type of pub, having been making suds on the premises since 1499
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a brewery
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$800
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A "Good King" in Christmas song, this martyred prince was interred in 932 A.D. in what's now part of Prague Castle
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Wenceslas
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One of many statues on Charles Bridge is of this prophet, a contemporary of Jesus who urged repentance
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John the Baptist
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$1600
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In 1348 Charles IV of this "sacred" empire founded Charles University--go Chuck U.!--in Prague, his capital
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the Holy Roman Empire
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The final resting place of this writer who died in 1924 is in Prague's New Jewish Cemetery
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Kafka
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LET'S GET SERIOUS
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In a 2008 superhero film, this character naturally asks, "Why so serious?"
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the Joker
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$800
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More serious than a correction, in print journalism this 10-letter word is the act of "taking back" a story
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retraction
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In the 1700s, opera was dominated by 2 major forms: the more prestigious opera seria & opera this, Italian for comic opera
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buffa
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$1600
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Hepatitis C can lead to this other serious "C" disease, permanent scarring & hardening of the liver
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cirrhosis
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$2000
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This playwright said the lonely, secluded life of Norway forces everyone there to become serious & introspective
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Ibsen
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OLIVIER AWARD WINNERS
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Known to moviegoers as Gandalf the Grey, he's won several Olivier Awards, including one as Richard III
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Ian McKellen
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$800
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This actress, seen here, has received the most individual Olivier Awards--8 awards over 40 years
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Judi Dench
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$1200
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In 2010 Rachel Weisz & Ruth Wilson won for playing these 2 sisters in "A Streetcar Named Desire"
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Blanche & Stella
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$1600
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Dolores Umbridge in the "Harry Potter" films, Imelda Staunton has won several Oliviers, including as Mama Rose in this musical
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Gypsy
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In 1979 Barry Humphries won for playing his alter ego, this saucy dame
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Dame Edna
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THE 50 STATES
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N/A
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Both in the Pacific, they are the 50 states' 2 biggest islands in area; one is about 40 degrees colder in winter than the other
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Hawaii & Kodiak
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