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1876
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In 1876 the Centennial Exposition opened in Philadelphia & this "Centennial State" joined the Union
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Colorado
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3 years after its benefactor's death, this Baltimore university opened its doors
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Johns Hopkins
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After an expedition was sent to subdue Native Americans led by Sitting Bull & Crazy Horse, this battle ensued on June 25
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Little Bighorn
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On August 2 Wild Bill Hickok played his last hand in this town in the Dakota Territory
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Deadwood
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$1000
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Alexander Graham Bell beat this rival by just a few hours in filing a patent for the telephone
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Gray
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HOMONYMS
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A serving dish & to throw towards the pins
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bowl
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Track of turbulence behind a boat & to cease to sleep
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wake
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$600
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The tilt of an aircraft when turning & the land alongside a river
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bank
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$800
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A lively folk dance & a cylinder on which film is wound
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a reel
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$1000
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A sharp protruding edge & a fit of emotion, like a crying one
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a jag
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INTERNET BUSINESSES
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Today the largest online retailer in the U.S., when it began in 1995, it sold only books
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Amazon
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This combo of 2 satellite radio companies owns the Internet music service Pandora
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SiriusXM
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$600
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William Shatner has been a longtime advertising pitchman for this site that helps find discounts for travel
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Priceline
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$800
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This search engine began as "Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web"
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Yahoo!
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$1000
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Robert Shapiro co-founded this online law service for wills, incorporating & other needs
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legalzoom.com
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GEOGRAPHY
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The widest part of this river seen here is 18 miles at its mouth between Whitstable & Foulness Point
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the Thames
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By area the second-largest country in Africa is the Democratic Republic of this
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the Congo
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At only about 250 feet, this tiny state has the lowest high point of any country in Europe
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Vatican City
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$800
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With "Singing Sands" & a crescent-shaped lake, the oasis of Dunhuang is where Asia's Taklamakan desert meets this one
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the Gobi
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This pair of "larger" & "smaller" islands are in a group about 100 miles off the east coast of Spain
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Mallorca & Minorca
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A BORING CATEGORY
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This "colorful" company says its GC1800 cordless drill's "keyless chuck makes bit changing a breeze"
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Black+Decker
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The emerald ash borer, a bark-eating type of this insect, has killed 40 million trees just in Michigan
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a beetle
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In "There Will Be Blood", this actor uses a straw analogy regarding oil drilling: "I... drink... your... milkshake!"
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Daniel Day-Lewis
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$800
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This 2-word dental procedure for pulp damage starts with clearing bad tissue using a drill--or even faster, a laser
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a root canal
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$1000
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One of the many uses of this drilling tool is making the hole to go ice fishing
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an auger
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WE NEED NEW YOGI BEARS
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Kids will love this cartoon bison whose name honors the actor who plays the movies' Hulk
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Mark Buffalo
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This very tall, talkative African gray bird is a tribute to a comic seen on "Everybody Loves Raymond" & "Single Parents"
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Brad Parrot
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$600
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Based on the actor who was trying to forget Sarah Marshall, he's the same kind of dog as Snoopy
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Jason Beagle
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$800
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The star of "Justified" needs to get a trunk & tusks to become this character
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Timothy Elephant
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Play with the first name of TV's Randall Pearson to get this new cartoon icon, a bird such as a mynah
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Starling K. Brown
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POETRY
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This poet wrote "Adonais" on the death of his friend John Keats
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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$800
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Sara Teasdale mentions Lesbos in her poem named for this other female poet
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Sappho
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$1200
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Eliot's poem about these title men says, "We are the stuffed men / Leaning together / Headpiece filled with straw"
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Hollow Men
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$1600
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This Chicago poet wrote that "The fog comes on little cat feet"
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Sandburg
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$2000
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A sonnet by John Donne begins with these 4 words & continues, "though some have called thee mighty and dreadful"
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Death be not proud
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TV SHOW EPISODE TITLES
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$400
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"Lorelai's First Cotillion", "That Damn Donna Reed"
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Gilmore Girls
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$800
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"For Immediate Release", "Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency"
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Mad Men
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$1200
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"Bachelor Party", "The Wedding", "How Lily Stole Christmas"
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How I Met Your Mother
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$1600
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"Old Friends", "How Do You Solve a Problem Like Sophia"
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The Golden Girls
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$2000
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"Martial Feats of Comanche Horsemanship", "She Was Killed by Space Junk"
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Watchmen
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AMERICAN NICKNAMES
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Arkansas columnist Paul Greenberg first used the nickname "Slick Willie" for this man in 1980
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Bill Clinton
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"The Great Orator" was a nickname for this 19th century New Hampshire-born congressman, senator & Secretary of State
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Daniel Webster
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Born in 1876, this author of several doggone adventures was known as the "American Kipling"
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Jack London
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The 1930s politician known as "Kingfish" was also known as the "Dictator of" this state
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Louisiana
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Legendary folks blues singer & guitarist Huddie Ledbetter, seen here, was better known by this nickname
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Lead Belly
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PARTS OF THE OCEANS
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As plant life there can get sunlight, the epipelagic zone is where this biological process happens
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photosynthesis
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$800
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Near the Antillean Arc, the Milwaukee Depth is the deepest point in this ocean
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the Atlantic
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$1200
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Depressions called "deep-sea" these usually form where tectonic plates meet
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trenches
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$1600
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The Agulhas & East Madagascar Currents flow in this ocean
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the Indian Ocean
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$2000
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Galveston Bay is an example of this type of body of water where saltwater meets fresh
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the estuary
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3 OF THE SAME CONSONANTS
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The moment a rocket leaves the launchpad
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liftoff
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From an innocent type of person who could be duped with little effort, this adjective means easily fooled or deceived
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gullible
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A long passage or hallway from which entrances lead into rooms
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a corridor
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This adjective means "equivalent", as in "Sir, the accusation you have made is ____ to libel!"
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tantamount
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This wide-trunked African tree can live over a thousand years
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a baobab
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COMPOSERS, PAINTERS & SCIENTISTS
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$400
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In 1916 George Washington Carver published "How to Grow" this: "and 105 Ways of Preparing It for Human Consumption"
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the peanut
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$800
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You're listening to the most famous work of this Italian Baroque composer
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Vivaldi
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In 1609 he presented his eight-powered telescope to the Venetian Senate; he got life tenure & doubled his salary
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Galileo
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Dan Flavin was a pioneer of this art style whose name says it tries to do more with less
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minimalism
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Winning a 1945 Pulitzer for music put an "Appalachian Spring" in this composer's step
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Copland
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THE 20th CENTURY
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N/A
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The code name for a historic meeting at this city was Argonaut, after the heroes who searched for the Golden Fleece on the Black Sea
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Yalta
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