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MED SCHOOL
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Traditionally taken upon graduating, the modern version of this vow no longer acknowledges Apollo or Asclepius
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the Hippocratic Oath
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510 or above (out of a possible 528) is a good score to aim for when you take this 4-letter medical school admissions test
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the MCAT
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Third-year students typically begin clinical these to gain experience in many specialties for a few weeks to a few months
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rotations
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WCC for short, this "colorful" rite of passage for new med students originated at schools like the Univ. of Chicago & Columbia around 1990
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a white coat ceremony
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As opposed to M.D.s, some students become D.O.s, doctors of this type of medicine
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osteopathic doctors
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SING "OUT"
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Ed Sheeran won 2015 Song of the Year & Best Solo Pop Performance Grammys for this ruminative tune
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"Thinking Out Loud"
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In a 2018 Top 10 tune by The Weeknd, this request to a lover precedes "my name"
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call out
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$600
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In 2004 indie rockers Franz Ferdinand declared, "You say you don't know; I say" this title
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"Take Me Out"
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$800
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Bruno Mars sang, "You make me feel like I've been" this title "for too long"
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"Locked Out Of Heaven"
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"We can" do this "and get it straight or say goodnight", sang the Beatles in a 1966 No. 1 hit
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"We Can Work It Out"
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EXODUS TELLS US...
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The Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve, made their lives bitter with hard bondage in mortar & in this
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brick
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"God led the people about, through the way of the wilderness of" this body of water
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the Red Sea
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$600
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"And the Lord said unto Moses", this man "thy brother shall be thy prophet"
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Aaron
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$800
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"I will smite all thy borders with" these creatures: "and the river shall bring forth" them "abundantly"
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frogs
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"Thou shalt not bear" these 2 words "against thy neighbour"
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false witness
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2 LETTERS, 3 LETTERS
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Put rocks in a drink to serve it this way
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on ice
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A proverb says getting here "early" will help make you robust, rich & smart
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to bed
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$600
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This exclamation of enthusiasm or surprise is an interjection followed by a young male
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Oh, boy!
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$800
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Dictionaries that say it expresses dismay & frustration don't quite capture the spirit of this borrowing from Yiddish
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oy vey
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To Longfellow's Paul Revere, the signal shown here meant this
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by sea
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15 MINUTES OR LESS
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Nic Cage & Angelina Jolie make cars disappear in this title length of time in a 2000 film
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60 seconds
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$400
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A skilled pro in this job that's done about once a year can take care of one Merino in 3 minutes
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a sheep shearer
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$600
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Roger Bannister made history by becoming the first person to do this in less than 4 minutes
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run a mile
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$800
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A fighting penalty in the NHL can net you this much time in the penalty box--just like in the name of a band!
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five minutes
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For plutonium-228, this interval of time of decay is thought to be about 1.1 seconds
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WE GUARANTEE IT
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"For years politicians have promised" this, Nixon said in 1969--"I'm the first one to be able to deliver it"
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the Moon
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Herbert Hoover ran ads in the 1920s promising one of these "for every pot"
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a chicken
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In 1964 this Republican candidate promised to end the draft, saying: "The military forces need trained volunteers"
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Goldwater
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$800
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This party that existed from 1848 to 1854 also fittingly promised "free speech, free labor and free men"
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the Free-Soil Party
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"You shall not crucify mankind on a cross of gold", said this man in a fiery 1896 speech
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Bryan
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EUROPEAN PENINSULAS
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2 nations make up this peninsula whose name is related to that of its Ebro River
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the Iberian Peninsula
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$800
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This 10,400-square-mile peninsula sits between the Black Sea & the sea of Azov
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the Crimean Peninsula
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$1200
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The name of this French region that protrudes into the Atlantic has a name related to the land to its north
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Brittany
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$1600
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Cape Apostolos Andreas is the easternmost part of this island nation's Karpaz Peninsula, which stretches towards Turkey
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Cyprus
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$2000
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Schleswig & Holstein in northern Germany are at the southern end of this peninsula
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Jutland
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BIRDING
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$400
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The highest-rated these for bird-watching include the Bushnell Legend Ultra HD
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binoculars
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$800
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A good beginner's sighting is this largest North American thrush, with its red breast & "cheerio, cheery-up" song
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a robin
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$1200
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birdwatchingdaily.com listed this majestic endangered raptor as a North American bird birdwatchers most want to see
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a California condor
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$1600
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In 1934 Roger Tory Peterson put out this 2-word type of book "to the Birds", the first of many used by birders
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a field guide
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$2000
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For many birders, their pride & joy is this alliterative "list", a personal history of all bird species they've encountered
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a life list
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MATH IN THE OLD DAYS
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$400
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The Mayans were using this by the 4th century; the concept of that number didn't make it to Europe until the 1200s or so
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zero
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$800
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An ancient Hindu text calculates the square root of this integer as 1.4142156, which is correct to 5 decimal places
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2
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$1200
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Their numerals weren't handy for arithmetic, so ancient Romans did most of their calculating on this device
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an abacus
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$1600
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The Babylonians used base 60, which could be counted on 5 fingers of one hand & the 12 these on 4 fingers of the other
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the knuckles
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$2000
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Some think Ancient Egyptians represented fractions using symbols from the eye of this falcon god
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Horus
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THEY'VE GOT AN EGOT
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$400
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This composer's EGOT includes Tonys for "Evita", "Cats" & "Sunset Boulevard"
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Andrew Lloyd Webber
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$800
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Composer Robert Lopez won both a Grammy & an Oscar for this song from "Frozen"
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"Let It Go"
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For "The Producers", he's won an Oscar, 2 Grammys & 3 Tonys
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Mel Brooks
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$1600
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Whoopi Goldberg won Emmys for "The View" & for hosting a documentary about this "Gone with the Wind" actress
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(Hattie) McDaniel
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$2000
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Nov. 8, 2014 was a great day-o for this singer & actor who received an honorary Oscar for his humanitarian work
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Belafonte
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BOOKS OF 1990
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$400
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Alan Moore's dystopian look at a near-future England is called "V for" this
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Vendetta
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$800
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"The Bourne Identity" & "The Bourne Supremacy" were followed in 1990 by this third entry in the series
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The Bourne Ultimatum
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$1200
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"Barbarians at the Gate" is an expose of the fall of this giant food company behind brands like Oreo & Ritz
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Nabisco
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$1600
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This Maeve Binchy novel is about a group of pals attending a Dublin university
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Circle of Friends
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1990 saw the release of "Postmortem", Patricia Cornwell's first novel featuring this crime-solving medical examiner
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Scarpetta
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YOU "PIC" IT
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$800
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A Washington State congressman & a friend invented this tennis-like sport in 1965 to entertain their bored families
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Pickleball
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Molded jelly made from meat or fish stock
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aspic
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$1600
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These jars used by Ancient Egyptian embalmers got their name from an ancient city
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canopic
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$2000
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Now meaning trifling, it was originally used in Louisiana & elsewhere in the South to refer to a coin of little value
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picayune
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AFRICAN MONARCHS
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Some devotees of this emperor who died in 1975 trace his lineage to King Solomon & the Queen of Sheba
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Haile Selassie
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