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UNUSUAL ISLANDS
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Snake Island off Brazil's coast is filled with golden lanceheads, a deadly "pit" type of this snake
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viper
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Nothing strange here, just another normal day on this island
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Easter Island
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Taal Lake has a volcanic island that has its own Crater Lake--all on Luzon island in this country
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Philippines
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More than 300 shipwrecks have earned Canada's Sable Island the nickname this "of the Atlantic"
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Graveyard
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Miyake islanders have worn masks to thwart this element, atomic No.16, prevalent in the air due to gassy Mount Oyama
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sulfur
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TIME FOR SECONDS
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In 1800 the second of these listed 5,641 people living in the entire Indiana Territory
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the census
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In 2021 he became the USA's first second gentleman
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Doug Emhoff
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The second-largest moon in the solar system, Titan orbits this planet every 16 Earth days
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Saturn
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Around 19 B.C. King Herod expanded the second of these & built a retaining wall that still stands today
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temple
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Marquette, Michigan is on this, the world's second-largest lake by area
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Superior
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COLORFUL PRO SPORTS TEAMS
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Boylston Street & Brookline Avenue will take you to parking for their home games
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the (Boston) Red Sox
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This U.S. pro soccer team sounds like an energy drink
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the (New York) Red Bulls
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This baseball team whose name includes a shade of red is also known as the Redbirds
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Cardinals
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This Midwest NHL team that plays its home games at the United Center won the Stanley Cup in 2013 & 2015
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(the Chicago) Blackhawks
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One in the NBA & one in the NHL, these 2 pro sports teams are "Golden"
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Golden Knights & Golden State Warriors
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SHIRT SHORTS
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A Channel Island lends its name to this athletic shirt
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jersey
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Apparel nickname for a "Star Trek" crew member who may not live to the second commercial break
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redshirt
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Simon Cowell is famous for wearing this letter-style T-shirt
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V-neck
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The guayabera is also known as the Mexican this festive event shirt
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wedding shirt
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Cilice is another word for this type of "shirt" worn by monks for extra filth & discomfort
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hairshirt
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RIDDLE ME THIS
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In 1939 this statesman spoke of a "riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
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Churchill
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A famous Sumerian riddle says a person enters this institution "blind, but comes out seeing"
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a school
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The Sphinx plagued Thebes before this man solved its riddle
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Oedipus
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To pay up for a riddle solved, this biblical strongman murders 30 men who had nothing to do with it and steals their stuff
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Samson
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This Puccini princess of Peking vows to marry a man who can answer her 3 riddles; anyone who fails must die!
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Turandot
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DUMB ANSWERS
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As the saying goes, do this to "me once, shame on you"; do this to "me twice, shame on me"
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fool me
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Opposite of keen, it's often found compared to "dishwater"
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dull
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This compound avian term says you don't have one single idea in your tiny mind
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birdbrain
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It rhymes with a synonym for "fast", but describes a person empty of interest or originality
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vapid
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Also a Jethro Tull album title, this 4-word rhyming phrase includes a building material
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thick as a brick
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CLASSIC BRITISH NOVELS
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Seen here is a cover for one of the earlier editions of this Wells novel
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The Invisible Man
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Charles Ryder recalls members of the Marchmain family in this place "Revisited"
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Brideshead
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Like her more famous novel, her "Villette" was also published under the name Currer Bell
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Charlotte Brontë
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Michael Cunningham's "The Hours" is a "contemporary retelling of" this Virginia Woolf novel
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Mrs. Dalloway
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The women in his "Women in Love" are Ursula & Gudrun, who first appeared in "The Rainbow"
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D.H. Lawrence
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HISTORIC GROUPS
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They had meant to make a brand new start of it near the Hudson River, but in November 1620 decided to stay on Cape Cod
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Pilgrims
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You'd think just 46th staters, but folks from Kansas & Texas who went to California from 1933 to 1935 were also called these
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Okies
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Rome was sacked at least 7 times in its history, including by Alaric & this Germanic people in 410 A.D.
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Goths
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Formed by the U.S. to help China in World War II, the American Volunteer Group Air Corps was also known as these "felines"
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the Flying Tigers
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In 1662 King Charles II granted patronage to scientists & academics who had formed this group
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Royal Society
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"CON" GAME
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By definition it's the relationship of a circle within a circle within a circle, all sharing the same midpoint
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concentric
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They're the circus performers seen here
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contortionists
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This synonym for a magician comes from Latin for "swear together"
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a conjurer
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It's another name for a candy store that also sells other sweets
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confectionary
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It's a group of voters in a district, or the district itself
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constituency
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FEATURES OF THE MOON
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Seen here in the Oceanus Procellarum is one of these ridges that shares a name with a skin feature of the aged
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wrinkle
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The darker areas on the Moon are called maria, Latin for these
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seas
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A catena is a chain of these depressions on the Moon, the sites of impacts long ago
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craters
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There are lakes on the Moon, like Lacus Felicitatis, which NASA translates as the Lake of this
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(Lake of) Happiness
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Apollo 17 astronauts landed near a mountain called "South" this; you may be familiar with the Vinson one in Antarctica
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Massif
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CITY TRANSPORTATION
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Named for their resemblance to coconuts, cocotaxis roam the cities of this Communist island nation
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Cuba
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Vaporettos are water buses on the canals of this city
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Venice
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In 2012 London brought back a Routemaster this alliterative type of bus, redesigned in time for the Olympics
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a double-decker bus
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In Manila, a jeepney is a mix of Jeep & this small bus both physically & etymologically
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a jitney
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Tourists are pushed around on toboggans without snow in the parish of Monte on this wine-y Portuguese island
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Madeira
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THE GERSHWIN PRIZE
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Created in 2007 by the Library of Congress, the first prize went to this "One Trick Pony" singer
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Paul Simon
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Born in Saginaw, Michigan, this 2009 honoree was recording with Motown Records at age 12
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Stevie Wonder
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In 2013 this singer-songwriter became the first woman to get the prize thanks to her "Tapestry" of hits
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(Carole) King
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The 2014 Gershwin Prize concert honoring him included Boyz II Men performing his doo-wop tribute "The Longest Time"
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Billy Joel
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In 2012 this man was honored along with songwriting partner Hal David
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(Burt) Bacharach
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BLOCKBUSTER MOVIES
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Based on a 1974 novel, this film has been described as combining "An Enemy of the People" & "Moby Dick"
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Jaws
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