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1871--150 YEARS AGO
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In Brooklyn this impresario opened his circus, calling it a traveling museum, menagerie, caravan & hippodrome
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(P.T.) Barnum
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William Woods Holden of North Carolina became the USA's first governor removed from office via this process
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impeachment
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$600
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March 21 saw the first meeting of a united Germany's Reichstag, or parliament, with this man as the first chancellor
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Bismarck
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$800
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This reporter for the New York Herald seen here made his way to Lake Tanganyika & a memorable encounter
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(Henry Morton) Stanley
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$1000
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This performance space that seats more than 5,000 was opened by Queen Victoria
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Royal Albert Hall
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SOME FUN AND GAMES
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In blackjack this alliterative phrase means betting your original amount again & getting just one more card
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doubling (double) down
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$400
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You open an imaginary curtain to indicate the category is a play title in this game; first word...!
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Charades
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$600
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The heads of 4 amphibious ungulates gobble up marbles in this Hasbro game
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Hungry Hungry Hippos
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$800
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Based on a Mongol attack on Japan in 1274, "Ghost of Tshushima" has you battle as one of these & struggle to live to their code
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a samurai
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$1000
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A "red snake" bet in this wheel game winds through 3 columns from 1 to 34
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roulette
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SPIN CYCLE
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You'll also need handsticks if you're buying these to spin in your juggling act, as Senor Wences did
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plates
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A spin is named for Denise Biellmann, a Swiss star in this sport
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figure skating
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$600
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A story says Babe Ruth's eyesight was so good he could read the label on one of these records of his day named for its RPM
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78
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$800
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In the movie "White Nights", Mikhail Baryshnikov does a 3,960-degree turn, 11 in a row of these
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pirouettes
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$1000
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Labs use this machine that spins fluids to do your hematocrit, or blood analysis
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centrifuge
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GERUNDS
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Julia Child called the book titled "Joy of" this "a fundamental resource"
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Cooking
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Of all sad words of tongue or sign, the saddest are "We no longer validate" this
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parking
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$600
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A recital of a literary work, or a service performed by a psychic
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a reading
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$800
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Freefalling & the canopy ride are segments of this activity
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skydiving
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Involving papers to be kept as a record, it's the process of delivering claims to a court
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a filing
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FOR YOUR REFERENCE
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"Cyrus, epirus, papyrus, virus" is an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of these
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Rhymes
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$400
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John was the first name of this Massachusetts bookseller who published his first volume of quotations in 1855
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(John) Bartlett
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$600
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The first book with this repetitive title was published in London in 1849; today it's followed by "in Dentistry", among many others
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Who\'s Who
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$800
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He divided the contents of his first thesaurus into 6 classes, just as his hero Linnaeus had done with animals
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Roget
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"Do not break sentences in two" & "use the active voice" were among William Strunk's original these title principles
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Elements of Style
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WAITER, THERE'S A BUG IN MY MOVIE
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2018: "Ant-Man and the ____ "
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Wasp
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$400
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2018: "The Girl in ____ ____ ____"
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the Spider\'s Web
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$600
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1938, a Disney "Silly Symphony": "____ and the Flame"
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Moth
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$800
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2002, desert battles in the ancient world: "The ____ King"
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Scorpion
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$1000
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1958, remade in 1986: "The ____"
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Fly
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CITIES OF IRELAND
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The name of this capital means "black pool", referring to the dark waters of the River Liffey
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Dublin
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$800
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Galway is home to a national theater dedicated to works in the language called Irish this
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Gaelic
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$1200
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It was a long way to this city for the English King John, who built a castle there when he was governor
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Tipperary
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$1600
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Archaeologists in Cork found Viking artifacts that threaten to shatter this city's "oldest in Ireland" status like its crystal
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Waterford
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A town called Drogheda sits on this river that lends its name to a decisive 1690 battle
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Boyne
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SCIENCE
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Stannite is a sulfide ore of copper, iron & this metal
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tin
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$800
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For butterflies, the pupa is the third stage in this process
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metamorphosis
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Also called thrombocytes, these cell fragments found in the blood are involved in clotting
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platelets
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$1600
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Astronomers recently found a cluster of these cosmic bodies & think their collisions were the source of gravitational waves
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black holes
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$2000
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It's the common term for animals of the order Lagomorpha
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rabbits
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THE BANDS THEY FRONTED
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$400
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David Lee Roth
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Van Halen
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$800
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Since the '70s & right through today: Belinda Carlisle
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Go-Go\'s
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$1200
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Until they broke up in 1980: Robert Plant
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Led Zeppelin
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$1600
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Before launching a solo country career: Darius Rucker
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Hootie & the Blowfish
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$2000
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As a teen: Ricky Martin
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Menudo
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NAME CALLING
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This man adapted Charles Barbier's night writing code into a writing system for the blind
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Braille
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$800
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This large Howitzer was named for the woman who once owned the Krupp Armaments Company
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Big Bertha
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Creator of TV's "Fargo", Noah Hawley won this mystery award named for a certain Poe-et
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Edgar
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Around 1860 this man blazed a trail from Kansas & established a trading post in Oklahoma Territory
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Jesse Chisholm
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$2000
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Disraeli was among those who called this man's carriages "the gondolas of London"
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(Joseph) Hansom
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THAT'S A BIG BOOK
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$400
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If you're not a fan of long, long fiction, this 1862 Victor Hugo work will make you... what's the word... unhappy? Wretched?
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Les Misérables
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$800
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"Of man's first disobedience, and the fruit" is the first of this poem's more than 10,000 lines
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Paradise Lost
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Might seem that way, but it won't take a hundred years to read this 1974 James Michener bestseller about the American West
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Centennial
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$1600
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There's a synonym for "dreary" in the title, then 67 chapters of Jarndyce v. Jarndyce court action in this Dickens work
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Bleak House
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$2000
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Book 10 of this Thomas Malory work has 88 chapters, & there are 21 books--just sayin'
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Le Morte d\'Arthur
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ALLITERATION
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This kids' game, this kids' game, send a response right over by knowing it's a team line-breaking game
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Red Rover
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$800
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Drew Brees, who didn't put on pads until high school, started an organization to promote this coed, non-contact game
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flag football
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$1200
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To have fun, to enjoy oneself; a character in Shakespeare "must" do this "with the duchess' gold"
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make merry
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$1600
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The middle horse has this condition, kind of the opposite of bow-legged
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knock-knee
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A folktale tells of a hungry man who convinces people he can make a tasty pot of this, then gets them to add actual food
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stone soup
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AMERICAN HISTORY
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The April 26, 1906 edition of The Call, a newspaper in this city, reported on the heroic death of hoseman James O'Neil
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San Francisco
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