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1800s U.S. HISTORY
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In 1801 he headed back to Braintree, skipping his successor's inauguration, the first president to do so
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Adams
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The first of this man's Wild West shows opened in May 1883 in Omaha
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Buffalo Bill
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In 1852 9 representatives of Jewish charities founded this New York City hospital with a biblical name
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Mount Sinai
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Duties on imported goods upon entry, they were a big issue all century; an 1890 bill jacked them up
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tariff
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The economy crashed when this type of financial crisis with a 5-letter name hit the U.S.in 1837
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panic
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IN THAT BIBLE BOOK
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The burning bush appears to Moses
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Exodus
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Jesus gives the Sermon on the Mount
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Matthew
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Paul preaches in Rome
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Acts
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Haman plots to wipe out the Jews
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Esther
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Jericho falls to the Israelites
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Joshua
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____ & ____
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This cat & mouse duo were at odds in the Big Apple in a 2021 live action/ animated film
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Tom & Jerry
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Theirs was the first COVID-19 single-shot vaccine to receive emergency authorization in the United States
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Johnson & Johnson
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This iconic role-playing game was a 2016 inductee into the National Toy Hall of Fame
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Dungeons & Dragons
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Some places in Britain have banned this once popular puppet pair
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Punch & Judy
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Michael Chabon won a 2001 Pulitzer for his "Amazing Adventures of" this pair of cousins & comic book creators
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Kavalier & Clay
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GET A HOBBY
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Have I told you, philately, that I love you? One of these from 19th century British Guiana sold for $9.5 million in 2014
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a stamp
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Go for some inner peace; TM, short for this, wants to get people into a "state of deep inner silence"
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Transcendental Meditation
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Time to ketchup on some gardening & grow a 6.8-pound this like a U.K. man did in 2020, using a pair of sheer tights to keep it suspended
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tomato (tomahto)
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Flower arrangers know to cut stems at this angle for longest life
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45 degrees (bias)
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Aim to get better at this game; its PDC World Championship in 2021 included throwing a 180 & winning three legs on the trot
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darts
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WE ARE TV FAMILY
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This actress became Sara Gilbert's TV mom in 1988, had a break, played the role decades later, then... didn't
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Roseanne
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Dan Castellaneta to Julie Kavner on this show: "It takes 2 to lie. One to lie, & one to listen"
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The Simpsons
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Before becoming TV's favorite drug kingpin, he played Frankie Muniz' dad on "Malcolm in the Middle"
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Bryan Cranston
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Since 2013 Jeff Garlin has been like a father to Hayley Orrantia on this ABC comedy
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The Goldbergs
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"On the next" this sitcom, Portia de Rossi tells Jessica Walter, "Did you enjoy your meal, Mom? You drank it fast enough"
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Arrested Development
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DOUBLE THE SAME VOWEL WORDS
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From the Persian for "market", it's a marketplace in a Middle Eastern country
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a bazaar
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For their unusual egg-laying habits, some varieties of this species seen here are termed "brood parasites"
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cuckoo
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Common in runners & worst in the morning, the plantar type of this inflammation is a common source of heel pain
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fasciitis
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This 4-letter British adjective means affectedly dainty or quaint
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twee
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This East Indian flatbread can be served with curry
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naan
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PENINSULAS
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In 1985 the Supreme Court said this 118-mile-long piece of land forming part of NYC is a peninsula
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Long Island
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Oil refineries in this South American country utilize pipes that stretch from Lake Maracaibo to Paraguaná Peninsula
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Venezuela
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Musandam Peninsula, an extension of the Arabian Peninsula, separates the Gulf of Oman from this other gulf
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Persian Gulf
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Located on Cape Verde Peninsula, this capital of Senegal is the westernmost city on the African mainland
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Dakar
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This Russian peninsula with strategic importance in the board game Risk is home to over 300 volcanoes
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Kamchatka
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BY A ONE-NAMED WRITER
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"Mr. Peabody's Apples" is a children's book by this singer also known for a non-children's book called "Sex"
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Madonna
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A complete list of the mononymous Euripides' works would include his play about this monocular creature
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the Cyclops
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"Buy Me the Sky" by Xinran is about this population control policy & the spoiled "little emperors" it created
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the one-child policy
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Sci-fi writer Yoss created a robot private investigator in "Red Dust", an homage to this creator of Philip Marlowe
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Chandler
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This French author of "Gigi" also wrote a series of novels about a young woman named Claudine
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Colette
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SO VERY COLD
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The speed of this is 70 feet per second slower at freezing than it is at 100 degrees Fahrenheit
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sound
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Not all motion stops at this lowest temperature--molecules still vibrate with zero-point energy
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absolute zero
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When this current of high-speed winds moves in big waves, Arctic air can spill into mid-latitude regions, bringing winter cold snaps
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jet stream
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Fish caught by Canadian Inuit would flash-freeze in the Arctic air, inspiring this inventor's food innovation
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Birdseye
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In 1911 researchers discovered the resistance to electricity in mercury was zero at -452 degrees F., making it this
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superconductor
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COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
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This university in Eugene calls itself a nesting place for ducks
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the University of Oregon
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George Washington Carver did most of his research at this Alabama school
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Tuskegee
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Barack Obama transferred to Columbia, but said his 2 years at this L.A. college "really helped me grow up"
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Occidental
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Mies van der Rohe headed the College of Architecture & designed its building at IIT, short for this Chicago school
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Illinois Institute of Technology
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In 1841 this Ohio school became the first in the U.S. to give bachelor's degrees to women in a coed program
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Oberlin
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THE 1991 GRAMMYS
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Best Metal Performance went to this band with "metal" in its name & also in the winning album title; that's so metal
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Metallica
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The Male Pop Vocal Grammy went to this singer seen here
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Bolton
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Let's give 'em "Something To Talk About" , the Best Female Pop Vocal Performance winner by this singer/guitarist
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(Bonnie) Raitt
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"Unforgettable" that's what you are, you being this woman who took home Record of the Year, aided by her late father
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(Natalie) Cole
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"Summertime" won Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for the duo of this man & the Fresh Prince
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DJ Jazzy Jeff
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INTERPLANETARY WORDS
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Tin-glazed is a type of this pottery that reminds us of the clay it's made from
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earthenware
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A wallaby is this type of mammal
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marsupial
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This adjective means wildly changeable in terms of personality
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mercurial
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Meaning morose or sullen, this word overlaps a planet & a number
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saturnine
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From the French for "arrive", they're people newly arrived on the social scene & not yet accepted
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parvenu
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HISTORIC CALENDARS
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Following Messidor, this summer month in the 18th century French Revolutionary calendar had a name meaning "heat gift"
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Thermidor
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