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OCTOBER
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An important October campaign is this disease awareness month with fundraisers & other pink-themed events
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breast cancer
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Test your "metal" in the world championship of this mega-endurance event held in October in Hawaii
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Ironman Triathlon
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The second Monday in October is celebrated as this day in Canada; ours comes a few weeks later
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Thanksgiving
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Gandhi's birthday, October 2 is observed as the international day of this philosophy of his, also known as Satyagraha
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non-violence
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In Catholic tradition, October is the month to celebrate this set of prayers recited with an accompanying physical aid
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rosaries
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TALES OF HORROR
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The kids of Kettle Springs are menaced not by "Scarecrow in a Cornfield" but worse, this smiley creature "In a Cornfield"
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clown
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"Horror" is in the title of this book in which the Lutz family learned that, sometimes, buying a murder home isn't worth it
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The Amityville Horror
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It's the title vocation of Herbert West in a 1922 H.P. Lovecraft tale, & he needs fresh corpses to do it to
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reanimator
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Luke is the future heir of this Shirley Jackson title place; sadly for Luke, that title includes "The Haunting of..."
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Hill House
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Malorie takes her kids on a terrifying, blindfolded river trip in this Josh Malerman novel
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Bird Box
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SURVIVING PROHIBITION
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Many breweries tried making this rhyming product, like Schlitz Famo, with less than .5% alcohol content
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near beer
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Unable to brew, Pabst started making Pabst-ett, a Velveeta-like cheese; eventually this competitor sued
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Kraft
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In 1925 this Milwaukee family couldn't sell its brewery but was living the "High Life" after Prohibition ended
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Miller
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This brewery bought a Colorado ceramics company & sold porcelain under the brand name; the ceramics co. is worth billions today
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Coors
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Many breweries struggled but got by selling beer ingredients like syrup made from this, sprouted barley grains
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malt
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WE LOOK DOWN ON THAT STATE
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Utah sits directly atop this state
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Arizona
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Vermont is north of the western part of this state
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Massachusetts
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A big chunk of South Dakota is upstairs from it
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Nebraska
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Most of Virginia's southern border lies along this state
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North Carolina
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Kansas is directly north of this state
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Oklahoma
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ACTOR-MOGULS
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Co-created by this actress, MTM ruled the tube with shows like "Hill Street Blues" & "Newhart"
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Mary Tyler Moore
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Will Ferrell co-created this website where people could vote whether video clips were humorous or not
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Funny or Die
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If you love the TV shows "Mannix" & "Mission: Impossible", thank this comedic actress & her Desilu Studios for producing them
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(Lucille) Ball
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Happy Madison, Adam Sandler's production company, combines these 2 Sandler movie titles
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Happy Gilmore & Billy Madison
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Said about this studio founded by Charlie Chaplin, Mary Pickford & others: "Lunatics have taken charge of the asylum"
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United Artists
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4,4
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The fur of this wild canine seen here can be brownish, but it can also be indicative of its name
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a gray wolf
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A great American tradition: throw some clothes in the Chevelle, crank some tunes & go off on this, also a 2000 film
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road trip
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Similar to seltzer, it's carbonated water used as a mixer
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club soda
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If you can easily determine someone's feelings, you can read him or her like this
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open book
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"If winter comes, can spring be far behind?", asks Shelley's "Ode to" this
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West Wind
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THE GRAND OLE OPERA HOUSE
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In 1892 Buenos Aires & Bogota both hoped to open new opera houses named for this explorer; only Bogota's was inaugurated on time
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Columbus
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In addition to many operas, Paris' Palais Garnier hosted a very wicked villain in this 1910 Gaston Leroux novel
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The Phantom of the Opera
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This opera house opened in Milan in 1778 with a performance of "Europa Recognized" by Salieri
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La Scala
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After World War I, upon the demise of this dynasty that ruled there, Vienna's Court Opera was renamed the State Opera
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Habsburg
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In 1973 Prokofiev's "War and Peace" was the first opera performed at this opera house very far south of Russia
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the Sydney Opera House
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NOT YOUR AVERAGE GEMSTONE!
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Blue topaz is often created by exposing it to this--the gamma type works especially well
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radiation
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In 1976 a large ruby was carved into a 4-pound replica of this historic American object, crack & all
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Liberty Bell
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Dust & ash from a volcano in this state were used to create a new green type of gem called helenite
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Washington
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This fossilized resin has one of the lowest densities among gems & it will often float in salt water
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amber
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Weighing in at 2.75 tons, the Empress of Uruguay is an almost 11-foot tall geode of this purple quartz
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amethyst
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PARDON MY FRENCHMAN
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President Émile Loubet pardoned this wrongly accused Jewish military officer in September 1899
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(Alfred) Dreyfus
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Pardoned in 1952, Henry Coston, one of these Nazi helpers, embarrassed France by living another 49 years
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part of the Vichy government (a Vichy collaborator)
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Bernard Boursicot was pardoned in 1987, shortly before the debut of this play inspired by his affair with an opera singer/spy
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M. Butterfly
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In 1964 France amnestied many of those who had committed crimes in opposition to this African country's independence
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Algeria
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Thanks to his sturdy cell, Ludger Sylbaris survived the 1902 volcanic ruin of Saint-Pierre on this Caribbean island & was later pardoned
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Martinique
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THE FLYING...
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The flying wedge was first used in this sport by Harvard in 1892 but became illegal due to players being brutalized
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football
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We're not sure if this Bullwinkle pal is biologically a flying squirrel (Glaucomys sabrinus) or a regular gray squirrel who can fly
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Rocky
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Known as "The Flying Tomato", this snowboarder won his first Olympic halfpipe gold in 2006
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(Shaun) White
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In 2005 she won a TV Land Award as "Favorite Airborne Character" for her 1960s work as "The Flying Nun"
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(Sally) Field
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In song, "He floats through the air, with the greatest of ease, the daring young man on" this
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flying trapeze
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TECHNOLOGY
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The 2 gases that make up the "plasma" in a plasma TV are usually these 2, Ne & Xe
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neon & xenon
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Jetronic increased power & mileage in 1967 as the first workable electronic system for this auto process, sending the gas to the engine
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fuel injection
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Pumping is the process of raising electrons to a higher energy state when creating one of these beams
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a laser
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Elisha Otis' invention of the "safety" this led to its regular use for passengers
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elevator
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First patented in 1952, center pivot devices used for this agricultural task caused the green circles seen from planes
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irrigation
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I'D LIKE A WORD WITH "U"
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From Latin for "further", it means deliberately hidden, like some motives
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ulterior
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The Declaration of Independence says we all have certain these rights
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unalienable right
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This adjective comes from Latin for "navel"
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umbilical
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It's what you call those dots over a German vowel
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umlaut
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This Japanese word for a type of flavor entered English in the early 1960s
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umami
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THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE
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British zoologist George Shaw looked for stitches when he first saw this mammal in 1799, thinking he was being tricked
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(the) duck-bill(ed) platypus
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