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CITY NICKNAMES
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Oxford is called "The City of Dreaming Spires", while this other U.K. place is "The City of Perspiring Dreams"
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Cambridge
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Back when it was Constantinople, this Turkish city was known as "Second Rome"
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Istanbul
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Looking down Capitol Boulevard, you can see why this U.S. city--whose French-derived name means "wooded"--is the "City of Trees"
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Boise
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Once gently funned as "Brisvegas" for its anemic nightlife, it now prefers "Australia's New World City"
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Brisbane
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With the hub airport & some of the most glorious beaches of the French Riviera, it's the "City of Angels"
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Nice
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POTPOURRI
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The HT in HTML & HTTP stands for this
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hypertext
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In the Disney film he's alphabetically last of Snow White's seven dwarfs
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Sneezy
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A flock of geese in flight can be called a skein or wedge; the same group on the ground or in the water is this
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gaggle
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This appetizer has flowered on the Outback Steakhouse menu since 1988--it accounts for 1 in 4 apps ordered there
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the Bloomin\' Onion
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Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote the music to the songs in "Jesus Christ Superstar"; this man wrote the lyrics
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Rice
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THIS ONE GOES TO 2011
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In December 2011 the last U.S. troops left this country, ending a war that began in 2003; they later returned to fight Isis
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Iraq
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From the early 1800s until 2011, these busy workers carried messages & assisted members in the House of Representatives
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pages
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With a landing in July 2011, the 135-mission program using these came to an end
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the Space Shuttles
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As this store chain closed, the CEO wrote, "My sincerest hope is that we remain in the hearts of readers for years to come"
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Borders
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His decades of rule ended in Egypt, & though bedridden, he went on trial for crimes including abuse of power
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Mubarak
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SPORTY ANAGRAMS
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Often unpopular on a diamond: IMPURE
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the umpire
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He sometimes runs the football: FLAB HACK
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halfback
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A big shot in basketball: HERE TO RIP NET
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three pointer
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Multi-gender tennis: EDIBLE MUD SOX
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mixed doubles
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Olympic event with ropes & ribbons: CATCHY STRING SHIMMY
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rhythmic gynmastics
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BIOGRAPHIES
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"Empire State of Mind" tells how this man became a rap mogul
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Jay-Z
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"Hiding in Plain Sight" is the subtitle of Julia Sweig's biography of this first lady born in Karnack, Texas
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(Lady Bird) Johnson
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Jon Krakauer's "Where Men Win Glory" tells of this man who left the NFL for the Army & was killed in Afghanistan
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(Pat) Tillman
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"Radioactive... a Tale of Love & Fallout" is about the relationship between this couple with real chemistry
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Marie & Pierre Curie
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"His Truth Is Marching On" tells about this late, great Georgia congressman & "the Power of Hope"
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John Lewis
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THE ICKIEST OF THE "ICKY"
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You've been described as fastidious, so you're too this
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finicky
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Before "wicket" it refers to a muddy part on the cricket pitch, or any awkward problem
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sticky
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Your pasta has too much of the plant bulb Allium sativum, so it's overly this
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garlicky
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A fussy baby who cries excessively is often described this way
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collicky
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A list of "10 Most" this adjective "Auto Features" included "cabin perfume dispensers"
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gimmicky
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GEORGE WASHINGTON DID IT
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On Christmas night, 1776, Washington crossed the Delaware; the battle of this now-state capital was the next day
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Trenton
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Before he was president, George presided over this months-long meeting in the summer of 1787
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Constitutional Convention
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A 1791 proclamation by President George ordered the first this of the District of Columbia; a young George would've done it himself
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a survey
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On May 28, 1754 Lt. Colonel George ordered an attack on the troops of Ensign Coulon de Jumonville, starting this conflict
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the French and Indian War
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At 26 George married a woman with this last name of her first husband
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Custis
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MED. ABBREV.
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After a major surgery, you may end up in the ICU, which stands for this
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the intensive care unit
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IDDM stands for this-dependent diabetes mellitus
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insulin
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In med speak, a heart attack is an M.I., this infarction
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myocardial
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A blow to the head could cause TBI, short for this
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a traumatic brain injury
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P.E. is this type of blood clot in the lungs
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a pulmonary embolism
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NATIONAL LITERARY TITLES
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A detective is hired to track down the missing sister of the secretive Miss Wonderly at the beginning of this hard-boiled novel
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The Maltese Falcon
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In this Michael Ondaatje novel, a badly burned plane crash victim remembers a fateful love affair
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The English Patient
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This guy is the magnanimous title Greek in Nikos Kazantzakis' novel about living life to the fullest
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Zorba
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Meryl Streep starred in a film of this John Fowles novel
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The French Lieutenant\'s Woman
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A home built by the VanHoebeek family gives this 2019 Ann Patchett bestseller its title
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The Dutch House
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IT DOESN'T MEAN WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE
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Women fought for this, a word which is not derived from "pain", rather from the Latin for "to publicly show support"
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suffrage
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From the Greek for "song", this type of "drama" sounds like it's really easygoing, but it features exaggerated emotion
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melodrama
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Noisome sounds like it offends the ears, but it means something offensive especially to this other sense organ
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the nose
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Belladonna means "fair lady", but is actually a type of plant called "deadly" this
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nightshade
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As a noun this word refers to a gallant mounted knight; as an adjective, it can mean disdainful or offhand
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cavalier
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TALK LIKE A FARMER
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2 main kinds of farming are subsistence farming & growing these alliterative items to sell
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cash crops
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This 7-letter layer of earth used for cultivation usually contains more organic matter than the layers beneath it
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topsoil
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Though it's not for tea & conversation, an area that may put the cows in a tandem or rotary setup is this activity's "parlor"
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the milking parlor
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This unit of measure varies with its content: for wheat it's 60 pounds & for oats, 32
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a bushel
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Despite its name, it's not a frog relative, it's a microscopic worm such as an eelworm that may damage plant roots
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a nematode
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RECENT MOVIES
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It's what "The Meg" is in the Jason Statham aquatic actioner
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a megalodon
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Anthony Ramos took over Lin-Manuel Miranda's singing bodega owner role in the film adaptation of this stage musical
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In the Heights
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Tom Hardy is back in rare form again playing Eddie Brock, a journalist who shares his body with this alien symbiote
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Venom
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This word/genre completes the title of a movie with Riz Ahmed as a drummer going deaf, "Sound of..."
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Metal
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The 2020 film "Resistance" saw Jesse Eisenberg play this mime working for the French resistance
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Marcel Marceau
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COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD
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N/A
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Nazi Germany annexed this nation & divided it into regions of the Alps & the Danube; the Allies later divided it into 4 sectors
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Austria
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