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YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT AUDIENCE
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David Copperfield had a standard magic trick where he made this happen to 13 audience members
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he made them disappear
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Broadway theaters have at least 500 seats; off-Broadway ones tend to have 100 to 499 & these with a similar name, under 100
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off-off Broadway
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Partly to keep the audience awake, he kept the Ed Sullivan Theater at 55 degrees when taping his late-night show that ended in 2015
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David Letterman
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$800
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A Haydn symphony is nicknamed "Miracle" after the tale that one of these fell & smashed in a miraculously empty audience area
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a chandelier
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Putting down hecklers 1765-style, this Virginia orator responded to cries of "treason" with "If this be treason, make the most of it"
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Patrick Henry
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LET'S INTRODUCE THE "BAND"
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10-letter term for illegally smuggled stuff
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contraband
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Printed cotton handkerchief used as headwear
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a bandana
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It can be a movement propelled by sheer momentum or something that literally conveys musicians
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a bandwagon
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This nickname for a slot machine that dates back to the 1930s sounds like someone who is about to rob you
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a one-armed bandit
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Lewis Carroll's "frumious" creature
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a bandersnatch
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OUR LEAD SINGER
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Hosting "SNL", Carey Mulligan said she liked to call this band "My Husband & Sons", hubby Marcus being its lead singer
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Mumford & Sons
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Before Maroon 5, his high school band called Kara's Flowers appeared in an episode of "Beverly Hills 90210"
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Adam Levine
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Lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong says Serena Williams, a superfan of this band, always requests they play "Disappearing Boy"
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Green Day
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Here is this singer, who died far too young, far from home in Paris
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Jim Morrison
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In 1984 Chris Cornell co-founded this band named after an art installation in Seattle
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Soundgarden
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ON BASE
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In 1958 this kid from Memphis traded in his blue suede shoes & got some Army issue ones at Arkansas' Fort Chaffee
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Elvis Presley
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Seen here, a soldier is taking in the view of Mount Rainier at Joint Base Lewis McChord in this state
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Washington
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John McCain was born on a U.S. military base near a strategic waterway in this country
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Panama
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In 1968 an air reserve base in Indiana was named for this Hoosier astronaut killed in a fire the year before
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Gus Grissom
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This Marine "Camp" outside of San Diego was used in TV shows like "Gomer Pyle" & "Baa Baa Black Sheep"
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Pendleton
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AT THE ORGAN
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It precedes "bean" in something you may enjoy & precedes "stone" in something you very much would not
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kidney
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It's the organ that's often contrasted with brawn
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brain
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This protein- & iron-rich chicken part in "chopped" form is also in a common rhetorical question
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liver
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Speak with one of these, also found in some snakes' mouths, & your intent is to deceive
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a forked tongue
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Synonyms for this word, also an organ, include vesicle, sac & pouch
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bladder
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& PLAYING TRIANGLE
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"The sum of any 2 sides of a triangle is equal to or greater than the 3rd side" means this is the short route between 2 points
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a straight line
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The ancient Greeks compared the constellation Triangulum to this capital letter of theirs
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delta
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Just like a boat, windmills like the ones seen here use a type of triangular sail with this 3-letter name
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a jib
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This 6th century B.C. man's theorem about the lengths of the sides of a right triangle is actually far older than even he is
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Pythagoras
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In Pascal's triangle, any two numbers add up to the number below & between them; adding diagonally yields this man's sequence
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Fibonacci
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WHO DIRECTED IT?
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"Riding in Cars with Boys","Awakenings"
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(Penny) Marshall
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"When They See Us", "A Wrinkle in Time", "Selma"
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Ava DuVernay
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$1200
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1991's "Point Break", "Zero Dark Thirty"
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Kathryn Bigelow
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$1600
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"Wonder Woman", episodes of "Entourage" & "Arrested Development"
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Patty Jenkins
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"Red Hot Chili Peppers: Dark Necessities", "Booksmart"
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Olivia Wilde
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JESUS GEOGRAPHY
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In Luke Chapter 2 verse 4, Joseph goes to this city where the baby Jesus makes his appearance a bit later
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Bethlehem
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In Matthew 3 John the Baptist is reluctant to baptize Jesus in this river
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the Jordan
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When Jesus was 12 he went to the festival of Passover in this city, as was the tradition of his parents
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Jerusalem
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From Hebrew for "oil press", this garden across the Kidron Valley is depicted here by Raphael
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Gethsemane
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The Hebrew name Nahum gave us the name of this city where several of the disciples were chosen
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Capernaum
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EDUCATION FIRSTS
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Friedrich Froebel started the first of these schools in Germany in 1837 & started the day with merry songs
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kindergarten
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In 1783 Poland was the first country to ban this in schools; it's also banned in the country's constitution
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corporal punishment
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Golfer Terry Williams was the USA's first woman to receive one of these, from the University of Miami in 1973
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a sports scholarship
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The USA's first public teacher training school evolved into Framingham State University in this state
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Massachusetts
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In 1761 Claude Bourgelat, who wrote "Sur la médecine des chevaux", set up the first school for this profession
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a veterinarian
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EUROPEAN HISTORY
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In medieval politics the Ghibellines supported the emperor; the Guelphs were loyal to the man with this title
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the Pope
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In the mid-1800s Russia began building these routes with a 5-foot gauge, wider than the European standard
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railways
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King Gustav III of this country was shot at the opera house in 1792 & died 2 weeks later
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Sweden
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In 1240, Henry III had the central keep of the fortress seen here painted, giving rise to this 2-word name
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the White Tower
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Though Pippin III founded this Frankish dynasty in 751, its name comes from the many Charleses who ruled it
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the Carolingians
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MAKING A SHORT STORY LONG
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This dog "Come-Home" first appeared as a 1938 Saturday Evening Post story; a novel followed, then radio, movies & TV
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Lassie
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This sci-fi great teamed with Robert Silverberg to expand his classic 1941 short story "Nightfall" into a 1990 novel
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Isaac Asimov
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Jonathan Safran Foer expanded his short story "The Very Rigid Search" into the novel "Everything is" this
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Illuminated
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$1600
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"Big Creek Missile Agency", Homer Hickam's article about his childhood, became this book that became the movie "October Sky"
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Rocket Boys
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First a short story, this Jeffrey Eugenides novel about 5 sisters who die young became a Sofia Coppola film
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The Virgin Suicides
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IN- IS OUT
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$400
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Remove "in-" from a word meaning keen perception to get this school cost
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tuition
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$800
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An affirmative interjection loses "in-" & turns into this legal document
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a deed
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A thank you-less person loses "in-" to become this frame of metal bars
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a grate
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A breathing verb loses "in-" & turns into this hearty word
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hale
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PUBLISHING
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N/A
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Last name of brothers James, John, Joseph & Fletcher, whose company published magazines with their name as well as books
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Harper
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