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WHAT'S IN A GEOGRAPHIC NAME
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Belgium & 2 neighbors make up this 7-letter region, also a customs union begun in 1948
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Benelux
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A star can become one of these, also the name of a 4-letter region that includes places like Arlington & Alexandria
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nova
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Tribeca in the Big Apple stands for the "triangle below" this street
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Canal Street
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Named for a trapper who once lived there, this "Hole" is a fertile valley mostly in Wyoming's Grand Teton National Park
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Jackson Hole
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The "P" in Pakistan comes from this region,the name of a Pakistani province & a state of India
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Punjab
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POPPING OUT POP CULTURE
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This "8 Mile" rapper, challenged to rhyme "orange": "I put my orange, 4-inch door hinge in storage & ate porridge"
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Eminem
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Chevy Chase said his home in this holiday film was Danny Glover's in "Lethal Weapon 2"; a blown-up toilet was still on the lawn
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National Lampoon\'s Christmas Vacation
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2021 marks 10 years of Christina Perri's "Twilight" anthem that says, "I have loved you for" this long
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a thousand years
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Alan Tudyk crash lands on Earth & his character assumes the form of local doctor Harry Vanderspeigle on this SYFY show
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Resident Alien
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"As much as I would love to watch you & your childhood karate rival duke it out", Amanda LaRusso of this Netflix show will pass, thanks
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Cobra Kai
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THE OED SPEAKS CANADIAN
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Schlockey, a schoolyard game, is also called "box" this sport
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hockey
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A two-four is a 24-unit case of this
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beer
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An Ontario resort region gives its name to the Muskoka this, typically made of slatted wood & resembling the Adirondack type
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a chair
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An idiot string connects a pair of these woolen warmers to keep them from getting lost
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mittens
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The 10 of these are divided into the economically prosperous "have" type & the less affluent "have-not" type
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the provinces
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PEARLS OF WISDOM
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Macau is on the other side of the Pearl River estuary from this Chinese special administrative region
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Hong Kong
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Fittingly, the Pearlmaster watch is part of this Rolex collection
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Oyster
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He's the lead singer of Pearl Jam
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Eddie Vedder
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Nacre is another name for this iridescent substance
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mother-of-pearl
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"The Pearl", a story by this man, tells of a pearl diver named Kino
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Steinbeck
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CELLO
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This cellist founded a music collective called the Silkroad Ensemble, with whom he plays cello
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Yo-Yo Ma
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When you think of a cello solo, you're probably thinking of this Baroque composer's cello prelude from around 1720
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Bach
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The uncrowned king of the cello, David Popper has a work titled this, what you'd sing under the window of your beloved
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a "Serenade"
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An excellent piece for the cello is "The Swan", from this work by Camille Saint-Saens
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The Carnival of the Animals
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Portrayed on film in "Hilary & Jackie", the life of this British cellist was cut short by ms at age 42
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Jacqueline du Pré
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IT IS ME YOU'RE LOOKING FOR?
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I'm wearing a red & white striped shirt & I'm stuck in a kids' picture book... are you looking for me?
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Waldo
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For heaven's sake, Tommy Tutone; my number's 867-5309; I'm this girl with the "number on the wall", so just call already
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Jenny
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Abducted & sealed away "In a sepulchre by the sea", I'm this lost love, sought for in a Poe poem
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Annabel Lee
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I'm Roger Thornhill, an innocent guy being chased by shadowy forces in this 1959 Hitchcock film; now a plane's after me...!
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North by Northwest
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There are only two of me in a standard deck of cards; call us by our hyphenated name & we just might make your house full
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a one-eyed jack
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YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION
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Myanmar's 2007 Saffron Revolution was named for the color of the robes of monks of this religion who participated
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Buddhists
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The Bulldozer Revolution is named for heavy machinery at the front of protests in this Serbian capital in 2000
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Belgrade
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The Russian Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 is also named for this month
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October
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Nearly 30 years after the 1989 one in Czechoslovakia, Armenia had its own revolution named for this soft fabric
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velvet
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Early in the Arab Spring, this country's Jasmine Revolution was named for the country's national flower
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Tunisia
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PUZZLES & GAMES
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A fine-bladed marquetry tool is thought to have been used to create the first of these around 1760
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a jigsaw puzzle
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A worldwide craze for these puzzles began after a New Zealand man invented a computer program to generate the number grids
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Sudoku
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The puzzle alliteratively known as this man's "Revenge" adds extra rows & has no fixed center pieces
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Erno Rubik (Rubik\'s Revenge)
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An '80s game similar to hangman designed to teach French vocabulary & spelling is named for this deadly implement
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the guillotine
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White offers to let black capture a queenside pawn in this royal-sounding chess opening shown here
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Queen\'s Gambit
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THE AUTHOR'S CHARACTERS
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The doomed Frances Earnshaw, mom of the less doomed Hareton Earnshaw
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Emily Brontë
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The snobby lady Catherine de Bourgh & the treacherous John Dashwood
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Jane Austen
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José Arcadio, so magically real, & Fermina Daza
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(Gabriel García) Márquez
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Charles Lindbergh & Sophie Portnoy, a good smother... I mean a good mother!
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Philip Roth
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Tralfamadorians & (God bless you,) Eliot Rosewater
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Kurt Vonnegut
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PLANETARY SCIENCE
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Mercury is one dense planet, with this interior section making up 55% of its volume vs. 16% for Earth
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the core
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Ancient astronomers finally realized Phosphorus, seen in the morning, & Hesperus, in the evening--both this planet
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Venus
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15 years before its official discovery, it was photographed in 1915 by Lowell Observatory, which didn't know what it was
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Pluto
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In 1675 he discovered a division within Saturn's rings, which he declared to be made up of little moonlets
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Giovanni Domenico Cassini
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HD 209458b was the first planet discovered via this eclipse-like event where planets cross in front of stars
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a transit
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ACTORS & ACCENTS
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Emma Stone says her accent in the 2021 movie named for this Disney villain is more 1940s movie actor than pure British
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Cruella (de Vil)
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Jonathan Groff from Lancaster, Pennsylvania worked up a posh English accent for this Broadway role in "Hamilton"
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King George III
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She mastered the tricky vowels of Delaware County, Pennsylvania as the title cop on "Mare of Easttown"
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Kate Winslet
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She got the feel of her Brooklyn accent in "The Wolf of Wall Street" by waving her nails around as if they were still wet from a manicure
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Margot Robbie
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Before lending his voice to many Pixar projects, this New Englander did one of the few actual Boston accents on "Cheers"
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(John) Ratzenberger
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META"FOR"S
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3-word phrase meaning something that nourishes careful cogitation
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food for thought
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Someone who's been cheated has been this, a metaphorical phrase involving a journey
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taken for a ride
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If you "can't see" this, you're too involved in the details of a subject to understand the big picture
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the forest for the trees
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This 1950s TV show had 4 women, each with a tale of woe, competing for the temporary royal title
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Queen for a Day
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Erasmus referred to Thomas More as "omnium horarum homo", this play title
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A Man for All Seasons
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1970s TOP 40 HITS
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N/A
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Seeing a poster for a production of "Cyrano de Bergerac" in a seedy Paris hotel & ladies of the evening nearby inspired this hit
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"Roxanne"
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It shouldn't be necessary to type "National Lampoon's" for Christmas Vacation. Also, there's a \ before the '. I didn't make it far enough in the quiz to find any other type-in issues, but I'll try again when the time has been increased to a reasonable length.