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COLOR, MY WORLD
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The Mammoth Hot Springs Historic District still has 35 structures that date back to around 1900 in this mammoth national park
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Yellowstone
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Take a glass bottom boat ride in this Springs in Florida, or a short car ride to D.C. from this Spring in Maryland
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Silver
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This body of water stretches from Suez, Egypt to the Bab el-Mandeb Strait
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the Red Sea
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$800
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It's a city in New South Wales, a river in Southern Africa & a county in Southern California
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Orange
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In a color clash, the highest elevations in this mountain range are in its Black Mountains of North Carolina
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the Blue Ridge Mountains
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PLANET FILL IN
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Arranging burials at sea: the ____ Society
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Neptune
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A euphemism for the sphere of war: the Field of ____
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Mars
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$600
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A Bay Area newspaper: The ____ News
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Mercury
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$800
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A paleolithic sculpture: the ____ of Willendorf
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Venus
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$1000
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Feting sci-fi since 1972: ____ Awards
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Saturn
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MOVIE THEATER GIMMICKS
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The Odorama process added smells to movies using this 3-word process that involves a card & your fingernail
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scrach-and-sniff
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In 1985 3 versions of this mystery comedy were released in theaters with 3 different people killing Mr. Boddy
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Clue
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Psycho-Rama films used these, split-second hidden images or words, to unsettle the audience
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subliminal messages
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Some theaters showed this 2019 Will Smith clone movie in 60 frames per second, which made the action look smoother
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Gemini Man
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This director took his "Jay & Silent Bob Reboot" across the country on a roadshow
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Kevin Smith
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"LOVE"
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It's a nicer way to refer to the excess fat on either side of the waist
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love handles
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Look, it's a pair of these, parrots known for their displays of affection
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lovebirds
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Term for the warm months of 1967 in San Francisco, with Moby Grape on the turntable
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Summer of Love
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A 1578 work seems to be the source of this idiom that says when it comes to romance & battles, anything goes
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all\'s fair in love and war
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This place in New York State was used as a toxic waste dump; concerns over it led to the creation of the Superfund
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Love Canal
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HONOR
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This biblical king judged a child should be split in 2; he didn't go through with it, however
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King Solomon
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As Judge Haller in this 1992 comedy, Fred Gwynne is contemptuous of Joe Pesci's choice of outfits, among other things
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My Cousin Vinny
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The title of his novel "The Brethren" refers to 3 ex-judges doing time in a Florida federal prison
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John Grisham
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Judge Thayer called these defendants "anarchist (bleep)s", so his impartiality in a 1921 trial has been questioned
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Sacco & Vanzetti
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This judge said in 1921, "Regardless of the verdict... no player who throws a ballgame... will ever play (pro) baseball"
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Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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CHAIR-ISH
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Not just any old armchair, the Coronation Chair has been used since the 1300s & is in this London abbey
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Westminster Abbey
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It's the insect name for the type of chair seen here
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a butterfly chair
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This "B"rand of reclining armchairs goes back to 1940 & "scientifically articulated" motion chairs
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BarcaLounger
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A style of rocking chair called the Carolina rocker is also named for this president who used it to ease his back pain
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Kennedy
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Perhaps the best-known Chippendale chairs have a top rail in the form of this Roman god's bow
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Cupid
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HISTORIC ILLINOIS
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This American retailer of general merchandise opened its first store at Homan Avenue & Arthington Street in Chicago in 1925
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Sears
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Reaping $60 million a year in the 1920s, this man said of his illegal Illinois enterprises, "I give the public what the public wants"
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Capone
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Settling in Illinois, he founded his own detective agency & later headed the Union secret service during the Civil War
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(Allan) Pinkerton
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$1600
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Mormon leader Joseph Smith & his brother Hyrum were killed by a mob in 1844 in this Illinois city named for an ancient city of Africa
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Carthage
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Around 1673 this French Jesuit priest explored the region & traveled on the Illinois river
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Jacques Marquette
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SHAKESPEARE PLAY SETTINGS
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$400
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"Romeo & Juliet", is one of the plays that take place in what's now this country
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Italy
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This tragedy has settings in Rome, Syria & fatefully in Alexandria, Egypt
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Antony and Cleopatra
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Once more into this play whose centerpiece is a 1415 battle in France
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Henry V
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$1600
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Arden, Shakespeare's mother's maiden name, is the name of the forest where this comedy is set
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As You Like It
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$2000
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This princely play is the only one that has a scene in Lebanon
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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PHYSICS
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Bi- this is a term from psychiatry; magnets are di- this, with north attracted to south
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polar
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In 1850 Clausius laid down the second law of this, that heat won't of itself pass from one body to a hotter one
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thermodynamics
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A special grating with parallel slits is name for this spreading or bending of light waves similar to refraction
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diffraction
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General relativity meant there must be these waves, but they weren't directly detected until 2015, by the LIGO Observatory
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gravitational waves
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L, meaning the number of this elementary particle that includes electrons, is constant in every reaction
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the lepton
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COFFEE IS LIFE
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$400
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Opened in 1971, this Seattle coffee chain used the roasting techniques of competitor Alfred Peet
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Starbucks
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$800
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A 1773 act & this following protest prompted many in America to take up coffee
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the Boston Tea Party
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In "Letters from Hawaii", Mark Twain said this local coffee "has a richer flavor than any other"
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Kona
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$1600
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This fictional coffee spokesperson is nothing without his mule Conchita
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Juan Valdez
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Some of the highest rated coffee is from a roaster called Port of Mokha, named for a place in this war-torn country
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Yemen
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10-, 11- & 12-LETTER WORDS
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This game whose origins go back to ancient times is played on a board with 24 narrow triangles or points
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backgammon
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$800
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Knock knock--who's there? It's this noisy type of ghost
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a poltergeist
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Many health plans now cover this 12-letter practice of consulting with your doctor via your cell phone or computer
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telemedicine
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$1600
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Some describe this old timey soft drink as tasting like licorice; others, like root beer
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sarsaparilla
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$2000
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This adjective can describe something intricate or involved, like a certain maze from mythology
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labyrinthine
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TV THEME LYRICS
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"You wanna go where people know, people are all the same"
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Cheers
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"Who's that girl? It's Jess"
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New Girl
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"It seems today that all you see is violence in movies & sex on TV"
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Family Guy
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$1600
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"She's a magical gal in a small town locale, he's a hubby who's part machine"
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WandaVision
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"Meatwad make the money, see / Meatwad get the honeys, G"
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force
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PAINTINGS
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N/A
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In 2021 experts in Oslo concluded that it was the artist who wrote on this painting, "Could only have been painted by a madman"
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The Scream
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