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PRIME NUMBER, PLEASE
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Like Rome, Edinburgh & Istanbul are known as cities of this many hills
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7
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Idiomatically, it precedes "skidoo"
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23
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The OED found the University of Buffalo was the first to use this number denoting an introductory course, in 1929
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101
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These are the 3 prime numbers in the 40s
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41, 43 & 47
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The treaties formally ending the American Revolution were signed in this year
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1783
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19th CENTURY AFRICAN AMERICANS
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When Victoria Woodhull ran for president in 1872, she chose as her running mate this famed orator & activist
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Frederick Douglass
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In 1870, Hiram Revels was elected to the United States Senate from this state once represented by Jefferson Davis
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Mississippi
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In 1870 Robert Fox' treatment on a segregated streetcar sparked protests & a boycott in this largest Kentucky city
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Louisville
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In 1898 Black troops known as Buffalo Soldiers fought alongside the Rough Riders during the battle of this hill
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San Juan
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In 2020, this journalist seen here was posthumously awarded a Pulitzer citation for reporting on the era of lynching
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Ida B. Wells
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INSTITUTIONS
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In 1985 a team from Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution found this vessel more than 12,000 feet underwater
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the Titanic
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A prestigious think tank, the Brookings Institution is headquartered in this city
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Washington, D.C.
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Raffles Institution is a co-educational school established back in 1823 in this city-state
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Singapore
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If you want to learn German, maybe your town has a branch of this institute founded in 1951 & named for a famous writer
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Goethe
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Rice University's Institute for Public Policy bears the name of this man who was George H.W. Bush's Secretary of State
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James A. Baker
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REGULAR VERBS
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I'm here to certify it means to versify
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rhyme
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To cut a material to form something; you can do it to ski turns, meat & statues
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carve
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To beat with a strap, or what a party leader does to get votes lined up in Congress
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whip
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This mild word that can follow goal- & bar-means to offer formally for acceptance, like with a resignation
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tender
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From the Latin for "price", it's what your new car's value does shortly after you drive off the lot
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depreciate
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ZOMBIETHON
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In 1998 this animated Great Dane & the gang explored new mysteries "on Zombie Island"
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Scooby-Doo
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"Train to Busan" is set in this Asian country during a zombie outbreak there
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South Korea
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Glenn & Maggie were just a young couple trying to make it work in a zombie-filled world on this TV series
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The Walking Dead
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In "Zombieland" he starred as himself & when asked if he had any regrets, said, "'Garfield,' maybe"
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Bill Murray
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Seth Grahame-Smith wrote this send-up of Jane Austen
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Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
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CHARTED
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In the 1760s this pair worked to delineate a territorial boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania
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Mason & Dixon
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Scientists created the map seen here showing Challenger Deep in this deepest part of the Pacific
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the Mariana Trench
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In the 1840s this Army surveyor & future Republican presidential candidate mapped much of the American West
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(John C.) Frémont
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Louis de Freycinet mapped much of this large Australian island due south of Melbourne
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Tasmania
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His 16th c. charts made longitude lines straight instead of curving to the poles; easier for navigators, but distorts distances
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Mercator
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THAT'S OUR FACTORY
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The Ocotillo campus making semiconductors in Chandler, Arizona
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Intel
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This beauty company whose name partly means "gold": the Lassigny plant north of Paris
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L\'Oréal
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A "New" factory of the future in Massachusetts for its made-in-the-USA sneakers
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New Balance
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The Akashi motorcycle plant, not far from the Good Times World Corporate Museum
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the Kawasaki plant
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EPONYMOUS-ISMs
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It wasn't until after his 479 B.C. death that the "ism" named for him became China's leading philosophy
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Confucius
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A 1950 L.A. Times column said the "defect of" this seemed to be the senator for whom it was named
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McCarthyism
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Strong nationalism & anti-labor policies were elements of this, named for a 1980s U.K. prime minister
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Thatcherism
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The philosophical & political "ism" named for this 15th & 16th century man reflects his characteristic unscrupulousness
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Machiavelli
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A controversial 18th century German physician created this early form of hypnotism
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mesmerism
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OLD LITERATURE
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Epinician odes, from the word Nike, include a series about this event, such as ones praising the boxer Diagoras
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the Olympic Games
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The Panchatantra animal fables were written in this ancient language of India & used to teach princes
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Sanskrit
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This hero of Virgil's famous work escapes with a handful of survivors after the fall of Troy
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Aeneas
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Spell 125 in this collection of funerary texts involves Anubis weighing the deceased's heart in the hall of truth
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the Egyptian Book of the Dead
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In an ancient Mesopotamian epic, this king of Rruk meets the goddess Ishtar
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Gilgamesh
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"ANTI" UP
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In Italian cuisine, it's cold food you eat at the start of a meal
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antipasto
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Carly Simon had a hit song about this feeling of excitement
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anticipation
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It's the type of missile used against missiles in flight
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anti-ballistic
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It's one who studies ancient relics, or a type of bookstore dealing in old & rare volumes
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antiquarian
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Term for two points on Earth such as the poles or such as Spain & New Zealand
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antipodes
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DARK MATTER
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In the Harry Potter books, he's the dark lord
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Voldemort
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Traditionally the black keys on a piano are made of this hard dark wood
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ebony
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This 14th century poet who gave his name to a type of sonnet is often credited with the term the Dark Ages
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Petrarch
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You get a "B" if you know it's the most common volcanic rock in the Earth's crust
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basalt
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In the early 1800s Joseph Niépce created some of the first photos using one of these, Latin for "dark chamber"
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a camera obscura
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RE-CHARTED
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Come on baby, and name this man seen here who had a No. 1 Hit with "The Twist" in 1960 & again in 1962
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Chubby Checker
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Of course this novelty hit by Bobby "Boris" Pickett was a hit for Halloween 1962, but why did it chart again in the summer of 1973?
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"Monster Mash"
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Aerosmith did indeed "sing for the years" with this song, re-charting in 1976 when it hit No. 6; it charted again in 2018
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"Dream On"
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Seen here, this man had a hit twice with "Stand By Me", his signature song
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Ben E. King
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One of the many Prince songs that re-charted after his 2016 death was this opening track of "Purple Rain"
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"Let\'s Go Crazy"
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OFFICIAL LANGUAGES
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N/A
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It's the only U.N. member state outside Europe with Dutch as an official language
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Suriname
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