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MUSIC STUFF
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Irked by this band's induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Johnny Rotten wrote, "We're not coming. We're not your monkeys"
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the Sex Pistols
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'70s classic with the lyric "I blew out my flip-flop / Stepped on a pop top"
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"Margaritaville"
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Internet Money & Gunna had a 2020 hit titled this sweet drink; Beyoncé named an album for it
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lemonade
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$800
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Synonyms for member names of this band include provocative, eerie, athletic, infant & luxurious
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the Spice Girls
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$1000
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Mark Feld was the original name of this late style icon who joined the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2020 with his band T. Rex
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Marc Bolan
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BLOOD
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The mitral valve opens to allow blood flow from the left atrium into the left one of these
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ventricle
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In 1649 William Harvey published "Two Anatomical Exercises on" this movement of the blood, which he had discovered
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circulation
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Hemoglobin in blood carries oxygen to the tissues & also holds 2/3 of the body's content of this element
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iron
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$800
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Coagulation begins when these, also called thrombocytes, begin to aggregate at the site of a ruptured blood vessel
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platelets
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$1000
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When a waste product known as bilirubin builds up in the blood, this yellowing of the skin & eyes can occur
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jaundice
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2-LETTER WORDS
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"Us" is the objective case of this pronoun
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we
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A snippet of it: ...288419716...
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pi
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It's the third note in the major scale of the sol-fa set of singing syllables
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mi
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It's the garment being worn here
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a gi
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A moon in our solar system named for a maiden of myth
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Io
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THE REST IS HISTORY
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Robert E. Lee & George Meade were the commanding generals at this decisive July 1863 battle
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Gettysburg
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In 1936, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie appealed for help against Italian aggression to this organization, which was no help
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the League of Nations
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In 2019 it was revealed Harold "Pie" Keller was one of 6 Marines raising the flag in a photo taken Feb. 23, 1945 on this island
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Iwo jima
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In exile in Mexico, this Soviet bigwig survived a machine gun attack on his home in may 1940 but an axe did the trick a bit later
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Trotsky
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Locally, this early 1900s Chinese secret society was called the Righteous & Harmonious Fists; foreigners gave them this name
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Boxers
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SERVING
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In server-speak "still mooing" & "on the hoof" means a steak cooked this way
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rare
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Renee Zellweger & Kelly Clarkson both served drinks as this type of "waitress"; you almost never hear it before "waiter"
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a cocktail waitress
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Servers may need to clarify that the entree comes without sides: note this 3-word French term on the menu
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à la carte
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$800
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You might have to practice your roller skating to be a carhop at this chain, "America's Drive-In"
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Sonic
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The number of people in a dining party is referred to using this 3-letter word, as in 6-this at table 15
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top
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TREYS
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This man III led the fundraising for Lincoln Center on New York's West Side; his dad, Jr., put up his own center in Midtown
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(John D.) Rockefeller
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III is part of the full name of this actor who let us know, "Second prize is a set of steak knives. Third prize is you're fired"
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Alec Baldwin
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This man III who followed in his mom Corazon's footsteps as president of the Philippines passed away in 2021
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Benigno Aquino III
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Oh, Vlad III Draculea is so formal! Please, call me Vlad this nickname, one I acquired for my high stakes atrocities
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the Impaler
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A prince among men, this man III ruled Monaco for 56 years, until his death in 2005
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Rainier (III)
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WOMEN AUTHORS
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As a child Johanna Spyri spent time in Graubunden in this country, a setting she would later use in "Heidi"
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Switzerland
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This Marjorie Williams tale about a fuzzy herbivore has enchanted readers since 1922
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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This Susanna Kaysen memoir about her time in a mental hospital was made into a film starring Winona Ryder & Angelina Jolie
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Girl, Interrupted
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To write, a woman needs "money and a room of her own", declared this 20th century author
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(Virginia) Woolf
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The initials in the name of this Booker Prize winner for "Possession" stand for Antonia Susan
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Byatt
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DOGGONE CINEMA
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It's the breed of bruiser, Reese Witherspoon's pet companion in "Legally Blonde"
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a Chihuahua
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This scientist has a pooch named Einstein who becomes the first time-traveler in "Back to the Future"
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Doc Brown
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In a lousy future, this title hard-driving drifter's only friend is an Australian cattle dog
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Mad Max
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$1600
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A Golden Retriever plays basketball & helps a boy rebound from a loss in this film
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Air Bud
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It's alive! Tim Burton directed this animated film about a boy's beloved dog brought back to life
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Frankenweenie
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FERRIES
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The Belle Chasse Ferry takes people from Belle Chasse, Louisiana across this big river
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the Mississippi
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$800
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Serving the Florida Keys, Yankee Freedom III ferries people to this "Dry" national park
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Dry Tortugas
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$1200
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If you've just flown into Ketchikan Airport in this state, you'll have to cross the Tongass Narrows on a ferry
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Alaska
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$1600
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The Green River Ferry can help you get around inside this vast national park in & under Kentucky
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Mammoth Cave
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Manhattan & Brooklyn ferries will get you to this island named for those who held lofty government jobs
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Governor\'s Island
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FRANCE VS. AMERICA
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In the 1976 "Judgment of Paris", wines from this state shockingly outperformed French vintages in a blind taste test
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California
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Colonial rule left Senegal in love with this loaf; France still tells the Senegalese it can't be made from American wheat
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a baguette
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Upset over tariffs, in 1999 French farmers wrecked an outlet of this fast food chain, accompanied by a Roquefort tasting
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McDonald\'s
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As seen in the 2021 TV drama about him, this one-named fashion designer took part in a 1973 Franco-American runway battle at Versailles
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Halston
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From 1925 to 1930 it was France vs. the U.S. in the finals for this tennis cup; René Lacoste was a star on the French team
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the Davis Cup
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DIG THAT ARCHAEOLOGY
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In the 1840s Giuseppe Fiorelli began modern-style excavations at this site where thousands died in 79 A.D.
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Pompeii
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In the 1930s Émile Baraize uncovered this statue at Giza so the whole paws showed for the first time in centuries
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the Sphinx
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Here are some of these around the time of their discovery in the Judean desert
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the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Excavating on this island around 1900, Sir Arthur Evans identified an ancient palace & a possible labyrinth
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Crete
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Seen here is the Welsh quarry revealed as the source of some of the objects at Stonehenge known by this colorful name
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the bluestones
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JEOPORTMANTEAU!
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$400
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Kawhi's pro sport +a pen with a bearing in the tip
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basketballpoint pen
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$800
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"Turkish" footstool +compulsory
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ottomandatory
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$1200
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7 sisters constellation+ total annihilation
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Pleiadestruction
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$1600
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Cetacean breathing orifice +quantity purchases as opposed to retail
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blowholesale
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$2000
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Ulysses' beloved +eyc-covering game played with infants
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Penelopeek-a-boo
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PRICELESS OBJECTS
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It dates back to the "French Blue", which was set in gold & suspended from a neck ribbon when Louis XIV wore it on ceremonial occasions
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the Hope Diamond
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