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LOOK AT THAT MOUNTAIN!
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It's seen here at sunrise, from the less-climbed Italian side
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the Matterhorn
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From the right angle it's easy to see how this iconic California peak got its fractional name
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Half Dome
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Though it's far from the tallest, 22,350-foot tall Ama Dablam is often called the most beautiful peak in this range
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the Himalayas
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Take one look at Cerro Torre in this plateau region of southern Argentina & you'll see why it's one of the world's toughest climbs
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Patagonia
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Head to this Alberta national park to see the fortress-like towers of Castle Mountain
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Banff
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TV CRIME FAMILIES
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After the original Fat Tony dies on a Season 22 episode of this show, his cousin Fit Tony becomes the new Fat Tony
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The Simpsons
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In a memorable episode of "The Sopranos", Tony finds some unfinished business on a college tour with this daughter
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Meadow
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In 2020 Chris Rock played Loy Cannon, head of a crime family on this drama that despite its title was set in Kansas City
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Fargo
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On this acclaimed drama, the Barksdale family ran a drug racket on the streets of Baltimore
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The Wire
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Jax struggled with his stepdad Clay for control of the title biker gang on this FX drama
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Sons of Anarchy
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BOOK TITLES EN FRANCAIS
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Wreaking havoc: "Le chatz chapeauté"
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The Cat in the Hat
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A classic: "Le vieil homme et la mer"
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The Old Man and the Sea
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It's murder! "Minuit dans le jardin du bien et du mal"
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
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Science fiction for all ages: "Un raccourci dans le temps"
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A Wrinkle in Time
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A book for the entire galaxy: "Salut, et encore merci pour le poisson"
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So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish
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A PHRASE OF TURN
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Snowplow & stem Christie are types of turns in this sport
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(downhill) skiing
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Do this on the same-named device to bring in that big fish you've just hooked
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reel
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It precedes dervish to describe the spins of the Sufi mystics seen here
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whirling
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A short shaft around which something rotates; in politics, it's often a turn "to the center" to appeal to moderate voters
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pivot
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This word for a graceful turn is from French for "spinning top"
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pirouette
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AMERICAN IDLE
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Studies have shown that this online activity that sounds like a beach sport may help prevent dementia
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surfing (the web)
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Maximizing "time on device" is the goal of casinos for these, which bring in more than 3/4 of their profits
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slot machines
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Movie character Jeffrey Lebowski, a slacker mainly interested in drinking & bowling, prefers to be addressed as this
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"The Dude" (Duderino)
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This two-piece casual apparel seen here takes its name from time used for relaxation
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leisure suit
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Mid-20th-century California pioneered these 2-word places to relax, making them from old wine vats
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hot tubs
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THE X FACTOR
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Xerxes I took the reins of this empire in 486 B.C.
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the Persian
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Xterra is a popular series of triathlons as well as a former SUV from this company
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Nissan
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Luke Skywalker is at the controls of this vehicle when he destroys the Death Star
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the X-Wing
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The Xolo breed seen here is the national & mostly hairless dog of this country
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Mexico
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One of the first orchestral uses of the xylophone was to invoke skeletons' bones in this spooky 1874 work by Camille Saint-Saens
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Danse Macabre
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HISTORIC NAMES
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In 1615 these 2 became parents to a son, Thomas Rolfe
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Pocahontas & John Rolfe
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The take from 1930s robberies committed by this pair seen here was rarely more than $1,000
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Bonnie & Clyde
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Born around 610 B.C. on Lesbos, this poet integrated elements of Aphrodite's rituals like incense-laden altars into her work
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Sappho
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Albert of Brandenburg, the Archbishop of Mainz, received a copy of this Oct. 31, 1517 document
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the 95 Theses of Martin Luther
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This Italian admiral called the "Liberator of Genoa" got his name on a luxury liner that sank in 1956
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the Andrea Doria
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OPERA SOURCE MATERIAL
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Philip Glass based "The Perfect American" on Peter Stephan Jungk's book about this animation tycoon's last days
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Disney
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This Italian based "La Traviata" on a play written by Alexandre Dumas, son of the famous novelist
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Verdi
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Henry Purcell's "The Fairy Queen", usually dubbed the first Shakespearean opera, is based on this play
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A Midsummer Night\'s Dream
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An Italian play provided inspiration for Puccini to write this Chinese-set opera based on a Persian tale
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Turandot
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"Acis and Galatea" is based on a myth we know from this man's "Metamorphoses"
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Ovid
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EXOPLANETS
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A "Jupiter" is a massive exoplanet believed to be made, like Jupiter, mostly of these 2 lightest elements
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hydrogen & helium
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Wider for hotter stars, the habitable zone is the area around a star within which this can exist on a planet's surface
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(liquid) water
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One exoplanet thought to be 13 billion years old has been called this, like Noah's grandfather
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Methuselah
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So far about 2/3 of all exoplanets discovered have been found by the space telescope named for this German astronomer
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Kepler
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The first exoplanets were discovered in 1992 circling PSR B1257+12, one of these stars emitting regular bursts of radio waves
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pulsars
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AIRPORTS
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During a layover at McCarran Airport in this city, you can do a little gambling right in the terminal
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Las Vegas
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This airport's code, ORD, goes back to the previous tenant on the site, Orchard Field
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O\'Hare
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The Beehive at this London-area facility, code LGW, was the first airport building with an integrated railway station
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London Gatwick
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Soekarno-Hatta International Airport serves this world capital
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Jakarta
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At Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, art lovers can enjoy a sampling of paintings from this nearby national museum
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the Rijksmuseum
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COMEDIANS' CATCHPHRASES
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"Can we talk?"
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Joan Rivers
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"You might be a redneck if..."
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Foxworthy
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"Well, excuuuuuse me!"
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Steve Martin
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"Git-r-done!"
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Larry the Cable Guy
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"She ready"
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Tiffany Haddish
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WORDS THAT SHOULD RHYME
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An appliance for preparing food & a strong emotional attraction for another
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love & stove
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A pungent bulb vegetable & a constellation named for a mythological hunter
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onion & Orion
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A learned specialist in a branch of knowledge & a type of tooth at the back of the mouth
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scholar & molar
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A hard-shell tortilla with fillings & a Texas city founded in 1849 on the Brazos River
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taco & Waco
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An earthenware beer mug & a circulatory vessel returning blood to the heart
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stein & vein
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MOVIE QUOTES
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N/A
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This 3-word phrase was the protagonist's second line of dialogue in a 1962 movie, the first in a 25-film series
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"Bond, James Bond"
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