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IT'S TOO CROWDED
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800,000 people gathered in a field in Krakow to watch the televised Vatican funeral for this man in 2005
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Pope John Paul II
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A million fans endured stifling Madrid heat to celebrate Spain's 2010 victory in this international competition
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the World Cup
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$600
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On New Year's Eve 1994, 4.2 million showed up for fireworks & a free Rod Stewart concert on Copacabana Beach in this city
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Rio de Janeiro
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$800
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In 2019 tens of millions gathered to bathe in sacred rivers for Kumbh Mela, a festival of this religion
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Hinduism
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Millions lined the streets of New York for the June 2019 LGBTQ parade that was part of "World" this
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Pride
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EXAM TIME
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A task on a recent one in New York State was to draft a memo regarding sovereign immunity under a tort claims law
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a bar exam
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In the 1950s half of U.S. hospital deaths were followed by a postmortem exam, also called this; now it's under 10%
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an autopsy
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These exams are required for many Ph.D. degrees; for a Stanford history doctorate, you take them in your third year
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oral exams
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$800
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To do your taxes, look for someone who passed this 3-letter exam first standardized in 1917
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the CPA exam
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$1000
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Mydriatic eye drops do this to help in an eye exam
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dilate your pupils
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FICTION
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In "A Christmas Carol", this man's ghost is the first of 4 to appear to Scrooge
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Marley
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He wrote short stories like "Sonny's Blues" & novels like "Go Tell It on the Mountain"
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Baldwin
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$600
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Emily is imprisoned in a gloomy castle--that tells you "The Mysteries of Uoolpho" is a classic of this big 1790s genre
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gothic fiction (a gothic romance)
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$800
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This novel about a canine says, "A monster came to the small town of Castle Rock"
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Cujo
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Jack Schaefer wrote about the cowboy life in this novel with a 1-name title; come back!
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Shane
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FUNNY LADIES
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The showbiz career of this beloved funny lady has spanned more than 80 years
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Betty White
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Long before "Grace and Frankie", she starred opposite Jane Fonda & Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5"
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Tomlin
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$600
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Order in the court! If she ever tires of being funny, she has a law degree from the University of New South Wales to fall back on
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(Rebel) Wilson
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$800
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The name of this original "SNL" cast member lives on in the name of a cancer support organization
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Radner
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$1000
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She's won Emmys for voicing Lois Griffin on "Family Guy", & for her role as Susie Myerson on "The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel"
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Alex Borstein
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AIN'T THAT AMERICA
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The Levi Coffin House in Indiana was a stop on this system, that defied the Fugitive Slave Act
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the Underground Railroad
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By 1962 this doc's injected vaccine helped reduce polio cases in the U.S. from more than 50,000 a year to fewer than 1,000
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Salk
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It was a tempest in this govt. scandal, so large that Senate committees & a special commission looked into it from 1922 to 1928
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Teapot Dome
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$800
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Katherine Johnson was such a genius she made sure the computer was correct in planning the 1962 flight of Friendship 7 for this astronaut
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John Glenn
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$1000
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The 1968 Democratic National Convention became a battleground despite this mayor's promise of law & order
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Daley
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FOR "U" & "ME"
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This adjective describes 100% agreement, like a boxing decision
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unanimous
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$400
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Trees can live in this highway-dividing "strip"
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the median
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$600
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To criticize harshly, perhaps about interweaving hair a bit higher
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upbraid
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$800
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A Quaker place of worship noted for simplicity, like Philadelphia's Arch Street one
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a meeting house
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$1000
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There are 3 U's in this word meaning smug or insincere in an oily way
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unctuous
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FROM THE GREEK
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$400
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This word for a place of eternal rest is from a Greek word for "sleeping place"
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cemetery
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$800
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"O, beware, my lord, of" this! From the Greek for "zeal"
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jealousy
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$1200
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From Greek for "thick-skinned ", this word is sometimes used for an elephant or a hippo
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pachyderm
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$1600
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How words are put together to form phrases & sentences, it's from the Greek for "arrange together"
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syntax
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You get an "A" if you know that this 5-letter word from Greek refers to God's love for man & Christians' love for others
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agape
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LET THERE BE ART & MUSIC
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$400
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Pavarotti took this Neapolitan song whose title means "my own sun" to new heights
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"Ole Sole Mio"
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$800
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Nearly 2,200 years old & carved from marble, she's from Melos but resides in Paris; she now has a tough time shaking hands
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Venus de Milo
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$1200
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The song with this Latin title was one of the few pieces Schubert got published in his lifetime & has been popular since
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"Ave Maria"
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$1600
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The title characters of this 1936 Prokofiev work are represented by strings & French horns, respectively
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Peter and the Wolf
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This New Yorker incorporated graffiti into his his work, & was a celebrity in the art world when he died at age 27 in 1988
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Basquiat
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SAILING THE BLACK SEA
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This mythological hero & his Argonauts sailed the Black Sea in antiquity
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Jason
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$800
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Woof! A small shark called the spiny this abounds in the Black Sea
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dogfish
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$1200
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Russia's Black Sea coast includes this resort city that was established in 1896 & made international headlines in the winter of 2014
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Sochi
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$1600
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It's alphabetically last of the countries a that border the Black Sea
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Ukraine
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$2000
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This mountain range, a dividing line between Asia & Europe, runs from the Black Sea to the Caspian Sea
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the Caucasus
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"T" FOR...
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Lionel Richie was born in this Alabama city & graduated from its famed institute
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Tuskegee
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$800
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This twisting force is measured in newton-meters
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torque
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$1200
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This board game has a Pop-O-Matic dice roller
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Trouble
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$1600
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Seen here, this shell is named for a son of Poseidon
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a triton
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$2000
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A member of the Dravidian family, it's an official language of the Indian territory of Puducherry
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Tamil
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POP CULTURE-POURRI
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$400
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In 2021 Jon Batiste recalled his own piano teacher in accepting the Best Score Oscar for this animated film about a music educator
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Soul
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$800
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On April 1, 1963 ABC premiered this soap opera & NBC launched a similar rival, "The Doctors"
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General Hospital
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$1200
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Conservatorship hearings in L.A. in 2021 attracted supporters of the movement known by this 2-word hashtag
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Free Britney
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$1600
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First name of Mr. Youssef, who plays the title character in a Hulu series he also created
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Ramy
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A landmark in video game music is Koji Kondo's score for this "Legend of Zelda" edition with an instrument in the title
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The Ocarina of Time
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WORDS IN ELEMENTS
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Br: this possessive pronoun
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mine
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$800
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Si: this, a symbol for a program on your computer desktop
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an icon
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$1200
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Hg: this term for a mean or scroungy dog
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a cur
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$1600
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Mn: this Asian art form
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manga
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$2000
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I:this allfather
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Odin
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JOURNALISTS IN HISTORY
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N/A
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Bismarck Tribune correspondent Mark Kellogg died June 25, 1876 while on a field assignment covering this man
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(General George) Custer
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