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FOUND IN KING TUT'S TOMB
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For safe passage into the afterlife, several of these wheeled vehicles, disassembled
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chariots
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A headrest made of this animal material doesn't look comfy
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ivory
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Used to hunt birds, these curved throwing weapons, like those used by the Aborigines of Australia
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boomerangs
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Jewelry with an image of this sacred beetle
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scarab
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A statue of this jackal-headed god who weighed the hearts of the deceased to determine their fate
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Anubis
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THE RULES OF THE GAME
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With no game clocks on the field, only a referee such as Daniele Orsato keeps time
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soccer
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Rule 6-6d says you can be disqualified if you sign & return an incorrect scorecard
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golf
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In this Olympic sport, no splashing water in an opponent's face
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water polo
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The supine competitor may use no mechanical brakes
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luge
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While trying to pin your opponent, you can't get him in a hold below the waist
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Greco-Roman wrestling
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COMPANY COLORS
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Home Depot is known as "Big" this
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Orange
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The A&W browns remind us of the color of this A&W product which predates the restaurant
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root beer
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This company that grew out of one called Zimride has used pink to convey that it's female friendly
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Lyft
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Green is good for this e-commerce platform represented here
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Shopify
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The purple feather means premium content on this streaming service
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the Peacock
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MORE THAN 100
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The Bible says this grandfather of Noah lived to be 969 years old
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Methuselah
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This mythic hall for slain warriors has 540 doors
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Valhalla
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It's the highest atomic number for any known element: oganesson, formerly called ununoctium
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118
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Stephen Kinnock & Ian Paisley Jr. are 2 of the 650 members of this body whose chamber seats 427
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the House of Commons
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Fitting the genre of Barbara Cartland's 723 novels, her $55 million London mansion went up for sale on this day in 2020
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February 14th (Valentine\'s Day)
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DEALING WITH THE ENVIRONMENT
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The 1987 Montreal Protocol limits "substances that deplete" this in the atmosphere
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ozone
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A 1997 U.N. protocol adopted in this Japanese city called for the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions
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Kyoto
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The 1979 convention on long-range transboundary this problem that doesn't respect borders has helped reduce it dramatically
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air pollution
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The International Tropical Timber Agreement regulates the use of wood that's grown between these 2 geographic limits
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the Tropics of Cancer & Capricorn
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A 2007 column by the New York Times' Thomas Friedman is credited as the origin of this 3-word term
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Green New Deal
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PREPOSITIONAL PHRASES
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"Out of" this color means totally unexpected
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the (clear) blue
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That's a secret! Keep it below one's deerstalker, or to put it another way... this
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under your hat
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Using a forceful manner to attack a problem is to do it this way, like a "Die Hard" film title
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with a vengeance
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Claritin, Gaviscon & Midol are classified as this type of drug
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over-the-counter
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Splinters are an indication that you're sanding or planing wood this way, also meaning contrary to my inclinations
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against the grain
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LITERARY PROFESSORS
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Doctor Pangloss is the unfailingly optimistic mentor of the title character in this Voltaire work
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Candide
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Phonetics professor Henry Higgins is a 1913 creation of this playwright
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(George Bernard) Shaw
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$1200
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The protagonist of this author's 1995 novel "Wonder Boys" was inspired by his University of Pittsburgh writing professor
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Michael Chabon
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In an 1893 story he is described as "the organizer of half that is evil and of nearly all that is undetected" in London
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Professor Moriarty
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Her 1925 novel "The Professor's House" is set largely in New Mexico, not her familiar Nebraska
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Willa Cather
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TRIPLE RHYME TIME
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A fashionable Athenian computer wonk
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a chic Greek geek
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The center violin puzzle
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the middle fiddle riddle
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A searing camp bed scheme
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a hot cot plot
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A small & portable spacecraft plug receptacle
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a pocket rocket socket
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A narrow Tanqueray smirk
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a thin gin grin
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ISLANDS IN THE CHAIN
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St. Croix is the largest of these islands belonging to the United States
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the Virgin Islands
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$800
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Though only 540 square miles, you could say it's the most colossal of the Dodecanese Islands
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Rhodes
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It's the northernmost of the Florida Keys as well as the longest
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Key Largo
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$1600
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It's the largest of Asia's Greater Sunda Islands
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Borneo
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The Windward & Leeward Islands make up the "Lesser" these
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Antilles
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NAMES & PLACES OF 2021
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In July 2021, he became the first billionaire space company owner to ride his own craft into the heavens
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Branson
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In September the last piece of a gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, opposed by the U.S., was put in place under this sea
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the Baltic Sea
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This British diver won gold at the Olympics & won hearts by knitting in the stands
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Tom Daley
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Meng Wanzhou, CFO of this giant tech company, went home to China after nearly 3 years' confinement in Canada
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Huawei
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The TPLF, the Ethiopian region People's Liberation Front, captured the region's capital from government soldiers
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Tigray
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A LITTLE MATH IN YOUR MOVIE
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Darren Aronofsky's directorial debut was this 1998 film about a math genius who might have approximated the title as 22/7
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Pi
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As a math term, this Keanu Reeves film title refers to a set of numbers in rows & columns that form an array
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The Matrix
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Spencer Tracy adjusts to life as a grandfather in the 1951 sequel "Father's Little" this math term
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Dividend
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Ben Affleck played a younger version of Jack Ryan in this explosive 2002 thriller
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The Sum of All Fears
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Troubled hubby Michael Keaton is cloned several times in this 1996 screwball comedy
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Multiplicity
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"ENNIAL" RESPONSE WILL DO
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Jon Ossoff, born in 1987, has been called the first of these in the U.S. Senate
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millennial
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It means year after year, as when it precedes "pennant contender"
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perennial
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From how often it takes place, it's the Whitney Museum's regular survey of American art
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biennial
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It's a city in Colorado, 15 miles southeast of Denver
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Centennial
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It's the official commission to honor America in 2026--we'll be halfway to 500
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Semiquincentennial
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20th CENTURY PEOPLE
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N/A
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Gen. MacArthur said this man's death by "violence is one of those bitter anachronisms that seems to refute all logic"
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"Mahatma" Gandhi
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