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ALLITEROCKERS
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$200
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In 1987 this trio that fought for the right to party had the first rap album to top the Billboard charts
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the Beastie Boys
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$400
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This band's hits include "Everlong" & "Times Like These"
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the Foo Fighters
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$600
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After a long "Vacation", these '80s icons returned to the charts with 2020's "Club Zero"
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the Go-Go\'s
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$800
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He led a rockin' "Family" on such hits as "Thank You Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin"
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Sly Stone
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$1000
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This powerhouse vocalist was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1995
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(Janis) Joplin
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SUCCULENTS
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$200
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The vera or "true" type of this succulent is pretty & medicinal
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aloe
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$400
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This succulent that gives us tequila also provides a syrup for a natural sweetener
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agave
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$600
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Nopales are the edible leaf pads of this alliterative cactus
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the prickly pear
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$800
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This desert tree was named for its resemblance to a biblical leader pointing the way to the promised land
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Joshua tree
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$1000
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Belying their name, these succulents often used as ground cover are native to Africa
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ice plants
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U.S. COUNTIES
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Washington's most populous county has this 4-letter name, just like a "Dome" once in the state
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King
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$400
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Fittingly, Mille Lacs is a county in this state
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Minnesota
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$600
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This most populous Georgia county is thought to be named for a steamboat pioneer
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Fulton
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$800
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These 2 counties that both end in "-folk" border Massachusetts Bay
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Suffolk & Norfolk
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$1000
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This Oklahoma county is in the title of Tracy Letts' play about a dysfunctional family
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Osage County
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AN INSTRUCTOR
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$200
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A dual brake set is a tool of this trade
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driver\'s license instruction
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$400
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At Oxford, personalized learning has long been based on the student this teacher relationship
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tutor
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$600
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In 1984 there was a new Barbie doll: instructor of this type of heart-healthy exercises
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aerobics
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$800
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Martin Cove is best known for playing this type of Japanese-named instructor
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a sensei
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$1000
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A piece on sight-reading strategies was 2013's article of the year in the Journal AMT, American this
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Music Teacher
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A LECTURER
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$200
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Einstein lectured that this enjoys "esteem above all other sciences" because "its laws are... certain & indisputable"
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mathematics
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$400
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The audience at Martin Heidegger's 1924 lecture on "The Concept of" this may have had the concept that it moves slowly
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time
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$600
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Biologist T.H. Huxley was a renowned defender of this theory & in 1893 famously lectured on it "& Ethics"
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evolution
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$800
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In 1939 this man whose fantasy trilogy was still unpublished lectured "On Fairy Stories" & said fantasy is a higher form of art
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Tolkien
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$1000
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The early 1800s London lectures of this discoverer of sodium brought so much traffic, Albemarle St. had to be made one-way
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Humphry Davy
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AN AD JUNKED
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$200
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An ad for cold medicine showing a partially bare Mickey Rooney was pulled before it aired during this February 2005 event
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the Super Bowl
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$400
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L'Oréal & Lancôme ads have been junked because of the misleading overuse of this, a verb that is also an Adobe brand
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Photoshop
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$600
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The last TV ad for cigarettes to play in the U.S., for Virginia Slims, aired January 1, 1971 on this man's late night talk show
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(Johnny) Carson
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$800
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Ads blocked on Facebook include those for weapons, spyware & this financial service for those newly arrested
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bail bonds
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$1000
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This automaker had an ad for its F-Type sports car banned for encouraging "irresponsible driving"
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Jaguar
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LET'S TALK REVOLUTION
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$400
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The 1978-79 revolution in this country is also called the Islamic Revolution
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Iran
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$800
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This "splendid" adjective precedes "Revolution" in the name of the 1688 regime change that brought William & Mary to the throne
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Glorious
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$1200
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The full name of this 1966-76 upheaval commences with "Great Proletarian"
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the Cultural Revolution
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$1600
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Imre Nagy, this country's premier, was executed for his role in its 1956 anticommunist revolution
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Hungary
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$2000
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Pancho Villa was ambushed & killed in 1923; this even-later-in-the-alphabet Mexican revolutionary, in 1919
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Emiliano Zapata
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WOMEN AUTHORS
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$400
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She modeled 3 of the sisters in "Little Women" on her own siblings & Jo March after herself
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Alcott
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$800
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Third time's the charm for this author who won a Pulitzer for her third novel, "The Goldfinch"
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Donna Tartt
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$1200
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She dedicated her first novel, "The Joy Luck Club", "To my mother and the memory of her mother"
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Amy Tan
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$1600
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This late author's sci-fi & fantasy classics include "The Left Hand of Darkness" & The Earthsea books
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Ursula Le Guin
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$2000
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At 14, this British author of "White Teeth" changed the first letter of her name from S to Z, thinking it sounded more exotic
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Zadie Smith
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16th CENTURY ARTS
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$800
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This end-blown instrument was very popular; Henry VIII had a large collection of them
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a recorder
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$1200
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This portrait by Leonardo was never delivered to the subject & was sold to the king of France around 1520
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the Mona Lisa
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$1600
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Parmigianino painted a self-portrait in this curved item, also the title of John Ashbery's poem about the painting
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a convex mirror
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$2000
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This great German printmaker left a diary of his travels across Europe, including his wife having her purse stolen in Antwerp
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Dürer
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TRANSPORTATION
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$400
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This iconic Ford's agile transmission made shifting gears easy, & by 1927, more than 15 million had been sold
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the Model T
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$800
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Named for what they carry cargo in, these behemoth ships include the one that got stuck in the Suez Canal in 2021
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a container ship
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$1200
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In 1937 the XC-35 was the first plane with a pressurized cabin; before that everyone wore these, now used in emergencies
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oxygen masks
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$1600
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In 2010 Rocky Robinson reached 376.363 miles per hour, the fastest land speed ever riding one of these
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a motorcycle
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$2000
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"Ride Green" (bright green) "with" this bike & scooter sharing service
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Lime
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POP CULTURE MR. OR MRS.
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$400
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Rachel Brosnahan is marvelous in her role as this Jewish housewife-turned-comedian
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the Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
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$800
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Kevin O'Leary, one of the investors on this series, is frequently referred to as Mr. Wonderful
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Shark Tank
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$1200
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Rami Malek won an Emmy for playing Elliot Alderson, a vigilante hacker, on this series
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Mr. Robot
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$1600
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& here's to you, this character who seduces Dustin Hoffman in "The Graduate"
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Mrs. Robinson
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$2000
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On the silver screen this beloved actor played both "Mister Roberts" & "Young Mr. Lincoln"
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Henry Fonda
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DIFFERS BY A LETTER
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$400
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The 15th day of March in Rome & a thought
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ides & idea
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$800
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A part of speech & an offer made to you
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a preposition & a proposition
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$1200
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Vindictive punishment for past wrongs & income generated by a government or person
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revenue & revenge
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20th CENTURY PHYSICS
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N/A
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Puzzlingly heavy & long-lived particles discovered in the 1940s were dubbed this adjective later applied to even smaller particles
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strange
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