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PLAYING PROFESSOR
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This Harrison Ford character tells a class, "Forget any ideas you got about lost cities, exotic travel"
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Indiana Jones
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Russell Johnson was best known for playing the Professor on this series
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Gilligan\'s Island
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On Netflix she's Ji-Yoon Kim, "The Chair" of a struggling English department
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Sandra Oh
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On "How to Get Away with Murder", she played a professor at Middleton Law School
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Viola Davis
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Judith Light is among those who have portrayed the professor stricken with cancer in this Pulitzer-winning play
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Wit
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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA HISTORY
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This event off Huntington Beach in 2021 brought memories of the 3-million-gallon disaster off Santa Barbara in 1969
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an oil spill
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Founded in 1891 as a vocational & liberal arts school, this Pasadena college became famous for physics & space science
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Caltech
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In the 1920s, author Zane Grey built a Pueblo-style house near Avalon Bay on this island
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Catalina
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In 1769 in San Diego, this priest, now a controversial figure, founded his first California mission; he went on to found 8 more
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Serra
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This evangelist opened the Angelus Tempus in Los Angeles & preached there to a flock of thousands
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Aimee Semple McPherson
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4-SYLLABLE WORDS
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Idiomatically, if you "stand on" this, you demand that things are done in an exceedingly formal manner
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ceremony
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Alligator pear is another name for this superfood
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avocado
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The Latin for "to carry" gives us part of this word for all the investments you own
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portfolio
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This word refers to the smallest detail that can be seen by a telescope or to the number of pixels on your computer screen
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resolution
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It's a term for someone who cuts & polishes precious gems
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lapidary
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A CUT ABOVE
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17th century Venetian craftsman Vicenti Peruzzi is said to have come up with this smart-sounding cut for diamonds
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the brilliant cut
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Here's the shell of one of these sharp-sounding clams
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a razor clam
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In 1961 JFK said we live under a "nuclear sword of" him, "hanging by the slenderest of threads"
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Damocles
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The method used to create this style of sliced potato sounds like a French name
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julienne
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Liquid nitrogen in conjunction with a doctor's scalpel can be used to perform this, a superchilled operation
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cryosurgery
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PREQUELS & SEQUELS
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"Wide Sargasso Sea" by Jean Rhys, about Mr. Rochester's mad first wife, is a prequel to this classic novel
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Jane Eyre
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Gregory Maguire's "Son of a Witch" & "A Lion Among Men" are sequels to this book that inspired a musical
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Wicked
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It was the first sequel in Sue Grafton's alphabet mysteries
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B is for Burglar
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Co-authored by Brian Herbert, "House Atreides" is the first in a series of prequels to this series
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Dune
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In the final chapter in this sequel, "Christopher Robin and Pooh come to an enchanted place, and we leave them there"
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The House at Pooh Corner
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WHIRLED MENU
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They're husk-y in Mexico: SAT MEAL
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tamales
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Canadian fries with curds & gravy: OUTPINE
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poutine
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In India it's the big cheese: ERA PEN
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paneer
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A choice at the sushi bar: HA I MISS
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sashimi
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In Ireland diners flock to it: HEPPER DISHES
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shepherd\'s pie
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NUCLEAR PHYSICS
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Combining atomic nuclei to form a heavier element, it happens in the core of our Sun as hydrogen atoms meet to form helium
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fusion
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A quantum field theory describing the interactions of charged particles has this 3-letter abbrev. that also means "proved it!"
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Q.E.D
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Both used in the nuclear power industry, these first 2 transuranium elements are named for heavenly bodies
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neptunium & plutonium
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A radium nucleus that emits a particle & becomes a radon nucleus undergoes the "alpha" type of this process
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decay
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With the same mass & magnitude of charge, an antiparticle of an electron is called this word
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a positron
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STARTS WITH "W"
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The identity of the murderer typically isn't revealed until the end in this type of story
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a whodunit
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This insect is also known as a snout beetle
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a weevil
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In England you can whine or do this similar verb with an extra letter
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whinge
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Shawnee word for an elk
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wapiti
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This Chinese word meaning "martial arts" is used for disciplines like kung fu
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wushu
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WORLD CITIES
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Get a whiff of this city, the largest in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia
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Cologne
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In Dublin, the Ha'penny Bridge spans this river
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the Liffey
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This capital city is located in the region known as Anatolia
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Ankara
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The name of this second-largest city in Wales starts with a big bird
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Swansea
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South of Quito, this largest Ecuadorian city is seen here in all its colors
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Guayaquil
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MUSIC STARS
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She had 3 of Billboard's Top 20 songs of 2015, including "Bad Blood"
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Taylor Swift
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This singer's 2021 hit "Take My Breath" is perfect for a Saturday or Sunday
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the Weeknd
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Do start now & name this English-born woman of Albanian ancestry who was "Levitating" up the charts in 2021
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Dua Lipa
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In 1995 this one-named singer rose to the top of the charts with "Kiss From A Rose"
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Seal
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In the late 1980s Susanna Hoffs, Debbi Peterson, Vicki Peterson & Michael Steele had 5 Top 10 hits as this band
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The Bangles
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CZECHS
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2005's "The Rivals" told of the "Epic Duels and Extraordinary Friendship" of Chris Evert & her
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Navratilova
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He had a short term as president of Czechoslovakia before becoming president of the Czech Republic
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Havel
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In the 1890s he moved briefly gs from Prague to New York City, inspiring his best-known symphony
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Dvořák
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This Czech wrote novels like "The Book of Laughter and Forgetting" in exile in France
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Milan Kundera
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King Sigismund of Hungary promised this Czech religious reformer safe passage, then grabbed & burned him
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Jan Hus
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BALANCES
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In Chinese myth these 2 entities attained balance in the "cosmic egg"; the birth of man would follow
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yin & yang
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Also known as "the balance", Libra in the zodiac is sometimes represented by Astraea, the ancient goddess of this
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justice
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The rope wants to spin, so tightrope walkers employ a long pole to increase rotational this
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inertia
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He won his first Pulitzer Prize for his 1966 play "A Delicate Balance"
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Albee
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This 17th century Dutch scientist was among the first to use a balance spring in the design of watches
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Christiaan Huygens
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AWARDS
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N/A
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The Theodore Roosevelt Rough Rider Award honors influential people from this state, including Western author Louis L'Amour
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North Dakota
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