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BILLBOARD TOP 200 ALBUMS IN 2021
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$200
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In 2021 his "Certified Lover Boy" was certified a No. 1 album
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Drake
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$400
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This rapper lived up to his name as "the Creator" of "Call Me If You Get Lost"
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Tyler, the Creator
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$600
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She got a license to drive to No. 1 with "Sour"
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Olivia Rodrigo
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$800
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This R&B w.o.m.a.n. was far from the "Back of My Mind" & close to the top of the chart
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H.E.R.
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$1000
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"The Best of" this Canadian band, "Volume 1" included "Rockstar", "How You Remind Me" & 17 other songs
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Nickelback
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WORLD GEOGRAPHY
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Saudi Arabia has the longest coastline of any country on this sea, about 1,100 miles
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the Red Sea
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$400
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Sunda Kelapa & Batavia are former names of this most populous city in Indonesia
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Jakarta
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$600
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Named for a monarch, this landmark is found on the border between Zambia & Zimbabwe
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Victoria Falls
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$800
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Traveling south from Ghent in this country, St. Ghislain awaits
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Belgium
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$1000
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In October 1869 Nova Scotia recorded a 54-foot tide at Burntcoat Head in this bay
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the Bay of Fundy
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PLACE YOUR FAST FOOD ORDER
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$200
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A Mocha Frappé & a Filet-O-Fish
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McDonald\'s
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$400
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A drumstick & thigh Fill Up Meal & some Extra Crispy tenders
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KFC
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$600
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A Meatball Marinara footlong & an Italian B.M.T. Melt
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Subway
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$800
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Black Pepper Angus Steak & some Beijing Beef
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Panda Express
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$1000
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A Chalupa Supreme & Nachos Bellgrande
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Taco Bell
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DEADLY SINS, ELSEWHERE
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$200
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A lot more than one lawn care service across the U.S. & Canada is called "Green with" this
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Envy
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$400
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In "Wall Street", Michael Douglas informed us that this, "for lack of a better word, is good"
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greed
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$600
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Really leaning into its name, the average this animal travels about 40 yards per day
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a sloth
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$800
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U2 honored Martin Luther King, singing, "Free at last, they took your life, they could not take your" this
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pride
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$1000
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In a Playboy interview, Jimmy Carter said, "I've looked on a lot of women with" this & "committed adultery in my heart"
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lust
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AMERICAN POETRY
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James Merrill's "The Changing Light at Sandover" is conversations he had with the spirit world using one of these boards
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a Ouija board
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$400
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His 1865 poem "O Captain! My Captain!" paid homage to President Lincoln, "fallen cold and dead"
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Whitman
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$600
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In a Marianne Moore poem, "the lost battalion's gallant bird" is one of these title message carriers
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a carrier pigeon
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$800
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In 1987 Gwendolyn Brooks wrote "Winnie" about this South African woman
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Winnie Mandela
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$1000
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Ezra Pound & H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) were leaders of this "ism" in which poems create precise visual pictures
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imagism
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I'LL "PUNCH" YOU
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3-word phrase meaning to do regular work at regular hours, maybe a little too regular
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punching the clock
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$400
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Hotels in St. Louis & in Charleston, South Carolina have been credited with giving this rum drink its name
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Planter\'s Punch
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$600
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It's what you say now & is even on the car company's website; striking another contestant not required
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Punch Buggy
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$800
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The punch in this expression meaning absolutely delighted is Judy's husband
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pleased as punch
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$1000
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To accomplish more than seemed likely based on one's abilities
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punch above one\'s weight
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HISTORY PLAYS
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$400
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Dame Sybil Thorndike was truly a lady made for burning: she played this saintly G.B. Shaw heroine more than 2,000 times on stage
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Joan of Arc
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$800
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Shimon Peres is a character in this J.T. Rogers play, named for a Scandinavian capital & its 1993 peace accords
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Oslo
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$1200
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In 1934 December was an apt month for the Broadway opening of a play about this Penn. place where George Washington was tested
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Valley Forge
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$1600
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In Shakespeare's take on the life of this monarch who died in 1216, he is fatally poisoned by a monk
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King John
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$2000
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This creator of "The Crown" also depicts Elizabeth II onstage, as when she meets with her prime ministers in "The Audience"
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(Peter) Morgan
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SUBTITLES
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$400
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"Angel of the Slums": a biography about this sainted nun
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Mother Teresa
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$800
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"I Want to Believe": the 2008 film sequel based on this TV show
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The X-Files
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$1200
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No worries, "Lion King 3" has this song as its subtitle
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"Hakuna Matata"
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$1600
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"The town of Titipu": this Gilbert & Sullivan operetta
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The Mikado
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$2000
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"Mad About the Boy": Helen Fielding's third novel about her
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Bridget Jones
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PHYSICAL SCIENCE
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$400
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The field of celestial mechanics studies the motions of heavenly bodies, principally under the influence of this force
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gravity
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$800
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Quantum physics explains why these negative particles don't lose energy & crash into a positively charged nucleus
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electrons
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$1200
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Not just the ocean but the solid Earth itself experiences these twice a day, with a maximum amplitude of about 12 inches
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tides
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$1600
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A famous 17th c. experiment used a bell inside a jar in which this had been created to prove that air was needed to transmit sound
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a vacuum
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$2000
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American physicist Willard F. Libby developed the method of dating artifacts via the decay of this isotope of carbon
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carbon-14
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ON THE POLITICAL SPECTRUM
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$400
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Ecological wisdom is one of the "Ten Key Values" of this U.S. political party
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the Green Party
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$800
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This colorful banner, title of a song to the tune of "O Tannenbaum", has symbolized socialism & communism for 150 years
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the red flag
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$1200
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Winston Churchill's best female friend, Violet Bonham Carter was the first woman pres. of this party, the opposite of Winston's
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the Liberal Party
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$1600
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Founded in 1795 the Protestant group called this order holds several parades annually in Northern Ireland
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the Orange Order
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$2000
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In Israel's Sept. 2019 election, this alliance named for the colors of the country's flag won the most seats
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Blue White (Blue & White)
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1950s TELEVISION
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$400
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On a family sitcom set in suburbia, it was the last name of brothers Wally & Theodore, who was better known by a nickname
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Cleaver
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$800
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Practice made perfect for Raymond Burr, seen here around the time he began playing this defense lawyer
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Perry Mason
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$1200
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Nov. 7, 1954 was the premiere date for this show, CBS' answer to "Meet the Press"
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Face the Nation
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$1600
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On radio, this soap opera was all about a minister, but he had been written out when it began a 57-year TV run in 1952
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Guiding Light
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$2000
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Upscale dramas on "Playhouse 90" included this one about ill-fated boxer Mountain McClintock
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"Requiem for a Heavyweight"
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BE VERY QUIET
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$400
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This 4-letter quiet is what "falls over the crowd"
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a hush
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$800
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It's the quiet part of a storm; it's also the first syllable of a quiet song that is meant to induce sleep
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a lull
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$1200
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With a peaceful 4-letter word in the middle, this word in the title of the painting describes the state of the ships
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be calm
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$1600
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When Venice was a republic, its nickname said it was the most this, a 6-letter calm synonym with all "E"s
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serene
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$2000
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Often used of agreements & approvals, this silent word begins & ends with the same letter
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tacit
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SCULPTORS
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N/A
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Los Angeles artist George Stanley sculpted this, first handed out at a private banquet on May 16, 1929
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the Oscar
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