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WHICH CABINET DEPARTMENT?
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$200
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The Federal Railroad Administration
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Transportation
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$400
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The Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service
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Agriculture
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$600
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The Alcohol & Tobacco Tax & Trade Bureau
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the Treasury Department
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$800
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The Mine Safety & Health Administration
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Labor
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$1000
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Energy
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HAND-Y RESPONSES
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Alliterative term for easily handled eats like cut vegetables & cheese
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finger foods
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Entwining of digits to seal a deal, often by kids
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a pinky promise
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$600
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As seen here, this unpredictable pitch is actually gripped with the fingertips
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a knuckleball
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$800
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The European fan type is one of the few of these trees native to that continent
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a palm tree
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$1000
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An investment fund with a portfolio that tracks a group of stocks such as the S&P 500 companies
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an index fund
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A PLAYER TO BE NAMED RIGHT NOW
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On Sept. 23, 2001 Drew Bledsoe of the Patriots was injured & this man became first-string QB; Drew's playing time then decreased a bit
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Tom Brady
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This 14-time All-Star & one-time highest-paid Major Leaguer joined the ESPN broadcast team in 2018
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Alex Rodriguez
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$600
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Oi! Oi! Oi! Robert Flower of Melbourne could be my wingman anytime with 315 goals in a hall of fame career in this rough sport
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Australian rules football
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$800
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In March 2021 she testified on gender discrimination to a House committee; in April, she scored on a penalty kick for the U.S. vs. Sweden
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Megan Rapinoe
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One of his incredible NHL seasons was 1983-84, with 87 goals & 118 assists for Edmonton
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Gretzky
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MY SINGLE JUST DROPPED
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This violet-eyed "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" actress left the single life in 1950, & 1952, 1957, 1959, 1964, 1975, 1976 & 1991
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(Elizabeth) Taylor
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Perhaps a toast was not made when this woman married David Nation in 1874 & her single was back on the charts after a 1901 divorce
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Carrie Nation
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1895 was a big year for this man; he defended his thesis on magnetism & was drawn to wed Marie Sklodowska, also a towering intellect
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Curie
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This pair, a novelist & a poet, ran off together in July 1814 but didn't marry until December 30, 1816
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Mary Shelley & Percy Shelley
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Portugal's King Afonso V was a possible husband for this woman but she coupled up with the future king of Aragon in 1469
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Isabella
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RAIN
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A 1979 tropical storm set the lower 48 record for rainfall, dumping 42 inches in 24 hours near Galveston Bay in this state
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Texas
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For acid rain, the EPA says this measure is about 4.3
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pH
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$600
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In Arizona, the months of June to September are referred to as this season with heavy rain, high winds & flash flooding
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monsoon season
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$800
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Heavy rains made a dam collapse, causing this 1889 disaster in Pennsylvania
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the Johnstown Flood
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For big raindrops, this fatal-sounding top speed reached at equilibrium between gravity & air resistance can approach 25 mph
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terminal velocity
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YOUR PARADE
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Savannah has the South's biggest of these March parades with lots of folks dressed in green
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St. Patrick\'s Day
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In August 1929 this city's Defender newspaper began its Bud Billiken Parade, the largest African-American parade in the United States
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Chicago
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$600
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FTD has been affiliated with this annual parade for more than 60 years
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the Rose Parade
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$800
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Lighted vessels cruise the Columbia & Willamette Rivers for this Northwest city's annual Christmas Ships Parade
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Portland
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$1000
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This Philadelphia New Year's parade is named for its costumed entertainers, a tradition dating to Ancient Egypt
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the Mummers Parade
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LIT IN THE FUTURE TENSE
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In 2014's "Station Eleven" most of Earth has been wiped out by a strain of this infectious disease
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flu
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"1984" is set in the pretend country Oceania & in the made-up province Airstrip One, but in this actual city
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London
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Nexus-6 is a type of artificial human in "Do Androids Dream of" these
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Electric Sheep
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$1600
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Set in 2021, this P.D. James novel centers on an outbreak of mass infertility in a world descending into chaos
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Children of Men
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In her novella "Anthem", humanity has entered a dark age of collectivism where using the word "I" is punishable by death
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(Ayn) Rand
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ISLANDS
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One year before Napoleon's birth, this island was transferred from Italian to French ownership
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Corsica
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Only about 3 miles divide Little & Big Diomede, but this line runs between, hence the nicknames Yesterday Island & Tomorrow Island
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the International Date Line
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Carnival in this 5-letter Mediterranean island nation is celebrated with a sword dance called the parata
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Malta
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Scattered over 300,000 square miles, the CSI, this colorful sea's islands, have a land area of less than 2 square miles
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the Coral Sea
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The 15-mile-long King Faud Causeway links this island to Saudi Arabia
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Bahrain
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REAL PEOPLE ON FILM
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The film named for this type of early 20th century feminist featured Meryl Streep as Emmeline Pankhurst
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suffragette
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$800
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Joseph Fiennes played the bard as a young playwright struggling to establish himself in this 1998 film
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Shakespeare in Love
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$1200
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In this film Gary Oldman played the punk rock bassist for the Sex Pistols, who lived fast & died young
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Sid and Nancy
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This actor played Wladyslaw Szpilman in "The Pianist", a film about a Jewish musician struggling to survive in the Warsaw ghetto
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(Adrien) Brody
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Leo DiCaprio took to the skies as Howard Hughes in "The Aviator" with this actress playing Katharine Hepburn
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Cate Blanchett
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LESSER-KNOWN COMPOSERS
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Cecilia Bartoli unearths arias by obscure composers Vinci & Steffani on her 2020 album "Queen of" this 17th c. musical era
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Baroque
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Jan Sweelinck put his best foot forward as the first composer to write independent parts for these features of the organ
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the pedals
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Florence Price based her "Fantasy Negre No. 1" on "Sinner, Please Don't Let This Harvest Pass", this type of folk hymn
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a spiritual
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In 1844, before this brass woodwind was even patented, Jean-Georges Kastner used it in his opera "The Last King of Judah"
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the saxophone
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In 1968 Georgy Sviridov succeeded his mentor, this other "S" composer, in the top job in the Soviet musical bureaucracy
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Shostakovich
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ECONOMY SIZE
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Simon Kuznets' work laid the foundation for this measure, the total market value of a country's annual output
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GDP (GNP)
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This "imperceptible" term is used for unseen forces within a market economy that balance self-interest with the benefit of the whole
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the invisible hand
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As head of this body from 2011 to 2019, Christine Lagarde called on countries to have more flexible exchange rates
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the IMF
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This much, much longer follow-up to "The Communist Manifesto" was subtitled "A Critique of Political Economy"
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Das Kapital
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To discuss commerce, development & other issues, the World Economic Forum holds its annual inter meetings in this Swiss town
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Davos
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"A"NTONYMS
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Of present & accounted for
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absent
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In math, of obtuse
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acute
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Of take the throne
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to abdicate
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$1600
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Of clear, having only one possible meaning
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ambiguous (ambivalent)
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In musical chords, of diminished
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augmented
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THE 1950s
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N/A
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The first TV debate between presidential candidates of the same party involved him & future running mate Estes Kefauver
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Adlai Stevenson
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