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THE MUPPET MOVIE
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$200
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Architect of lyrics Hammerstein & man of architecture Niemeyer
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Oscar
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$400
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Hello, Cleveland! & Hello, anti-tax activist Norquist too!
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Grover
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$600
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Saldana & Kazan, acting the parts
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Zoe
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$800
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Blyleven & Campaneris, because our writers absolutely love old-school baseball
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Bert
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$1000
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World War II journalist Pyle & "Ghostbuster" Hudson
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Ernie
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MEDICAL HISTORY
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$200
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Daniel Fahrenheit invented an alcohol one of these in 1709 & the mercury one 5 years later
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a thermometer
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$400
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It took a while for people to become "stuck on" this brand introduced in 1921, because initially they were 18" long
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Band-Aid
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$600
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In 1928 Alexander Fleming found that mold in a Petri dish had inhibited bacterial growth, leading to this antibiotic
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penicillin
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$800
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An 1880s medical publication talked about Louis Pasteur's treatment for this
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rabies
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$1000
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Ernst Gräfenberg developed this birth control device that's inserted into the uterus
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an IUD
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YOU PLAYED YOURSELF
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$200
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Told "My dad died about 2 years ago", this man with "Curb" appeal says, "Don't you think the sorry window has closed on that?"
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Larry David
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$400
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Felicity Huffman lent her talents to "FJBA" ("Felicity Huffman's Booty Academy"), a TV show within this animated "equine" TV show
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BoJack Horseman
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$600
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Bottom line, "JCVD" was the role he was born to play but in the film, he loses a part to Steven Seagal
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Jean-Claude Van Damme
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$800
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David Bowie judged the walkoff between male models played by Ben Stiller & Owen Wilson in this comedy
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Zoolander
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$1000
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Keep up! In "Ocean's 12" she played Tess, who in a meta turn, faked being her to help in a heist
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Julia Roberts
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I WANT 2 B
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$200
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Poor Bart Simpson has been writing on one after school for over 30 years
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a blackboard
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$400
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This word for brief praise on a book cover like "Jillian Turbo-Smythe is a master of suspense!" dates back to 1907
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a blurb
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$600
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A child's toy, or a showy trinket that's of little actual use
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a bauble
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$800
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This modern jazz style originated in the 1940s
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bebop
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$1000
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It is both a scarf bought in Moscow & a grandmother who might wear one
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babushka
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A PART OF IT
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$200
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Vodka, cranberry juice, lime juice, triple sec & an orange twist! How worldly, or rather, how this, the name of the drink
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a cosmopolitan
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$400
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Google is this to Alphabet, this being one company owned by another
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a subsidiary
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$600
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Brayan Villarreal threw just 4 pitches for this A.L. team led by David Ortiz in 2013 but got a World Series ring anyway
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the Red Sox
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$800
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The parts of this lowest section of your brain are the midbrain, the pons & the medulla oblongata
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the brain stem
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$1000
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The wide-open middle part of a barn is called this, like the central spot in a church where worshippers gather
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the nave
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NEW JERSEY, NEW JERSEY
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$200
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Hey, this Ivy League school, what exit? It moved from Elizabeth to Newark before finding its final home in 1756
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Princeton
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$400
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Traffic is tricky on this bridge across the Hudson from Jersey to New York, so a lower deck with 6 more lanes was finished in 1962
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the George Washington Bridge
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$600
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This singer who is Jersey all the way brought Richie Sambora into his self-named band
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Bon Jovi
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$800
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You can land on St. James Place, Pacific Avenue or Vermont Avenue in this oceanfront resort city
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Atlantic City
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$1000
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In 2021 he became the first Democrat re-elected Jersey's gov. since Brendan Byrne in 1977; maybe an arena will be named for him
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Phil Murphy
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ESCAPIST LITERATURE
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$400
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"The Wooden Horse" by Eric Williams is the fact-based story of escaping Stalag Luft III, this type of place
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a POW camp
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$800
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10 young people tell stories to pass the time in "The Decameron" while escaping the black death engulfing this city
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Florence
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$1200
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George & Eliza make it safely to Canada after escaping the Shelby plantation in this 1852 novel
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Uncle Tom\'s Cabin
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$1600
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In "Great Expectations" , the escaped convict Abel Magwitch is revealed to be this character's benefactor
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Pip
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$2000
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The displaced title man escapes being put to death in this 1889 novel by accurately predicting a solar eclipse
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur\'s Court
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MURALS
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$400
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Following his & daughter Gianna's tragic deaths in 2020, dozens of murals in tribute showed up all around Los Angeles
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Kobe Bryant
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$800
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Thomas Hart Benton's "Independence and the Opening of the West" adorns the lobby of this man's Independence, Missouri library
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Truman
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$1200
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Relocated to Washington, D.C., Marvin Beerbohm's "Automotive Industry" mural was originally created for a public library in this city
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Detroit
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$1600
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Boogie on over to the Barnes Foundation to see the work called "The Dance" by this French leader of the Fauvist movement
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Matisse
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$2000
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A fresco uncovered in Pompeii shows her being seduced by what appears to be a swan
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Leda
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INTERNATIONAL CARS
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$400
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This Italian company took over Chrysler in 2009
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Fiat
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$800
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The 300 SL model from this German automaker featured gull-wing doors
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Mercedes
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$1200
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Japan's Nissan Corp. phased out this brand in 1981, then brought it back in 2012
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Datsun
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$1600
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Tata Motors is this Asian nation's largest auto company
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India
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$2000
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This car was first imported to the U.S. in the 1980s; the factory that made them was destroyed by NATO bombing in 1999
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a Yugo
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WORLD HISTORY
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$400
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The Latin for fief, a vassal's domain, gave this political & social system of Europe's middle ages its name
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feudalism
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$800
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During a forced exile, he wrote "The Prince" & began his "Discourses on Livy"
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Machiavelli
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$1200
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In the 1950s riots broke out between the Tamils & Sinhalese after Sinhala was made this country's sole official language
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Sri Lanka
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$1600
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This 12th century warrior who battled the Crusaders was known as "The Chivalrous Saracen"
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Saladin
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$2000
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The first great land battle of the Hundred Years' War was the 1346 battle of this village in northern France
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the Battle of Crécy
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7-LETTER ANAGRAMS
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$400
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A term for any snake & a tense in grammar
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serpent & present
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$800
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Made someone aware of danger & changed something
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alerted & altered
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$1200
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Using too many words & to watch
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verbose & observe
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$1600
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Something that can cause itchy eyes & a place to view art
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gallery & allergy
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$2000
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A building for a legislature & having to do with vision
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capitol & optical
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DEEP CUTS
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$400
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Would you spin your chair for this country star's "You'll Always Be Beautiful", off the "Hillbilly Bone" EP?
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Blake Shelton
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$800
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"Viva La Vida" was the title track for this band in 2008; the album also featured a visit to "Cemeteries Of London"
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Coldplay
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$1200
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Discover "Exactly How I Feel" on "Cuz I Love You" by this rap & R&B singer who needs but one name
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Lizzo
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$1600
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"Some Unholy War" is waged on "Back To Black" by this soulful British singer
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Amy Winehouse
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$2000
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Of course "Motherboard" was part of this duo's "Random Access Memories"
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Daft Punk
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AWARDS AROUND THE WORLD
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N/A
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France's national theater award, it's named for a man who died in Paris in 1673
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the Molière Award
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