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DANCE PARTY
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At the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, the "Street in Cairo" exhibit helped introduce this exotic dancing to America
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belly dancing
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Curiously, not the Charleston but the shag is this state's official state dance
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South Carolina
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One of the 2 dances that signify a letter in the NATO phonetic alphabet
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(1 of) tango or foxtrot
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This lively music & its accompanying dance have a name from Czech
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polka
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This 2-word dance promoted by Rufus Thomas in a 1970 hit involves "flapping" your arms
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the Funky Chicken
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MAMMALS
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The pachyderms include this mammal whose skin secretes a moistening reddish fluid, which led folks to believe it sweated blood
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a hippopotamus
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Unlike other vertebrates, in mammals this bone is hinged directly to the skull
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the mandible (lower jawbone)
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Most mammals are either placental or these, like the bandicoot
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marsupial
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Mammals believed to be monogamous include beavers, wolves & the dik-dik, a tiny variety of this African animal
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antelope
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In mammals this muscle that aids in respiration separates the heart & the lungs from the abdominal cavity
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the diaphragm
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ALL THE BELLS & WHISTLES
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The last time it was used for its original purpose was to celebrate George Washington's birthday in 1846
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the Liberty Bell
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Idiomatically, "whistling past" this place means putting on a brave face when one is scared
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the graveyard
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In politics of days past, it was a fast-moving tour that kept the candidate on a train
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a whistle stop tour
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You'll get some applause if you know that this is the name for the tongue inside a bell that makes it ring
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a clapper
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Heard here, orchestral chimes are also called these shapely bells
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tubular bells
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NOT AN ANSWER
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A distinctive outfit worn by members of a profession
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a uniform
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From Latin for "praise", it's a laudatory speech for the departed
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a eulogy
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The parent of a lamb
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a ewe
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Strumming this instrument, Einer Bankz has teamed up with hip-hop artists like Chance the Rapper
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a ukulele
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$1000
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This mystical spelling device began as a part of the spiritualism movement
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a ouija board
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"R" TOWN
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In the names of California cities, this Spanish word precedes Cordova, Cucamonga & Mirage
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Rancho
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This capital is about 160 miles north of Vilnius & 160 miles south of Tallinn
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Riga
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With a metro area of more than 13 million, this city is the world's biggest "R" town
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Rio de Janeiro
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On the 18th of April, 1871, the former North U ; Chelsea, Mass. celebrated this new name with a reading of a Longfellow poem
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Revere
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Monet made a series of paintings of this French city's Gothic cathedral
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Rouen
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THE STAGE MANAGER
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This union that began with a 1935 meeting at King Vidor's house, covers Hollywood stage managers like our very own Jimmy McGuire
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the DGA (the Directors Guild of America)
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The iconic role of the stage manager in "Our Town" brought late-in-life Emmy & Tony nominations for this acting legend
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Paul Newman
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A TV stage manager needs to be aware of the responsibilities of all crew members, like the head electrician, also called by this word
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the gaffer
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$800
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Broadway actor Michael Barra plays a stage manager in this 2017 movie about P.T. Barnum
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The Greatest Showman
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One job of a Broadway stage manager is rehearsing understudies for their big break; this understudy got hers in 1954
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Shirley MacLaine
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TITLE WORD PUZZLES
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A Ken Kesey chronicle:FlewCuckoo's Nest
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest
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$800
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This musical about Huck & Jim made safe passage to Broadway:RIVER
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Big River
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$1200
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Vanish, or a 1970s movie comedy:SMUPOKE
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Up in Smoke
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$1600
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A V.C. Andrews novel or a Schubert work:SYM
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an Unfinished Symphony
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A disaster film that could have been called "The Big Chill:TOMORROW DAY
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The Day After Tomorrow
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HISTORIC OFFSPRING
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3 years before his own fatal duel, his son Philip died in another affair of honor a few miles away, using the same guns
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Alexander Hamilton
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His only legitimate heir, a son with Empress Marie-Louise, died in 1832 of tuberculosis
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Napoleon
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An actress & dancer, Winston Churchill's daughter Sarah played this man's love interest in the 1951 musical "Royal Wedding"
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Fred Astaire
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This couple had 2 daughters: Ève, a diplomat, journalist & pianist & Irène, a chemist
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the Curies
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Later known as Lana Peters, his daughter Svetlana defected to the U.S. in 1967 & became a U.S. citizen
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Stalin
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WHEN GOOD ACTORS BREAK BAD
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$400
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It was a nearly impossible mission when he played a vicious killer in "Collateral"
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Tom Cruise
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$800
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In "Battle of the Sexes", Steve Carell won zero love playing this misogynistic tennis star
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Bobby Riggs
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Notoriously virtuous Matt Damon said "Arrivederci!" to several victims as this "Talented" guy in a 1999 film
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Mr. Ripley
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$1600
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This actor who played Atticus Finch later portrayed Josef Mengele in "The Boys from Brazil"
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Gregory Peck
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Morgan Freeman ends up being the kidnapper in this film directed by Ben Affleck
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Gone Baby Gone
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ON THE BEACH
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This world-famous "Beach" is actually a number of smaller beaches, including Kuhio & Kahanamoku
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Waikiki
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$800
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It is estimated that 4% of the sand on beaches in this French region is broken-down shrapnel from D-Day
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Normandy
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Unlike seals, these beach lovers have external ears & can walk on their hind flippers
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sea lions
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Donn Beach named his pioneering tiki bar Don the this, a person who searches for shells & things
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Beachcomber
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During the Vietnam War, U.S. soldiers helped make this country's Pattaya Beach a popular getaway destination
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Thailand
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BOOKS & AUTHORS
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Published in 2021, his first novel "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood" is based on his film
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(Quentin) Tarantino
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This author best remembered for writing about his own "Roots" also co-authored "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"
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Haley
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$1200
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She set her 1927 novel "To the Lighthouse" on the Isle of Skye
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Virginia Woolf
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$1600
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"The Wolf Gift", book 1 in her "Wolf Gift Chronicles", deals with the making of a werewolf, not a vampire
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Anne Rice
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$2000
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Bill O'Reilly subtitled this 2012 alliterative bestseller "The End of Camelot"
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Killing Kennedy
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UKRAINE DROPS
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On Jan. 20, 2009 this fuel began to move again from Russia to a shivering Europe after a Russo-Ukrainian dispute
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natural gas
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Shh! We're in the Monastery of the Caves, founded in the 11th century by St. Anthony & St. Theodosius in this capital
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Kyiv
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About 2 million people live on this 10,000-square-mile peninsula historically part of Ukraine
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the Crimea
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Viktor Yushchenko, seen before & after dioxin poisoning, came to presidential power during this colorful revolution in 2005
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the Orange Revolution
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The western end of this "A"-for-effort sea off Ukraine is called the "Putrid Sea" for its nasty-smelling marshes
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the Sea of Azov
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BEHIND THE DISNEY ATTRACTION
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The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror utilizes technology developed by this company founded in 1853
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the Otis (Company)
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