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FLICK PICS
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It's a set of personal goals
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a The Bucket List
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Nic Cage by the Bay--pun intended
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The Rock
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A 1980s road trip
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
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This 2011 film got all A's
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Moneyball
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Love and song in Montmartre
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Moulin Rouge
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NAVAL CONFLICT
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In 394 B.C. Conon the Athenian found what is best in life, crushing the fleet of this rival city-state
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Sparta
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On Oct. 21, 1805 this admiral was felled by a French sniper's bullet on the Victory, his flagship
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Admiral Nelson
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In Sept. 1779 this Bonhomme Richard commander began to fight with the Brit ship Serapis; he won, but at the cost of his vessel
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John Paul Jones
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On August 2, 1964 North Vietnamese torpedo boats fired on the Maddox, a U.S. destroyer, in this body of water
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the Gulf of Tonkin
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Octavian cut the communications of this fellow second triumvirate member & handed him a big L at the Battle of Actium
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Mark Antony
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GREEK LETTERS, ROMAN NUMERALS
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The Dog Whisperer says, "There is usually one" this Greek letter "couple, a male & a female, that lead the whole pack"
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alpha
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LXXII divided by IX equals this (either number system acceptable)
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8
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"Love of learning is the guide of life" is the motto of this academic honor society
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Phi Beta Kappa
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This Greek letter shares a spelling with the body's vital life force
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chi
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The luxury luggage monogram that came out of 1 rue Scribe in Paris equals this in our numbers
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55
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KID LIT
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Books by Mo Willems implore, "Don't Let" this creature "Stay Up Late!" or "Drive the Bus!"
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the Pigeon
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A librarian named Mrs. Phelps is the first to really see how special this Roald Dahl title girl is
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Matilda
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This novel begins with a minister, his wife & their 4 kids shipwrecked on an island in the East Indies
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The Swiss Family Robinson
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The tale of this title mister, gifted with a penguin from the zoo, was written in & set during the 1930s
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Mr. Popper
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Her picture books include "Barnyard Dance!" & "Moo, Baa, La La La!"
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(Sandra) Boynton
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6-LETTER ADVERBS
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Coming before "departed", this word begins an alliterative idiom referring to the recently deceased
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dearly
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Often found on prescriptions, P.O. means a medicine should be taken this way
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orally
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The Latin adverb semper translates to this other 6-letter adverb
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always
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Old-timey adverb that can follow "come" & precede "yon"
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hither
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This good-natured adverb is repeated in the name of a "Guys and Dolls" character
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nicely
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THE LYIN' IN WINTER
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We used to walk 8 miles in the snow between Minneapolis & this capital city to get to school at Concordia University
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St. Paul
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In the Himalayas, you bet we saw the big creature of myth who got this anglicized name from a journalist in the '20s; no pics though
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the Abominable Snowman
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Hard to believe we just beat Dan Jansen's 1994 gold medal-winning time in the 1,000 meters in this sport
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speed skating
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We snowmobiled all the way up this alphanumeric mountain, all 28,251 feet of it! Then played some Yahtzee at the peak
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K2
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We would've given our beloved mail carrier a Mercedes to observe this day, December 26, but federal law maxes single gifts at $20
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Boxing Day
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COUNTRIES ON THE EQUATOR
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This river reaches the Atlantic Ocean at the equator near Macapá, Brazil
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the Amazon
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Ecuador takes its name from "equator" & this capital city is just south of the line
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Quito
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Neighboring nations on the equator, a republic & a democratic republic are both named for this African river
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the Congo
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The equator bisects this large mostly Indonesian island that's called Kalimantan by locals
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Borneo
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The equator passes between the islands of this "K" country of the Pacific
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Kiribati
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PLANETARY TALK
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A scarcity of something; we'll spot you the "D"
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dearth
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The leaves of this reopen about 10 days after catching a meal
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a Venus flytrap
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It's rule by the wealthiest
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plutocracy
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A sweet wine used to cook with chicken or veal
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marsala
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An ancient Roman orgy
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saturnalia
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OUR AVIAN FRIENDS
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The claw of a bird of prey is known as one of these, from the Latin for "ankle bone"
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a talon
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The adjective "pinnate" means having the shape of one of these bird features
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a feather
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A gorget is a patch of distinctive color on this part of certain birds like hummingbirds
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the throat
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Cobs & pens are the terms for the adult males & females of this species
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swans
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Like our hair & fingernails, a bird's beak is made out of this fibrous protein
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keratin
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TV MOMS
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Lauren Graham was 30-something single mom Lorelai on this series
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Gilmore Girls
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Here are the stars who all play moms with secrets on this HBO series
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Big Little Lies
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Rebecca Pearson is mom to Kate, Kevin & Randall on this drama
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This is Us
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As Endora, veteran actress Agnes Morehead often mocked her mortal son-in-law Darrin & called him Durwood on this '60s comedy
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Bewitched
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This actress whose mom is a Motown legend plays mom Rainbow Johnson on "black-ish"
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Tracee Ellis Ross
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LOST
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In Matthew 18, Jesus tells the parable of the lost this, which strays from the flock
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sheep
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The 442nd Regimental Combat Team, Americans of this ethnicity, rescued a "lost battalion" from the Germans during World War II
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Japanese(-Americans)
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Before he lost his head, this Elizabethan poet & adventurer founded the Lost Colony of Roanoke in North Carolina
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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John Dos Passos & Archibald MacLeish were among the 1920s writers known collectively as this
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the Lost Generation
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The body of this English climber who went missing on Everest in 1924 was finally discovered in 1999
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George Mallory
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4 WORDS
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Since 1957 the Truman Library has displayed the desk sign with this 4-word phrase
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the buck stops here
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This 4-word phrase occurs 8 times in a landmark 1963 speech
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I have a dream
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In Genesis 1:3, "and God said" these 4 words, & there was
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Let there be light
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Maya Angelou found inspiration in the Paul Laurence Dunbar poem that concludes, "I know why" these 4 words
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the caged bird sings
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The Constitution begins, "We the people of the United States, in order to form" this
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a more perfect Union
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18th CENTURY HISTORY
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The stated aim of this period was using violence to achieve political goals; its success aided in its demise in under a year
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the Reign of Terror
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