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HIGHWAYS & BYWAYS
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Opened by the king in 1924, Italy's Autostrada dei Laghi or motorway of these can get you to some famous ones like Varese & Maggiore
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lakes
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Dalal Street in Mumbai is to India what this street is to the U.S.; dalal means "a broker"
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Wall Street
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Aviles Street in this Florida city claims the title of oldest street in the nation
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St. Augustine
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Gulag labor was used to build this 7,000-mile highway with the same name as a famous railroad
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the Trans-Siberian Highway
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Known for shopping & architecture, this Edinburgh street was named for two sons of King George III
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Princes Street
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THERE'S AN ANIMAL IN THAT TITLE
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By Hans Christian Andersen: "The Ugly ____ "
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Duckling
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A thriller about an assassin: "The Day of the ____"
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Jackal
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By Steinbeck: "The Red ____ "
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Pony
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Set in India & the basis for a 2021 film: "The White ____"
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Tiger
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A 1971 sequel: "____ Redux"
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Rabbit
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BROOM SERVICE
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A common species of this plant, seen here, is called windswept or broom
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moss
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This segment of "Fantasia" finds Mickey Mouse getting more than he bargained for when he uses magic on a broom
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The Sorcerer\'s Apprentice
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Running for pres. of this South American country, Janio da Silva Quadros used a broom as a symbol of his pledge to sweep out corruption
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Brazil
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$800
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Some players prefer hoghair or horsehair brooms for sweeping in this sport; others favor synthetic ones
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curling
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$1000
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This African-American wedding tradition was featured in the miniseries "Roots"
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jumping the broom
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MUSICAL STYLES & GENRES
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Popular groups in this genre from Asia include SuperM &, of course, BTS
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K-pop
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Seattle was the birthplace of this alternative rock style popularized in the early 1990s
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grunge
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A symbol of pride & culture, it's the Mexican style of music heard here
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mariachi
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$800
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Ma Rainey & Bessie Smith were among the first women to record music in this genre
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blues
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Pioneers of this jazz style included Dizzy Gillespie & Thelonious Monk
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bebop
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PUTTING THE CARBS
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Apples, lentils & brown rice provide vitamins & minerals as this complex carb; you use a different form to crisp up shirts
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starch
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$400
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Barley up to the bar! A12-ounce can of this type of beverage can have 13 grams of carbs
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beer
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$600
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It's not surprising there are plenty of carbs in the post cereal called "Honey" these 3 words
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Bunches of Oats
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$800
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It's not traditionally eaten for breakfast, but bacon & eggs go into this dish that even has "carb" in its name
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carbonara
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In an ad, young Molly Ringwald hawked this fruit, "nature's candy", but didn't say 1/4 cup had about 33 grams of carbs!
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raisins
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BEFORE THE HORSE
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Good things are in store for you today after you realize it's a forecast of astrology
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horoscope
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Look far off into the distance & see it's from the Greek for "boundary"
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horizon
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This Mexican delight is sort of a drinkable rice pudding
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horchata
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$800
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Harold Lloyd & Jay-Z had at least this eyewear in common
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horn-rimmed glasses
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It's the fancier term for clockmaker
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horologists
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NOTABLE PEOPLE
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Describing one of her diamond jubilee celebrations in 1897, she said, "No one ever, I believe, has met with such an ovation"
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Queen Victoria
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Like her sister Parthenope who was named for Naples, this founder of modern nursing was named for the city of her birth
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(Florence) Nightingale
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On her death in 2005, this civil rights activist became the first woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol
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Rosa Parks
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It's the last name of sir William, who discovered a planet, & his sister Caroline, the first woman to discover a comet
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Herschel
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This Swiss man was the "father of analytic psychology"
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(Carl) Jung
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SCIENCE
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This subfamily of grasses typically found in Asia can grow as much as a foot a day & reach 130 feet high
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bamboo
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With a high level of charged particles, this atmospheric layer that begins about 30 miles up makes radio possible
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the ionosphere
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She made important discoveries in Tanzania's Olduvai Gorge
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(Mary) Leakey
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$1600
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Aqua fortis is an old name for this corrosive liquid, HNO3
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nitric acid
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$2000
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With a name from Greek for "hedgehog" & "skin", this phylum of marine animals includes starfish & sea urchins
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echinoderms
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COUNTRY NICKNAMES
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Iceland is "the land of" these 2 things also mentioned in a George R.R. Martin series
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ice & fire
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$800
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Indonesia has been dubbed the "Emerald" of this great circle
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the equator
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Canada's nickname has these 2 words before "North"
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Great White
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$1600
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Don't be sad; this country is known as "India's teardrop"
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Sri Lanka
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Engulfed by Bolivia, Argentina & Brazil, this country is nicknamed "the island surrounded by land"
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Paraguay
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ARE YOU SMARTER THAN A 1905 5th GRADER?
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Current events: Bloody Sunday just broke out in this country, outside the Winter Palace, no less!
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Russia
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Geography: It's the largest state in the union by area
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Texas
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Social studies: It first appeared in "The Youth's Companion" only 13 years ago in 1892 & we say it in class every day
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the Pledge of Allegiance
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World Powers: This empire stretches from North Africa to southeastern Europe & well into the Middle East
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the Ottoman Empire
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Reading: This O. Henry story about a poor couple at Christmastime makes a good read in the New York Sunday World
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"The Gift of the Magi"
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CHILD ACTORS
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Millicent Simmonds, co-star of "A Quiet Place II", suffered permanent loss of this as a baby
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hearing
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A working actor to this day, Henry Thomas was 10 when he filmed this Spielberg classic
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E.T.
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McKenna Grace played preteen geniuses in the movie "Gifted" & opposite young Iain Armitage on this sitcom
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Young Sheldon
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"The Boys" is a memoir of child actorhood by Clint Howard (Mark on "Gentle Ben") & his brother Ron (Opie on this show)
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The Andy Griffith Show
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Miami-area kid Alex R. Hibbert played the child Chiron in this 2016 Oscar-winning movie set in that city
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Moonlight
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FROM P TO Y
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Another word for prison
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penitentiary
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$800
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In the 1960s feminists defined this as a system designed to keep women down, hence the need to smash it
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the patriarchy
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It's the pseudoscience of examining the shape of the head to determine intelligence & character
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phrenology
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Another word for treachery
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perfidy
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This fancy word meaning invested with full authority is included in the title "ambassador extraordinary &..."
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plenipotentiary
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PLAY CHARACTERS
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N/A
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A 1949 review noted the "wrong formulas for success" of this character & "fatal misconceptions about his place in the scheme of things"
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Willy Loman
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