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BIG TEN GEOGRAPHY
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The Hawkeyes' home is this 2-word town
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Iowa City
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This Illinois city was originally called West Urbana; here's to it, so say we all!
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Champaign
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They're the westernmost & the easternmost Big Ten Schools; the westerners are 5-0 in the football rivalry
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Nebraska & Rutgers
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Named for an explorer, this Big Ten capital city is at the junction of the Olentangy & Scioto rivers
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Columbus
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Home to a Big Ten school, this state capital was named for a president who died in the year of its founding, 1836
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Madison, Wisconsin
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COMMON COMMODITIES
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It hit an all-time high in August 2020, when it was trading at more than $2,000 an ounce
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gold
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In 2011 trading ended in these "bellies", a symbol in pop culture of Chicago's arcane commodities trading world
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pork bellies
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NG on your ticker stands for this, a nonrenewable hydrocarbon
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natural gas
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Brazil is the leading producer of these legumes, a top commodity that's exported to China
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soybeans
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On the periodic table Hg stands for mercury, but in commodities HG stands for this, a good conductor of electricity
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copper
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THE DISNEY LADY SINGS
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"Belle", performed by Paige O'Hara
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Beauty and the Beast
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"Someday My Prince Will Come", performed by Adriana Caselotti
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Snow White (and the Seven Dwarfs)
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"How Far I'll Go", performed by Auli'i Cravalho
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Moana
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"Once Upon A Dream", performed by Mary Costa
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Sleeping Beauty
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"When Will My Life Begin?", performed by Mandy Moore
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Tangled
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KINDS OF CARE
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In 2021 a staffing shortage at these places led to a wider labor shortfall as parents of babies & toddlers had to stay home
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daycare facilities
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It's when you tend to you; goop.com ran a piece on it "For the Cubicle-Bound"
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self-care
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Respite care gives short-term relief to primary these, a word that begins with "care"
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caregivers
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Opened by emergency physicians starting in the 1970s, in the U.S. these clinics now number more than 10,000
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urgent care clinics
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An HMO is a type of MCO, short for this organization concerned with keeping costs down
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managed care organizations
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A FEW COLORFUL WORDS
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In addition to a shade of red, it can refer to a holy man, a bird or a number
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cardinal
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This 3-letter word follows "golden" in a lustrous type of paper
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rod
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Aubergine means eggplant or something of this color
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purple
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Also the name of a big brown potato variety, this 6-letter word refers to a brownish color
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russet
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In heraldry, this word means "silver" or simply "white" & is the color of the unicorn here
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argent
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LAST LINE OF A SHAKESPEARE PLAY
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Act II of this play ends, "My Regan counsels well; come out o' the storm"
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King Lear
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This title character declares,"He shall have every day a several greeting, or I'll unpeople Egypt
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Cleopatra
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Act I of this play concludes with, "The motion's good indeed and be it so, Petruchio, I shall be your Ben Venuto"
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The Taming of the Shrew
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Fortinbras ends act V & this play with "Go, bid the soldiers shoot"
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Hamlet
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Stephano tells him, "O brave monster! Lead the way"
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Caliban
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AFRICAN EMPIRES
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From the 200s to the 800s, the Ethiopian kingdom of Aksum dominated the southwest coast of this "colorful" sea
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the Red Sea
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Legend says the Shona capital of Great Zimbabwe was once the home of this biblical queen
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the Queen of Sheba
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The Punic Wars were punitive to this North African empire, destroyed in 146 B.C.
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Carthage
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This fabled trading city of the medieval Malian Empire was home to 25,000 Islamic scholars
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Timbuktu
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In ancient times, Nubia had this 4-letter name & it's an easy job to remember it
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Kush
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THAT INVENTION IS ELECTRIC
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In may 1958 an electronics tinkerer & a doctor kept a dog's heart going with a gizmo they called tiknik & this device was born
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a pacemaker
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Jack Cover read about a man who survived walking into an electric fence & as a result, police use these devices
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tasers
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The advocacy of John Counsell, who suffered a spinal injury in the 1942 Dieppe Raid, led to the 1st electric one in the 1950s
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a wheelchair
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In 1859 Gaston Planté developed "the accumulator", a world-changing one of these found in many cars today
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a battery
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In the 1830s Joseph Henry invented this 5-letter device used in telegraphs; he used it to send lunch orders from his lab to his home
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the relay
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BEFORE SHE WAS FIRST LADY
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She was the first woman to become a partner at the prestigious Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas
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Hillary Rodham
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She appeared on Broadway in "Lute Song" with Yul Brynner & Mary Martin
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Nancy David (Reagan)
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In Missouri, where she grew up, she was an accomplished athlete, excelling in several sports including tennis
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Bess Truman
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Prior to her marriage she was a teacher & school librarian in Texas
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Laura Bush
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His wife, the former Lou Henry, was one of the first women in the U.S. to earn a geology degree
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Herbert Hoover
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HOW PUNGENT!
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A ferocious X-Man would be less cool if we knew him as "Skunk Bear", this mammal with a nasty odor
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wolverine
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Indonesians call the titan arum "bunga bangkai", meaning this dead body "flower"; it can grow 6 fragrant inches a day
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a corpse
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John Goodman's Sulley gives Mike his choice of odorants--old dumpster, smelly garbage or wet dog--in this film
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Monsters, Inc.
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That rotten egg smell can happen when sulfur, this biblical substance used to torment sinners, combines with hydrogen
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brimstone
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Ig Nobel prize-winning work showed that a malaria mosquito was drawn to the smell of this German cheese & human feet, equally
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Limburger
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TV CATCHPHRASES
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Oft spoken on this series: "The tribe has spoken"
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Survivor
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On "Game of Thrones", Ygritte told this character, "You know nothing"
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Jon Snow
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On "Star Trek: The Next Generation", this group warned, "Resistance is futile"
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the Borg
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This 3-word catchphrase gives audience members the chance to play on "The Price Is Right"
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Come on down
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Urkel's catchphrase on "Family Matters" was this question
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Did I do that?
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3-SYLLABLE VERBS
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To dig beneath, or to subvert via nefarious activity
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undermine
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"Mission: Impossible" often said the secretary might do this, deny knowledge of the team's actions
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disavow
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The Latin for "speak against" gives us this verb of refutation
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contradict
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In electronics, it means to increase the current or voltage of something; it can also mean to make anything stronger
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amplify
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This word that ends with violence means to rid of misguided notions
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disabuse
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AWARDS
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N/A
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These awards have a retro version & winners include the novel "The Sword in the Stone" & "The War of the Worlds" radio broadcast
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the Hugo Awards
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