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AMERICAN HISTORY
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During this period that began in 1920, keg parties weren't for drinking but for the dumping of liquor
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Prohibition
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5 years before his famous ride, Paul Revere made a print depicting this bloody March 5, 1770 event
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the Boston Massacre
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The tracks of the Central Pacific & this railroad met in Utah in 1869
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the Union Pacific
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The "separate but equal" doctrine in the case of plessy v. this judge upheld racial segregation for almost 60 years
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Ferguson
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At the first Thanksgiving in 1621, the Pilgrims shared a feast with these native people of Massachusetts
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the Wampanoag
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SPORTS BY THEIR HONORS
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The Naismith Awards
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(college) basketball
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The Gold Glove & Silver Slugger Awards (both sound like it could be boxing, but it's not)
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baseball
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The Slammy Awards
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WWE
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The Dinah Shore Trophy Award
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(women\'s college) golf
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The Ballon d'Or
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soccer
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SMALL ADJECTIVES
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As an adjective it means lesser in importance; as a noun, it means a child not yet of legal age
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minor
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In nursery rhyme land, it describes Willie Winkie
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wee
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Of limited breadth, like an alley you can barely pass through or a mind that won't admit new ideas
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narrow
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Physically similar to one of Santa's helpers
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elfin
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From a word meaning immeasurably big comes this adjective meaning immeasurably small
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infinitesimal
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2-WORD BOOK TITLES
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"'Oh no, he isn't grown up', Wendy assured her confidently, 'and he is just my size"'; "he" is also the title of the book
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Peter Pan
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Like the autobiographical hero of this novel, just after WWII William Styron was a young southerner living in Brooklyn
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Sophie\'s Choice
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In this William Goldman novel, a graduate student must flee a Nazi & his henchmen
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Marathon Man
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Something is happening here in the barn in this 1945 anti-utopian satire but you don't know what it is, do you, Mr. Jones?
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Animal Farm
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Balnibarbi is a continent & Glumdalclitch, a person, in this 18th century work
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Gulliver\'s Travels
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KICKIN' IT
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You want to cease a foul habit abruptly? Time to "kick it" this "fowl" way
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cold turkey
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A dance kick where you change legs in the air, or a swimming kick used as part of the sidestroke
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a scissors kick
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During a 25-year NFL career, Morten Andersen missed just 10 of 859 of these kicks that follow a successful play
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an extra point
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Also called mawashi geri, this "domicile" kick swings a leg in a semi-circular motion to strike with the foot
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a roundhouse
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Dean Martin sang, "How lucky can one guy be? I kissed her & she kissed me, like the fella once said, ain't that" this?
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a kick in the head
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OLD SCHOOL
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One of several of its colleges, Merton College was founded in 1264 without one Rhodes scholar (as that was a 1902 thing)
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Oxford
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Established in 1505, the university of this Spanish city now uses what was Europe's first tobacco factory as Carmen would know
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Seville
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Known for its work in medicine, this university dates back to 1876 & was originally in downtown Baltimore
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Johns Hopkins
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One of the 7 Sisters colleges, it was founded in 1879 as the Harvard Annex
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Radcliffe
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2 very different things, plexiglass & the artificial blood cell, were invented at this Montreal university founded in 1821
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McGill
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COLORS IN NATURE
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Somewhere over in Australia is this variety of lorikeet, named for its array of colors
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rainbow
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If it's red & it's a corundum, it's this gem
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a ruby
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"Red touch yellow, kill a fellow", so stay clear of the eastern this venomous snake seen here
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an eastern coral snake
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This colorful Atlantic type of tuna is the largest type, weighing as much as 1,500 pounds
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bluefin
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"J" is for this tree that brings a burst of purple to the neighborhood but also a mess
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jacaranda trees
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AROUND THE WORLD
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Italy's longest river, the Po flows about 400 miles from the Alps into this arm of the Mediterranean
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the Adriatic
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The flag of this Southeast Asian nation of 103 million is seen here
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Vietnam
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Norway's main Antarctic research station bears the name of this mythic creature of Scandinavian folklore
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a troll
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11,200-foot Mount Koussi in northern Chad is the highest summit in this area of more than 3 million square miles
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the Sahara Desert
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Founded around 636 A.D., Iraq's chief port city is this one at the southeast end of the country
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Basra
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THE PICKLE BARREL
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A basic recipe for pickles calls for a brine of equal parts water & this acidic liquid, along with salt & seasonings
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vinegar
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Musing on history, Ralph Waldo Emerson wondered why the New World must bear the name of this thieving pickle-dealer
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(Amerigo) Vespucci
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At the 1893 World's Fair, this pickle-maker from Pittsburgh offered souvenir pickle charms to those who visited his booth
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H.J. Heinz
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The cute little pickles seen here go by this French name, meaning "little horns"
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cornichon
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In this Shakespeare play, Trinculo tells King Alonso, "I have been in such a pickle" (meaning drunk) "since I saw you last"
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The Tempest
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LETTERS FROM FAMOUS PEOPLE
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To his brother Orion, Mark Twain wrote of & employed a "new-fangled" one of these made by Remington
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a typewriter
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After introducing rude Charlotte Braun into his comic strip, he let one reader know by letter she wouldn't be around for long
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Charles Schulz
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This Irish poet's great love Maud Gonne addressed him in letters as "My dear Willie"
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William Butler Yeats
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"Never doubt the faithfullest heart", he wrote to his "Immortal Beloved" in an 1812 note
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Beethoven
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Georgia O'Keeffe wrote often to this photographer whom she called "Dearest Duck"
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Alfred Stieglitz
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BACKING BANDS
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2 saxophonists & a trombonist were some of the J.B.'s, who backed up this legend with the same initials
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(James) Brown
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Not exactly a stupid answer, this group originally known as the Hawks took some of "The Weight" off Dylan in the 1960s
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The Band
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The Tennessee Three, the longtime backers for this man, famously went to prison with him in 1968
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Cash
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Despite the name, this group that backed up Frank Zappa was made up of men, not moms
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the Mothers of Invention
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Stevie Ray Vaughan had this rhyming rhythm section
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Double Trouble
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HOMOPHONE TO THE LETTER
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To exist, in the singular
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be
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To use your peepers
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see
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The,en Español
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el
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4-legged palindromic female flock member
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ewe
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Charles Kingsley wrote of "The Sands of" this English river
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Dee
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MODERN WAR
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Called the longest siege of a capital in modern history, the assault on this city lasted from 1992 to 1996
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Sarajevo
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