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MOUNTAINS
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According to a Japanese proverb, "He who climbs" this mountain "once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool"
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Mount Fuji
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Ben Nevis in this country is the highest mountain of the British Isles
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Scotland
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$600
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Bring a chair and enjoy the view of this famous mountain that overlooks Cape Town
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Table Mountain
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$800
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These 2 highest mountains of Hawaii with similar names differ in height by just over 100 feet
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Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea
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Referring to its shape, this peak on which Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue stands has a name meaning "hunchback"
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Mount Corcovado
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FRENCH COOKING TERMS
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Bavarois, a creamy custard, refers to a region in this country
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Germany
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"À la meunière" is cooking in the tradition of this worker's wife; she would have had access to a bunch of flour
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a miller\'s wife
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$600
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From a French word meaning "to scrape" we get this term for a preparation of breadcrumbs & cheese
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a gratin
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$800
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A silent "X" comes at the end of this sautéed vegetable mix seen here, thought to be named for a duke whose cook popularized it
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a mirepoix
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Place your steak in a sealed bag in heated water & you're cooking like the pros via this "under vacuum" method
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sous vide
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3-LETTER INITIALISMS
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Big Blue is the nickname of this Fortune 500 company
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IBM
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The emoji seen here is commonly used in place of this exclamation of astonishment that actually goes back to the early 1900s
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OMG (Oh, my God)
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$600
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The electric i4 is one of its ultimate driving machines
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BMW
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$800
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Garmin is a leader in this technology that keeps you on track, wherever you go
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GPS
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$1000
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Managed by Caltech for NASA, this facility was originally created in the 1930s for rocket research
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the JPL (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
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PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME
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Ulysses' angry tirades
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Grant\'s rants
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Gerald's bladed weapons
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Ford\'s swords
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$600
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Eisenhower's scares
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Ike\'s yikes (Dwight\'s frights)
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$800
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Jimmy's official founding documents
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Carter\'s charters
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$1000
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William Howard's vertical gold mine passages
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Taft\'s shafts
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FROM BOOK TO TV
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In this novel & the TV series based on it, Beth Harmon pictures a chessboard on the ceiling above her in bed at night
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The Queen\'s Gambit
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A nonfiction book subtitled "The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" inspired this HBO series
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Boardwalk Empire
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$600
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Tony Hale plays the rich benefactor who recruits a group of gifted orphans to take part in this "Mysterious" society
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The Mysterious Benedict Society
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$800
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John Cusack & Zoe Kravitz played the record store owner in the film & TV adaptations of this novel by Nick Hornby
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High Fidelity
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This 2021 miniseries based on a Beth Macy book goes from big pharma boardrooms to the struggles of opioid addicts
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Dopesick
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PHRASE FARMING
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You'll be waitin' a mighty long time, or "'til" this idiomatic return of certain bovines
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until the cows come home
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Judging good against bad is "separating" these 2 threshed farm items
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the wheat from the chaff
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This porcine phrase means you're being offered something but its real value is being hidden
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a pig in a poke
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$800
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"Resist placing each of one's ova within a single receptacle" is another way to put this phrase of warning
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don\'t put all your eggs in one basket
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An Apple commercial where a rural fellow finds a lost iPhone is a reference to this idiom
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finding a needle in a haystack
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THE IDEAS OF MARCH
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$800
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In 1918 Congress thought March 31 was the moment to first spring forward to this
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daylight savings time
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$1200
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Folks in what's now this state thought March 2, 1836 was a good day to declare independence from Mexico
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Texas
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$1600
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The government of Reza Pahlavi chose March 21, 1935 as the day for changing the country's name from this to this
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Persia to Iran
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$2000
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To him, at his aunt's farm in Massachusetts, March 16, 1926 was the right time to launch the first liquid-fueled rocket
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Goddard
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Y IS THE SECOND LETTER
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Deposits of this mineral make up the white sands of White Sands National Park
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gypsum
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$1600
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In Matthew 2:11 it's presented as a gift, along with gold & frankincense
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myrrh
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$2000
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From the Latin for "viper", it's a dragon used in heraldry, like the image seen here
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a wyvern
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BIOGRAPHIES
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Jennet Conant's "A Covert Affair" tells of this female chef's time in the OSS, the forerunner of the CIA
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Julia Child
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$1600
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This man, considered by some Britain's greatest soldier is the focus of the biography subtitled "The Iron Duke"
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the Duke of Wellington
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William Feaver does some psychoanalyzing in his 2-volume "The Lives of" this British artist who died in 2011
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Lucian Freud
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TOWERS
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The Elizabeth Tower in London houses this large bell
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Big Ben
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$800
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About 1,200 feet, the Fernsehturm TV Tower in this capital was built in the 1960s to showcase the socialist system
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Berlin
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$1200
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Constructed in 1348, the 220-foot Galata Tower in this city overlooks the Golden Horn
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Istanbul
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$1600
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Once part of the defenses of the city of Lisbon, the 16th century Belém Tower was built on the north bank of this river
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the Tagus
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$2000
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One of the tallest buildings in the world, the Makkah Royal Clock Tower, is part of a complex adjacent to this holy site
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the Great Mosque in Mecca
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SINGLE-NAMED CELEBRITIES
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In 2020 a super deluxe edition of his "Sign o' the Times" was released with 63 previously unreleased tracks
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Prince
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$800
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Time magazine named this Brazilian soccer great one of the 100 most influential people of the 20th century
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Pelé
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She showed a more serious side in the movie "The Farewell", in which she returns to China to visit her ailing grandmother
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Awkwafina
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$1600
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He was a favorite of Jackie Kennedy & Bill Blass called him "the quintessential American designer"
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Halston
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At 66, this supermodel was stunning at the 2021 Met Gala, her outfit called "A Ray of Light After All the Darkness"
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Iman
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THAT'S JUST SCIENCE, MAN
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The ratio of an object's velocity to the velocity of sound in the same medium is named for this physicist
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Mach
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Make your bones naming this complex of bones seen here
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the pelvis
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$1200
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Before moving to Gemini & Taurus, the summer solstice used to be in this constellation, hence the name of a geographic line
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Cancer
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$1600
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With 1 being the softest on the Mohs scale of hardness, this substance consisting primarily of silica is the index mineral for 7
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quartz
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$2000
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This outermost region of the Sun's atmosphere is warmish--2 million kelvin
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the corona
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CENTRAL AMERICA
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N/A
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A small river connects these 2 lakes that combined form close to 10% of their country's area
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Lake Nicaragua & Lake Managua
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