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CALL ME SOMETIME
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The first line of this novel is the immortal "Call me Ishmael"
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Moby-Dick
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In a 1967 film, this actor seen here said, "They call me Mister Tibbs"
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Sidney Poitier
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She plays the owner of a cat cafe on the sitcom "Call Me Kat"
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Mayim Bialik
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Justin Bieber tweeted that "Call Me Maybe" by her "is possibly the catchiest song I've ever heard"
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Carly Rae Jepsen
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He played 17-year-old Elio in the film "Call Me by Your Name"
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(Timothée) Chalamet
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NYC NEIGHBORHOODS
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This West Midtown neighborhood with a "demonic" name is also called Clinton, which just isn't as cool
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Hell\'s Kitchen
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As well as the second half of the name of a famous hotel, it's a Queens hood with a diverse population & lots of Greek restaurants
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Astoria
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In 2017 phase 1 of expanding the 2nd Avenue subway included new stops at 96th, 86th & 72nd on the U.E.S., or this
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the Upper East Side
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Jughead may not really live there, but this Bronx area on the Hudson contains NYC's northernmost point
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Riverdale
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An area in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach is known as Little this seaport & resort in Southern Ukraine
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Odessa
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SUCCESSION
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1959: Après President René Coty
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De Gaulle
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1837: Following King William IV's 7-year reign
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Victoria
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1969: The original Triple H, Hubert H. Humphrey, is wrestled out of the veep office
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Spiro Agnew
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1971: Ugandan President Milton Obote unexpectedly becomes ex-Ugandan president Milton Obote
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Idi Amin
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1926: After the passing of Yoshihito
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Hirohito
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BOWL-O-RAMA
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In 2021 NBC rebooted "College Bowl" with this former Colts quarterback as the host
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Peyton Manning
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You can serve soup in a bread bowl; use this kind of bread, just like Panera does
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sourdough
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Before the Rose Bowl, this Ivy League Bowl opened at the world's biggest stadium, pioneering fully circular seating
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the Yale Bowl
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"If Life is" this, asked a humorous book title by Erma Bombeck, "What Am I Doing in the Pits?"
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a Bowl of Cherries
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The bowl of a pipe is often made of this mineral whose name is German for "sea foam"
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meerschaum
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NUMERICAL PHRASES
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In grammar, "you" is this type of pronoun, singular or plural
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second person
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"A stitch in time" does this
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saves nine
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Some schools have this numerical policy, meaning no leeway on bullying or other bad behavior
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zero tolerance
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After length, width & depth, time is considered this
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the fourth dimension
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Despite the name, this quantity you might get at your local donut shop totals 13
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a baker\'s dozen
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CAN I MAKE YOU A DRINK?
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Without the gin & vermouth, a virgin dirty this drink is basically just chilled olive brine--kind of an acquired taste
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a martini
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$400
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As The Dude says, "There's a beverage here"; although as mine is just a virgin White Russian, I have a glass of this
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milk (heavy cream or half & half)
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$600
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The virgin version of this East Coast "tea" would just be cola, lemon juice & sugar--a bit sweet
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a Long Island Iced Tea
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$800
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When my inner Samantha calls for a virgin Cosmopolitan, I'm left with a tart mix of lime & this other juice
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cranberry
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Shirley Temple said the drink named for her, made from ginger ale & this pomegranate syrup, was invented by the Brown Derby
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grenadine
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NATIONAL FLAGS
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This country flies what's known as the Bundesflagge
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Germany
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The flag of the island country of Grenada depicts this spice, an important export
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nutmeg
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This Balkan country got the new flag seen here in 1995 & got this new name in 2019
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North Macedonia
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Reflecting its commitment to national defense, Mozambique's flag bears this alphanumeric Soviet weapon
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AK-47
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This island nation's flag is the world's only national flag not to contain any of the colors red, white, or blue
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Jamaica
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PLAYS
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One-word title of Wallace Thurman's play that opened at the Apollo in Feb. 1929, closed, but had a "Renaissance" later in the year
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Harlem
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August Wilson got the title for his play about this singer from her song that became a dance craze, "The Black Bottom"
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Ma Rainey
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Its last line is from Oscar: "And watch your cigarettes, will you? This is my house, not a pig sty"
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The Odd Couple
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Maxwell Anderson won a Pulitzer for a satire on Congress called this, finishing the Shakespeare quote "A plague on..."
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Both Your Houses
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Tony Kushner translated Brecht for a 2006 production with Meryl Streep in this maternal role
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Mother Courage and Her Children
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CELEBRITY "M.D."s
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Before trying to make water on Mars in "The Martian", this actor co-created water.org to provide it on Earth
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Matt Damon
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In 2021, he received his third consecutive Emmy nomination for "The Kominsky Method"
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Michael Douglas
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In his first TV series starring role, he played Secret Service agent Ethan Burke, looking for 2 missing agents in "Wayward Pines"
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Matt Dillon
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In recent years this British actress starred on TV in "Speechless" & as Lorraine Finster on the revival of "Will & Grace"
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Minnie Driver
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Seen here, this actress was the longtime lover of William Randolph Hearst
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Marion Davies
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SCIENCE & MEDICINE
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In apheresis, this is removed from the body; specific components are withdrawn from it before it's returned to the body
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blood
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This force that resists motion through air can be thought of as the aerodynamic version of friction
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drag
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They're the 2 bones of your forearm
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the radius & the ulna
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This single-celled protozoan moves by means of cilia & is oblong in shape; its name is from Greek for "oblong"
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paramecium
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This third largest of Neptune's known moons is named in honor of the numerous daughters of a Greek sea god
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Nereid
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AVIATION
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In 1905 this brother of Orville in his Flyer III set a speed record of 38 miles per hour
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Wilbur Wright
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In 1953 in an F-86 borrowed from the Royal Canadian Air Force, Jacqueline Cochran became the first woman to do this
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exceed the speed of sound
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Seen here are a group of these aviators of Alabama in the 1940s, many of whom became decorated war heroes
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the Tuskegee Airmen
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A subsidiary of Textron, its planes include turboprops & the Citation fleet, which seats a maximum of 12 passengers
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Cessna
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He won the National Air Race of 1930, 5 years before he & Will Rogers died tragically in a plane crash
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Wiley Post
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ONLINE & TEXTING ABBREV.
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If I want you to call, hmu stands for this... say, tomorrow?
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hit me up
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Someone sliding into your DMs is trying to reach you via these
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direct messages
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Making an OTP, one true this, means figuring out ideal character matches
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pairing
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Want to know if others are experiencing the same? dae is short for this question starter
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does anybody else?
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eli5 is shorthand for this expression, so use small words to clarify
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explain it to me like I\'m 5
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MOVIE STARS
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N/A
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Matthew McConaughey said, "'Dazed & Confused', the first words I ever said on film were" these
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"Alright, alright, alright"
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