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PICTURE/BOOK
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Here's this 1850 novel quite literally
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The Scarlet Letter
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This tragic 1937 novella now looks kind of cute
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Of Mice and Men
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It's mainly set in New York City
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The Catcher in the Rye
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A landmark work of the 18th century
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The Wealth of Nations
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A first novel dealing with the Second World War
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The Naked and the Dead
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BOATING GLOSSARY
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A windlass is a rotating device that houses the chain used to raise or lower this
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the anchor
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To take a sounding is to measure this, often important in unfamiliar seas
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depth
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It's a rope attached to the lower corner of a sail to control it; if you're 3 of them "to the wind", you're drunk
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sheet
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It sounds like scissors are required to do this, change the angle of a sail to take advantage of the wind
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to trim
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This uppermost edge of the side of a boat gets its name because it was once used to support cannons
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the gunwale
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DANCE OFF, BRO!
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If you like doing this step-slide-step ballroom dance, you can zip & whirl in a Viennese one or glide & dip with a Boston
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a waltz
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Pop star Psy said, the "mindset of this dance," also a song title, "is dress classy & dance cheesy" & imagine you're on a horse
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"Gangnam Style"
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Popping is contracting & relaxing your muscles quickly; this, paired with popping, stops & holds during a move
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locking
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Scaramouche, scaramouche, will you do this Spanish courtship dance using castanets & an increase in speed as it progresses
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the fandango
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French for "thrown", it's the grand ballet move seen here in all its beauty
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a jeté
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4-LETTER COUNTRIES
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It was the home of the Inca civilization for centuries before its conquest by Spain
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Peru
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The city of Fallujah in this country is nicknamed the "City of Mosques"
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Iraq
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Columbus landed on this island nation in 1492, but Diego Velazquez began its first permanent settlement in 1511
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Cuba
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Sultan Haitham rules this nation on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula
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Oman
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Mostly volcanic, about 300 islands make up this Pacific Ocean nation 1,000 miles north of New Zealand
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Fiji
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FILMS OF THE 1990s
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Dorothy is a device that studies tornadoes in this film starring Helen Hunt & Bill Paxton
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Twister
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For this 1994 film, Sandra Bullock actually learned to drive a bus & passed the licensing test
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Speed
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Character actor J.T. Walsh told a story that made Billy Bob Thornton's Karl very ill at ease in this 1996 film
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Sling Blade
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The 1990s saw 2 mob movies co-written by Nicholas Pileggi & directed by Martin Scorsese: "Goodfellas" & this Vegas-set one
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Casino
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Kat & Bianca Stratford attend Padua High School in this 1999 film loosely based on "The Taming of the Shrew"
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10 Things I Hate About You
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LET YOUR STAR GUIDE YOU
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A movie with lots of celebrities is said to be "star-" this, meaning "covered with objects"
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studded
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This word can refer to a radiant explosion or a multi-colored candy brand
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a starburst
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If you "hitch" one of these conveyances to a star, you're aspiring to lofty goals
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a wagon
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Originally a British tribunal, this 2-word term now refers to any group that adjudicates unfairly
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the star chamber
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Oscar Wilde wrote "We are all in" this, "but some of us are looking at the stars"
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the gutter
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GROUPS IN HISTORY
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Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians
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the plebians
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Term for businessman like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of "The Modern" these who "Plunder at Will"
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Robber Barons
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In England's Civil War, barbers probably rooted for this Puritan group named for keeping their hair short
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the Roundheads
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Lower-class people eager to see aristocratic French heads roll were "sans" these fancy breeches
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culotte
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Abbreviated KMT, it once battled Mao & is now one of Taiwan's main political parties
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the Kuomintang
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SEISMIC ACTIVITY
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An earthquake where one plate moves under another & pushes the top plate up may cause this wave that can reach around 500 miles per hour
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a tsunami
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In 1964 the Prince William Sound earthquake registered a scary 9.2 in magnitude in the southern part of this state
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Alaska
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Haiti's government reported 300,000 deaths after a 7.0 quake & multiple aftershocks hit about 15 miles from this capital in 2010
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Port-au-Prince
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A 9.1 off the coast of Honshu in 2011 led to a nuclear accident in this prefecture
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Fukushima
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In 1960 an 8.1 quake that devastated Concepción in this South American nation was but a foreshock to a 9.5 event the next day
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Chile
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THE ANCIENTS SPEAK
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"Slow and steady wins the race" is a moral from Aesop's fable of these 2 creatures
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the tortoise & the hare
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In his own version of this rule, Confucius said, "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others"
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the golden rule
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Shame on Hipponax' line "There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one" does this rhyming finish
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buries her
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While in the bath, he reportedly exclaimed "Eureka!" after coming up with a method to test the purity of gold
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Archimedes
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From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it"
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Pliny
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GIVING YOU A PLUM ASSIGNMENT
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For a while, Hasbro changed this profession of Plum in the game Clue to archaeologist, then to video game designer
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professor
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The kids in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" had "visions of" these--likely not fruit but sweetened seeds
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sugar plums
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Michelle Obama's plum-colored outfit on this day in 2021 helped crash designer Sergio Hudson's website
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Inauguration Day
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This plant-breeding genius created more than 120 varieties of plum, more than of any other fruit or vegetable
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Luther Burbank
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Not for the faint of heart or liver, it's European plum brandy, such as Rudolf Jelínek 10 Year Gold
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slivovitz
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CHILDHOOD HOMES
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A later owner of this current pop star's childhood home in Pennsylvania says the initials "TAS" in cement may be the singer's
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Taylor (Alison) Swift
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In 1942 the father of this baseball legend was the one doing the hammering, building a house in Mobile that you can visit today
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Hank Aaron
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"There are places I'll remember all my life", & one would have been the home in Liverpool where he lived with Aunt Mimi
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John Lennon
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In Palisades, N.Y. the Whitney House, as in the family behind the Whitney Museum, was home to this daughter of Jon Voight
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Angelina Jolie
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Martha Stewart likes to visit Nutley in this state to see her childhood home on Elm Street & the store where her dad bought Gallo wine
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New Jersey
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3 LETTERS IN A ROW ALPHABETICALLY
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By the 1930s, its tokens included a battleship, a top hat & a shoe
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Monopoly
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A failure to pay money on a loan
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default
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Apparel for a thespian
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a costume
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Traditional head covering worn by Muslim women
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a hijab
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He led the Greeks against Troy
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Agamemnon
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SINGERS
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In 2021 at age 95, this singer achieved a Guinness World Record for the oldest person to release an album of new material
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Tony Bennett
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