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IT'S ALL GUCCI
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Gucci's early products were mainly leather bags & equestrian accessories, including these seats for riders
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saddles
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Fittingly, this star of "House of Gucci" wore a purple Guccie dress for the U.K. premiere
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Lady Gaga
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Post-World War II, when materials were still scarce, Gucci found a way to heat & bend this from Japan & began using it for purse handles
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bamboo
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Gucci is a corporate partner of this U.N. organization created in 1946 to help the world's children
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UNICEF
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This American fashion designer & film director was creative director of Gucci from 1994 to 2004
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(Tom) Ford
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MUSIC AS OF LATE
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His "24K Magic" was good as gold & a Grammy winner for Album of the Year
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Bruno Mars
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"Redbone" is from Childish Gambino, alter ego of this "Atlanta" star
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Glover
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"Cold Heart", his 2021 hit with dua Lipa, included lyrics from "Rocket Man"
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Elton John
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"Hardwired... To Self-Destruct" was the first studio album in 8 years from this headbanging Lars Ulrich band
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Metallica
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"When It Rains It Pours" for this man seen here who's had a flood of No. 1 country singles
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(Luke) Combs
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FOOD & DRINK HOMOPHONES
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Starting peg for your ball on the links
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tee
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A matched set, as of socks or gloves
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a pair
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$600
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Use one to kill the undead or to hold down the corner of a tent
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a stake
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$800
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Large quadruped of North America with dangling dewlap & immense antlers
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a moose
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An unpleasant high-pitched noise like from a jet engine
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a whine
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BRIGHT LIGHTS
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As early as 1903 dazzling electric signage had earned this street the moniker "The Great White Way"
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Broadway
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During World War I, giant searchlights were used in the U.K. in defense of nighttime bombing raids by these craft like the LZ-98
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zeppelins
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From Latin for "to ask", this room in a police station often (on TV) has one very bright bulb--we know you did it, so make it easy on yourself
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an interrogation
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Dubbed the brightest light on Earth, the sky beam from the top of this Vegas casino can produce 40 billion candlepower
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Luxor
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In 2019, a GRB, or "burst" of these radiation waves in space, was the brightest high-energy light ever observed
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gamma
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BIG CITY
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Home to an international airport, it's New Jersey's "Gateway City"
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Newark
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The biggest city in North Carolina, it was named for the wife of King George III
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Charlotte
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This Florida city named for a president has more people than Miami & Tampa combined
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Jacksonville
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Missouri's most populous city is Kansas City & Kansas' most populous is this city once part of the Chisholm Trail
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Wichita
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Home to the Wernher von Braun Planetarium & the U.S. Space & Rocket Center, this city is now Alabama's most populous
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Huntsville
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WE READ IT IN THE '80s
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Tom Clancy launched his career with this runaway bestseller about a Soviet nuclear sub whose crew might be trying to defect
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The Hunt for Red October
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The republic of Gilead takes the book of Genesis literally in this bestseller from 1985
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The Handmaid\'s Tale
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Pat Conroy wrote this blockbuster novel that became a film starring Barbra Streisand & Nick Nolte
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The Prince of Tides
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South American politics & magic realism are big in her novels, like "The House of the Spirits" & "Of Love & Shadows"
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(Isabel) Allende
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He set the '80s New York literary world on fire with "Bright Lights, Big City"
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Jay McInerney
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IT HAPPENED IN '22
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1822: the Sunday version of this publication is founded as a separate newspaper in London
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the Times
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1622: mathematician William Oughtred puts 2 logarithmic tables side by side, inventing this calculating device
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a slide rule
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1722:this composer completes his first book of fugues & preludes, known as the "Well-Tempered Clavier"
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Bach
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1922: this North African country gains independence from British rule with Fuad I as king
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Egypt
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1522:this man the Younger paints the "Solothurn Madonna"
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(Hans) Holbein (the Younger)
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SCIENCE IN NATURE
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The European conger is one of the longest species of this fish, growing up to 10 feet long
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eel
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Galena, as seen here, is the main ore from which to get this metal out
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lead
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The phyto-type of these marine drifters contains algae & bacteria, while the zoo- type includes animal life
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plankton
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Found in the swamps of Louisiana, this state tree derives its name from its appearance after it loses its needle-like leaves
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the bald cypress
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Macropus Rufus is the scientific name for this largest living marsupial
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red kangaroo
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TRIPLE THE DOUBLE LETTERS
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This is a more informal term for insomnia
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sleeplessness
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For much of its history, the USSR was run by the Central this group
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the Central Committee
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These 2 U.S. states border each other
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Mississippi & Tennessee
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In 2 words, it grinds the beans to make your morning joe
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a coffee mill
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This river forms part of the Florida-Georgia line
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the Chattahoochee
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THE BODY POLITIC
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Titie 1,60-seat Dáil Éireann is the lower house of this country's parliament
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Ireland
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The lower house of Argentina's legislature is the chamber of these--representatives, not junior sheriffs
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deputies
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There are 338 members in this branch of Canada's parliament
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the House of Commons
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In the west Japan's national assembly, the Kokkai, goes by this slender name
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the Diet
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This name of Iceland's parliament comes from words meaning "whole assembly"
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the Althing
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WOMAN MOVIES
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This star of "Catwoman" accepted her Razzie Award for that movie in person, the first actress to do so
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Halle Berry
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She was Gisele in "Fast & Furious" before she was "Wonder Woman"
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(Gal) Gadot
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"Diary of a Mad Black Woman" was this actor's first time on the big screen as southern matriarch Mabel Simmons
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Perry
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This reclusive star's last movie was 1941's "Two-Faced Woman", which came out when she was 36
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Greta Garbo
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Emerald Fennell won an Oscar for writing this 2020 film in which Carey Mulligan seeks vengeance for a horrible crime
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Promising Young Woman
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INCREDIBLY ELF-CENTERED
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Cookie-making "elves" of this company include Zoot, Flo from accounting & "head elf" Ernie
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Keebler
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Tolkien wrote that this character was "able swiftly to draw a great war-bow" & had the "tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies"
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Legolas
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This rhymingly named item has its own storybook subtitled "A Christmas Tradition"
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Elf on the Shelf
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In the "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer" TV special, Hermey the elf didn't want to make toys but wanted this job instead
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dentist
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Follow the lieder! This composer found some early success in 1821 with a song called "Elf King"
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Schubert
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POEMS
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N/A
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The title of this poem comes from a 1920 book that refers to its possible "restoration to fruitfulness"
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The Waste Land
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