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TELEVISION
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In season 8 the Linz siblings covered 50 cities in 25 days to win this reality show's first family edition
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The Amazing Race
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A blond mullet topped the head of this subject of Ttiger King", a zookeeper & felon born Joseph Schreibvogel
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Joe Exotic
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This actress is one of the Yellowjackets, coping as adults after a plane crash 25 years earlier
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Juliette Lewis
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Carrie Bradshaw returned to TV screens in this follow-up to "Sex & the City"
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And Just Like That
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In 1986 Arthur Miller was the first subject of this PBS series of profiles in greatness that has earned more than 25 Emmys
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American Masters
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MULTIPLE MEANINGS
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Secured firmly in place, or a period without food
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fast
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To strike down hard with a foot, or something that's affixed to show a fee has been paid
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stamp
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A quantity of liquid, or to allow to fall
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drop
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A mode of transport, or to direct a plant to grow in a particular way
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train
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To surmount, or distance info on a map
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scale
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POTPOURRI
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The 200 little dots on the outside of this shortcake favorite are called achenes; each one is a tiny fruit with a seed inside
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strawberries
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Seen here, this type of pipe is an accessory of Frosty the Snowman
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a corncob pipe
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Its largest tributary is the Snake River
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the Columbia River
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Greek gives us this word for the ritual also called communion or the Lord's Supper
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eucharist
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Sailing from Portugal in July 1497, this explorer rounded the Cape of Good Hope & reached Mombasa in April of the next year
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Vasco da Gama
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PULITZER-WINNING CHARACTERS
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Angelica Schuyler & Aaron Burr (2016)
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Hamilton
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Mitch Mitchell & Blanche DuBois (1948)
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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Scoop Rosenbaum & Heidi Holland (1989)
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The Heidi Chronicles
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Aaronow & Moss, real estate salesmen (1984)
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Glengarry Glen Ross
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Corporate bigwig J.B. Giggley & former window washer J. Pierrepont Finch (1962)
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
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BEAN THERE
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Illinois leads the U.S. in production of these sources of tofu
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soybeans
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Chickpeas are also called these beans or just these, their usual name in Spain
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garbanzo beans
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Navy beans & molasses are traditional ingredients in this baked "metropolitan" offering
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Boston baked beans
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Native to India, mung beans are often used to grow these tender, edible seedlings
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bean sprouts
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Minnesota's Otter Tail County is a center for growing this bean named for its shape
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a kidney bean
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DONE THAT
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John Mark carried the Olympic flame into London's Wembley Stadium in this year of the first post-WWII Summer Games
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1948
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Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett led the team that came up with the COVID-19 vaccine from this company founded in 2010
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Moderna
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Born in Toronto, this architect designed L.A.'s Walt Disney Concert Hall for his adopted hometown
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(Frank) Gehry
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In a revival of the "Special Relationship" , in June 1954 these 2 world leaders met & released the "Potomac Charter"
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Eisenhower & Churchill
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In 1889 this Western U.S. state's constitution was the first in the world to grant full voting rights to women
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Wyoming
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AIN'T NO CENTURY LIKE THE 17th CENTURY
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You spend 22 years having this 42-acre Indian landmark built, & what thanks do you get? Getting deposed by your son in 1658!
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the Taj Mahal
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This London theater most associated with Shakespeare was torn down in 1644, 2 years after the Puritans closed all the theaters
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the Globe
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San Antonio got its name in 1691 when explorers camped at the site on June 13, the feast day of St. Anthony of this Italian city
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Padua
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In 1685 this edict that had granted freedom of worship to French Protestants was revoked
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the Edict of Nantes
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This man's 1689 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding" dealt with the tabula rasa, or "clean slate" of a newborn mind
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John Locke
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WHAT KIND OF PLACE IS THIS?
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April 22, 1889 is the birthdate of this "City", capital of the Sooner State
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Oklahoma City
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Faulkner titled a novel after this type of little town such as Pottersville, New York
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a hamlet
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Smaller than it sounds, this Illinois place was designated "Home of Superman" in 1972
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Metropolis
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A larger geographic division + "town" = this town on Cape Cod known for its "players"
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Provincetown
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Virginia "burg"s include Peters-, Williams- & this one also with a man's name, site of an 1862 battle
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Fredericksburg
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NORSE MYTHOLOGY
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This deity was a mischief maker & a changeling who once transformed into a salmon to escape the other gods' wrath
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Loki
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Muninn (memory) & Huginn (thought) are 2 of these crow relatives that fly around the 9 worlds & bring information back to Odin
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ravens
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Forged by the dwarfs Brokk & Eitri, this hammer is Thor's chief weapon & symbol of his power
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Mjölnir
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The rainbow bridge Bifrost connects 2 worlds, Asgard for the gods & this one for earthlings
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Midgard
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This mighty ash tree supports the universe
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Yggdrasil
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WRITING--IT'S A LIVING
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For success with this kind of novel, a good pseudonym helps; Kate Rothwell chose "Summer Devon" to show that her books were hot
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romance novels
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It's the job of writing text for ads; on "Mad Men", Peggy Olson moved up to it from the secretarial world
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copywriting
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Pitch that story to this type of magazine, such as the fittingly named High Life or Enroute
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an in-flight magazine
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Screenwriters, you could do worse than to follow script guru Syd Field's checkpoint No. 4--"All drama is" this type of struggle
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conflict
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Help write a memoir & your name may follow these 3 words, as in "Third Base is My Home" by Brooks Robinson ____ ____ ____ Jack Tobin
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as told to
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R&B MUSIC
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This signature song topped the R&B chart for 8 weeks in 1967; do we have to spell it out for you?
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"Respect"
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In 2016, part of a Detroit street was named in honor of this man, who's had Number Ones on the R&B charts since he was a kid
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Stevie Wonder
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Songwriter, producer & singer Kenneth Edmonds is better known by this nickname
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Babyface
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Billboard said this late, great singer "redefined R&B/soul" with "the socially themed 1971 landmark album 'What's Going On"'
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Marvin Gaye
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In Dec. 2021 this "seasonal" singer was on 10 of the Top 25 R&B Hits, including "Bitter" with Cardi B & "Insane"
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Summer Walker
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"EM"POWER
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Dubai & Abu Dhabi are this type of political territory
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emirate
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This word is used to address the dignitary seen here
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eminence
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Article 1 of the U.S. Constitution says office holders cannot accept "any present," this, "office, or title"
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emolument
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French gives us this word for the mouthpiece of a wind instrument
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embouchure
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It's the English name for the desert region known in Arabic as Rub' al-Khali
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the Empty Quarter
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19th CENTURY LITERATURE
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The strand Union Workhouse, whose rules prohibited second helpings of food, inspired a setting in this 1838 novel
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Oliver Twist
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