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A EUROPEAN CAPITAL TOUR
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$200
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Let's Czech in with this capital where Smetana & Dvorak both lived
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Prague
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$400
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Originally, this city founded by King Harald was east of the Aker River but after a 1624 fire, ended up moving further west
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Oslo
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$600
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Completed in the 1490s, Nydegg Church is a landmark in this city, capital of both its nation & its same-named Canton
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Bern
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$800
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Not Moscow but this capital 300 miles north of the Black Sea is the "mother of Rus cities"
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Kyiv
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$1000
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Something to sink your teeth into... a signed document by Vlad the Impaler in 1459 is the first written appearance of this capital
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Bucharest
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PURPLE REIGN
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$200
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You love this big purple dinosaur of public TV (& he loves you)
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Barney
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$400
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Commonly dried, black Corinth is a purple & often seedless variety of this fruit
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a grape
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$600
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This team went to the Super Bowl 4 times in the 1970s; purple never reigned & they haven't been back
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the Vikings
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$800
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1980s moviegoers were moved by this film that was "introducing Whoopi Goldberg as Celie"
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The Color Purple
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$1000
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New Hampshire's state flower is the purple lilac & its state bird is the purple this
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a purple finch
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IT'S A FACT
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$200
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Parade reported that taking this type of picture now causes "more deaths than shark attacks"
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a selfie
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$400
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Competing against 19-year-olds, this Jamaican was 16 when he set a junior world record in the 200 meters at 20.13 seconds
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Usain Bolt
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$600
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The name for this part of your nose comes from the Latin for "fence"
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the septum
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$800
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The Roman equivalent of this Greek goddess is Minerva
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Athena
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$1000
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This yellow gastropod named for its resemblance to a fruit can move about 6 inches per minute
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a banana slug
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IN MOM'S FREE TIME
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$200
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Susan Casey, one of the 1st politicians to call herself this kind of "mom", wasn't kidding--her son Conor became a star MLS striker
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a soccer mom
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$400
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Detroit mom Evelyn Overton started making this dessert & turned it into a "Factory"
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cheesecake
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$600
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Tired of little heads going thunk, a daycare staff wanted something to prop kids up; Susan Henderson created this pillow
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the Boppy
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$800
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The mother of this 4-time Oscar-winning actress was a birth control activist & is seen here with Margaret Sanger
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Katharine Hepburn
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$1000
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In 2016 Wisconsin mom Kristin Garvey made the first yard sign with these 5 words preceding various affirmations
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in this house we believe
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2-WORD ANIMAL EXPRESSIONS
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$200
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An easy target, or what we have here
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a sitting duck
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$400
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We won't string you along; it's this game
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Cat\'s Cradle
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$600
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It means stocks are on the rise & investors are rushing to buy
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a bull market
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$800
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It's a fishy phrase for something that is deliberately misleading or distracts attention
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a red herring
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$1000
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It's a possession that's too expensive to maintain, or a rummage sale, often for a worthy cause
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a white elephant
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SYMPHON"E"s
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Haydn's No. 38 is also known as this symphony, from the way muted violins repeat the sound of non-muted ones
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the Echo symphony
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$400
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Inspired by his uprooted family, Alan Hovhaness' 1st symphony is titled this, a period of forced absence from one's homeland
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Exile
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$600
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London's orchestra of the Age of this plays Bach & Mozart on vintage 18th century instruments
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Enlightenment
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$800
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Works by this eminent Sir Edward 2 include 2 symphonies as well as the a "Enigma Variations"
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Elgar
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$1000
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Disillusioned with Napoleon, Beethoven changed the title of his landmark 3rd symphony from "Bonaparte" to this
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Eroica
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U.S. GEOGRAPHIC HISTORY
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$800
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In 1921 New Orleans became the first city in the U.S. to declare a historic district, this one
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the French Quarter
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THE ORIGIN TRAIL
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$400
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These dogs were originally trained as water dogs & their name is related to the small pools of water they splashed in
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Poodles
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$800
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In the 1790s, Old East, still a residence hall was the entirety campus of the University of North Carolina in this city
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Chapel Hill
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$1200
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Full of tricks & treats, All Hallows' Eve has its origins in this Celtic festival
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Samhain
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$1600
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Legend says this, outside Tokyo, was created in the year 286 B.C. by an earthquake
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Mount Fuji
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CHEMICAL ELEMENTS
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$400
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The balloons in one Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade use about 400,000 cubic feet of this gas
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helium
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$800
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As a gas, oxygen is colorless, but in liquid form it's this color
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blue
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$1200
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Electric vehicles have brought cash to Chile, a land with large reserves of this lightest metal element, used in batteries
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lithium
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$1600
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The element actinium & its symbol are both first alphabetically; this element & its symbol are last
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zirconium
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$2000
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Atomic number 100, this radioactive element is named for the scientist who directed the first controlled fission chain reaction
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fermium
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METAPHORS
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$400
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You may find yourself on an emotional one of these, such as Maverick at Cedar Point
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a roller coaster
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$800
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Everyday metaphors include the instruction not to tackle problems prematurely, let's do this "when we come to it"
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cross that bridge
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$1200
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British Jew Israel Zangwill used this term for the U.S. as a vessel where all peoples mix; his son moved to El Paso & became part of it
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a melting pot
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$1600
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Based on a 1955 speech by a Fed head, slowing the economy is known as taking this away just as the party is getting started
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the punch bowl
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$2000
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To blame bad news on the one who told you; the last name of Chicago policeman William meant it was literally done to him in 1901
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shoot the Messenger
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LITERATURE
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$400
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Michel Tournier's "Friday, or the Other Island" is a modern retelling of this 18th century novel
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Robinson Crusoe
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$800
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With works like "Redgauntlet" & "Kenilworth", this U.K. author created the historical novel in the 19th century
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Sir Walter Scott
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$1200
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"Dead Until Dark" by Charlaine Harris introduced this female telepath & a community of Louisiana vampires
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Sookie Stackhouse
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$1600
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Mr. Scratch is bested by a New Hampshire orator in this story by Stephen Vincent Benet
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"The Devil and Daniel Webster"
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$2000
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At the end of this first F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, Amory Blaine is lonely, broke & traveling back to Princeton on foot
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This Side of Paradise
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DOUBLE PRESIDENTIAL NAMERS
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$400
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17 & 20: This British-raised actor who played Peter Parker again in a 2021 surprise
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Andrew Garfield
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$800
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43 & 35: This actor, an Oscar winner for "Cool Hand Luke" & a sidekick in "The Naked Gun"
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George Kennedy
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$1200
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37 &18 & borrowing Jimmy Carter's middle initial, this actor
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Richard E. Grant
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$1600
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22 & 1: This superstar saxophonist, Jr.
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Grover Washington Jr.
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$2000
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42 & 5: This pioneer of bluegrass music
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Bill Monroe
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WORDS OF THE YEAR
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N/A
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Oxford's word of the year for 2021 was this 3-letter one, short for a word that goes back to the Latin for "cow"
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vax
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