ROCK ART
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$200
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"Help" is a 2005 print by this man who played drums on "Help!" 40 years earlier
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Ringo Starr
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$400
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Andy Warhol's cover for The Velvet Underground's 1967 debut album featured one of these fruits with a peelable sticker
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a banana
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$600
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Lithographs by this late disco queen include "Jazzman" & "Hard for the Money"
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Donna Summer
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$800
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For the cover of a 2019 album, this "Truth Hurts" singer posed nude against a simple black backdrop
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Lizzo
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$1000
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She's painted the covers for many of her own albums, including "Ladies of the Canyon" & "Both Sides Now"
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Joni Mitchell
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$400
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A mysterious animal in France's famed Lascaux Cave is know as this, even though it has two horns, not one
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unicorn
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$800
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The black paint used in figures on the ceiling of Spain's Altamira Cave is mostly this stuff, radiocarbon-dated to 14,000 years ago
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charcoal
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$1200
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Rock art depicting an animal's skeleton & internal organs is said to be in this electromagnetic-named style
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X-ray
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$1600
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Though arid today, Libya's Messak plateau in this desert has prehistoric images of hippos & crocodiles
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the Sahara
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$2000
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A national monument in New Mexico is named for its many these, from Greek for "rock" & "carvings"
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petroglyps
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MEDICINE
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$200
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In 1959 methicillin was one of the first medications introduced to cope with bacteria resistant to these drugs
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antibiotics
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$400
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The A1C test measures average blood sugar over the past 3 months; at 5.7% you're pre-this, at 6.5 you're this
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diabetic
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$600
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Iatrogenic is the term for a medical problem caused by the act of one of these, with maybe a lawsuit as a consequence
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a doctor
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$800
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A patient is often put on a ventilator in a procedure called endotracheal this -ation
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intubation
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$1000
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Thomas Hodgkin's paper on "morbid appearances of the absorbent glands & spleen" described this type of cancer
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Hodgkin\'s lymphoma
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GAME CHANGERS
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$200
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A 15th century rule change transformed the weakest chess piece to this one, the strongest on the board
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the queen
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$400
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In 1990 this classic card game was included as part of Windows 3.0, turning millions of casual computer users into gamers
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solitaire
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$600
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In 1875 a British army lieutenant modified a form of pool to create this very British billiards game
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snooker
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$800
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This card game scored with pegs on a board evolved from an earlier one called Noddy
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cribbage
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$1000
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In 2019 season 10 of this online survival game ended with a giant asteroid blowing up its virtual island, leaving a black hole
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Fortnite
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FASHION
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$200
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Long flowy dresses are typical of boho fashion, boho being short for this
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bohemian
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$400
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Often seen on the front of a hoodie, this type of pocket resembles a certain animal's pouch
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a kangaroo pocket
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$600
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1980s fashion included wearing these accessories seen here outside the ballet studio
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leg warmers
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$800
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This winter coat echoes the name of a deadly sushi fish
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a puffer jacket (coat)
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$1000
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This portmanteau word is used of a casual clothes for exercise & for just hanging out
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athleisure
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AMAZON PRIME
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$200
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The Amazon River basin is home to stands of this "national" nut tree; the nuts are big in protein & the oil, big in shampoos
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Brazil nuts
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$400
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Let this alliterative Amazon water creature light up your night... & despite its name, it's a knifefish
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an electric eel
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$600
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Iquitos, the world's largest city that can't be reached by road, is on the Amazon in this nation on Chile's northern border
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Peru
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$800
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Seen floating on the Amazon is Victoria amazonica, the largest one of these; its pads can be six feet wide
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a water lily
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$1000
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The Casiquiare River connects 2 major river systems, the Amazon & this 1,300-mile one
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the Orinoco
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EVERYTHING FROM MOD TO MUD
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$200
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A rule by royals; Saudi Arabia has an absolute one
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monarchy
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$400
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Buzzfeed examined "Why" this synonym for damp "is the Worst Word Ever"
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moist
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$600
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This group of animals includes squid as well as shellfish
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mollusks
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$800
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Angora goat fabric
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mohair
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$1000
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It's Spanish for "young guy"
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muchacho
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NEW TO MERRIAM WEBSTER
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$400
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Withdrawing support from those who have erred in the eyes of the world leads to this alliterative phenomenon
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cancel culture
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$800
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Spectral phrase for the place to prepare food that is consumed elsewhere
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a ghost kitchen
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$1200
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This peanut butter & marshmallow creme sandwich has been around for a long time, but only made it into Merriam-Webster's in 2021
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a fluffernutter
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$1600
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It's the 4-letter abbreviation for the pleasant tingling sensation that starts on the scalp in response to certain stimuli
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ASMR
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$2000
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This Danish concept comparable to coziness has become a U.S. trend; it includes good food, coffee & a warm place to gather
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hygge
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THE ACTOR'S MOVIE LINE
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$400
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In a movie sequel: "Yo, Adrian, I did it!"
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Sylvester Stallone
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$800
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In 2018: "I am not king of all people. I am king of Wakanda"
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Chadwick Boseman
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$1200
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To Tom Cruise: "Shut up, just shut up. You had me at hello"
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Renée Zellweger
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$1600
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In 2005: "I wish I knew how to quit you"
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Jake Gyllenhaal
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$2000
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Her in a 1950 classic: "I am big, it's the pictures that got small"
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Gloria Swanson
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I HAVE A PLAN
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$400
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G. Gordon Liddy's 1972 Gemstone plan included kidnapping & prostitutes; it was scaled back but a remaining part led to this scandal
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Watergate
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$800
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In 1960 PM Ikeda planned to double Japan's national income by 1970, with annual this of 7.8%; it was 10% & income doubled early
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GDP (annual growth)
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$1200
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Winfield Scott's Anaconda plan was to strangle the Confederacy by means of these efforts to stop up the enemy's ports
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blockades
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$1600
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In 1990 the Shatalin plan for moving the USSR to a free market was too radical even for this reformer who ousted Shatalin
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Gorbachev
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$2000
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The 1791 plan for Washington, D.C. with diagonal axes over a more conventional grid was named for this Paris-born man
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(Pierre) L\'Enfant
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HALLS OF FAME
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$400
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Seen here, this organization's General Assembly Hall accommodates nearly 200 delegations
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the United Nations
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$800
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Teenaged Yo-Yo Ma must have practiced, practiced, practiced to play his debut recital here, May 6, 1971
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Carnegie Hall
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$1200
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We'd like to reflect on the fact that the treaty ending World War I was signed in this room in the Palace of Versailles
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the Hall of Mirrors
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$1600
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This temperance advocate took in battered women at Hatchet Hall, her Arkansas home
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Carrie Nation
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A CHRISTIE MYSTERY
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$400
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(Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) A train that was snowbound in Turkey for 10 days in 1929 & the 1932 kidnapping of the Lindbergh baby helped inspire the plot of this, one of Agatha Christie's greatest novels
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Murder on the Orient Express
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$800
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(Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Because she worked as a nurse & later as a pharmacy dispenser, Christie frequently used poison as the murder weapon in her writing--strychnine, cyanide, & very often this one, as it would have been easy to obtain in her day as rat poison
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arsenic
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$1200
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(Lucy Boynton presents the clue.) Agatha Christie wrote 12 novels & 20 short stories featuring this woman & regretted making her so old at the outset; she would have been well over 100 by the time Christie finished writing about her
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Miss Marple
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$1600
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(Will Poulter presents the clue.) This courtroom drama that hinges on the testimony of the mistress of the accused murderer had been adapted for stage & screen, & in 2014 was performed in an actual English coutrroom
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Witness for the Prosecution
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$2000
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(Hugh Laurie presents the clue.) The amateur sleuths featured in my adaptation of "Why Didn't They Ask Evans", Bobby Jones & Frankie Derwent, have a lot in common with the detectives Christie enjoyed writing about the most, the Beresfords--Tommy and his wife Prudence, nicknamed this, slang for a British coin
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Tuppence
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GEOGRAPHIC TERMS
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N/A
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The 1964 article that gave this term its current use noted the "menace that haunts the Atlantic off our southeastern coast"
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the Bermuda Triangle
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