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A REIGN OF ERROR
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The relentless execution of Protestant rebels earned this queen of England the nickname "Bloody" & the hatred of her people
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Mary
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After having his mom & wife killed, this emperor was accused of starting a fire that devastated Rome; he blamed the Christians
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Nero
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Britannica, on one of this czar's many errors: he "met the rising groundswell of popular unrest with intensified police repression"
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Nicholas II
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After trying to buy Cortes off to stop an invasion, this Aztec emperor let the Spaniards into Tenochtitlan with no opposition
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Montezuma
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Part of what made him "unready" to be England's king was massacring Danish settlers in 1002, which spurred more invasions
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Ethelred the Unready
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HOUSEHOLD INITIALS
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P.L.: The one on the stove might go out occasionally
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the pilot light
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$400
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S.D.: It's time to change the batteries when they chirp
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smoke detector
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$600
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M.T.: Removal of it "under penalty of law" does not apply to the consumer
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mattress tag
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$800
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G.D.: The InSinkErator is a brand of this
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garbage disposal
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M.R.: It's a vestibule where you take off wet clothes
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the mud room
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A NUMBER BETWEEN 2 & 115
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The sequence of triangular numbers goes 3, 6, this
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10
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Numbers is this number book in the King James Bible
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the 4th
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$600
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The proverbial "weakling" weighs this many pounds, though a Charles Atlas ad had it one pound less
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98
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$800
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Feb. 6, 2022 began Elizabeth II's platinum jubilee, marking this many years on the throne
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70
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$1000
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In 1958 Crayola introduced its box of this many crayons, the first with sharpener included
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64
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BOOK 'EM
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In 1897 this Bram Stoker horror novel was vastly outsold by another in the genre, "The Beetle", about a shape-shifting monster
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Dracula
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A series of instructional books was launched in 1991 with the title this 3-letter computer acronym "for Dummies"
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DOS
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In 2019 this Irma Rombauer book was fully revised & updated with 600 new recipes
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the Joy of Cooking
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$800
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African-American actress & writer Alice Childress is known for her young adult novel "A Hero Ain't Nothin' But" this
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a Sandwich
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This James Redfield bestseller about an ancient manuscript that provides 9 key insights to life has been called "a spiritual classic"
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The Celestine Prophecy
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AT THE MOVIES
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Ellen DeGeneres voiced this character in "Finding Nemo" & its sequel
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Dory
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"May the odds be ever in your favor" is a line from this 2012 post-apocalyptic film
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The Hunger Games
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In "Mary Poppins Returns", this actress took on the role of the magical nanny
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Emily Blunt
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$800
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Denzel Washington & Viola Davis reprised their Tony-winning roles in the 2016 movie version of this play
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Fences
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"Beavis & Butt-Head" creator Mike Judge wrote & directed this 1999 workplace comedy
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Office Space
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ENDS IN DOUBLE LETTERS
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$200
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In the 1980s this word lost favor to the gender-neutral flight attendant
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stewardess
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$400
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This seven-letter track & field moment seen here requires practice & teamwork
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the handoff
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$600
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In Spanish it's globo ocular
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the eyeball
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$800
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This type of ornamentation is like lacework done with gold or silver
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filigree
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It's the aggrieved party that initiates a lawsuit
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the plaintiff
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AROUND THE USA
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To see a rare stone beach on Washington Island, Wisconsin, you must brave Death's Door, a strait connecting Lake Michigan and this bay
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Green Bay
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$800
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Head west on I-40 in New Mexico, & you can go from Acoma to Zuni, visiting two of the state's 19 of these centuries old Native American communities
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pueblos
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$1200
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Incredible homes like Marble House, an imitation of Versailles, meant to be a temple of the arts, are in this Rhode Island city
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Newport
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$1600
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Seafood plus history mark this area, named for its location on Chesapeake Bay, birthplace of both Harriet Tubman & Frederick Douglass
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the Eastern Shore
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$2000
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Southwest of Tallahassee, this community got the same name as a Central American capital in 1909 when its people were excited about possible trade
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Panama City
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OH ME OF LITTLE FAITH
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This Amherst woman wrote, "'Faith' is a fine invention / For gentlemen who see! / But microscopes are prudent / In an emergency!"
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Dickinson
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After an admiral bags on his beliefs, this film villain says, "I find your lack of faith disturbing" & forces the issue
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Darth Vader
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This "Derek" star tweeted atheists were fighting again "over who doesn't believe in any god the most... wait... that never happens"
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Ricky Gervais
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In 1796 Samuel Miles, an elector for this political party, went "faithless" & voted against John Adams
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the Federalists
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1 of the 2 Brits, a biologist & a political writer, in "The Four Horsemen of Atheism" with Americans Daniel Dennett & Sam Harris
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(1 of) Christopher Hitchens (Richard Dawkins)
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CATCH THE MUSICAL TV ACT
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$400
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Scrantonicity
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The Office
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$800
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Dr. Teeth & the Electric Mayhem, with Animal on drums
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The Muppet Show
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Jesse & the Rippers, led by Uncle Jesse Katsopolis
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Full House
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$1600
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Dingoes Ate My Baby, performing down at the Bronze
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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$2000
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The rapper Clark County
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Atlanta
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BAT QUIZ
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Bats are mammals of the order Chiroptera, meaning "hand"-this
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wing
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$800
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Nectar-feeding bats pollinate the flowers that grow on the tips of the organ pipe variety of this desert plant
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a cactus
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Bats navigate at night using this system of acoustic orientation that incorporates nature's version of radar
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echolocation
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$1600
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Vampire bat bites threaten livestock not by making them the undead, but by spreading this disease caused by a lyssavirus
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rabies
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Each year as many as 20 million female Mexican free-tailed bats give birth at sites like Bracken Cave in this U.S. state
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Texas
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WHAT THE LETTER SAYS
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Thomas Jefferson's last public letter, 10 days before he died, says, sorry, too sick to attend the celebrations of its 50th anniversary
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U.S. independence
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In 1855 she wrote a friend in England apologizing for not writing sooner but the Crimean War wounded were keeping her busy
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Florence Nightingale
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In 1964 he wrote from Mecca that he had prayed with white people whose belief in Allah had "removed the 'white' from their minds"
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Malcolm X
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In 1639 he wrote to Lord Huygens about his paintings with the "greatest & most natural movement" & mentioning "I live on the Inner Amstel"
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Rembrandt
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A 1496 letter authorizes him & his son Sebastian to sail for England & claim isles, regions & "provinces of heathen & infidels"
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John Cabot
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SINCERELY YOURS
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In "Casablanca" Cuddles Sakall insists that the gambling at Rick's cafe is as this "as the day is long"
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honest
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$800
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9-letter "cardiac" adjective for sincere apologies or sympathies
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heartfelt
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$1200
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If I give you the straight scoop, I do this, the title of a 1966 Aaron Neville hit
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"Tell It Like It Is"
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$1600
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It sounds like you just keep rising with this repetitive idiom that starts with "on the"
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on the up-and-up
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From the Latin, this word for sincere has a close relative, "genuine", & a "dis-" opposite
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ingenuous
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HISTORY
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N/A
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Intimately familiar with World War I, Churchill considered this war from some 150 years before the "first world war"
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the Seven Years War
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