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IN THE WORLD CAPITAL
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$200
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The university of this is in Santiago, but national congress meetings are not; those are in Valparaíso
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Chile
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In 1791 Mozart conducted the first performance of "The Magic Flute" in this city
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Vienna
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$600
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This city has many ancient temples & the Hindu Akshardam one, completed in 2005 A.D.
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New Delhi
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$800
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Sail over to the Kon-Tiki Museum & the Fram Museum featuring Amundsen's polar ship in this city
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Oslo
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We'd love to take one of the cars in its Royal Automobile Museum for a spin, maybe 3 hours north to another capital, Damascus
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Amman
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RENAISSANCE ART & ARTISTS
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The largest dome since antiquity was constructed in the 1430s by the architect Brunelieschi in this city
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Florence
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In 2016 Leonardo's painting of this preacher in Mark 1 got its first cleaning since 1802
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John the Baptist
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A master or print making, Albrecht Dürer used this grainy technique to great effect as seen here
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woodcuts
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Born Jacopo Robusti, this painter of biblical subjects like "Susanna & the Elders" had a name meaning "little dyer"
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Tintoretto
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One of the most famous works of this Venetian master is simply known as "La Bella", "The Beautiful Woman"
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Titian
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PHIL & THE BLANK
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He won 11 NBA titles as coach of the Bulls & Lakers: Phil ____
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Jackson
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The Genesis of his hall of fame career was a toy drum kit he got as a kid: Phil ____
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Collins
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With brother Don, he had a hit with "Wake Up Little Susie": Phil ____
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Everly
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He got his own TV show in 2002: Dr. Phil ____
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McGraw
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He put the Swoosh in Nike: Phil ____
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Phil Knight
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DON'T GET CONFUSED
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Change an "A" to an "E" to go from immobile to this write stuff
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stationery
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Dubbing is the act of conferring knighthood; this is the act of beating severely
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drubbing
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"Odorous" means strong-smelling; this means reprehensible
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odious
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Spelled one way, it's a pile of treasure; spelled another, it's a crowd coming to take it
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hoard (horde)
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An antonym of "energize", it begins with the same 4 letters
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enervate
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APPLES
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These green-skinned apples go into apple pie & at See's Candies, go into the apple pie truffles
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Granny Smiths
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In 2011 McDonald's removed the caramel dip from the apple slices option with this offering
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a Happy Meal
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Oscar Tschirky, the legendary maître d' of a certain hotel, created this salad with apples as the central ingredient
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Waldorf
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$800
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This apple with a Japanese name is actually a cross between 2 American varieties
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a Fuji
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This apple tart is named for 2 French sisters who served it at their hotel in the Loire Valley
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tarte Tatin
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ORANGES
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This football game was called the Palm Festival when first played in 1933
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the Orange Bowl
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William of Orange, who became British king in 1689, was stadtholder, or chief executive, of this other nation
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the Netherlands
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Ignition Orange is a special edition color of this truck brand named for a male animal
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a Ram
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It's not just the one in Paris--Orange, France has an arch dating from Roman times known by this French name
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the Arc de Triomphe
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The there in "There There" by Tommy Orange is Oakland, where his characters are headed for this gathering of Native Americans
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a powwow
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THIS WILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY
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It went up in 1936 in Friedrichshafen, Germany & went down for good in Lakehurst, New Jersey a little over a year later
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the Hindenburg
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Recent statue topplings by activists have included those of this explorer in St. Paul & in Richmond
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Columbus
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Herod the Great died in this city whose wall came tumbling down in the book of Joshua
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Jericho
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This country's flag was said to have fallen from heaven in 1219, a sign of support for Valdemar II in war with the Estonians
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Denmark
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In 1979 the S.F. Examiner awarded $10,000 to the first person who produced a piece of this, which had just fallen from the sky
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Skylab
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A BIT OF LIT
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Edwidge Danticat's "Breath, Eyes, Memory" moves from Croix-des-Rosets in this Caribbean island country to NYC & back
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Haiti
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Korzeniowski was the original last name of this "Lord Jim" author
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Joseph Conrad
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Shakespeare's "Henry V" takes place before & after this decisive 1415 battle in France
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Agincourt
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"The Last Tycoon" was left unfinished at this author's death
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F. Scott Fitzgerald
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This Japanese-born British author of "The Remains of the Day" & "Never Let Me Go" won the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature
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(Kazuo) Ishiguro
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"M" PATHS
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A 4,700-mile cycling path from Cadiz through Athens to Cyprus is called this route, from the body of water it runs along
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the Mediterranean Route
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Type of institution that has a "Row" in Garden City on Long Island, including one about firefighting & a children's one
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museums
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This almost 200-mile trail named for a famous line runs through Pennsylvania, Maryland & Delaware
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the Mason-Dixon
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In 2020 more than 2 miles of this iconic San Francisco street were permanently closed to automobile traffic
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Market Street
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A 211-mile trail named for this naturalist winds through the Sierra Nevada from Yosemite to Mount Whitney
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(John) Muir
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CALLING FOR A MEASUREMENT
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$400
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Time to work the back 640 of these; that's equal to one square mile, so hop to it
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an acre
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In the Chinese city of Harbin in October 2013, this measure was 65' due to smog
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visibility
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It's a unit of measure for small things like atoms; it's also a small mammal
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a mole
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There are 12 ounces per pound in the Troy system & 16 ounces per pound in this system of weight abbreviated avdp
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avoirdupois
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The energy used to lift an apple about 3 feet is 1 watt-second, which equals this "gem"
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a joule
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SUPER-DUPER SUPERS
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Famous as Captain America, Chris Evans played this Marvel hothead in 2005's "Fantastic Four"
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the Human Torch
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This superhero quartet of TV & film all have the names of Renaissance artists
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the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
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Large & in charge, King Shark went "nom nom" on a few folks in the 2021 reboot about this group
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the Suicide Squad
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There's no shelter from the storm for super-powered adoptees Klaus & Allison on this Netflix show
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the Umbrella Academy
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Seen here, he sounded like he could take a punch or 12 voicing the title super Invincible
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Yeun
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WORDS WITH FIENDS
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You "go" this fiendish 5-letter word when you deviate from the expected
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rogue
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On film, Steve Martin was a "Dirty Rotten" one of these
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a scoundrel
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A nasty creature of folklore, or one who makes offensive posts online
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a troll
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A mischievous person, or a type of mobility scooter
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a rascal
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This hyphenated 3-word synonym for a fiend has an apostrophe for the "V" in the first word
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a ne\'er-do-well
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TECHNOLOGY
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N/A
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Upon the first use of this in 1844, the Baltimore Sun declared that time & space had been annihilated
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the telegraph
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