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ON THE COAST
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The beautiful people know the Côte D'Azur is also called the French this
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Riviera
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Manuel Antonio is a magnificent beach in this Costa-l country of Central America
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Costa Rica
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$600
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PCH for short, this road has its northern terminus near Leggett, California
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the Pacific Coast Highway
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$800
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You'll find Pompano Beach & Deerfield Beach on this state's scenic Gold Coast
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Florida
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Incheon, on South Korea's West Coast, is a port on this sea north of the East China Sea
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the Yellow Sea
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SOUND UP!
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Guess what?! I got a fever! & the only prescription is more this instrument here!
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cowbell
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The wingbeats of this bird are heard here; it's been clocked at 50 wingbeats per second
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a hummingbird
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The use of this word for the basketball success heard here dates back at least as far as 1913
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a swish
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$800
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Chiming in now: This 15.1-ton great bell, part of a landmark
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Big Ben
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Heard here, these paired items are used expertly by native people of northern North America
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snowshoes
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SCIENCE STUFF
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A gram stain checks for these microbes; gram-positive ones include MRSA & strep while gram-negative ones include E. coli & salmonella
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bacteria
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A spinning skater rotates faster by pulling in her arms, a demonstration of the conservation of angular this
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momentum
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It was launched in 1990 with optical defects that required 5 spacewalks to fix
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the Hubble Telescope
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Abbreviated T, a fundamental unit of magnetic induction is named for this man
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Tesla
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Some 25 miles in depth, it lies between the troposphere & the mesosphere
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the stratosphere
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MOVIE TITLES OF A LIFETIME (NETWORK)
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2-4-6-8! What do we appreciate?! "Identity Theft of" this spirited type of high schooler!
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a cheerleader
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It was this two-word Internet sensation's "Worst Christmas Ever"
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Grumpy Cat
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$600
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In 2004 wedding planner Denise Richards fell for the groom in a movie titled this "(But I Don't)"
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I Do
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Oh dear... a college student finds her own way to pay her expensive tuition in "From Straight A's to" this 3-letter movie rating
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XXX
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A high school vampire tale punned on "Eat, Pray, Love" with "Drink", this synonym for murder, "Love"
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slay
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NON-MEDICAL DOCTORS
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Dr. Neil Clark Warren's 1967 Ph.D. in this subject has helped his service eHarmony engineer 2 million marriages
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clinical psychology
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The late, great New Orleans musician Dr. John was the inspiration for this "Muppet Show" bandleader
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Dr. Teeth
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She said, "I worked so hard" after a 2020 op-ed suggested she stop using "Dr." before her name
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Dr. Jill Biden
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Near the Mass. Ave. T stop on the Orange Line is where this man lived in the 1950s getting his theology at Boston University
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Martin Luther King Jr.
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In 1765 Trinity College Dublin conferred a doctorate on this pioneering dictionary maker
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Samuel Johnson
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IT'S RHYMING DAY
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A burro's bellow
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a bray
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"At the home of" en Francais
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chez
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$600
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To wander off topic or to have an extramarital affair
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stray
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To consider options
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weigh
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A heated dispute or competition
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a fray
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ON THE COASTER
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$400
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Usually the coaster is on the table--here, this type of table, named for its spot next to the arm of a couch, is on the coaster
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an end table
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$800
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Perfect for our coasters is a round painting, Madonna of this fruit she's holding, its seeds a symbol of Jesus' suffering
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a pomegranate
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$1200
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Coaster on coaster--sometimes known as "The Fifth Coaster", session great King Curtis played this instrument on hits like "Yakety Yak"
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the saxophone
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$1600
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Coaster on coaster--it's this venerable Coney Island ride that Charles Lindbergh said was more thrilling than flying
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the Cyclone
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$2000
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Have a drink on "Forbes" 6th richest American in 1918--this meat-packing magnate of hot dogs, his family's hot dogs
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J. Ogden Armour
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WRITTEN CYRILLIC
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This carnivore associated with Russia is medved in Russian
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a bear
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$800
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One way to say hello in Serbian is this, borrowed from Italian
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ciao
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$1200
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In Ukrainian, this winter month when Russia invaded in 2022 is Lyutyy, "cruel"
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February
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$1600
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Belarussian took words like "pan", meaning "sir" or "mister" from this language spoken due west of Belarus
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Polish
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$2000
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Some Tajik speakers call their language Zaboni Forsi, meaning this national tongue
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Persian
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D-DAY, THE 6TH OF JUNE
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$400
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Told there'd likely be a June 6 break in bad weather that had delayed the invasion, this commander gambled & said, "OK, let's go"
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Eisenhowser
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$800
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Oddly, Americans' first word of the invasion came from this capital, from sources like the news agency Transocean
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Berlin
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Members of this U.S. Army special operations force scaled the steep cliffs of Pointe du Hoc to take out German artillery
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the Rangers
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German Field Marshal Rommel predicted, "The first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive... it will be" this, the title of a 1962 film
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The Longest Day
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British & Canadian troops landed at areas code-named Gold, Juno & Sword Beaches; U.S. troops, at these 2
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Omaha & Utah
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ANTHROPOLOGY
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The field of glottochronology tries to pinpoint when 2 of these branched apart from a common source
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languages
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In everyday speech this "Money" is from unethical sources; in anthropology, it's compensation to the family of a murder victim
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blood money
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Why don't women die at menopause? In Kristen Hawkes' theory, when they become this older relative, they still help family survival
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a grandmother
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$1600
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A curandero is one of these healers who communicate with supernatural forces for information & to attempt cures
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a medicine man (a witch doctor)
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$2000
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Term for a kitchen trash heap like this one, studied centuries later to reveal eating habits & other aspects of a bygone group
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a midden
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WOMEN WRITERS
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In 1956, Kay Thompson, on the left, appeared in a TV production about this little girl of hers who lives at the Plaza Hotel
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Eloise
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Sadly, she died at the age of 30, just a year after her "Wuthering Heights" was published
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Emily Brontë
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She set "Little Fires Everywhere" in her hometown of Shaker Heights, Ohio
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Celeste Ng
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$1600
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In 2022 this late poet, author & activist became the first Black woman to appear on a U.S. quarter
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Maya Angelou
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She holds honorary doctorates from the University of Chile, the University of Santiago, & Harvard, among others
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(Isabel) Allende
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1992 FILMS
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$400
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Tom Hanks in this 1992 film: "Are you crying? There's no crying. There's no crying in baseball!"
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A League of Their Own
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$800
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Joe Pesci played an inept lawyer who's called upon to defend Ralph Macchio in this "family" comedy
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My Cousin Vinny
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$1200
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"You'll laugh. You'll cry. You'll hurl" was a tagline for this film starring Mike Myers & Dana Carvey as a couple of slackers
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Wayne\'s World
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$1600
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Denzel Washington earned an Oscar nomination for his portrayal of this slain civil rights leader
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Malcolm X
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$2000
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Chow Yun-fat starred in this Hong Kong director's action epic "Hard Boiled"
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John Woo
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GREEK MYTHOLOGY
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Of the Argonauts seeking the Golden Fleece, these 2 from the same family were from Sparta according to Homer
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Castor & Pollux
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