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ANCIENT HISTORY
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Sparking a revolt, the Roman slave & gladiator Spartacus & many others escaped in 73 B.C. & first took refuge on this volcano
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(Mount) Vesuvius
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Consulting the oracle at this site was opened wide with the destruction of the nearby town of Krisa, which taxed visitors
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Delphi
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This festival commemorates a Jewish victory over seleucid forces around 165 B.C. & the rededication of the temple
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Hanukkah
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A noted military use of these animals was by Pyrrhus at the Battle of Heraclea in 280 B.C.; they freaked out the Roman horses
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elephants
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In the 2nd millennium B.C., these seafarers had cities or colonies from the Eastern Mediterranean to North Africa
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the Phoenicians
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ABBREVIATED TV
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This investigative series has come in flavors like "NY", "Miami" & "Cyber"
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CSI
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Clark Gregg & Chloe Bennet fought evil as "Agents of" this
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S.H.I.E.L.D.
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This drama premiered in 2003 with a troubled kid from Chino being taken in by a wealthy family in Newport Beach
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The O.C.
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Eriq La Salle played surgical resident Peter Benton on this long-running series
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ER
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The forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. were enemies of "The Man from" this 1960s title spy organization
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U.N.C.L.E.
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ONE-LETTER FIRST NAME CHANGE
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A princess of Wales & a portrayer of Annie Hall
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Diana & Diane
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A 1980s New York governor & a 2000s first lady of California
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Mario & Maria
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A scat-singing jazz legend of the 1940s & an Aussie supermodel who had "The Body" of the 1980s
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Ella & Elle
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Patterson's fictional homicide investigator & the real-life voice of "The Boss Baby"
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Alex & Alec
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"Old Hickory" & Soviet nuclear physicist & peace activist Sakharov
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Andrew & Andrei
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BOOK IT!
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2 very different novels are "The Murmur of" these & "The Secret Life of" these
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Bees
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In 2022, he put out a nonfiction book called "Life Force"
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(Tony) Robbins
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This book comes between "Twilight" & "Eclipse"
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New Moon
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He set "Harlem Shuffle" in the 1960s
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(Colson) Whitehead
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Her bestsellers include "Big Little Lies" & "Apples Never Fall"
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Moriarty
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PUMP-POURRI
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It's the size of a fist & pumps 5-6 quarts of blood per minute, or about 2,000 gallons a day
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the heart
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This rhymingly named device removes water from a pit that's the lowest point of a drainage system
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a sump pump
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Technotronic told us to "Pump up" this, "Pump it up, while your feet are stompin'... get your booty on the floor tonight"
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the jam
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A bicycle pump is often used to separate the crispy skin on this Chinese national dish
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Peking duck
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In 1854 one water pump on London's Broad Street caused an outbreak of this infectious disease of the small intestine
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cholera
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SILENT W WORDS
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The fairy type of this bird seen here can be found in Eastern Australia
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a wren
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Idiomatically, a sensual dance of Argentina requires this many
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two
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A determination of this type of death based on negligence can lead to a lawsuit
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wrongful
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Where the lower part of the radius ends
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the wrist
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10-letter job of Mamet or Pinter
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playwright
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PRESENTING JEOPCOIN!
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To store your Jeopcoins, we offer a cold one of these, like the one for cash in your back pocket, just $299.99
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a wallet
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We're clean crypto!--power for this, the computing by computers of new Jeopcoins, is from recycled glitter & doll hands
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mining
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Super Bowl ads? Crass. We plan a rollout at the 2023 championships of this ski-&-shoot sport in the Thuringian Forest
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biathlon
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You'll want to invest when we launch our cryptocurrency through our ICO, short for this (it's like an IPO)
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an initial coin offering
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We're very close to amassing the assets to make our crypto this kind of "coin", meaning it's tied to a traditional base like dollars or gold
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a stablecoin
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CLASSICAL MUSIC
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As well as an imposing title, "Die Gezeichneten" has one of opera's longest of these musical preludes at about 20 minutes
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an overture
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"Saturn, The Bringer of Old Age" was Gustav Holst's favorite part of this work of his
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The Planets
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In 1830 German composer Felix Mendelssohn traveled south & found inspiration for this "national" symphony
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the Italian Symphony
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He dedicated "The Firebird" to his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov
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Stravinsky
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It's the term for an extended instrumental solo in a concerto, like the one in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5
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a cadenza
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COUNTRY OF THE WATERFALL
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Horseshoe Falls & Helmcken Falls
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Canada
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Dettifoss in Vatnajökull National Park
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Iceland
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Corra Linn, part of a the Falls of Clyde
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Scotland
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Wairere Falls, towering over the Waikato Plains
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New Zealand
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Reichenbach Falls
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Switzerland
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THAT'S NOT A PRESIDENT
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"Kennedy" used to mean one of these fireplace implements, & to Kennedy someone was to hit them with it
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a poker
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It means to consume something voraciously, like a particular appliance brand
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hoover
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The Roosevelt is a variety of this second-biggest North American deer also known as the wapiti
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an elk
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A Tyler is a doorkeeper at the secret meetings of this fraternal organization founded by stoneworkers
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the Freemasons
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A Wilson is a type of this scientific "chamber" in which charged particles are passed through water vapor
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a cloud chamber
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DRINK UP POP CULTURE
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This host of "Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee" has drunk some Joe with Margaret Cho & Jay Leno
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Seinfeld
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John Lee Hooker & George Thorogood sang of the trio "One bourbon, one scotch" & one this
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one beer
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"Wishful Drinking" was a one-woman show & a memoir by this daughter of Debbie Reynolds
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Carrie Fisher
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A tagline from this 1994 Tom Cruise flick: "Drink from me & live forever"
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Interview with the Vampire
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In "Another Round", this actor plays one of a quartet of teachers in Copenhagen who tests a theory about drinking
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Mads Mikkelsen
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WORDS OF COMFORT
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Brits spell this 4-letter word meaning warm & snug with an "S", Yanks with a "Z"
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cozy
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It usually means unattractive, but can also mean comfortable, like one's place of residence
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homely
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According to a 1697 play, it's what music can do to a savage breast
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soothe
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Meaning both holy & venerated & bringing pleasure & contentment, it begins many a beatitude
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blessed
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Theories on the origin of this word meaning A-OK include African-American slang & Italian cappo sotto
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copacetic
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CHILDREN'S LITERATURE
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First published in French in 1943, this book has been called the most translated non-religious work, rendered into more than 300 languages
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The Little Prince
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