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WHERE AM I?
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(Sarah presents the clue.) I'm at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum, one of dozens of institutions, monuments & memorials along this promenade & green area that extends from the U.S. Capitol to the Potomac
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the (National) Mall
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(Sarah presents the clue.) I’m here on board the fire boat John S. Damrell helping protect this city’s harbor south of Winthrop & north of Quincy
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Boston
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(Jimmy presents the clue.) I’m training for the worst, at the Texas A&M Extension Service in this city named for its railroad connections
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College Station
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(Sarah presents the clue.) I’m in this area of San Francisco that served as an Army base for Spain, Mexico & the United States before switching to civilian use in 1994
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the Presidio
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(Jimmy presents the clue.) I’m at the Wright Brothers National Memorial near Kitty Hawk, perhaps the most historically important spot in the 200-mile chain of islands off North Carolina
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the Outer Banks
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MOVIES WITH NARRATORS
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2013: disgraced stockbroker Jordan Belfort (Leonardo DiCaprio)
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The Wolf of Wall Street
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1979: Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) regrets he's still only in Saigon
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Apocalypse Now
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1990: Henry hill says, "As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster"
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Goodfellas
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1986: Richard Dreyfuss remembers back to when he was Wil Wheaton
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Stand By Me
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1950: a screenwriter doesn't let being dead stop him from narrating a Hollywood tale
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Sunset Boulevard
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ANIMAL ANAGRAMS
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I found this insect on a leaf
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a flea (from leaf)
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I saw this critter sneak into the yard
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a snake (from sneak)
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Gosh, I didn't realize that half of these farm animals are raised in China
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hogs (from gosh)
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In summer this weasel is the color of toast
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a stoat (from toast)
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I hear this ostrich relative stands about 4 feet tall
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rhea (from hear)
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THE SHIRT OFF OUR BACK
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This type of sweater is named for the rowing team
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crew (a crew neck)
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Seen here, this item is said to date back to the 1920s or '30s, when kimono fabric began to be used for men's shirts
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a Hawaiian shirt
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A 2021 Rolling Stone headline: "The best" these "shirts for channeling every style, from grunge to cool lumber jack"
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flannel shirts
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The name of this university is found from nearly head to toe in a fashionable type of shirt as well as a type of shoe
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Oxford
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Maude Adams' look in a 1905 Broadway production of a J.M. Barrie work popularized this flat collar on shirts
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Peter Pan
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U.S. DATES
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On this date each year moments of silence are observed in New York City at 8:46 & 9:03 A.M.
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September 11th
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For years 7-Eleven offered a little joy with free Slurpees on this date
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July 11th
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Punxsutawney Phil is known to make an appearance on this day
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February 2nd
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On this date in 1921 an Unknown Soldier was buried at Arlington National Cemetery
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November 11th
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Date in 1865 on which Union General Gordon Granger told the African Americans of Galveston they were free
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June 19th (Juneteenth)
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JANE AUSTEN-TATIOUS
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Originally titled "First Impressions", this tale of Elizabeth Bennet would be Jane's second novel published
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Pride and Prejudice
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In Austen novels the girls like a guy who has "four thousand" or "five thousand a year"--4 or 5,000 of these
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pounds
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Austen adaptations include the 1995 movie version of this novel starring Emma Thompson as Elinor Dashwood
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Sense and Sensibility
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Jane lived most of her life in this southern English county that lent its name to a "New" U.S. state
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Hampshire
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2 of Jane's 6 novels were published posthumously--"Persuasion" & this one with a building for a title
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Northanger Abbey
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A HISTORY OF NONVIOLENCE
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At age 13 he married Kasturba, whom he would later call his teacher in nonviolence
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Gandhi
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Seen here, Stokely Carmichael replaced John Lewis as head of SNCC, short their Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
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Student
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St. Elizabeth of this country rode between 2 armies & quelled hostilities between her son Afonso & her husband, King Dinis
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Portugal
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One story of this Lakota leader recalls him entering a battlefield, taking a seat & smoking a pipe
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Sitting Bull
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This eldest son of Victoria was called "The Peacemaker"; the memorial here notes his Entente Cordiale with France
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Edward VII
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NOTES FOR A BIOGRAPHY
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George Monroe & William Robinson: 2 African-American riders in this horsepowered mail service in the 1860s
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the Pony Express
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Zhou Enlai: both prime minister & foreign minister of the country with this new name from its beginning in 1949
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the People\'s Republic of China
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Betty Friedan: the unhappy classmates at her Smith College 15th reunion inspired this 1963 nonfiction work
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The Feminine Mystique
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King George I: from Hanover, Germany but had a claim on the British crown through this man, his great-granddad born a Scot
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James I
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Jefferson Davis: as U.S. Secretary of War in 1853, he approved the import of these from Egypt to test in the Southwest
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camels
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KILLER TUNES
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"Are you ready? Hey! Are you ready for this? Are you hanging on the edge of your seat?" Are questions asked in this Queen tune
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"Another One Bites The Dust"
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He's the "Calvin Broadus (1972-1994)" referred to on the cover of "Murder Was the Case", both a song & short film
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Snoop Dogg
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Both Eric Clapton & Bob Marley sang this song, but swore it was in self-defense
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"I Shot The Sheriff"
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Fronted by Danny Elfman, this rhyming band sang, "It's a dead man's party, who could ask for more?"
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Oingo Boingo
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Backed up by the Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey & this man sang of the tragic fate of "Henry Lee"
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Nick Cave
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EARTH SCIENCE
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By definition, orogeny concerns itself with the formation of these by upward movements of the Earth's crust
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mountains
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Increased seismic activity, especially in Oklahoma, has been linked to wastewater injection & this controversial practice
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fracking
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An iron ore, this mineral is named for the property it's exhibiting here
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magnetite
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In contrast to the lithosphere, or solid outer part of the Earth, this consists of all the Earth's water
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hydrosphere
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This geologic era that began around 65 million years ago is the one we're living in today
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the Cenozoic
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SECRET SERVICES
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The U.S. Secret Service Uniformed Division branch named for this building includes counter snipers on its roof
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the White House
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Security Service & Secret Intelligence Service are the British agencies popularly known by these alphanumeric names
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MI5 & MI6
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This country's intelligence agency goes by the short name Mossad, which just means "the institute"
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Israel
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This 3-letter agency was created in 1954 as "the sword & shield of the Communist Party"
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the KGB
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This country's secret intelligence service ASIS was founded in 1952; its existence was only acknowledged in Parliament in 1975
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Australia
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P IS THE ONLY CONSONANT
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A young wolf
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a pup
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The bonobo is one
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an ape
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A sharp-pointed dueling sword
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an epee
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A J.Lo song popularized this Spanish word for "daddy" or "sweetheart "
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papi
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It's the life stage of an insect that fits the category
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pupa
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THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
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N/A
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Brazil stretches 2,700 miles from the Atlantic in the east to Serra do Divisor National Park on the border with this country in the west
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Peru
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