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HUNGARY
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Under a treaty following WWI, Hungary lost about 2/3 of its territory, including Transylvania, to this country
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Romania
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Hungary's Ferenc Puskas, "The Galloping Major", was one of the first international superstars of this sport
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soccer
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The beautiful Tokaj region in the northeast is world famous for its production of this, like Tokaji Aszu
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wine
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In 1988, 43 years after his death in self-exile in New York, this composer's remains were returned to his beloved Hungary
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Bartók
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BOOK TITLE REFERENCES
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Per an Alice Walker novel, God will be mad if you don't notice it in a field
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the color purple
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Luke Castellan (not Percy Jackson), who stole Zeus' master bolt
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a lightning thief
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The murder of Linnet Doyle aboard the Karnak, a steamer
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Death on the Nile
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In a novel by Khaled Hosseini, a boy named Hassan
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The Kite Runner
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In a Paulo Coelho novel, a 200-year-old who can transform base metals into gold
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The Alchemist
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KNIGHT AFTER KNIGHT
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In 2014 Prince William knighted this Oscar winner's "left foot", & the rest of him, too
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Daniel Day-Lewis
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To honor his father, this star here was knighted in his birth name, so he's Sir Maurice Micklewhite
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Michael Caine
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After captaining the Enterprise on TV in the '90s, this actor would get called "Sir" for another reason in 2010
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Patrick Stewart
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In 1998 Queen Elizabeth knighted this piano-playing singer, though his first & last names got reversed when he was introduced
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(Sir) Elton John
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Though too frail to kneel, this 85-year-old silent film star was tapped in 1975, just a few miles from where he grew up in poverty
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Chaplin
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PRE HISTORIC
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To rest in a big way for a few months starting around December
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hibernate
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Check out an example of these; you don't have to translate them, though
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hieroglyphics
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A set of people who rob on a public road, or in a more fun sense, a side project for Willie Nelson & 3 other legends
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highwaymen
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From the Latin for "gap", it describes the break a TV show takes when it goes out of production for a few weeks
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hiatus
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This hairy adjective is extremely close to historic in the dictionary
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hirsute
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TEXTING, TEXTING
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In Oregon a first offense for texting while doing this can be a class B violation & a $1,000 fine
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driving
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Although it's been said many times, many ways, in Dec. 1992 a 22-year-old software engineer sent these 2 words in the very 1st text
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Merry Christmas
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Online at damnyou this: "How's your day going?"; "Awful. I have a bad case of the manboobs" (followed by) "Omg. The Mondays!"
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Autocorrect
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MMS, this message service, lets you attach that cute video of your toddler singing "Poker Face" in a text to grandma
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Multimedia
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ATEOTD, in texting lingo, ATEOTD is short for this
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at the end of the day
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ONE, TWO
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In 2014 Jennifer Garner began wondering about the contents of your wallet in ads for this company
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Capital One
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A tree-dweller, the 2-toed this mammal sleeps about 15 hours a day & can take an entire month to digest some food items
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a sloth
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"Shave & a haircut, 2 bits"?! Sounds like quite the bargain, as 2 bits is usually worth this amount of money
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a quarter
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The basic movement in this numeric Lone Star State dance is "quick-quick, slow, slow"
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a (Texas) two-step
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In 1934 John Dillinger got a very unwanted birthday present, this 4-word designation & soon, a $10,000 reward on his head
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Public Enemy Number One
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U.S. HISTORY
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In 1915 the Revenue Cutter Service & the Life-Saving Service merged to create this branch of the military
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the Coast Guard
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The Dorr Rebellion in 1842 was directed against the government of this "Ocean State"
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Rhode Island
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In 1912, the U.S. flag gained its 47th & 48th stars after these two neighbors, highlighted here, joined the Union
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Arizona & New Mexico
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In 1973 this retired Chief Justice returned to California to swear in Tom Bradley, the first Black mayor of Los Angeles
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(Earl) Warren
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Known as "Mother", she emigrated from Italy in 1889 & in 1946 she became the first U.S. citizen to be declared a saint
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(Mother) Cabrini
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ASTRONOMY
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Because they orbit between the Earth & Sun, these are known as the 2 "inferior" planets
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Mercury & Venus
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65 times the size of the Sun, Canopus, the second-brightest star in the sky, is a yellow-white one of these
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a yellow-white giant
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It's the second smallest of the solar system's 8 major planets
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Mars
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Blown back by this, a comet's ion tail points almost directly away from the Sun
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the solar wind
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Astronomers use this, the difference in an object's direction when observed from 2 points, to measure distance
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parallax
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BIBLICAL WOMEN
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The woman who found the baby Moses floating in a basket in the river is identified in Exodus only as this person's daughter
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Pharaoh
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David's wife & Solomon's mother, she had formerly been married to Uriah the Hittite
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Bathsheba
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This dancer who in Matthew 14 is referred to as "the daughter of Herodias" is better known by this name
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Salome
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This matriarch was the mother of Esau & Jacob
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Rebecca
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The name of this queen who vowed to have the prophet Elijah killed has come to mean an immoral woman
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Jezebel
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FINANCE BROS
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Anderson Brothers Bank was founded in 1933 in the depths of this to give desperately needed support to South Carolina farmers
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the Great Depression
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In September 2008 Lehman Brothers, with $639 billion in assets, filed the largest one of these in U.S. history
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bankruptcy
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A philanthropic fund was created in 1940 by these brothers--John 3rd, Laurance, Winthrop, Nelson & David
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the Rockefellers
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The fabulous Baker Boys, Julian & Felix, run a hedge fund specializing in this 7-letter sector of new drug development
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biotech
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Founded by French freres, this financial advising & asset managing giant is LAZ on the New York Stock Exchange
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Lazard
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ROCK DOCS
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Hofstra linguistics Prof Robert Leonard sang at this 1969 concert, where he & his band Sha Na Na opened for their pal Jimi Hendrix
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Woodstock
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Can't get much more metal than Runhild Gammelsaeter, who sang for the band called this god's Hammer & has a PhD from the U. of Oslo
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Thor
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"I'm just a sucker with no self-esteem" sang Dexter Holland, a molecular biology PhD who's the lead singer of this band
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The Offspring
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After playing guitar with Lou Reed & Nico in this influential '60s band, Sterling Morrison earned a PhD in medieval studies
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The Velvet Underground
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4-time "Jeopardy!" champ Jackie Fuchs has a J.D. from Harvard; as Jackie Fox, she played bass in this all-female Joan Jett band
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The Runaways
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DECIPHER OUR TOP-SECRET CODE PART II
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One possible answer: 14-15
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no
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Precious commodity: 7-15-12-4
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gold
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This little light in a gas-powered appliance: 16-9-12-15-20
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pilot
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A reddish brown: 21-13-2-5-18
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umber
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Vascular plant part: 24-25-12-5-13
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xylem
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TV LEGENDS
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N/A
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Buster Keaton considered her the tops in her field &, in fact, was one of her early mentors
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Lucille Ball
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