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GEOGRAPHIC SUPERLATIVES
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At 29,032 feet up, atop this highest mountain, you'll be on top of the world
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Mount Everest
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$400
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At about 3.3 million square miles, this largest desert covers an area that's almost equal to that of the United States
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the Sahara
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This largest bay is part of the Indian Ocean
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the Bay of Bengal
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$800
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Located in Venezuela, it has the longest uninterrupted drop of any waterfall
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Angel Falls
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Covering over 140,000 square miles, it's the world's largest inland body of water
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the Caspian Sea
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RED ALL OVER
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Less common today, this infectious bacterial disease of kids characterized by a red rash has a hue of red in its name
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scarlet fever
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$400
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There's a red in the name of this gravest type of transgression in Catholic theology
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a cardinal sin
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$600
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A tarocco is this type of hybrid orange whose flesh is actually a vivid red, thanks to anthocyanins
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a blood orange
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$800
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Native to Eastern North America, it's the species of hummingbird seen here
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a ruby-throated hummingbird
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This word for red wine, now especially Bordeaux wine, can also mean a reddish color
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claret
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TAKING STOCK SYMBOL
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CMG is this Mexican grill, &... what? Guac is extra? That's the first I'm hearing of that
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Chipotle
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BB, securing your data in a nice, safe Canadian way
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BlackBerry
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$600
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You can get a kick out of buying into this soccer club with the symbol MANU but then you shouldn't complain about the ownership
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Manchester United
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$800
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Give us some credit (check) with EFX
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Equifax
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$1000
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Hal...? Open the stock pay doors, Hal... (Hal being this oil company)
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Haliburton
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TV FACTOIDS
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With a knack for predicting plays, he's been a success in the broadcast booth like he was behind center
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Tony Romo
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In 2022 Zendaya returned as troubled high schooler Rue Bennett on this HBO drama
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Euphoria
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$600
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A teaching hospital in this city has been the setting for "Grey's Anatomy" for 18 seasons
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Seattle
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$800
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The latest variant of the "Law & Order" franchise is "Organized Crime" starring this man, a veteran of "SVU"
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Christopher Meloni
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$1000
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This daytime talk show host seen here once worked as a morning TV news anchor in Chicago
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Tamron Hall
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KIDS' BOOKS
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Despite his mother's warning, this title character does get into mischief, eating from Mr. McGregor's garden
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Peter Rabbit
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The title character of this classic by Eric Carle literally eats through the pages of the book
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The Very Hungry Caterpillar
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This stuffed bear with a fabric name goes searching for a missing button
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Corduroy
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She is the smallest of the 12 girls who live in a vine-covered house in Paris
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Madeline
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This 2-word title of Chelsea Clinton's book about determined women was coined by Sen. McConnell about Sen. Warren
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She Persisted
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3 LETTERS IN A ROW, ALPHABETICALLY
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Making money by doing what some considered foolish? You're doing this "all the way to the bank"
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laughing
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It's the 2-word family relationship you have with the child of your mom's brother
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first cousin
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To libel or slander (but it doesn't mean to make less well known)
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defame
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It's the traditional response to "are too!"
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am not
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It's where a river's mouth meets the ocean
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an estuary
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HISTORY
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When Pompey took this metropolis in 63 B.C., Judea fell under the heel of the Romans
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Jerusalem
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In 1632 Maryland was granted to this lord, son of George Calvert, as a Catholic haven
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Baltimore
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The Yuan Dynasty was ousted in 1368 by this other 4-letter dynasty that would last a while
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the Ming Dynasty
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18th century military prowess forced others to refer to this Prussian as "The Great"
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Frederick the Great
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Around 5,000 years ago bronze objects were being produced in this 2-letter Mesopotamian city
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Ur
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MOVIE INSPIRATIONS
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These cinematic siblings met a dude named Jeff Dowd who inspired them to make "The Big Lebowski"
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the Coen brothers
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The 1925 painting "House by the Railroad" by Edward Hopper was an inspiration for the Bates home in this 1960 film
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Psycho
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Padre Fray Tormenta, who helped the orphans of Texcoco while wearing a mask in the ring, inspired this 2006 comedy
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Nacho Libre
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"Racer X", a 1998 article by Ken Li about illegal street-racing, inspired this high-octane film franchise
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The Fast and the Furious
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Ben Stiller cited this "international" thriller from 1962 as an inspiration for "Zoolander"; poor Derek is an assassination patsy
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The Manchurian Candidate
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I DON'T HEAR A SYMPHONY
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Not quite yet the symphony, the sinfonia was an instrumental part of these stage works, like "Giasone", a big one of the 1600s
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operas
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With Beethoven in mind, Mahler believed writing this number symphony was endsville, so he called a 1908 work a song cycle
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the 9th
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Beethoven's "Kreutzer" is not a symphony but one of these "S" works for violin & piano
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a sonata
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César Franck composed "Symphonic" these on a theme, but no one agrees on how many it contains --between 6 & 15
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Variations
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A bit like a symphony, the first work called this "for Orchestra" instead of for a solo instrument was in 1925 by Hindemith
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a concerto
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MEDICAL BREAKTHROUGHS
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Around 1851 Hermann von Helmholtz invented the ophthalmoscope, used to examine these body parts
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the eyes
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In an operation in 1846, William Morton employed ether in the first successful public use of this
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anesthesia
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Sir Martin Evans shared a 2007 Nobel Prize for his discoveries with these undifferentiated biological units
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stem cells
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2022 brought the first transplant of a heart from this farm animal into a person
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a pig
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Derived from the foxglove plant by William Withering in the 1700s, this drug is still prescribed in treating heart conditions
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digitalis (digoxin)
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TRANSPLANTS
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As the Nazis rose to power, this scientist decided in Dec. 1932 to leave Germany; he never returned after moving to Princeton
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Einstein
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Born Freda Josephine McDonald in St. Louis, she brought her danse sauvage to Paris in 1925 & became a French citizen in 1937
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Josephine Baker
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In 1986 this Philippine president & his pals stuffed $7.7 million into suitcases & fled to Hawaii, where he died 3 years later
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(Ferdinand) Marcos
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This artist who painted "Paris Through the Window" left Russia in his rear view in 1922 & went to see Paris through his window
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Marc Chagall
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He reluctantly took his government across the Formosa Strait & set up shop in Taiwan in 1949
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Kai-shek
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"M.R.", AYE!
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This display of colossal presidents was dedicated in 1927
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Mount Rushmore
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Cooking to about 135 degrees gets your T-bone done this way
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medium rare
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During World War II, Winston planned strategy in this aptly named space; you can still visit it
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the Map Room
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It flows about 1,100 miles through Canada, emptying into the Beaufort Sea
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the Mackenzie River
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This French composer created many of his works as parts of ballets
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(Maurice) Ravel
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GEOGRAPHY WORDS
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N/A
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From Greek for "chief" & "sea", this word originally referred to the Aegean, known for its many island groups
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archipelago
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