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MY PERSONAL QUOTATION DEVICE
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I need some Shakespeare & get her line "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet"
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Juliet
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I asked for a basic truth about humanity & got the often-said "If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like" this
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a nail
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A putdown, please. Oscar Wilde told a fellow poet who complained of "a conspiracy of" this, "join it"
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silence
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Commencement address wisdom: "Be the heroine of your life, not the victim", said this writer & filmmaker at Wellesley in 1996
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Nora Ephron
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21st century news quote time: Him in 2001--"We stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy"
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Blair
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KITCHEN TOOLS
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The name of this utensil used to serve soup comes from the Old English for "load"
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a ladle
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This 5-letter word refers to a stoppered flask, usually for oil or vinegar
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a cruet
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$600
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This Spanish rice & seafood dish is often made in a wide shallow pan named for the dish
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paella
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$800
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This implement that sounds like a lute relative is actually a vegetable slicer
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a mandoline
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There's a shape in the name of this device that makes vegetable noodles
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a spiralizer
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POP CULTURE IS ALWAYS IN SEASON
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A 2014 film: "Captain America: The ____ Soldier"
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Winter
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By Megan Thee Stallion: "Hot Girl ____"
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Summer
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A Broadway musical: "____ Awakening"
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Spring
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$800
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A play by James Goldman: "The Lion in ____"
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Winter
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$1000
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Directed by Ingmar Bergman: "____ Sonata"
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Autumn
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YOU'VE BEEN BOOKED
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$200
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It's an official record of events during the voyage of a ship or aircraft, captain
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a log
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$400
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Originally it was a book for priests on how to administer the sacraments; today it's a book of operating instructions
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a manual
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$600
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A classic work of literary criticism is Ian Watt's "The Rise of" this form: "Studies in Defoe, Richardson & Fielding"
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the novel
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$800
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Debits go on the left side in this book that contains the financial records of a business
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a ledger
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This 4-letter word for an especially weighty scholarly book comes from the Greek for "roll of papyrus"
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a tome
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THE DEVIL
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This marsupial kind of looks like a bear, has a jaw as strong as a hyena's & like its cartoon counterpart, can have a bad temper
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$400
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Cocoa powder in place of melted chocolate is one difference between this & a regular chocolate cake
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a devil\'s food chocolate cake
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$600
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Hall of Famers Martin Brodeur & Scott Stevens led this team to its first Stanley Cup in 1995
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the New Jersey Devils
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$800
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This insect is also called the devil's arrow or the devil's darning needle
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the dragonfly
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A debate provoker, this 2-word phrase dates to a 1616 work where one "pleadeth for nothing but for the kingdome of Sathan"
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a devil\'s advocate
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THE "D" TAILS
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Its tail is often pinned on at kids' parties
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donkey
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$400
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A joint used by carpenters is named for this bird's fan-shaped tail
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a dove
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$600
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Its tail gave its name to a 1950s men's hairstyle
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a ducktail (a duck)
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$800
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The website of the Perth Zoo informs us that these have bushy tails & can't bark
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dingoes
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$1000
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These marine creatures have learned to "walk" upright on their tails in captivity & also in the wild
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dolphins
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IT'S ANARCHY
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$400
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This country's repressive King Umberto I was assassinated by an anarchist in 1900
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Italy
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$800
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Matthew Arnold's 1869 "Culture and Anarchy" took the side of culture & popularized the phrase "sweetness and" this
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light
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$1200
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In 1872 anarchism pioneer Mikhail Bakunin quarreled with this man, splitting Europe's revolutionary movement
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(Karl) Marx
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$1600
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Anarchists helped spark the antiglobalization movement at the 1999 WTO protests in this U.S. city
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Seattle
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$2000
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In July 1917 Emma Goldman got 2 years in prison for opposing this wartime measure, authorized by Congress in May
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the draft
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VOWEL, CONSONANT, VOWEL, CONSONANT
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$400
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Scent or smell
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odor
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$800
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An object of worship
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an idol
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$1200
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An auspice or portent
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an omen
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$1600
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To get out of control is to "run" this, from a Malaysian word
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amok
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$2000
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French word for distinctive style or flair
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elan
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PUBLISHED POSTHUMOUSLY
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$400
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In 2020 the Strand magazine published "Aunt Nellie's Diary", a story that predates her "Little Women", written when she was just 17
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Louisa May Alcott
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$800
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Called "a great breezy read", "Summer Crossing" by this "Breakfast at Tiffany's" author was published in 2005
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Capote
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$1200
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The book was unfinished at his death, so he took the end of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" to the grave
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Charles Dickens
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$1600
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This author traded China for the Korean DMZ in "The Eternal Wonder", published 40 years after her 1973 death
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(Pearl) Buck
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$2000
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Just after "Howards End", he wrote "Maurice", about a gay man, but didn't allow it to be published until after his death
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Forster
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THAT USED TO BE A TRADEMARK
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$400
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A company of the same name trademarked this term for solid carbon dioxide in 1925
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Dry Ice
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$800
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In 1950 the Otis Company lost its trademark on this word derived from the Latin scala, "ladder"
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an escalator
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$1200
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In a 1965 case that swung from a district court to an appeals court, Donald F. Duncan lost a trademark on the name of this toy
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a yo-yo
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$1600
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Westinghouse first trademarked this word as the name of a washing machine; now it refers to an establishment
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laundromat
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$2000
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B.F. Goodrich once owned this word for the "hookless slide fastener" on its rubber boots
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a zipper
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MOUNTAINS
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$400
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Utah's highest point is 13,500-foot Kings Peak in these mountains
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the Rocky Mountains
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$800
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Lending their name to a peninsula, these mountains extend from Serbia to the Black Sea
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the Balkans
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$1200
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This section of the Alps that include some famous peaks, gets its name from the Celtic "penn", meaning "peak"
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the Pennine Alps
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$1600
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Opening parts west to settlement, the Wilderness Road was a 200-mile pathway through the Cumberland Gap in these mountains
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the Appalachians
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$2000
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Africa's second-highest peak, it bears the name of the country it's found in
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Mount Kenya
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IT CAME FROM A GRAPHIC NOVEL
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$400
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Last name of gunslinging title hero Wynonna, who partnered with Doc Holliday on a Syfy show
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Earp
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$800
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A-Train & Homelander leave a bit to be desired as superheroes on this Amazon show based on Garth Ennis' work
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The Boys
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$1200
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Matthew Goode played Ozymandias in the film version of this graphic novel; Jeremy Irons played the role on HBO
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Watchmen
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$1600
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Adaptations of the "Kick-Ass" series gave this 3-named actress her breakout role as a spunky character named "Hit-Girl"
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Chloë Grace Moretz
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$2000
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This 2017 movie with Charlize Theron as a badass spy was based on the graphic novel "The Coldest City"
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Atomic Blonde
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CLASSIC ALBUMS
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N/A
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This classic album by a Southern rocker gets its title from a Civil War quote by a Union admiral
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Damn the Torpedoes
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