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ON A HOLIDAY
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Martin Luther spooked the Catholic church when he chose this fall day in 1517 to proclaim his 95 Theses
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Halloween (October 31st)
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On May Day, 1961 this country's prime minister declared it a socialist nation
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Cuba
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Ex-Confederates got a Christmas gift from this president in 1868: a full pardon
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Johnson
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This English explorer got stabbed in Hawaii on Valentine's Day 1779
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(Captain James) Cook
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Pathfinder & this rover touched down on Mars July 4, 1997
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Sojourner
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U.S. CITIES
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Things found in this city: The Joe Louis Fist statue as well as Ford Field
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Detroit
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Wacker Drive is an impressive double-decker street in this city of big shoulders
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Chicago
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Heinz Hall for the Performing Arts is home to this city's symphony orchestra
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Pittsburgh
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At the foot of the Wasatch Range, this capital city was built on the bed of ancient Lake Bonneville
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Salt Lake City
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Named for a V.P. from Indiana, this Alaska city is home to the Goldpanners, who play an annual Midnight Sun Game at 10 P.M.
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Fairbanks
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ANIMALS & THE LAW
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Shooting these "in a barrel" is proverbially easy but using firearms on them in Indiana state waters, legally problematic
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fish
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Minnesota forbade contests in which this animal, "greased (or) oiled... is released & wherein the object is capture of" one
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a pig
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You can own as many of these as you like in Calif. & enter them in a Calaveras jumping contest, but if one dies, you can't eat it
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frogs
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New York City says horses that do this, popular with tourists & couples in Central Park, get 5 weeks of vacation a year
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draw a buggy
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This state that had a famous Monkey Trial in 1925 lets you keep a pet monkey, but not a baboon
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Tennessee
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FRUITS & VEGETABLES IN FRENCH
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Maïs
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corn
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Citron vert
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a lime
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Chou (chou de bruxelles is Brussels sprout)
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cabbage
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Ananas (& it's not a banana)
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pineapple
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Cerise
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cherry
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GAME PLAN
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Determine 3 things: In what room, with what weapon & whodunit
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Clue
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Collect 6 wedges for answering a question in 6 different categories, then head to the middle & answer one more
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Trivial Pursuit
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In survival mode, fight off mobs such as evokers & build shelter so as to stay alive
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Minecraft
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Drop colored discs into a grid trying to get a quartet of yours in a row vertically, horizontally or diagonally
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Connect Four
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Using a small mallet, tap out the blocks one by one until someone topples the standing animal
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Don\'t Break the Ice
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"X"s & "O"s
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The formal act of adding territory to a nation, it happened to Hawaii in 1898
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annexation
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A small book to aid priests performing one of these rites is called "Prayers Against the Powers of Darkness"
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exorcism
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It's the natural color & appearance of your face
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complexion
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It means "tense" & "uneasy" but everyone except language fussbudgets also uses it to mean "eager"
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anxious
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This employee, who handles the care & upkeep of a church, sometimes has the specific responsibility seen here
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the sexton
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ONE-WORD NONFICTION TITLES
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"Shape", about the hidden meaning of this branch of math, is dedicated in part to "AB"--presumably a person, not a line
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geometry
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"Duty" is the memoir of Robert Gates, who held this job from 2006 to 2011
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Secretary of Defense
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This word for all kinds of distractions from clear thinking is the title of a book subtitled "A Flaw in Human Judgment"
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noise
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In "Eat, Pray, Love" Elizabeth Gilbert meets a guy from Brazil; soon she's ready to be this, her follow-up book all about marriage
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Committed
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She's the author of the female empowerment bestseller "Untamed" & the wife of Abby Wambach
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Glennon Doyle
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FILMED IN GEORGIA
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Seen here, Swan House, in Atlanta's Buckhead neighborhood, stood in for President's Snow's mansion in this film series
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The Hunger Games
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Woodbury in this AMC series was actually the town of Senoia & the Alexandria Safe Zone scenes were also shot there
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The Walking Dead
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He not only created & executive-produced "The Haves and the Have Nots" for OWN, the series was filmed at his studios
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Tyler Perry
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The Whistle Stop Café in Juliette became a real eatery after this 1991 movie filmed there, & still serves up the title dish
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Fried Green Tomatoes
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Much of this thriller based on a James Dickey novel was filmed in Northeastern Georgia & on the Chattooga River
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Deliverance
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IT'S A PROCESS
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After wheat is processed via milling, about 72% of the original grain ends up in sacks of this
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flour
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The Haber-Bosch process combines nitrogen & hydrogen to produce this strong-smelling gas that's liquefied into fertilizer
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ammonia
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It's the elegant term for the process by which crude oil is distilled & purified into useful forms of petroleum
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refining
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Here's a vitriolic clue--the lead-chamber process produces this acid that doesn't react with lead
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sulfuric acid
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This process reduces fat globules in milk into small particles that are evenly distributed, so the cream doesn't rise to the top
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homogenization
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20th CENTURY NAMES
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A Bible of sorts for members of the Red Guards, "The Little Red Book" is a collection of his quotations
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Mao (Tse-tung)
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In 1965, early in his career, he used a Honda motorcycle to leap over 2 mountain lions & a box of rattlesnakes
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Evel Knievel
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He won nine gold medals in four Olympics before retiring from track & field competition in 1997
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Carl Lewis
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After his term as vice president, he was reelected to the Senate from Minnesota in 1970
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Hubert Humphrey
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A room at the U.S. Department of the Interior is named for this author of "Silent Spring"
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(Rachel) Carson
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A DISASTER OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS
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After this man makes burnt offerings, "The Lord said... neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done"
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Noah
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These insects "did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left"
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locusts
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The Lord says, "Your children shall wander in the wilderness" for this length of time, "until your carcases be wasted"
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40 years
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There's a lot of smiting & destroying after this group steals the Ark of God; things don't end well for Goliath, either
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the Philistines
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In 2 kings this king of Babylon "cut in pieces all the vessels of gold... in the Temple of the Lord"
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Nebuchadnezzar
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ITALIAN LOANWORDS
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Meaning "same here", it has its own marks
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ditto
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Made with espresso, it's named for resembling the color of a certain friar's habit
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cappuccino
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Name shared by the weapon & the shoe style seen here
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a stiletto
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It's the text or "book" of an opera or a musical
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a libretto
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Used to dilate the pupils, atropine is commonly derived from this plant whose name means "beautiful lady"
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belladonna
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WORLD GEORGRAPHY
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N/A
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Mont Bellevue de l'Inini is the highest point in this European possession largely covered by the Amazon rainforest
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French Guiana
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