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THE FOUNDING FATHERS
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Encyclopedia Britannica calls him "The Foundingest Father of them all" (really!)
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George Washington
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Cheers to this Harvard grad, a second cousin of the second president
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(Samuel) Adams
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Activist lawyer James Otis is credited with saying that this "without representation is tyranny"
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taxation
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This Virginian first became prominent for his oratory in a 1763 case about whether it was OK to pay clergy with cash rather than tobacco
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Patrick Henry
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The "Penman of the Revolution", John Dickinson drafted the first version of this predecessor to the Constitution
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the Articles of Confederation
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EARTH
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277 miles long & found in the American Southwest, it's one of the largest land gorges on Earth
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the Grand Canyon
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The Earth's longest river is the Nile, but this one carries the most water by volume
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the Amazon
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This liquid beneath the Earth's surface is different in Hawaii--it has more molten rock & fewer gases & fragments
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magma
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Larger trees are starting to encroach north on this ecosystem defined by its lack of them
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the tundra
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Hurricanes don't hit our middle, as this "effect" of the rotating earth on wind flow increases the further you get from the equator
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the Coriolis
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TV SHOWS BY EPISODE TITLE
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"Last Exit to Springfield"
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The Simpsons
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From 2012: "Say My Name"
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Breaking Bad
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"Chidi's Choice"
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The Good Place
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"Wind Sprints" & "Black Eyes & Broken Hearts"
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Friday Night Lights
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"Riding in Town Cars with Boys" & "The Unblairable Lightness of Being"
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Gossip Girl
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UNITS OF MEASURE
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About .26 inches, a unit called this insect's space is based on the length of the gaps in a hive
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a bee
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The GGE, this substance gallon equivalent, compares the energy content of alternative fuels
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gasoline
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A braza, about 5 1/2 feet, is an old Spanish measure based on the reach of outspread these
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arms
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A city map, also called a plat, shows the division into single-owner areas called this "P" word, a synonym of packages
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parcels
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You can spell "acre" with letters in this metric measurement that equals 2.471 acres
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hectare
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TERRIBLE SUPERVILLAIN NAMES
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The king can't move without being put in check! Curses! It's this chess situation--a draw!--who no one ever wants to see!
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a stalemate
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"Pater Corpus" doesn't quite have the same ring as this slang term for the build of some fathers
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a dad bod
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This insurance duo--the big cost you owe before your insurer kicks in & the money given to your doc as you get services--are just the worst
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deductible & co-pay
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Listerine says bad breath is "also known as oral malodor or" this word; now oral malodor... that'd be a better name
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halitosis
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The result for your account of writing a check you can't cover? It's this villain who many need "protection" from
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overdraft
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THAT'S COLD!
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With a name meaning "cold", he's the animated guy with a corncob pipe & a button nose
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Frosty (the Snowman)
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About temperature, this adjective can mean cold; when used regarding lettuce, it means fresh & firm
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crisp
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This word is paired with an opposite in the name of a relieving cream to treat minor aches & pains of the muscles & joints
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icy
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If your office is really "as cold as" this space for dry aging, it's well under 40 degrees
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a meat locker
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The food seen here is prepared "crudo", Spanish & Italian for this word
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raw
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RIVER NAMES
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This river's name comes from a word for "arrow", implying that it is faster than the Euphrates
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the Tigris
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In Sanskrit, the name of this river comes from "sindhu", which means "river"
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the Indus River (the Sindh)
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This river that gave its name to a Georgia city was known as Rio Dulce, or "sweet river", to early Spanish explorers
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the Savannah River
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Some Europeans called this Chinese river the Blue River, perhaps to distinguish it from the Yellow River
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the Yangtze
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A king of Alba Longa, near present-day Castel Gandolfo, drowned in this river, which was then named for him
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the Tiber
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LITERARY CASTLES
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A Scottish castle is home to this school of witchcraft & wizardry
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Hogwarts
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This Prague author's unfinished novel "The Castle" has a man named K trying unsuccessfully to access the title place
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Kafka
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In this 17th century religious allegory, Christian & hopeful are imprisoned for a time at Doubting Castle
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The Pilgrim\'s Progress
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A key antagonist in "The Chronicles of Narnia", she lives in a castle full of stone statues
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the White Witch
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Young Cassandra Mortmain lives in the rundown title structure in "I Capture the Castle" by this "101 Dalmatians" author
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Dodie Smith
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ROMANCE LANGUAGES
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Spoken in medieval southern France, the dialect langue d'Oc got its name because Oc, not this, meant yes there
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oui
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In 2008 this European country's parliament passed an act officially adopting Brazilian spellings of hundreds of words
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Portugal
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Ladino, or Sephardi, was carried to the Mideast by people expelled from their homeland in 1492 at the urging of this judicial body
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the Inquisition
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In 1898 an explosion killed the last known speaker of this Adriatic language that shared its name with a dog breed
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Dalmatian
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Isolated from its romantic relatives, Romanian has been influenced by this language group of neighbors like Serbia & Bulgaria
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Slavic
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THE WINDS OF POP CULTURE
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Saying it wasn't a "protest song", Bob Dylan did include the lyrics "How many times must the cannonballs fly"
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"Blowin\' In The Wind"
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Seen here, Alexandra Shipp played a younger version of this film mutant originally portrayed by Halle Berry
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Storm
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Formerly the Hartford Whalers, they blew into Raleigh in 1997
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the Hurricanes
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"Blood On The Coal" by The Folksmen is on the soundtrack album of this Christopher Guest mockumentary
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A Mighty Wind
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Spencer Tracy was on the side of evolution while Fredric March argued creationism in this classic 1960 film
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Inherit the Wind
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I KNOW WHAT YOU DID
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As Germany's "chancellor of change", you ended military conscription & introduced a minimum wage
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Angela Merkel
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You won the U.S. National All-Around Gymnastics Championships from 2013 to 2016 & in 2018, 2019 & 2021
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Simone Biles
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You took a constitutional oath on October 26, 2020,
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(Amy Coney) Barrett
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You served as Archbishop of Cape Town from 1986 to 1996
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(Desmond) Tutu
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After a huge upset in the 1948 election, you did the honorable thing & conceded to Pres. Truman & sent congratulations
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Dewey
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4 OF THE SAME LETTER
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A small figurine like an Academy Award
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a statuette
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At the recent Tokyo Olympics, Alix Klineman & April Ross netted gold in this sport
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beach volleyball
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An expert in the formal rules & procedures of running an assembly, like the British legislature
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a parliamentarian
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This adjective means having no previous example known
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unprecendented
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If you support another person's alibi, you provide this 4-"O" word from the Latin for "to strengthen"
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corroboration
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THE 20th CENTURY
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Maybe surprisingly, in 1918 this new leader was the first to recognize the independence of Finland
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Lenin
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