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THE MET: A VERSE
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Siegfrieds & Salomes had better learn their parts to sing at the Met in this center "for the Performing Arts"
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Lincoln Center
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Some call the museum's Costume Institute insufficiently arty, but it gets millions every year from this glamorous party
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the Met Gala
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His painting "The Death of Socrates" is one of the museum's bigs; he's French, so say his name like that of singing actor Diggs
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David
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The museum has lots from the ancient Near East, this between-rivers region gave us yon beast
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Mesopotamia
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She was Greek, she loved Onassis, she could really sing, her longtime boss around the Met was named Sir Rudolf Bing
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(Maria) Callas
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SPORTS VENUES
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This London stadium, home to England's national soccer team, boasts it has "more toilets than any other building in the world"
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Wembley
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On Christmas Day, 2021 this Los Angeles hoops, hockey & showbiz venue was renamed Crypto.com Arena
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the Staples Center
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This Triple Crown racetrack that opened in 1875 was named for the landowners, not for a future British prime minister
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Churchill Downs
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In 1879 the first of several NYC venues to bear this name featured birds, flowers & fountains, so the name made more sense
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Madison Square Garden
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In 1957 this famed soccer club moved into Camp Nou, Catalan for "New Ground"
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FC Barcelona
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ODD NUMBERS
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A diamond jubilee can celebrate a 60th anniversary or this odd number
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75
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In craps, these are the 2 possible winning numbers on a come out roll
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7 & 11
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In baseball scorekeeping, 9 denotes this position played by Babe Ruth & Ichiro
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right field
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In the 1930s the .357 became the first of these extra-powerful rounds of ammo
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a magnum
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Start counting in your head! It's the next prime number after 23
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29
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BUILD A BEAR WORKSHOP
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In 2022 the Golden Bears swam & dove to an NCAA title for this Pac-12 school
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Cal Berkeley
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This "greater bear" constellation contains the group known as the Big Dipper
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Ursa Major
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A Haydn symphony nicknamed "The Bear" has a passage that sounds like music for bears to do this --perhaps a minuet?
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dance
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Before he was president, Volodymyr Zelensky voiced this marmalade-loving bear in the Ukrainian dub of 2 recent films
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Paddington
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The type of bear named for this Alaskan island tips the scales at 1,700 pounds
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Kodiak
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THE OLD WEST
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This type of wagon was where food was served; its name referred to grub, & no one eats until cookie calls
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a chuck wagon
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Wild Bill Hickok stopped a man from beating this other famous Bill who was 11 at the time & the two became lifelong friends
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Buffalo Bill (Cody)
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Before becoming sheriff of this South Dakota town, Seth Bullock opened a hardware store there with partner Sol Star
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Deadwood
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Prospector John Bozeman blazed a trail to gold-rush towns in what is now this state
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Montana
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When Butch & Sundance & their Wild Bunch gang hid in the Wyoming spot seen here, they were part of this gang named for it
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the Hole-in-the-Wall Gang
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WHAT'S YOUR "ANGLE"?
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To suspend an object over something
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to dangle
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To round up cattle
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wrangle
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You do this to your keys to make a harsh sound
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jangle
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An ornamental bracelet
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bangle
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In addition to being a verb meaning to mutilate, it's also a word for an old-timey machine to iron laundry
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mangle
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ASIAN GEOGRAPHY
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Extending more than 1,500 miles, these mountains separate the Indian subcontinent from the remainder of Asia
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Himalayas
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Lebanon is tucked into what would be the coast of this country & separated from it by the Anti-Lebanon Mountains
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Syria
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About 3/4 of Mongolia is made up of the forest, desert, mountain & grass types of these plains
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steppes
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Long, skinny Lake Balkhash extends over nearly 400 miles of the eastern part of this country
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Kazakhstan
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The Laccadive Sea separates the Maldives & this other island country from the Asian mainland
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Sri Lanka
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COMPOUND WORDS
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It's a group of women with a common interest & maybe some traveling pants
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a sisterhood
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As seen here, it's a fun way to work out
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kickboxing
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The name of this illegally distilled liquor goes back to when it was made under the cover of darkness
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moonshine
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Originally referring to a type of barrier, it's another name for some of the toll roads on the East Coast
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a turnpike
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Derived from German, it's a strong passion for traveling & seeing the world
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wanderlust
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BOTTOMS UP!
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This 2-word term meaning the lowest spot you can "hit" originated in mining in the 19th century
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rock bottom
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Not a positive term used of people, bottom-feeder works for these, like channel variety seen here
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a catfish
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A song from "Annie" reminds us that "the sun'll come out tomorrow" & that you should therefore bet this
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your bottom dollar
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This nickname for the area around the U.S. State Department partly comes from industrial smoke once found there
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Foggy Bottom
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Echo is an important type of this device that tells mariners how far down the bottom is
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a depth finder (a depth sounder)
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NAME THAT HITMAKER
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"In My Feelings" & "Nice For What"
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Drake
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"Stayin' Alive" & "Too Much Heaven"
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the Bee Gees
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"Break Up With Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" & "Positions"
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Ariana Grande
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"Eyes Without A Face" & "White Wedding"
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Billy Idol
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"Dark Horse" & "Wide Awake"
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Katy Perry
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HEALTH & MEDICINE
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In 1955 13-year-old Susie asked her dad about an easier way to treat her asthma; dad ran Riker Labs & presto! the metered dose this device
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an inhaler
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Type I of this disorder once called manic depression has manic episodes of at least a week & depressive episodes of twice that long
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bipolar disorder
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By age 75, half of white Americans have this eye condition that can feel like looking through a fogged-up window
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cataracts
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The most common form of this ailment is the plaque type, named for the patches it forms on the skin
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psoriasis
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Pregnant women need 600 mcg of this B9 vitamin daily to help prevent birth defects like spina bifida
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folic acid
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CLOSING STATEMENTS
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"I think of Dean Moriarty, I even think of old Dean Moriarty the father we never found, I think of Dean Moriarty"
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On the Road
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"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig... but already it was impossible to say which was which"
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Animal Farm
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"Max... sailed back... into the night of his very own room where he found his supper waiting for him and it was still hot"
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Where the Wild Things Are
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"'Darling,' replied Valentine, 'Has not the Count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words?--'Wait and hope"'
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The Count of Monte Cristo
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"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past"
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The Great Gatsby
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CONSTELLATIONS
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The brightest star of this constellation is Deneb Algedi, or "Kid's Tail"
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Capricorn
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