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A 2016 interview with this Batman actor found him looking sad; the internet then made him the meme we deserve
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Ben Affleck
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A common sight was walking around Monet who worked outdoors, as in a cliff walk in this Channel-side French region
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Normandy
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Modern auto safety took a big step in ’66 as LBJ signed bills mandating seatbelts & rupture-resistant these
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Fuel tanks
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At the Montreux Jazz Festival, you might see smoke on the water of this Swiss lake’s shoreline
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Lake Geneva
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Constitution Day is September 17; this related set is celebrated every December 15
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The Bill of Rights
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On July 2, 1861 the Union attacked the Confederates near a stone bridge crossing this creek in the first battle of it
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Bull Run
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Often called the first “war” one of these, Crimean war reporter William Howard Russell preferred “special” one
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Correspondent
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Frank O’Hara’s most famous poem is “The Day Lady Died,” in which he reads about this jazz singer’s death in 1959
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Billie Holiday
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This inductee into the Video Hall of Fame sold 17 million copies of a videocassette she released in 1982
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Jane Fonda
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In 1903 Maurice Garin was its first winner in 94 hours, 33 minutes, 14 seconds
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The Tour de France
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More than 5,000 of these big deer spend winters at the Wyoming national refuge named for them
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Elk
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Beethoven & Mozart wrote for this instrument that Ben Franklin created, which he said gave him the greatest personal satisfaction of all his inventions
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Glass Harmonica
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Permanent press is a process where fabric gets chemically treated to make it resistant to these
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Wrinkles
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A 1975 N.Y. Daily News headline after this man opposed a federal bailout: him “To City: Drop Dead”
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Gerald Ford
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19th c. exhibitions saw fire brigades competing either using water, or in one of these, now a term for a practice effort
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A dry run
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On June 1, 1660 Mary Dyer, one of this religious sect’s “Boston martyrs,” was hanged on Boston Common
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The Quakers
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The creators of 1943’s “Fancy Free” called each other Lenny & Jerry — Leonard Bernstein & this choreographer
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Jerome Robbins
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In 2018 this band “didn’t have a dime but I always had a vision, always had high, high hopes
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Panic! at the Disco
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In 1916 the great chemist Gilbert Lewis called the central part of an atom this, a word we use for the seed in an apricot pit
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The kernel
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“Two hit men, a boxer, a crime boss & others meet their fates over the course of two days”
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Pulp Fiction
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Made in the Vytina region, the first type of this sweetener does not crystallize
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Honey
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In 2013 there were 114-degree temps in La Rioja, the wine belt of this South American country
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Argentina
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The portal vein brings venous blood to the liver, while this artery brings oxygenated arterial blood
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The hepatic
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Stove placement of lower priority items (Category: Hey, “B.B.” for $200)
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The Back burner
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The 2018-19 season of auto racing’s World Endurance Championship concludes with the 87th running of this event
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The 24 hours of Le mans
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In 1965 John Irving entered this Midwest school’s prestigious writers workshop & worked with Kurt Vonnegut
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Iowa
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It takes a full day to manage this Yosemite peak
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Half Dome
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Shakespeare’s Portia says, “How far that little” this “throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world”
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Candle
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The Anthropology award went to a report on “cross-species imitation” between these apes & humans at zoos
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Chimpanzees
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This train sung of by blues artists got its name from its 12:05 A.M. departure en route to Parchman Penitentiary
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The “Midnight Special”
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Given this new anesthetic to inhale, Queen Victoria felt little or no pain in 1853 when she delivered her eighth child
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Chloroform
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You must be a necromancer! Your cacophony is doing this, a noisy idiom that refers to a man in Genesis
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Raising Cain
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Babe had this player leadership position for only 6 days before being stripped of it for going after a fan in the stands
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Captain
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You don’t need to howl during the naval watches 4-6 & 6-8, named for this animal — it’s just a figure of speech
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A dog
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The Boy Next Door, a 21st century novel by Meg Cabot, uses this newer form of correspondence
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E-mail
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A rugged mountain pass is a gap, & an especially rugged gap is a notch, like this one just east of Burlington
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Smugglers’ Notch
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