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It says that on the 1st of January 1863 all persons held as slaves... shall be then thenceforward and forever free |
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(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 2012 at age 82 I became the oldest winner of a competitive acting Oscar; the record for a male actor had stood for 36 years since this beloved 80- |
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Don't be deceived by this a compound of sulfur & iron whose name comes from the Greek for fire |
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This type of hacker referred to by a colorful bit of headwear helpfully tests computer systems for vulnerability |
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Of the 4 main blood groups this one is the most common; that group negative is the universal donor |
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Your matching percentage on this dating site is determined by a complicated algorithm |
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In 1914 this motor company instituted a wage of $5 per day & shortened the work day to 8 hours |
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(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) I've played King Lear Hamlet Oedipus Pizarro; but perhaps my most challenging role if you could believe it was in this 1965 movie that for a while wa |
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This variety of beryl shares its name with a 10-letter color |
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A website with a site certificate is one that uses encryption; this letter after http is one sign of it |
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Real vanilla flavoring comes from certain climbing species of this tropical plant |
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A 2019 New York Times article says this 2-word phrase marks the end of friendly generational relations |
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In Jan. 1900 he got out of Siberian exile; in Jan. 1918 he abolished Russia's assembly & established a dictatorship |
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(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In 1968 I loaned this fellow Canadian the money for a plane ticket from London to L.A. so he could audition for the movie role that would change his |
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This birthstone is used in abrasives for polishing & grinding; the color pairs with gold as an official one for Florida State |
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Companies consider cybersecurity when instructing employees with a policy on BYOD short for this |
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Chinese & Portuguese are the official languages of this special administrative region of China |
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Subterranean Homesick Alien is on this Radiohead album |
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The January 1870 cartoon A Live Jackass Kicking a Dead Lion was this man's first use of a donkey to symbolize Democrats |
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(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) My dearest friend was this late actor; we often appeared onstage together & he won 2 consecutive Oscars in the 1970s the first for playing newspaperm |
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We quote the ancient Wang Chung: Take your baby by the wrist & in her mouth this purple quartz variety & February birthstone |
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A ransomware attack that encrypted 3800 City of Atlanta computers demanded 6 of these digital items to unfreeze them |
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This largest moon of Pluto is about half the dwarf planet's size |
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This group was at one point the house band for This American Life on public radio |
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Angered at the U.N.'s support of Malaysia this Indonesian president withdrew his country from the U.N. in January 1965 |
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(Christopher Plummer delivers the clue.) In the film The Last Station I play this Russian author caught between his worshipers & family; the title refers to the setting of my death scene |
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Let's get sanguine about this mineral AKA heliotrope prized in the Middle Ages |
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Beware of these types of programs that track every stroke you make while typing in an effort to glean your password |
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Tornadoes are rated from EF0 to EF5 the E standing for enhanced & the F for this Japanese-American meteorologist |
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The best of the 4 possible positions used in transactional analysis is the title of this 1960s self-help book |
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A ramp is one of these simple machines |
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Those with a fast one of these tend to burn calories pretty quickly |
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At equestrian 3-day events the first day is for dressage second for endurance riding & third for stadium show this |
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Grieg was displeased with his own In the Hall of this monarch from Peer Gynt writing it reeks of cow-turds & super-Norwegianism |
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The security at this author's Hotel New Hampshire is Susie a woman in an animal costume |
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In May 1938 congress authorized building the Kentucky Dam soon the largest dam run by this New Deal agency |
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An earthquake happens when a slip occurs along this type of plane |
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The toast slainte literally means this |
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The Third Amendment is about this activity a word actually from the Latin for fourth |
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Philip Glass wrote an opera to be played as the soundtrack of Jean Cocteau's movie of this girl-&-monster tale |
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Doctor Stockmann is the crusading title character in this playwright's An Enemy of the People |
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The Carey Act & the Reclamation Act helped this Wild West showman build Shoshone Dam later named for him |
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Light waves with electric fields that vibrate in only a single plane have been this |
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A resident of Najaf or Kirkuk |
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Beethoven was going to dedicate his 3rd symphony to Napoleon; instead he called it this for the memory of a great man |
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She's the title character singing in a Purcell opera after Aeneas has left her |
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Construction began on Oroville Dam before it was fully funded by the Burns-Porter Act a ballot initiative in this state |
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Plane trigonometry employs the law of these ratios between the side of a triangle opposite an angle & its hypotenuse |
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This word for extreme malice was also the name of Jabba's nasty beast that Luke killed in Return of the Jedi |
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Of the 7 countries that make up Central America this one is alphabetically third |
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A pas de deux based on music by Samuel Barber premiered in 1975 with Baryshnikov as Jason & Carla Fracci as her |
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Books on Ben Franklin & Leonardo da Vinci are included in this author's The Genius Biographies box set |
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A 1973 act of Congress approved funding for a replacement dam at American Falls on this river in the Northwest |
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) All the planets orbit the Sun within seven degrees of this plane whose name comes from an astronomical event |
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It's a Hollywood term for a long prose synopsis of a screenplay |
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Arrow of God about a Nigerian priest dealing with missionaries is the last book he wrote in what's called his African Trilogy |
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Asturias by this grade-A Spanish composer has the subtitle Leyenda meaning legend |
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Who Let the Dogs In? is about the many outrageous politicians encountered by this witty Texas columnist |
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The 1935 bill authorizing this humongous concrete dam mentions the Columbia Basin Compact |
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With a million bucks you could have seen 20 million movies at one of these early 1900s theaters as the name told you |
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(Conan O'Brien delivers the clue.) Strange but true: this comedian from Worcester Massachusetts is my cousin & when he came on my show he told me he's often mistaken for other celebrities lik |
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The peak known as the Mönch (monk) stands between the Jungfrau (maiden) & the Eiger this type of creature in English |
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The name of this ancient garment from a single piece of cloth is related to the Latin word for to cover |
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After becoming heir to a chocolate factory Charlie goes on another adventure this time in a great glass one of these |
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Add a vowel to what brevity is the soul of & get a verb meaning to cool your heels |
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In the first sale of a diamond for a mil in 1969 the parent co. of this French jeweler outbid Richard Burton then sold it to him |
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Played by this man salesman-manager David Brent returned in 2016 trying to get his rock band off the ground |
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The Alps are often treeless at the tops but forests below are filled with larch beech & these conifers related to pines |
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In the 17th century the belted plaid developed into this garment |
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Set for release in 2020 is Suzanne Collins' The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes a prequel to this series |
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A thing's physical magnitude adds a vowel & becomes a verb meaning to snatch |
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In 1957 a million bucks would have paid for a helluva baseball team; this man No. 24 for the Giants made $50000 |
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She does stand-up definitely for adults but voiced Vanellope Von Schweetz in the kids' movie Wreck-It Ralph |
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Forming part of France's frontier with Italy it's the highest peak in the Alps |
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Basically a belt plus a front flap it was a simple garment for men in Ancient Egypt; Tarzan makes one from deerskin |
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Elmore Leonard brought back former loan shark Chili Palmer in Be Cool his sequel to this bestseller |
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A word meaning to move quickly afoot adds a vowel & becomes to wreck or destroy |
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In 1938 this first Superman comic cost a dime; now a million bucks will get you a third of one copy |
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Seen here this Brit played a high school director in Hamlet 2 & got blown to bits as a director in Tropic Thunder |
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The Alps are the source of many major rivers including the Rhine the Rhone & this 405-mile waterway that flows to the Adriatic |
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Worn by men & women the chiton was a long tunic dating back to this ancient Greek period also a word for outmoded |
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Edited by the author's son Christopher & published in 1977 it's a history of Middle-earth before Lord of the Rings |
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A fluid for writing adds a vowel & becomes this barnyard clamor |
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Probably the USA's only millionaire in 1799 was Elias Derby who sent the 1st ship from New Eng. to Guangzhou then called this |
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In Dolemite Is My Name Eddie Murphy tells the story of this entertainer who had a stand-up act of his own back in the day |
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Thought to be 5300 years old a mummified Neolithic iceman given this first name was found in the Alps in 1991 |
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Here's this early 17th-century British monarch wearing a trim doublet jacket with matching skirt & hose |
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In 1847 Herman Melville published this sequel to Typee subtitled A Narrative of Adventures in the South Seas |
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An eisteddfod winner adds a vowel & becomes a long flat piece of pine |
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Sulci are grooves on the brain surface; this German pathologist noted wide sulci in a 1906 autopsy of a dementia patient |
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This TV comedy wasn't about pesky garden plants but rather about Mary-Louise Parker's budding pot business |
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Following the 2011 ouster of this longtime president Egypt's armed forces suspended its constitution |
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In Our Town this role sounds like part of the crew but it's the narrator |
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Greek for sacred & carving gives us this word for a writing system |
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You're nearing the eastern end of I-44 when you enter St. Louis & see this 630-foot-tall thing |
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The main parts of a neuron are the cell body an axon & these branching out to receive input |
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The plants on either side of the host & guests on this web series also a 2019 TV movie are the Boston or sword variety |
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Last name of the man who dismissed prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in August 1953 with some outside help |
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(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) 35 years before The Greatest Showman I sang down the house as Chairy the wife of this man--but I did it for hundreds of performances on Broadway |
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This word for any pose in hatha yoga is from the Sanskrit |
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We'll stop in Butler Penn. & Florham Park N.J. to go back to childhood of yore in attractions called Little Red this |
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Look at me! This in the back of the head brain lobe is responsible for processing visual information |
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On The Handmaid's Tale this wife of Commander Waterford has some pivotal scenes in her greenhouse |
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Parliament gained supremacy over the president in an 1877 crisis early in this ordinal French republic |
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A very long-titled play by Peter Weiss features the Marquis de Sade & this murdered French revolutionary |
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This sled drawn by 3 horses has a Russian name |
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Dad dry your eyes & get in the car--it's time to hit I-5 & road-trip your youngest to this southernmost U. of California campus |
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This pea-sized gland secretes a hormone regulating sleep; science has not confirmed Descartes' belief that it's the seat of the soul |
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Played by Carolyn Jones in the '60s she loved to cut the heads off her roses & rejoiced when her thorns came in sharp |
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This 1832-33 crisis ended when South Carolina backed down from its efforts to void federal law |
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(Glenn Close delivers the clue.) I kept the costumes from the first time I performed on Broadway in Sunset Boulevard & I brought them back with me when I returned to play this iconic role in |
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This condition was thought to arise from an excess of black bile the origin of its name |
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Forget Route 66! We're going north to south on this numerical highway that turns into the Blues Highway down south |
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From a Latin word for edge this primitive system of nerves helps run basic behavior like feeding fighting & fleeing |
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Jean-Luc Picard once helped Boothby played by this onetime TV Martian to replant some flowers at Starfleet Academy |
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In November 2019 Jeanine Áñez Chávez declared herself Bolivia's president replacing this man who had resigned under pressure |
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In the last line of Waiting for Godot he tells Vladimir Yes let's go |
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This fancy word for a scar is actually just Latin for scar |
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An On the Road trip will take you to Larimer Street in this city where Sal hangs with Dean before heading for the coast |
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A restaurant was named for this singer's Cheeseburger in Paradise |
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The pressure of one of these might be low based on the light seen here |
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In an Irish tale clever Tom captures this title magical creature who promises to bring him wealth but deceives him instead |
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This colorful women's magazine once had sister magazines Blue Book & Green Book |
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A dramatic play in which the main character is brought to ruin in an unhappy ending |
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Adding this letter before OK dates back to a NASA official misunderstanding Alan Shepard during his first flight |
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According to this lead singer Paradise City is where the grass is green & the girls are pretty |
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The temperature of this liquid has gotten too high |
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Childe Rowland youngest son of this legendary monarch of Britain saves his sister & brothers from an elf king |
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Sports Illustrated has a yearly swimsuit edition; this competing mag is going online-only but will still print its Body Issue |
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A word that means the same as another word |
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The legislature of N.M. the home state of Clyde Tombaugh has decreed this body to be a planet when it passes over the state |
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Do you love me? Will you love me forever? are lyrics in this singer's Paradise By The Dashboard Light |
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There is a fault in this system if the light stays on |
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Made famous by Walt Disney this student uses magic while his teacher is away leading to loads of trouble |
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This 66-year-old magazine offers a section for shows on Netflix Hulu & Amazon called Stream It! |
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A wound or the psychological damage it causes |
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In an annual competition you toss a fish west over the state line from Florida to this state |
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We keep spending most our lives livin' in a gangsta's paradise on a hit by this rapper |
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The glow plug in this type of engine is not hot enough to ignite the fuel |
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In this folk tale the title barnyard trio faces off against a troll under a bridge |
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Founded in 1922 this magazine sold longer versions of its condensed articles to other magazines |
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An absolute ruler; in ancient Greece it was one who seized power illegally |
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The name of this weasel relative can mean to clear out; in 1971 Fermilabs used one to clean the tubes of a particle accelerator |
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Dark Paradise is a song on her album Born To Die |
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This lamp should only be on if visibility is reduced |
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The opera Rusalka about a water nymph who longs to be human is partly based on this fairy tale by H.C. Andersen |
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Founded in 1885 this magazine established an institute to test consumer goods which might get its seal of approval |
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The science of determining a tree's age by looking at its growth rings |
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Made from this 4-letter wood from India the HMS Trincomalee is the oldest British warship still afloat |
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A risk factor for liver cancer is a chronic infection with the B- or C-type of this virus |
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I'd like to thank the Recording Academy for handing out these awards first presented in 1959 |
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Lyndon Johnson accepted the 1964 Democratic nomination in this city's Boardwalk Hall |
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In 1991 Helmut Kohl appointed her Minister for Women & Youth |
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Remember: A for the city that is the official seat of government in a state; O for a state legislature building |
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In 1991 87-year-old Sir John played this Tempest magician saying it was the only Shakespeare role he was the right age for |
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An itching sensation in the chest can signal an attack of this in which bronchioles narrow |
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Warren E. Burger founded this body's historical society & served as its first honorary chairman |
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This Nevada city bears the name of John C. Fremont's scout |
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This nation's President Dr. Arif Alvi was born in 1949 2 years after his country achieved independence |
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A small piece of land in the sea or a theater walkway |
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For this 1953 film Gielgud coached a nervous Marlon Brando playing Mark Antony on how to read The Bard's lines |
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You can apply a warm compress to this small abscess on the edge of the eyelid that's also called a hordeolum |
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After stopping a carriage driver from beating his horse Henry Bergh founded the org. known by these 5 letters for short |
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This is the only city that has City in its NBA team's full name |
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This media tycoon served as Italy's prime minister 3 times |
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A dull person can become exciting as a South African of Dutch extraction |
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In 1965 John played Henry IV in Chimes at Midnight with Orson Welles in this part that suited him physically |
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Red blood cells should be round but instead are crescent shaped in this type of anemia |
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This organization the IMF was created in the 1940s to promote global trade & to secure financial stability |
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It's home to the South Dakota School of Mines & Technology |
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The son of Greek & Hungarian immigrants he was the president of France from 2007 to 2012 |
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A verb meaning to shrivel or an old adverb meaning Where to? |
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John played Clarence when this other great 20th century Shakespearean actor directed Richard III in 1955 |
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) Osteoarthritis involves the breakdown of the cartilage that's between joints. Inflammation of the membranes that lubricate the joints c |
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Do Good is the motto of this women's fraternity whose name has the same initials as its motto |
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Midwest news: in 1886 Wyandotfe changed its name to this city; across the border what was once Westport did the same in 1889 |
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After an attack at 2 mosques in this city PM Jacinda Ardern of New Zealand banned most semi-automatic weapons in 2019 |
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Breezy or a hawk's nest |
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1981 was the year of Gielgud's Oscar-winning turn as this character's butler |
