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In a biographical musical Adrienne Warren portrays this pop icon singing one of her biggest songsBig wheel keep on turning [turning] / Proud Mary keep on burning [burning] / Rolling rolling |
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This author gave us many nonsense words & was not afraid to use them in titles as in Bartholomew and the Oobleck |
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Italian for stopping place gives us this word for a part of a poem |
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(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) With more than 40 books of poetry fiction & essays to her name this author has won the Booker Prize twice: for The Blind Assassin in 2000 & for The Testame |
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800 + 250 to this architect of a D.C. landmark dedicated in 1982 |
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Inconsistently consistent he took the oath of office on March 4 1885 & was back for more on March 4 1893 |
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Oscar winner Diablo Cody wrote the book for this show that gets its title & music from Alanis Morissette's hit 1995 album |
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In one episode of The Big Bang Theory Sheldon says you've fallen for one of my classic pranks & then this word |
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It's the German word for a novel about the education & formative years of the protagonist; The Catcher in the Rye is one |
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(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) This educator who thought the printed book was an institution that was fated to disappear gave us an aphorism that has not disappeared: the medium is the m |
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The square root of 4000000 to this guy who hit more than 500 career home runs from 1986 to 2001 |
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He's the party hearty family member who returns home & gets a nifty meal in Luke 15 |
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The 2019 musical Hadestown goes straight to Hell with Tony winner André de Shields as this Greek messenger godThe wage is nothing and the work is hard / It's a graveyard in HadestownWay down |
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Created as the name of the Lord High Everything Else in The Mikado it now means an important or self-important person |
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This concept of divine intervention to resolve the plot was used in the Sophocles play Philoctetes |
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(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) With a performing style that was ah quirky--he'd hum & sway as he played--this pianist leaped into international acclaim with his 1955 recording of Bach's |
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5% of 4000 to this author of The NUMA Files books & other maritime thrillers |
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In 2019 this hard rock band led by Maynard James Keenan released its first album in 13 years & it went to No. 1 |
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The Inheritance reimagines this novelist's Howards End with 3 generations of gay men in 21st century New York City |
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In the film Gone with the Wind this word comes before Ashley Wilkes told me he likes to see a girl with a healthy appetite |
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Greek for exaggeration gives us this device an intentionally exaggerated figure of speech |
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(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) After losing part of his right leg to cancer he embarked on a Marathon of Hope running across Canada to raise money to fight cancer; he ran almost a marath |
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(1000 / 2) - 350 to this rock singer who was also a 1997 Golden Globe nominee |
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In 1985 John Sculley & the tech company's board demoted this co-founder but he was back in charge in 1997 |
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Based on the hit film this 2019 musical set in Montmartre stars Aaron Tveit & Karen Olivo as the lovers Christian & Satine |
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In Jabberwocky the vorpal blade went this sibilant sound |
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This metrical foot is 2 short or unstressed syllables followed by one long or stressed one |
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(Ryan Reynolds delivers the clue.) A career diplomat he helped create NATO & the United Nations won the Nobel Peace Prize for solving the Suez Crisis in 1956 & as the prime minister of Canad |
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102 minus 10 to this Latin bandleader The Rumba King |
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On Dec. 19 1972 astronauts Cernan Schmitt & Evans splashed down in the Pacific as this last manned Moon mission came to an end |
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This alliterative name for a hangout of western movie extras made the news in 1940 when one cowboy gunned down another for real |
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In the 1990s he was the answer to a famous Got Milk? commercial |
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In July 2019 the approach of one of these was announced only hours before it passed within 45000 miles of earth |
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(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a map on the monitor.) The ownership of Hans Island located between Ellesmere Island & Greenland is disputed; Canada stakes its claim by raising its flag there |
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At its height in the 1920s & 1930s the Purple Gang reigned over this large Midwestern city's underworld |
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2 antonyms make up this phrase for a legal case with an obvious verdict |
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The first Academy Awards held at the Roosevelt Hotel in 1929 saw this war movie winning for Outstanding Picture |
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Before Mike Pence he was the last vice president from the state of Indiana |
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(Conan O'Brien delivers the clue.) 2 of you contestants will love this: the supercomputer Watson come on my show & irritated this sidekick so much he took Watson to the roof & threw it off |
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Spain increased controls on its border with this territory after a 2013 dispute with Britain over fishing rights |
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Way back in the 19th century the football team of this school that's now in the Big Ten was nicknamed The Purple |
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5-word phrase said when turning down fatty food or folding a poker hand |
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In 1992 Ava Gardner's bloomers & Madonna's bustier were stolen from this business' lingerie museum |
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Pictured here is Theodore Roosevelt with this veep who gave his name to an Alaska city |
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In a 1998 shocker Jesse Ventura was elected Minnesota governor becoming this party's first candidate to win statewide office |
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This legendary birthplace of Aphrodite has been in dispute between its Greek & Turkish residents for decades now |
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It's the 4-letter title of the Deep Purple Top 10 hit with that na-na-na-na part |
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Thomas Carlyle described a leader as soft of speech...yet with an inflexible rigor of command: this metaphor |
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Tip your hat to this Vine Street restaurant where it's said Clark Gable proposed to Carole Lombard |
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Hubert H. Humphrey had the monogram H.H.H.; for this 19th century veep it was H.H. |
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This big landlocked African country was surprised to be added to the USA's 2017 travel ban but was removed from the list in 2018 |
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A winter capital of its maharajas this place is paired with Kashmir in the name of an Indian union territory |
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Porphyrogeniture is succession by the 1st son born in the purple while dad was king; this is succession by the 1st son born anytime |
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In a 1901 novel a girl is seized by a Frenchman & perhaps carried off to this dreadful destiny |
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In 1961 the Hollywood Palladium on Sunset Blvd. became the longtime home of this N.D.-born man & his orchestra |
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In 1900 3 years after leaving the vice presidency he welcomed a grandson given the same name later a candidate for president |
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A surprise attack at these plains in Quebec in 1759 led to the British gaining control of New France |
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Russia recognizes Abkhazia's independence declared in 1999 but this country in which Abkhazia lies does not |
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AKA royal purple the famed dye named for this Phoenician city was produced during the Bronze Age |
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The fifth & probably smelliest of Hercules' labors it has come to mean any herculean task |
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Starbucks uses it to describe a drink such as Frappuccino; in families it describes one with stepsiblings living together |
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In 1693 this physicist & lifelong bachelor said friend John Locke endeavored to embroil me with women |
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He tested his killed polio virus vaccine on himself but never patented the vaccine or earned any money from its discovery |
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Gory horror movies are not for these people who are easily nauseated |
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In the names of Iowa cities this tree precedes Falls & Rapids |
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A verray parfit gentil knight describes one of a cast of characters created by this poet |
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Under the Affordable Care Act dependent children are covered by mom or dad's health insurance until they reach this age |
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When fiancee Ann Coleman died soon after breaking off their engagement in 1819 this man returned to politics & never married |
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Getting an M.D. at 17 he later joined the Army Medical Corps where he figured out the cause of yellow fever |
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To add fake details to a real story to make it sound better |
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This Florida coastal town incorporated in 1911 says its name comes from coconuts retrieved from the wreck of the Providencia |
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Now Hal what time of day is it lad? is this knight's first line of dialogue |
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In world news this policy whose end was announced in 2015 is estimated to have prevented 400 million births |
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This man was a bachelor during his 3 terms as mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989 |
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Le bon docteur René Laënnec invented a monaural version of this instrument long a staple of the medical kit |
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In a chemical reaction sulfur combines with silver to create this dark coating |
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The fabulous skiing of Snowmass is about 10 miles west of this city |
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Where is Becket the traitor to the king? say the knights in this 1935 verse play |
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Among 18- to 34-year-olds 2/3 of Italians live here as opposed to 1/3 of Germans & Brits |
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This unwed artist called his paintings his children & had more than 1000 with him when he died near Oslo in 1944 |
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In the 1790s this English physician figured out that giving people cowpox would protect them against smallpox |
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Estuaries & swamps have this type of water not quite as briny as the ocean |
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A 3-letter tree is in the name of this Oregon city known for a Shakespeare festival |
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This knight blew upon the war-horn in dolor and in pain/ and all the Frenchmen hearkened and the Emperor Charlemagne |
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In U.S. marriages with husband & wife working this is now the case for 29% of wives up from 18% in the 1980s |
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The invisible hand of Cupid did not strike this 18th c. Scot who lived with his mother Margaret for much of his life |
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A vizier to Djoser this Egyptian was one of the few mortals to be completely deified & was worshipped as the god of medicine |
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This another word for a fanfare means the king has arrived |
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Poplar Bluff is in Missouri; this tree Bluff is in Arkansas |
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The Red Cross Knight is pricking on the plaine in Book 1 of this long long 1590 poem (pricking meant spurring a horse) |
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(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) I've shared the court with many great players but one of the best was Oscar Robertson who as my teammate on the 1971 NBA champion Milwaukee Bucks wor |
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The Radcliffe this from a Latin word for a chamber isn't photo equipment but a reading room at Oxford |
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With its debut album featuring Who Can It Be Now? this band went to No. 1 on at least 2 continents |
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Francis Drake became Sir Francis in April 1581 in the presence of this monarch |
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A kyber crystal-powered weapon plus baseball statistics analysis system of Bill James |
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In 1957 Danish architect Jørn Utzon won a contest to design this; his winning entry featured sail-like shells |
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(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) Give kids a shot that can't be blocked is the mission of my educational foundation for children named for this my signature basketball move |
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In 2019 the venerable travel firm named for this man suddenly collapsed stranding 150000 Brits abroad on holiday |
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Follow God & Closed On Sunday are tracks on this 2019 Kanye West album |
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Making it tough on the pres. seeking re-election the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit an all-time low of 41.22 in this year |
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Sentient creature like Olaf or Frosty plus the #1 kosher wine brand in America |
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Ceramicist Beatrice Wood was nicknamed The Mama of this art movement |
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(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) My heroes include this man killed in 1770 who's been lauded as the first to defy the first to die & the first to pour out his blood as a precious lib |
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You'll find an amphibian in the name of this classic English dish that features sausage & Yorkshire pudding |
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You go back to her but Amy Winehouse goes elsewhere on this title track |
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In 1976 a military junta seized power in Argentina not from Eva Peron but from this widow |
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Small oblong Chinese citrus fruit plus rhymed verse employed by Omar Khayyam & Nostradamus |
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In 1605 this Brit wrote Advancement of Learning; the Screaming Popes is a series by a British artist of the same name |
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(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) As a U.S. cultural ambassador for the State Department I visited several of these Brazilian shanty towns with a Portuguese name & spoke about the imp |
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This historic center for cutlery making is represented by the Blades in Premier League soccer |
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Should I Stay Or Should I Go was an appropriate song for this album; soon afterward Mick Jones left the Clash |
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A heroic last stand at the Battle of Camaron in Mexico holds a special place in the lore of this French group founded in 1831 |
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Gradual increase in the intensity of a musical piece plus a dental professional who specializes in the pulp of your teeth |
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In this 1951 play Serafina's dead husband sports the title ink on his chest |
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(Kareem Abdul-Jabbar delivers the clue.) I became a stronger faster & more intense basketball player through my training with the great Bruce Lee who pioneered mixed martial arts with the hy |
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One of Britain's greatest minds was this 19th century physicist & author of A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism |
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From 1968 the Village Green Preservation Society album is often considered this British band's masterpiece |
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In 1967 part of Nigeria broke off & declared its independence as this land |
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Insidious pandemic culprit of 1918 plus delightfully foamy Italian custard |
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In the movie Fur Nicole Kidman played this photographer of people on the edge of society |
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Had Rum North Carolina |
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Giving new meaning to the word mass he was the headliner of one held in Manila in 2015 that drew 6 million people |
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Hippolyta is the queen of these women |
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Richard Hooker's Novel About Three Army Doctors was the basis for a film & a TV show both with this name |
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At the Council of Trent in 1563 the Catholic church said one of these had to perform the wedding to make it legal |
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I to O: to lose your foothold perhaps in a type of pig food |
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No Cuts Arizona |
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In 2007 the long-disbanded Rage Against the Machine got together & drew 100000 at this California festival |
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Dryads were the tree-dwelling version of these creatures |
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In season one of this series based on Jay Asher's novel Clay tries to figure out what made Hannah Baker kill herself |
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Emily Post says the person with this title offers the first toast to the bride & groom at the reception |
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A to U: a tree part enjoys a late-morning meal as tree parts do |
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Tight Burps Pennsylvania |
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In 2016 an estimated 1 million people protested in Caracas against this president of Venezuela |
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Opposite the cave of the sea monster Scylla you'd find this monstrous personification of a whirlpool |
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The good times roll in Bon Temps Louisiana the setting for this drama where some folks really vamped it up |
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If the person chosen as maid of honor is already married traditionally the title gets changed to this |
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A to O: a work of drama on a stage employs a maneuver to gain a strategic advantage |
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Javelin Locks Florida |
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On April 22 1990 around 750000 people hit Central Park to celebrate this annual event |
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Echo's love for this lad was unrequited; he only had eyes for himself |
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Blake Lively & Penn Badgley starred in this CW series based on Cecily von Ziegesar's book series about privileged NYC teens |
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In England this rhyme about wedding attire ends with and a silver sixpence in your shoe |
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A to I: to quickly seize something like a purse gets you busted because someone did this to tattle |
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Crouch Spirits Texas |
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In 2018 around 1.7 million people trekking from all over the world made this pilgrimage to Mecca |
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At his death this great hunter was changed into a constellation |
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Jeff Lindsay's books about a very different Miami CSI were the basis for this Showtime series |
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During this part of a military wedding swords are drawn & the bride & groom pass through the arch |
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U to A: to sing in the street for money then do this in the resulting applause |
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(Jimmy of the Clue Crew presents by a display monitor.) The Earth wobbles as it spins moving the Polar Axis through the sky so 12000 years from now Vega will replace Polaris as this |
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Like Madame Tussaqds Paris' Musée Grévin primarily deals in exhibits of these |
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New Zealand-born Russell Crowe received 3 straight Best Actor nominations winning in 2001 for this film |
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Around 1080 Chinese scientist Shen Kuo made the first scientific mention of one of these magnetic devices |
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In line 2 of this poem The score stood four to two with but one inning more to play |
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Natural insulation found on a seal or whale |
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The Ancients associated this star's pre-dawn rising with the hottest months giving rise to the term dog days |
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Ruins from 2 Ancient Wonders of the World the Temple of Artemis & the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus are in London here |
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This Welsh-born man won a Supporting Actor Oscar for The Fighter |
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In 1040 Scottish King Duncan I was slain in battle & this man known to readers of Shakespeare succeeded him |
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In a poem by William Blake these 4 words precede the second line In the forests of the night |
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Adjective for a brook making a low continuous murmur |
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One of the closest stars to the Sun Barnard's Star can't be seen with the naked eye; it's in this colorful class of small dim stars |
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Zaragoza Spain is home to a museum dedicated to this painter of The Naked Maja |
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Born in Vienna he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role as Col. Hans Landa in Inglourious Basterds |
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The Arabic-language Canon of Medicine recommends willow oil for head pain--willow genus Salix as in this common medicine of today |
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Second line: I love thee to the depth and breadth and height...; first line: this |
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It means to mishandle a football or baseball |
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On the morning of February 24 1987 SN 1987A one of these appeared in the large Magellanic Cloud |
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Originally serving as a private gallery of art the Hermitage Museum was founded by her in 1764 |
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Though born in Sweden she won an Oscar for her supporting role in 2015's The Danish Girl |
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This fortress & prison complex was begun around 1078 by William the Conqueror |
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Its second line is Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore |
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Clothing articles that gave their name to 1940s adolescent girls |
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In 2016 the IAU renamed this 3-star system just 4.3 light years away Rigel Kentaurus |
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The freeform titanium-sheathed Guggenheim Museum in this Spanish city is a work of art in itself |
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Jean Dujardin didn't have much to say in becoming the first Frenchman to win Best Actor for this 2011 film |
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Around 1071 construction was completed on this Venetian basilica said to house the remains of a Gospel writer |
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Title of the poem with the second line He is trampling out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored |
