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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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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 |