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In Acts 23 Saint Paul declares himself this, a member of a Jewish sect noted for its strict obedience to tradition

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A Pharisee 

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You’d have to be this not to know that meshugga means this Yiddish

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Crazy

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This wrestler and Minnesota governor served on a SEAL underwater demolition team in the Vietnam era

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Jesse Ventura 

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Super Bowl IX: this immaculate Steeler

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Franco Harris 

On Jan. 12, 1975, the Pittsburgh Steelers captured their first ever Super Bowl championship with a 16-6 victory over the Minnesota Vikings.

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In 2010s “Imperial Bedrooms”, Bret Easton Ellis follows up with characters from this 1985 novel of his

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Less Than Zero

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Student riots in Paris in 1968 threatened to bring down this French president’s government

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Charles de Gaulle 

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Brahms spent much of his creative life in Vienna, but was born in this port, today the second largest city in Germany

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Hamburg 

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Category: AFI life achievement awards

He was the recipient in 2009; his dad Kirk was honored in 1991

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Michael Douglas

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Category: coats of arms

Among the items featured on this Scottish city’s coat of arms is a salmon caught in the river Clyde

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Glasgow

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Category: coat of arms

The cities name is from the German for “monk “; it’s coat of arms to fix a monk dress in black, holding a book

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Munich 

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Category: scientists

Famous for an 1887 paper on supersonic velocity, he also found a function of the inner ear that helps with balance

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Ernst Mach 

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Category: scientists

Whose “the galvanic circuit, investigated, mathematically” received so much “resistance” he resigned his post at Cologne

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Georg Ohm

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Category: drummers for the band

Stewart Copeland

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The Police

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Category: drummers for the band

Tommy Lee

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Motley Crue 

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Category: Oscar winners on TV

This Oscar winner for “Ordinary People” leads a team of thieves and hackers on TNT’s “Leverage”

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Timothy Hutton 

He is the youngest recipient of the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, which he won at age 20 for his performance as Conrad Jarrett in Ordinary People (1980).

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A French word for a small briefcase, that bears the name of an embassy official

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Attaché 

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This south pacific island nation’s flag was based on an idea from King George Tupou I

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Tonga 

George Tupou I (4 December 1797– 18 February 1893), was the first king of modern Tonga. He adopted the name Siaosi, the Tongan equivalent of George, after King George III of the United Kingdom, when he was baptized in 1831.

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Angel who revealed the sacred laws of the Quran to Muhammad

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Gabriel


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Category: Number “one” hits

In 2019, “old town Road” broke this Mariah Carey / Boyz II Men song’s record for most weeks at number one

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One Sweet Day

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Category: non-musical theater

His acclaimed “Pittsburgh cycle” explores the black experience in 10 plays, including “Ma Rainey’s Black bottom” and “fences”

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August Wilson 

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Category: there’s an “app” for that

Hungry for some hard rock? Then fire up this 1987 Guns N’ Roses album that leads off with “welcome to the jungle”

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Appetite for destruction


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Construction began on the USA’s first Federal Highway known as this road after the town in which it originated

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Cumberland Road 

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Iowa’s flag features this bird holding a scroll in its beak

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An eagle 

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A EUROPEAN CAPITAL GOT ITS NAME AS A CONSEQUENCE OF FLOODING OF THIS RIVER

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Amstel

Formerly a small fishing village, the city was founded on a dam built to control the Amstel river’s flooding in the 13th century known as the Amstel dam. By 1300, the area gained official city status as ‘Amsterdam’.”

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THE 2 CLOSEST STATE CAPITALS, AT ABOUT 40 MILES APART, ONE WAS FOUNDED BY SOMEONE NO LONGER ALLOWED IN THE OTHER

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WHAT ARE BOSTON & PROVIDENCE?

(Rhode Island founder Roger Williams had been banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.)

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Who were the first father and son to play on the same MLB team at the same time

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Ken Griffey Sr. and Ken Griffey Jr.

Seattle Mariners

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Category: world cinema

If I’m remembering correctly, this 1950 Kurosawa film is about contradictory versions of the same event

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Rashomon 

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Category: Shakespeare quotes

“All that glisters is not gold” says the prince of morocco in the Shakespeare play

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The merchant of Venice


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Category: road trips

take the Overseas Highway from Miami to its terminus in this city

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Key West 

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Category: oh, Captain!

He captained the Golden Hind during his circumnavigation of the globe in the late 1570s

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Sir Francis Drake 

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Category: great literary works

A veteran of the Crusades, this character tells the first story in Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

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The Knight

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Category: four-word movie titles

13 year old Christian Bale started in this 1987 Spielberg film

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Empire of the Sun 

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Category: US currency

Since 1982 this metal—and not copper—has compromised 97.5% of each one-cent coin.

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Zinc


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This NYC borough was named after a Dutch Village

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Brooklyn 

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Category: name the year

Dole loses the election; Dolly, the sheep is born; Dallas wins the Super Bowl

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1996 

Incumbent Democratic President Bill Clinton defeated former Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole, the Republican nominee

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On March 14, take a moment to remember that this is the 16th letter of the Greek alphabet

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Pi 

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Category: 1980s music

He wrote the Bangles hit “Manic Monday” under the pseudonym “Christopher”

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Prince 

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This company trades on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “HOG”

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Harley Davidson 

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Category: Pulitzer Prize winning novels

It begins, “a Green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head”

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A confederacy of dunces 

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The Parish Boy’s Progress was the alternative title to this Dickens work

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Oliver Twist

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Harry of Blondie

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Debbie Harry

42
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In 1814 the Norwegian parliament accepted this country’s King Charles XIII to rule Norway as well

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Sweden

43
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The center of this Nicaragua capital was almost completely destroyed in a 1972 earthquake

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Managua 

44
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This sitcom star who played Dr. Robert Hartley, said his stammer got him a home in Beverly Hills and he’s not correcting it

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Bob Newhart 

45
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The town of Yellowknife is located on the shore of this “Great” Canadian Lake

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Great Slave Lake

Great Slave Lake is the second-largest lake in the Northwest Territories of Canada (after Great Bear Lake), the deepest lake in North America at 614 m (2,014 ft), and the tenth-largest lake in the world by area.

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Category: “A” in literature

The oldest of the three musketeers, he was once married to the evil Milady de Winter

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Athos 

47
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Category: math words

An assertion that can be proven true often using axioms and postulates

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theorem

48
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The part of a cross shaped church that intersects the main aisle at right angles

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Transept 

49
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Category: plurals

Seraph: seraphs or this longer word

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Seraphim 

angelic beings regarded in traditional Christian angelology as belonging to the highest order of the ninefold celestial hierarchy, associated with light, ardor, and purity

50
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Category: “Sin”ful

Mexican state where you’ll find Mazatlan

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Sinaloa

Sinaloa is the most prominent state in Mexico in terms of agriculture and is known as “Mexico’s breadbasket”.

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In 1999, This American lighthouse was moved 2900 ft in 23 days, moving it 1500 ft back from the ocean

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Cape Hatteras Lighthouse

Located in North Carolina, The Cape Hatteras Lighthouse protects one of the most hazardous sections of the Atlantic Coast. Offshore of Cape Hatteras, the Gulf Stream collides with the Virginia Drift, a branch of the Labrador Current from Canada. This current forces southbound ships into a dangerous twelve-mile long sandbar called Diamond Shoals. Hundreds and possibly thousands of shipwrecks in this area have given it the reputation as the Graveyard of the Atlantic.

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Category: legendary comedians

His final film role was a cigar smoking mobster name “God” in the 1968 comedy Skidoo

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Groucho Marx

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This European banking dynasty’s properties include Château Lafite, which makes a pretty good Bordeaux

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The Rothschilds 

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Sarah Crewe is the little title character of this classic by Frances Hodgson Burnett

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A little princess 

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This inventor’s alleged last breath is sealed in a test tube with the Henry Ford Museum in Michigan

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Thomas Edison 

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In 1987 he became the first NFL player to say “I’m going to Disney world” after winning the Super Bowl

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Phil Simms

Phil Simms is an American former professional football player who was a quarterback for 15 years, spending his entire career with the New York Giants. 

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Category: World War II

Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill conferred in this middle eastern city in 1943

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Tehran 

58
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It’s national anthem has verses sung in English and Maori

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New Zealand

59
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Italy’s three active volcanoes, This is the tallest.

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Mount Etna 

60
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These sibling movie makers edited No Country for Old Men under the alias “Roderick Jaynes”

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The Coen brothers 

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Category: great Scot!

He was named People magazine’s “sexiest man alive” at age 59

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Sean Connery 

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Category: indoor sports

This cue game takes its name from British military, slang for an inexperienced soldier

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Snooker 

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It’s the largest of the Hawaiian islands by population, but only third largest by size

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Oahu 

64
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This African nation is the world’s most populous landlocked country

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Ethiopia 

65
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Oddly, Eric van Lustbader has written more of the Jason Bourne novel than this original author did

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Robert Ludlum

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Around 1890, Robert Louis Stevenson bought 300 acres in what’s now this country, where he was called Tusitala or “teller of tales“

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Samoa


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This is often called the clown of the orchestra, and is the lowest pitched of the standard orchestra woodwinds

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The bassoon 

68
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Category: “F” in science

This simple sugar is a sweetener in honey

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Fructose

69
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During the 1400s this German inventor printed the first Bibles using movable type

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Johannes Gutenberg

70
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Around 1850 George Boole devised a new take on this branch of math

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Algebra

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In one translation of “Beowulf” he is described as “a fiend out of Hell” and a “grim demon”

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Grendel 

72
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This mountain range runs from Morocco to Tunis

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The atlas mountains

73
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Poland and Lithuania are among the countries that border this sea

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The Baltic Sea 

74
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Types of this flower include the Cymbidium and cattleya

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Orchids


75
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Category: Shakespeare

A misplaced handkerchief leads to murderous suspicion in this play

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Othello


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This five letter capital city of Senegal is the westernmost capital on the African mainland

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Dakar 

77
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Category: the Civil War

The union was victorious in the September 17, 1862 Maryland battle

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Antietam (accepted: Sharpsburg)

78
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Plastics are this type of chemical compound composed of large molecules formed from smaller ones

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Polymer

79
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This nation is surrounded by Myanmar on the west and Laos on the north and east

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Thailand

80
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These devices are for upping the speed of particles that may be linear or cyclic

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An accelerator

81
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DURING AN OUTBREAK OF THIS DISFIGURING DISEASE IN 1764, PAUL REVERE & HIS FAMILY QUARANTINED AT HOME: OTHERS WERE SENT TO PEST HOUSES

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Smallpox

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IN 1579, DURING
HIS CIRCUMNAVIGATION
OF THE WORLD, HE DROPPED ANCHOR NEAR SAN FRANCISCO & CLAIMED THE REGION FOR ENGLAND

A

Sir Francis Drake

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HISTORICALLY A JUNCTION
BETWEEN EAST & WEST, THIS CAPITAL OF OMAN LIES ON A STRATEGIC WATERWAY BORDERING SOUTHEAST ARABIA

A

Muscat

84
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Category: who came first?

Ferdinand Magellan, Marco Polo, Christopher Columbus

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Marco Polo

Marco Polo (1254 – 1324) was a Venetian merchant, explorer and writer who travelled through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.

Christopher Columbus (1451 – 1506) was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs,

Ferdinand Magellan (1480 – 1521) was a Portuguese explorer best known for having planned and led the 1519 Spanish expedition to the East Indies across the Pacific Ocean to open a maritime trade route, during which he discovered the interoceanic passage thereafter bearing his name and achieved the first European navigation to Asia via the Pacific

85
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Category: Kurt Russell films

Kurt has said that his most iconic character is “Snake” Plissken, the antihero of this film, set in a dystopian Big Apple

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Escape from New York

86
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Grammy winning sisters, Ruth , Anita Bonnie and June kept fans so excited performing as this foursome

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The Pointer Sisters 

87
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LA Union Station would be the likely point of departure for this train, the title of the 1973 hit for Gladys Knight & the Pips

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The midnight train to Georgia

88
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Category: Bond Bombshell

When you were young and your heart was an open book, you knew Jane Seymour was Solitaire in this classic Bond film

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Live and let die

Live and Let Die is a 1973 spy film. It is the eighth film in the James Bond series, and the first to star Roger Moore

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Bateman island about 300 miles from the Pacific, was the farthest Lewis and Clark traveled upstream on this river

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The Columbia 

90
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Shannon Hoon fronted this alternative rock band

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Blind Melon 

91
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It was started on the orders of de Gaulle in 1944 to provide a respected voice

A

Le Monde 

92
Q

Since 2009, the Mercury, Storm, and Lynx have been championship teams in this league

A

The WNBA 

Minnesota Lynx (plays at Target Center in Minneapolis)

Phoenix Mercury

Seattle Storm

93
Q

You’ll find the University of Missouri’s main campus in this city—-the one in Missouri, not in South Carolina 

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Columbia  (capital of SC)

94
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An 1875 hearing resulted in this ex first lady being committed to a sanatorium for months

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Mary Todd Lincoln

95
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Once a large Quaker community, this California city, bears the last name of Quaker poet John Greenleaf

A

Whittier 

96
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known as the father of the periodic table

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Dmitri Mendeleev
1834-1907

Russian chemist who developed the periodic classification of the elements. Mendeleev found that, when all the known chemical elements were arranged in order of increasing atomic weight, the resulting table displayed a recurring pattern, or periodicity, of properties within groups of elements.

97
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Category: Broadway, Baby

Let’s paint the picture; Jake Gyllenhaal worked Sundays on Broadway in this revival

A

Sunday in the Park with George

Sunday in the Park with George is a 1983 musical with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Lapine. It was inspired by the French pointillist painter Georges Seurat’s painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. The plot revolves around George, a fictionalized version of Seurat, who immerses himself deeply in painting his masterpiece, and his great-grandson (also named George), a conflicted and cynical contemporary artist. The Broadway production opened in 1984.

98
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What is a baby pterodactyl called?

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Flapling

Pterodactyl, or Pterodactylus antiquus, is actually a specific type of pterosaur in the group Pterosauria,
which encompasses the entire group of prehistoric flying reptiles.

99
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Category: Bond movie by Bond girl

1971: Jill St. John as Tiffany Case

A

Diamonds are Forever

100
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This floppy haired Giants ace pitcher started the 2010 World Series winning game

A

Tim Lincecum

LIN-sə-kum

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