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Harold II was killed in this battle in 1066

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Hastings

Harold Godwinson (c. 1022 – 14 October 1066), also called Harold II, was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon English king. Harold reigned from 6 January 1066 until his death at the Battle of Hastings, fighting the Norman invaders led by William the Conqueror during the Norman Conquest of England. His death marked the end of Anglo-Saxon rule over England.

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Traditionally, SCOTUS begins its term on the first Monday in this month

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October

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The title character of this Chekhov play is bitter toward the relative who’s estate he manages

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Uncle Vanya

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Elvira warns Zerlina about the title character of this Mozart opera

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Don Giovanni

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In 2013, Donna Tartt had a bestseller about a painting of this colorful bird

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The Goldfinch

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“Battle of the Amazons” by this Baroque painter has the full-figured women he’s known for

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Peter Paul Rubens

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Of the 13 nations through which the equator passes, it’s the only on whose coastline borders the Caribbean Sea

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Columbia

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She came into power after the death of her father, Ptolemy XII

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Cleopatra

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In 1829, this Italian composed his famed opera “William Tell”

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Rossini

is a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini

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It flows 1,240 miles to empty into the Pacific at Astoria

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Columbia

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On Christmas Day, 1066 he became king of England

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William the Conqueror

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Dhaka is the capital of this county whose population is more than 140 million

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Bangladesh

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Meaning “great ballet” this company was known for its “Moscow style”

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Bolshoi

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She wrote the play “A Raisin in the Sun”

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Lorraine Hansberry

She was the first African-American female author to have a play performed on Broadway. Her best-known work, the play A Raisin in the Sun, highlights the lives of black Americans in Chicago living under racial segregation. The title of the play was taken from the poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes: “What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?”
Hansberry’s family had struggled against segregation, challenging a restrictive covenant in the 1940 U.S. Supreme Court case Hansberry v. Lee.

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She’s Queen Elizabeth II’s only daughter

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Anne (Princess Royal)

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The “Winner” of this title event in this classic Shirley Jackson short story is stoned to death

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The Lottery

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With a controversial Law-&-Order program, Rodrigo Duarte was president of this country from 2016-2022

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The Philippines

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It’s Norway’s second largest city and its principal port

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Bergen

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This policy, Russian for “Openness” was begun by Mikhaïl Gorbachev in 1985

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Glasnost

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It’s the original day job of Figaro, a leading character in two comic operas by Rossini and Mozart

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Barber

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Carrying up to 400 passengers, this first jumbo jet entered airline service in 1970

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Boeing 747 

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The creator of “The West Wing” adapted “To Kill a Mockingbird” as a Broadway play

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Aaron Sorkin

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Category: what’d the Captain say?

A command to turn this 8-letter way means to head into the breeze

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Windward

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Large Durham boats for hauling iron were used by George Washington cross this river in December 1776

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Delaware 

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During one season, the winter of 1678, this baroque music master was born in Venice

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Antonio Vivaldi 

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Signing the Americans with Disabilities Act on July 26, 1990, President Bush said he was inspired by this GOP senator, who lost the use of an arm

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Bob Dole 

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In the 1700s Vientiane, now capital of this Asian country, was a capital of its own kingdom

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Laos

The city is located in the banks of the Mekong, right at the border with Thailand

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This annual pilgrimage begins on the eighth day of the last month of the Islamic year

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Hajj

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This poet and lord started a work with the line “She walks in beauty, like the night”

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Lord Byron

George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) was an English poet and peer.He is one of the major figures of the Romantic movement, and is regarded as being among the greatest of English poets. Among his best-known works are the lengthy narratives Don Juan and Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage; much of his shorter lyrics in Hebrew Melodies also became popular.

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In 1884, this man wrote “Vildanden” Norwegian for “the wild duck”

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Henrik Ibsen

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Tunisia is on the western border of this country

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Libya

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This New Brunswick college also calls itself “The State University of New Jersey”

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Rutgers

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This murderous supernatural clown returns in “It Chapter Two”

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Pennywise

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The Mister is a 2019 romance by this “Fifty Shades” author

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E.L. James

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This French composer wrote “Carmen”

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George Bizet

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This National League West team lost back-to-back World series in 2017 & 2018

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Los Angeles Dodgers

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In 1930, this surrealist from Spain painted “The Great Masturbator”

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Salvador Dali

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OF THE 9 COUNTRIES THAT HAVE PRODUCED A U.N.SECRETARY-GENERAL, THIS NATION IS THE ONLY ONE FROM ITS HEMISPHERE

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Peru

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As well as kids’ books, this 19th century author wrote “Examples in Arithmetic” & other math text books

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Lewis Carroll

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It’s the largest artificial lake in the United States

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Lake Mead

Lake Mead is a reservoir formed by the Hoover Dam on the Colorado river in southwestern United States. It is located in the states of Nevada and Arizona, 24 miles east of Las Vegas. 

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Ran Iran 1941-1979…ran away Jan. 16, 1979…ran out of time 1980…

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The Shah of Iran

42
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Cape Catoche, the northeastern tip of this peninsula lies a little more than 30 miles north of Cancun

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The Yucatán 

43
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The four presidents who have been assassinated

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Abraham Lincoln (1865)
James Garfield (1881)
William McKinley (1901)
John f. Kennedy (1963)

44
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Category: poems in video games

In the “the legend of Zelda“ a poem called the sun’s song inspires you to play a tune on this egg-like instrument

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An ocarina

The ocarina is a wind instrument that produces sound when air vibrates within an enclosed chamber and exits through a hole near the mouthpiece. The ocarina has four to twelve finger holes and a mouthpiece that projects from the body. The name ocarina, which means “little goose”, was first given to the instrument by Italian teenager Guiseppe Donati in 1853.

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In 1789, he was appointed the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

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John Jay

46
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In 1979, this creator of “Star Trek” wrote a novelization of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture”

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Gene Roddenberry

47
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He won his first full term as mayor of Chicago April 2,1991

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Richard M. Daley

48
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Water from the Euphrates was lifted by slaves to aid in this “green” project

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The Hanging Gardens of Babylon

49
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the 10th Emperor of the Ming dynasty, reigned from 1487 to 1505. He had only one empress and no concubines, granting him the distinction of being the sole perpetually monogamous emperor in Chinese history

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The Hongzhi Emperor(30 July 1470 – 9 June 1505)

Born Zhu Youcheng, he was the eldest surviving son of the Chenghua Emperor and his reign as emperor of China is called the “Hongzhi Silver Age”. His era name, “Hongzhi”, means “great government.”

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This poet’s birthplace and museum lie near the Brig O’Doon featured in his poem “Tam O’Shanter”

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns,[a] was a Scottish poet and lyricist. He is widely regarded as the national poet of Scotland and is celebrated worldwide. He is the best known of the poets who have written in the Scots language, although much of his writing is in a “light Scots dialect” of English, accessible to an audience beyond Scotland. He also wrote in standard English

51
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In 1990 Syria’s troops joined the allied forces in preparing to attack this invader of Kuwait

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Iraq

52
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Category: American history 

He organized the corps of men who photographed the Civil War, poor eyesight limited his work 

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Mathew Brady

53
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In 1779, Dutch scientist Jan Ingenhousz published his discovery of this process in green plants

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Photosynthesis 

54
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He was honored as coach of the Dolphins in 1971 even though he lost some games that year

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Don Shula 

55
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The quokka is another name for the short tail scrub species of this marsupial

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Wallaby 

56
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In 1521 it was Charles V presiding and the archbishop of trier, Jon Eck, prosecuting this man

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Martin Luther 

57
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Name the decade

The first flight takes place at Kitty Hawk, and baseball’s first World Series is played

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1900s 

58
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Arf! Little orphan Annie, found this furry friend as a pop behind Mrs. Bottle’s store

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Sandy 

59
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Licorice stick is slang for this woodwind instrument

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Clarinet

60
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Who was Lyndon B Johnson’s vice president?

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Hubert Humphrey

from 1965 to 1969. He twice served in the United States Senate, representing Minnesota from 1949 to 1964 and 1971 to 1978. As a senator he was a major leader of modern liberalism in the United States. As President Lyndon B. Johnson’s vice president, he supported the controversial Vietnam War. An intensely divided Democratic Party nominated him in the 1968 presidential election, which he lost to Republican nominee Richard Nixon.

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1653: This Izaak Walton ode to piscatory endeavors splashes ashore

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The Compleat Angler

62
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As part of the their Grammy performance ever, they played the fan-selected “Livin’ on a Prayer”

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Bon Jovi

63
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This Italian-born man began his brief tenure as pope on August 26, 1978

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John Paul I

64
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The armillary sphere on this county’s flag honors Prince Henry the Navigator

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Portugal

65
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At around 20 miles long, the Onyx River is this continent’s longest

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Antarctica

66
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In 1990, this man moved into No. 10 Downing Street and lived there the next seven years

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John Major

67
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You might see Oscar de la Renta around Punta Cana on the eastern tip of Hispaniola in this country

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The Dominican Republic

68
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The name of this state’s Kennebec River is Algonquian for “long reach”

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Maine

69
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Who is the author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest?

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By Ken Kesey

Chief Bromden is the narrator of One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey. Bromden is a patient in a psychiatric institution who pretends to be deaf and mute, making him almost invisible to the orderlies and Nurse Ratched. Bromden is also known as “Chief Broom” because the aides make him sweep the halls

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In 405 BC, Spartan commander Lysander won the final victory over the Athenians in the war

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The Peloponnesian war 

71
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In 1358 Lubeck, on the Baltic Coast became the headquarters of this league

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The Hanseatic League

a confederation of market towns and guilds in Northern Europe from 1358–1800. It was a commercial and defensive network that controlled much of the Baltic Sea trade and protected the league’s towns and cities. The league was also known as Hansa and Hanse

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In 1726, this “Messiah” composer became and English citizen

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George Frideric Handel
1685-1759

73
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In 1983 he said “We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back”

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Lee Iacocca

October 15, 1924 – July 2, 2019) was an American automobile executive best known for the development of the Ford Mustang, Continental Mark III, and Ford Pinto cars while at the Ford Motor Company in the 1960s, and for reviving the Chrysler Corporation as its CEO during the 1980s. He was president of Chrysler from 1978 to 1991 and chairman and CEO from 1979 until his retirement at the end of 1992. He was one of the few executives to preside over the operations of two of the United States’ Big Three automakers.

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A 1961 JFK-Khrushchev summit ended in an agreement on this neighbor of Vietnam and Cambodia

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Laos

75
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It’s the capital of the Show-Me State

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Jefferson City

76
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This “Hawkeye” capital means “River of the monks

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Des Moines

77
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What does phytoremediation mean?

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It’s a cleanup technology using living plants to remove or detoxify environmental contaminants from soil and water 

78
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Category: AKA

Professional name of the punk rocker born James Jewel Osterberg; it sounds like a weird soft drink

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Iggy Pop

79
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At this man’s death in 1997, Jaques Chirac called him probably the best known Frenchman in the world

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Jaques Cousteau 

Jacques René Chirac (29 November 1932 – 26 September 2019) was a French politician who served as President of France from 1995 to 2007.

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries

80
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Category: 1998 Pulitzer Prizes

39 years after “Goodbye, Columbus,” this author won for his novel “American Pastoral”

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Philip Roth

81
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Category: young adult books

Following a plane crash in the wilderness, Brian Robeson doesn’t “bury” this title tool, but uses it to survive

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Hatchet

Author Gary Paulsen

82
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THE FORMATION OF THE BROWNELL COMMITTEE OUT OF CONCERN OVER U.S. COMMUNICATIONS INTELLIGENCE LED TO THE 1952 CREATION OF THIS BODY

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National Security Agency

83
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Deuterium is a heavy isotope of this element

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Hydrogen

84
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Category: state capitals

Named for a 19th century German chancellor, it was founded as a railway terminus

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Bismarck, North Dakota

85
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5 of the 6 Nobel prizes are awarded in this city

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Stockholm

86
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This 15th century king of Castille and Aragon was known as “The Catholic”

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Ferdinand (II)

87
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Tara Westover traces her journey from rural Idaho to BYU and Harvard in this memoir

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Educated

88
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The Nile is longer, but this second-longest River in Africa carrier more water

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Congo

89
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He composed great waltzes like “Tales from the Vienna Woods”

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John Strauss

90
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The smallest blood cells are these disc shaped structures that trigger clotting and coagulation

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Platelets

91
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Fenway Park is home to this famous wall that tops out at 37 feet

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Green Monster

92
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The Willamette River Valley is the agricultural heart of this state

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Oregon

93
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It’s the only US state that borders only one other state

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Maine

94
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Two word phrase for a post-touchdown attempt

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Extra point

After the touchdown, you can try to kick it through the goal posts for 1 point. Or, you can choose to run one play in an attempt to run or pass the ball over the goal line for 2 points. Kick = 1 point; or run/pass = 2 points.

Both are referred to as the PAT or Point after Touchdown.

95
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“She’s the Man” the 2006 romantic comedy starring Amanda Bynes is an adaptation of this Shakespeare play

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Twelfth Night

The film used a few character names from the play, like Viola, Olivia, and Sebastian, and it also has themes similar to those found in the play — like changing identities and unrequited love.

“Twelfth Night” is a Shakespearean comedy about mistaken identity, love triangles, and the chaos that ensues when twins Viola and Sebastian are separated in a shipwreck. Viola disguises herself as a man named Cesario and falls in love with Duke Orsino, who loves Olivia. Olivia falls for Cesario, not realizing she’s a woman. Meanwhile, Sebastian reappears, causing confusion. In the end, identities are revealed, and couples are united, bringing about a happy resolution.

96
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Category: movie mice

Mr. Jingles is a mouse on death row in this Stephen King tale

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The Green Mile

The Green Mile is a 1999 American fantasy drama film written, directed and co-produced by Frank Darabont and based on the 1996 novel of the same name by Stephen King. It stars Tom Hanks as a death row prison guard during the Great Depression who witnesses supernatural events following the arrival of an enigmatic convict, Jon Coffey (Michael Clarke Duncan), at his facility.

97
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Category: rhyme time

Restauranteur Trader Vic created this rum and curaçao cocktail

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Mai Tai

98
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American novelist whose novels include Modern Lovers, The Vacationers, Laura Lamont’s Life in Pictures and All Adults Here. She is the author of a short story collection entitled Other People We Married. In May 2022, her novel This Time Tomorrow was published

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Emma Straub

99
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Which film won the first Oscar in the category Best Animated Feature?

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Shrek (2001)

100
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Even though it’s made of metal, this instrument invented around 1840 is considered a woodwind

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Saxophone

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