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SOUTH AMERICAN HISTORY ///// THOUGH THE 1980S AUGUSTO PINOCHET WAS THE DICTATORIAL RULER OF THIS COUNTRY
Chile
IMMIGRANTS ///// HEY PRESTO! THIS MAN WHO AMAZED MILLIONS MAGICALLY ALTERED HIS 1874 BIRTHPLACE FROM BUDAPEST TO APPLETON, WISCONSIN
Houdini
FASHION ///// VIVIENNE WESTWOOD HELPED SHAPED THE LOOKS OF THIS MUSIC GENRE THAT SHOOK THE WORLD IN THE LATE ‘70S
Punk
ESSAYS ///// “THAT GOVERNMENT IS BEST WHICH GOVERNS LEAST” IS THE MAIN PREMISE OF HIS 1849 WORK ON CIVIL DISOBEDIENCE
Henry David Thoreau
MATH ///// ENGLISH MATHEMATICIAN JOHN WALLIS WAS THE FIRST TO USE WHAT LOOKS LIKE AN 8 ON ITS SIDE TO SYMBOLIZE THIS
Infinity
STARTS WITH SU ///// ADJECTIVE FOR A SPED-UP COURT MARTIAL
Summary
ROMAN GODS ///// A WINTER MONTH IS NAMED FOR THIS GOD DEPICTED WITH 2 OPPOSITE-FACING FACES
Janus
OLYMPIC EVENTS ///// THE WINNING THROW IN THIS MEN’S EVENT AT THE 2016 OLYMPICS WAS JUST OVER 296 FEET
Javelin
ART TERMS ///// ORIGINALLY A TERM FOR A FULL-SIZE SKETCH READY FOR TRANSFER TO A CANVAS OR WALL, IT NOW REFERS TO ANY HUMOUOUS DRAWING
Cartoon
WOMEN LEADERS ///// SHE WAS THE BRITISH PRIME MINESTER FROM 1979 TO 1990
Margaret Thatcher
FEMALE POETS ///// SHE WROTE “SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
7-LETTER WORDS ///// JAPANESE DISH IN WHICH FISH OR VEGGIES ARE DIPPED IN BATTER & DEEP-FRIED
Tempura
BIBLICAL CREATURES ///// THIS SEA MONSTER IS MENTIONED IN PSALM 74
Leviathon
SNAKES ///// THE BOA FAMILY INCLUDES CONSTRICTORS, TREE BOAS, AND THESE LONGEST SOUTH AMERICAN SNAKES
Anaconda
BROADWAY GEOGRAPHY ///// LIKE “THE MUSIC MAN,” “THE PAJAMA GAME” TAKES PLACE IN THIS US STATE
Iowa
AFRICAN AMERICAN FIRSTS ///// IN 1989 ABOARD DISCOVERY, FREDERICK D. GREGORY BECAME THE FIRST BLACK COMMANDER OF ONE OF THESE MISSIONS
Space Shuttle
MUSIC TERMS ///// THE SYMPHONIES OF SCHUMANN & BERLIOZ TYPIFY THIS 19TH C MOVEMENT OF EMOTION AND INDIVIDUALISM
Romantic
COLD WAR GEOGRAPHY ///// WINSTON CHURCHILL SAID “FROM STETTIN IN THE BALTIC TO TRIESTE IN THE ADRIATIC,” THIS STRUCTURE “HAS DESCENDED ON EUROPE”
The Iron Curtain
US STATES ///// LOCATED ON THE CONTINENTAL DIVIDE, LOGAN PASS IS A REAL HIGH POINT OF THIS STATE’S GLACIER NATIONAL PARK
Montana
GLANDS ///// WHEN THIS GLAND IS TOO ACTIVE OR NOT ACTIVE ENOUGH, A GOITER MAY DEVELOP
Thyroid
PUNCTUATION ///// THE NAME OF THESE PUNCTUATION MARKS IS FROM THE GREEK FOR “TO INSERT”
Parentheses
NAMED FOR A PERSON ///// THIS INSTRUMENT PLAYED BY GERRY MULLIGAN & JOHN COLTRANE WAS NAMED FOR ITS 19TH CENTURY INVENTOR
Saxophone
STATE CAPITALS ///// THIS STATE CAPICAL EXTENDS INLAND TO THE FOOTHILLS OF THE KOOLAU MOUNTAINS
Honolulu
BREAKFAST CEREALS ///// THIS MAGICALLY DELICIOUS CEREAL HAS A LEPRECHAUN FOR A SPOKESMAN
Lucky Charms