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BUDDHIST TEMPLES
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$200
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The Buddhist Shingon Toji Temple overlooks Nachi Falls, the tallest waterfall in this country
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Japan
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$400
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In 1968, the Byodo-In Temple was built without nails in Valley of the Temples Memorial Park in this U.S. state
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Hawaii
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$600
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72 symbolic stupas encircle the top levels of the Borobudur Temple complex on this island, Indonesia's most populous
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Java
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$800
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A temple in India has a tree descended from this five-letter tree important in the life of Buddha
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the Bodhi Tree
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NOVELS BY CHAPTER TITLES
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$200
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"The Whiteness of the Whale"
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Moby Dick
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$400
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No lie: "The Beautiful Child Rescues the Puppet"
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Pinocchio
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$600
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By Dickens: "Knitting"
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A Tale of Two Cities
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$800
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1883: "Pieces of eight"
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Treasure Island
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$1000
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From a Verne work: "Boldly Down the Crater"
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
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PHRASE HISTORY
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$200
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The alliterative "more" this "for your buck" was popularized by a 1950s Secretary of Defense
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bang
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$400
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A 1918 song title said this "Is Hard To Find"
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A Good Man
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$600
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Marshall Field's Chicago department store popularized the expression "The customer is" this
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always right
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$800
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1970s Budget Director Bert Lance got people saying "If it ain't broke", this
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don\'t fix it
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$1000
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John Donne's 1624 "Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions" is the source of the phrase "No man is" this
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an island
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PUBLIC TELEVISION
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$200
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Watch this PBS show & guess how much grandma's old postcards might be appraised for
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Antiques Roadshow
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$400
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I say, old chap, it's time for "A Question of Sport", a quiz show on this network since 1970
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BBC
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$600
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Norm Abram earned his spot on the debut of this renovation show 40 years ago by having a minuscule scrap pile
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This Old House
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$800
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Real programs on this type of TV seen in "Wayne's World" include "The Mr. Science Show" & "Cast Iron TV"
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public access
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$1000
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The CBC's "Road to Avonlea" made a star of this actress named Sarah who played young Sara Stanley
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Sarah Polley
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INSPIRING WOMEN
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$200
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American Airlines Captain Beverley Bass was piloting one of the 38 planes that were diverted to Newfoundland on this date
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September 11th
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$400
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Haben Girma, who advocates for disability rights, was the first deaf blind person to graduate from this law school
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Harvard
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$600
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Pioneering environmentalist Marjory Stoneman Douglas is known as the woman who saved this Florida "river of grass"
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the Everglades
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$800
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India's first female prime minister, she helped shape the country's constitution & society
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Indira Gandhi
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$1000
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This glamorous Vienna-born actress invented a device that contributed to the development of GPS and WiFi
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Hedy Lamarr
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THE MIDDLE AGES
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$400
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This "dark" pandemic ravaged Europe between 1347 & 1351
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the Black Plague
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$800
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In this medieval literary work, Judas is found in the lowest circle of hell being gnawed on by Satan
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The (Dante\'s) Inferno (Divine Comedy)
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$1200
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According to legend, he was blown off course around 1000 A.D. & landed on the North American continent
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(Leif) Erikson
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$1600
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Before Charlemagne was crowned Holy Roman Emperor in 800, he was dubbed king of these people
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the Franks
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$2000
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In Medieval Europe, some women wore a cloth headdress called this, still used today by some nuns who wear a traditional habit
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a wimple
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WRAP IT UP!
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$400
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At Subway the signature wraps come wrapped in one of these
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tortilla
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$800
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The house here has this type of veranda that extends around the sides of the house
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a wraparound
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$1200
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According to Luke 2, Mary "brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in" these
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swaddling clothes
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$1600
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This 4-letter seaweed that wraps up sushi is actually a type of red algae
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nori
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$2000
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One of Christo's temporary works of art was the wrapping in fabric of this oldest Paris bridge
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the Pont Neuf
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AROUND THE WORLD
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$400
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Not only is it the world's smallest ocean, it's also the shallowest
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the Arctic
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$800
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In 2019 this airline used employees as guinea pigs on a 19-hour flight direct from London to Sydney
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Qantas
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$1200
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A specialty of Goa, India is feni, a potent liquor made from the fruit of the tree that produces these kidney-shaped nuts
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cashews
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$1600
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The name of this people of Kenya precedes "Mara" in the name of a national reserve loaded with lions
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Masai
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$2000
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"B" aware that this 19-mile-long strait splits Turkey into western & eastern portions
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the Bosporus
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DANGEROUS COLORS
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$400
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The use of cinnabar as a red, like in Degas' "Combing the Hair", is quite toxic, as it contains this liquid metal
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mercury
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$800
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Copper sulfate helped produce Scheele's this color, which gave some Victorians arsenic poisoning from wallpaper
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green
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$1200
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Used in "The Arrest of Christ", Naples yellow contains both antimony and this heavy metal once common in lead paint
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lead
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$1600
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Leonardo da Vinci used a black powder made from carcinogenic sources like coal tar & named for this element
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carbon
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$2000
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Prussian blue contained this poison that's also found in the seeds of apples
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cyanide
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HIT MUSIC OF TODAY
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$400
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In 2019 adult contemporary fans sure wanted to know "Girls Like You" from this Adam Levine band
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Maroon 5
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$800
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This band was "Only Human" as a hitmaker in 2019, its humans being Kevin, Joe & Nick
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the Jonas Brothers
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$1200
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In 2019, Garth Brooks and this fellow country star, seen here, team up to hit "A Dive Bar"
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Blake Shelton
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$1600
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He surprised people at the 2019 VMAs by performing "Panini" over the very expected "Old Town Road"
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Lil Nas X
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$2000
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The album "Beerbongs & Bentleys" topped the billboard 200, going pillar to him
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Post Malone
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POETS
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N/A
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A Dartmouth dropout, he received 2 honorary degrees from Dartmouth--in 1933 & 1935
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Robert Frost
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