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SYMBOLS
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On the Great Seal of the United States, the eagle grasps this symbol of peace in its right talon
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an olive branch
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One symbolic representation of Christ is as the paschal type of this animal
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a lamb
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$600
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Gary Anderson designed 3 chasing arrows as the symbol for this; the negative space on the inside resembles a pine tree
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recycling
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$800
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Long a symbol of communism, this pair represents the union of worker & peasant
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hammer and sickle
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Because of his days as a sailor, the founder of this department store used a red star as its symbol
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Macy\'s
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The occupy Wall Street movement helped popularize the populist phrase "We are the" this
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the 99%
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In 2018-19 James Harden of this team led the NBA in usage, the percentage of plays he's involved in on offense
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the Houston Rockets
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$800
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In the dystopian Netflix show "3%", kids in the slums of this largest Brazilian city are competing to join an offshore paradise
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São Paulo
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The government contacts about 110,000 people to get this monthly figure, 3.6% for Oct. 2019
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unemployment
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About 1,600 smaller islands surround the main one of this nation that's 90 miles south of Key West
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Cuba
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No visit to Iceland would be complete without a visit to the "Bay of Smokes", this capital city founded around 874
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Reykjavik
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This waterway extends 51 miles from Limón Bay to a second bay whose name would kinda give it away
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the Panama Canal
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$800
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A small trading town until the 19th c., this city on the Huangpu River now has a pop. of 20+ million, kidnapped sailors aside
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Shanghai
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What a pyramid scheme! The landmark here in this ancient Mayan city was dedicated to Kukulkan
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Chichen Itza
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""&"
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A classic reader featured "Fun with" these 2 siblings, along with their dog Spot
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Dick & Jane
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Benjamin Franklin wrote, "In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except" these 2 things
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death & taxes
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It's the traditional name of the British dish seen here
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bangers & mash
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In 1949 Billboard added this new music category to replace what had been called Race Records
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R&B (Rhythm & Blues)
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A footnote in Richard Feynman's Caltech lectures scolds these versifiers who say science reduces the stars' beauty
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poets
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You can get "Lost" in the footnotes & notes on the footnotes in "S.", a novel conceived by this sci-fi writer-director
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J.J. Abrams
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$800
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A 2016 papal footnote caused a ruckus by saying some divorced Catholics can have "the help of" these, such as communion
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the sacraments
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Gibbon's notes in "Decline and Fall of" this include a burn on an ancient historian, "Ammianus is so eloquent, that he writes nonsense"
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the Roman Empire
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$400
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The People's Choice winner for best TV Comedy of 2018 was this show set in a prison
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Orange is the New Black
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$600
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In 2019 Jason Bateman won an Emmy for his direction of this series & Julia Garner won for playing Missouri local Ruth Langmore
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Ozark
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$800
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In 2019 the Grammy for Best Country Duo/ Group Performance went to "Tequila" by the duo of Dan + him
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Shay
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$1000
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With superheroic effort at 2019's NAACP Image Awards, he bested Michael B. Jordan--again--as Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture
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(Chadwick) Boseman
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SPECIES NAMES
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$400
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Macropus rufus is this color kangaroo
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red
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$1200
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The annuus in Helianthus annuus, the sunflower, implies it lives up to this number of years
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one
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$1600
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Pandalus borealis, the deepwater prawn, is also known as this directional shrimp
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northern (**north)
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$2000
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The gopher tortoise, Gopherus polyphemus, is named for one of these cave-dwelling creatures in Greek myth
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a cyclops
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14-LETTER WORDS
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$400
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The action of changing a lowercase letter into an uppercase one
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capitalization
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$800
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Buildings & roads are part of this, the set of features needed for running a city
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infrastructure
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$1200
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Someone in this profession of the man seen here, from the Greek for "ancient", often works with an archaeologist
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a paleontologist
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$1600
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If you have this condition, you see distant objects more clearly than near ones
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farsightedness
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$2000
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Adjective for a space probe designed to travel between earth & Jupiter, for example
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interplanetary
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LITERARY FESTIVALS
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$400
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This California city is home to Litquake, which celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2019
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San Francisco
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$800
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The Tennessee Williams & the Saints & Sinners LGBT Literary Festivals are both held in this southern city
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New Orleans
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$1200
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Each year the Western Folklife Center in Elko, Nevada hosts the national gathering for poetry named for this rustic job
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cowboy
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$1600
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Louisville's Gonzofest is not about Muppets; it celebrates the writing of this native son
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Hunter Thompson
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$2000
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One of the largest book festivals in Europe is held in Poland & named for this author of "Heart of Darkness"
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(Joseph) Conrad
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HISTORIC PLEAS
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In 1860, after anti-abolitionists broke up a meeting, this thinker & ex-slave delivered a plea for freedom of speech in Boston
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(Frederick) Douglass
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$800
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An 11th c. chronicle says Lady Godiva pleaded with her husband to lower the people's taxes; he said okay, if you'll do this
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horseback ride naked through the town
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Chief Joseph met Teddy Roosevelt & pleaded with him to allow this tribe to return to its ancestral home
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Nez Perce
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$1600
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Lycaon, son of this Trojan king, begs Achilles, "Be merciful and spare me"; Achilles kills him
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King Priam (or "Pree-um")"
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He asked for mercy from Chester Arthur, arguing that he increased Arthur's income from $8,000 to $50,000 a year
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Charles Guiteau
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WORLD TRANSPORTATION
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$1200
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This U.S. interstate passes through 8 states on its 2,400+ mile journey from Santa Monica to Jacksonville
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I-10
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$1600
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Carrying 5,000-plus passengers, one of the largest cruise liners, the "Harmony of the Seas" is operated by this company with a "C" name
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Royal Caribbean
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$2000
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In 31 hours South Africa's blue train travels in luxury between these 2 cities, the administrative & legislative capitals
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Cape Town & Pretoria
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REAL-LIFE CELEBRITY SUPERHEROES
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$1200
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I, this '90s figure skater, called 911 & gave mouth-to-mouth to an 81-year-old woman who collapsed in a bar in Portland
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Tonya Harding
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$2000
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Before playing Gibbs on "NCIS", he sledgehammered the window of a burning car & pulled 2 teens to safety
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Mark Harmon
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FRENCH TOWNS
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N/A
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Legend says local farm wife Marie Harel & a priest from Brie created the famous product of this Normandy village
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Camembert
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