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A – Tajikistan was part of Uzbekistan as an __________ republic before becoming a full-fledged Soviet republic in 1929
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Autonomous
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B – “There's a lady who's sure; All that glitters is gold; And she's ______ a stairway to heaven …”
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Buying
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C – the basic unit of a living organism, or short for mobile phone
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Cell
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D – a place to sleep; its anagram is “dirty room”
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Dormitory
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E – country where the last battle or “skirmish” occurred on 18 December 1745 (if you don’t count a bit of tussling in 1838 and 1940)
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England
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F – Johann Sebastian Bach’s 18th century hit “Toccata and _____”
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Fugue
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G – Lac Léman at the French-Swiss border is also known as Lake ______
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Geneva
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H – an alien in Avengers Assemble, a sponge-like moon of Saturn, or Titan who fathered Helios
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Hyperion
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I – G.I. (e.g. G.I. Joe) originally stood for Galvanized ____
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Iron
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J – first name of Thorpe, the first Native American to win a gold medal for the U.S. in the Olympics
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Jim
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K – South Korean car manufacturer, or New Zealand greeting “___ ora”
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Kia
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L – what every metaphorical cloud has of silver colour
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Lining
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M – not communicative, not dad
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Mum
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N – NSFW is ___ ____ For Work
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Not Safe
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O – the 2nd largest province by total area in Canada
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Ontario
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P – agricultural goods, or what Aphex Twin does to albums
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Produce
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Q – the last imperial dynasty in Chinese history
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Qing
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R – authors Anne ____ and Edgar ____ Burroughs
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Rice
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S – a children's card game where players claim pairs of matching cards, or what someone suffering a mental breakdown does
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Snap
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T – precedes break, follows bow
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Tie
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U – not expected, or American documentary TV program ________ Suspects
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Unusual
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V – the capital of Lithuania
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Vilnius
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W – Erysimum (a genus of flowering plants), or The Perks of Being a __________
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Wallflower
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X – a people in Ethiopia speaking the Xamtanga language
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Xamir
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Y – a form of singing, originally used by herders calling their flocks or to communicate between Alpine villages
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Yodel
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Z – virus that caused an epidemic in 2015–2016 in the Americas (____ fever)
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Zika
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