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CANYONS; Cotahuasi Canyon in this Andean nation is more than 12,000 feet deep; it's a seven-hour hike down to the town of Quechualla at its bottom.
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CANYONS; Cotahuasi Canyon in this Andean nation is more than 12,000 feet deep; it's a seven-hour hike down to the town of Quechualla at its bottom.
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THE WORLD ALMANAC: In 1950 the U.S. manufactured more than 75% of the world's these; in 2018, 12%.
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ALPHABETIC HOMOPHONES: A football is placed on it in preparation for the kickoff.
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FRENCH: A sequence of 3 vowels creates this common French word, a homophone of a different vowel altogether.
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SALT & PEPPER: Coal soot during the Industrial Revolution caused the peppered species of this insect to quickly evolve to have darker wings.
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SAFETY FEATURES: Sodium azide reacts with potassium nitrate to (quickly!) produce nitrogen gas in this safety feature.
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ONLINE WORDS: You can get the New York Times or blogs in this type of XML format that's known as "really simple".
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MATH HYSTERIA: XVI minus IX; respond with the Roman numeral, please.
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CABLE CHANNELS: Channel that's been home to gritty shows like "Dirt" and "Rescue Me".
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2-LETTER WORDS: Title of the Peter Gabriel album with the hits "Big Time" and "Sledgehammer".
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STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH: A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work.
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MEDICAL SCHOOL: Washington University School of Medicine is the birthplace of this scanner similar to a CAT scanner. It was first to reveal brain function.
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3-LETTER WORDS: Anonymous John's last name.
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TEASING: Composer Leonard Bernstein said the universal teasing song uses the notes G-E, G-E and this repeated syllable.
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BROADCASTING HISTORY: In 1991 this young broadcast TV network became the first in the U.S. to run a commercial for condoms.
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WORD ORIGINS: Meaning to burn with hot liquid or steam, this word comes from calidus, Latin for "warm".
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IT HAPPENED IN 2023: Tragedy struck this island in August as wildfires ravaged the historic town of Lahaina.
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GEOLOGY: Pot, meet this deep circular hole scoured beneath a river or glacier.
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FRUIT: This hybrid of a tangerine and a grapefruit comes in 2 main varieties: Orlando and Minneola.
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MOVIE NAMES: Madonna in the title role: "Desperately Seeking ____".
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TELECOMMUNICATIONS: A help to the harassed, on Verizon *57 is this feature that tells you where your latest incoming call came from.
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CONSTELLATIONS: The ancient Greeks compared the constellation Triangulum to this capital letter of theirs.
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WE PUT CHARACTERS ON TRIAL: Yes, this Indian lad had to kill those endangered sea turtles, but he was shipwrecked, with a tiger in the boat
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STATES' HIGHEST POINTS: Wheeler Peak in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains.
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ON THE BILLBOARD CHARTS IN 2020: In a collaboration with the late Juice Wrld, this Detroit man rapped, "I can swallow a bottle of alcohol & I'll feel like Godzilla".
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IT'S NOT YOU; IT'S ME: In 2019 this shipping company ended its U.S. air and ground delivery contracts with Amazon.
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WOODWORKING: If the joint called mortis and this is too deep, you get movement; too short, there's not enough gluing surface.
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THE 10 PLAGUES OF EGYPT: In the seventh plague, this rained "upon the land of Egypt", breaking "every tree of the field".
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SIGNS & SYMBOLS: From the Latin for "key" comes this symbol on a musical staff.
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NICKNAMES: Referring to the extensive quarries there, it's "the Granite State".
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STATE OF THE STATE FOREST: Tillamook State Forest
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ALONG CAME JONES: Unusual first name of the Jones who founded the English Classical School of Architecture.
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MEDICAL TERMS: Cerumen is the medical name for this substance.
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ELECTRICITY: George Westinghouse promoted this type of current that we use today.
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36 TIMES THE FUN: As a young man, this 36th president taught debate and public speaking at Sam Houston High School.
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GOLDEN GUYS: In 1948 Peter Goldmark and his team at CBS introduced this type of record.
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OBSCURE WORDS: This word, meaning "dizzy or in a state of confusion," can also describe the sensation of being lightheaded or off-balance, often as if one's head is spinning.
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SUFFIXES: This suffix denotes a distinctive doctrine, system, or theory, often used to categorize ideologies or beliefs.
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NORSE MYTHOLOGY: Much of Germanic mythology comes from old texts known as the "poetic" and "prose" these.
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5-LETTER WORDS: Islamic legal opinion or directive.
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ANIMAL SOUNDS: From Latin, it means "for each".
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A RELIGIOUS SERVICE: In an Orthodox church, a priest with his back to you isn't rude or shy, he's facing this direction like the congregation
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PRIME NUMBERS: Alex Lifeson co-wrote this Canadian trio's "Prime Mover".
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SOUNDS LIKE TENNIS: Ambrose Bierce defined it as "A temporary insanity curable by marriage".
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CHIPS: This Mexican pepper is actually a smoked jalapeno which can be dried or canned in an adobo sauce.
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TOM SAWYER: Form of transport commandeered by Tom when he ran away from home with Huck and Joe.
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BROADWAY ON THE POP CHARTS: This numerically named show about the wives of Henry VIII debuted at no. 1 on Billboard's cast album chart.
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2-LETTER ABBREV.: Sadly, what Keats and Chopin died of.
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ANAGRAMS: If an artist doesn't own this kind of support, he should lease one.
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WORDS IN STATES: Me, myself and I in Eugene's state.
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SUPER TOUGH ANAGRAMS: It is a tropical shrub.
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LIFE OF PI: In 1949 this acronymical computer found pi to more than 2,000 digits; modern ones have passed 2 quadrillion.
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2-LETTER WORDS: Familial word before "Bell" in an alternate name for AT&T.
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AN ENCOURAGING VERB: The Latin tollere, "to raise", gives us this verb meaning to praise highly.
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ELECTRICITY: It's the 2-letter abbreviation for a flow of electric charge that doesn't change direction.
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COMPLETE THE RHYMING PHRASE: "Little strokes fell great...".
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UNREAL ESTATE: Though filmed on and around Martha's Vineyard, "Jaws" took place on and near this fictional New York island.
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MORE THAN ONE MEANING: To consume, or a live video signal.
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ETYMOLOGY: The kids of 15th century B.C. Mesopotamia might have liked Samassamu Street; samassamu gave us this word.
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TEXTILES: Dungaree is a sturdy type of this cotton cloth used to make dungarees.
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IT'S THE JURASSIC PERIOD: Jurassic National Monument, southeast of Provo in this state, is the site of a noted dinosaur quarry, home to over 12,000 fossils.
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ABBREV.: In lowercase a metric unit of wt.; in uppercase it stands for "Knight of the Order of the Garter".
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DUCK, DUCK, GOOSE!: In 1952 the population of this double-talk Hawaiian goose was about 30 but today it thrives on Kauai.
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DAYS: When founded by Benjamin Day in 1833, the New York Sun was sold daily for this much per issue.
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HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES: Lunar New Year is called Chunjie in Chinese and this three-letter name in Vietnamese.
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AT THE ANCIENT ROMAN CINEPLEX: 1997: Wesley Snipes, and Ronny Cox as the President, in "Murder at ____".
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SPANISH CLASS: Help! My pluma is out of tinta, this.
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WHAT'S THAT SONG?: Meghan Trainor's title advice for how to respond to a boy who "ain't giving up"? This word.
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2-LETTER WORDS: In the "Little House" books, it's what Laura Ingalls calls her father.
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POISON: The venom of the Gaboon viper can affect the way your blood does this inside you--either too much or too little.
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MISSING MOVIE NAMES: A post-apocalyptic tale starring Denzel: "The Book of ____".
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SCIENTISTS: Astronomer Michael Brown discovered the object classified as UB313 in 2003 and named it for this TV princess.
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LOW TECH: It originally had a stone or wood blade, but "The Man With" one in the Markham poem probably used metal.
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BOTANY: The benjamina species of this genus is the one most commonly grown as a house plant.
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4-LETTER WORDS: Poet James Lowell asked, "And what is so" this "as a day in June?".
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KINGS: Killed in battle in 1031, this king of Norway was made a saint in 1164.
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DISEASES: In 2001 Frank Carlson fought an awful diagnosis and started the Foundation for Life to fight this neuro-degenerative disease.
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3-LETTER ABBREVIATIONS: Your car's tachometer measures them.
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POTPOURRI: The June 1989 Life cover story was an uplifting piece on the 100th anniversary of this apparel.
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BEJEWELED: When dense, black lignite coal takes on a high polish and is used for jewelry, it's called by this high-flying name.
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SPACE EXPLORATION: This American aerospace manufacturer, founded in 2006, is known for its work in launching satellites and crewed missions.
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TECHNOLOGY: An erasable form of this audio product will allow a PC to store 275,000 pages of print.
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MAGAZINES COME & GO: In 2019 this magazine about pop culture kept its name but went monthly.