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| ASTRONOMY'S GREATEST HITS |
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| STUFF FROM HIGH SCHOOL ENGLISH |
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| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew on the island of Oahu) These are the two times it's most customary to place a lei around a mainlander's neck |
when they leave & when they arrive
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| "I Am Stuck On" this brand & it's "Stuck On Me" |
Band-Aid
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| The Hampton Roads Conference was an unsuccessful attempt to end this in 1865 |
Civil War
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| In 1995, 2 Swiss astronomers announced the first known one of these to orbit a star other than the sun |
planet
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| Lounge singer Whoopi Goldberg got a new habit in this feel-good comedy from 1992 |
Sister Act
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| A short essay, or the basic message students are asked to extract from a literary work |
theme
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| Hawaii got this official nickname with statehood in 1959 |
"The Aloha State"
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| "Ladies, Please Don't Squeeze" this! |
the Charmin
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| On Nov. 7, 1962 he famously declared, "Gentlemen, this is my last press conference" |
Richard M. Nixon
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| In 1979 Voyager 1 discovered that this large body has rings, just like Saturn & Uranus |
Jupiter
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| Beings from up above helped Danny Glover's baseball team in this 1994 Disney comedy |
Angels in the Outfield
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| A simile is defined as a comparison usually containing either of these 2 words |
as or like
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| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in downtown Honolulu) Appropriately, a statue of this great Hawaiian is located on King Street |
King Kamehameha
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| "You're In Good Hands With" them |
(Alex: Minute to go.)
Allstate
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| (I'm NFL wide receiver Jimmy Smith) I played for Jackson State University in this conference, abbreviated the SWAC |
(Bronson: What is the Southwest Athletic Conference?)
Southwestern Athletic Conference
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| Around 240 B.C. Chinese astronomers observed this, later named for a British astronomer |
Halley's Comet
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| This 1978 Warren Beatty film was a remake of the comic fantasy "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" |
Heaven Can Wait
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| Also a measure, it's the "measure" of stress patterns in a line of poetry |
meter
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| Hearing this original European name for the Hawaiian Islands might make you hungry |
Sandwich Islands
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| It's "The Quicker Picker-Upper" |
Bounty
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| In 1968 Ralph Abernathy succeeded Martin Luther King as leader of this conference, abbreviated SCLC |
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
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| In 585 B.C. Thales of Miletus accurately predicted one of these astronomical events |
solar eclipse
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| In this sequel, George Burns made a third trip to Earth, playing dual roles, good & bad |
Oh, God! You Devil
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| This faulty type of sentence is classified as either a comma splice or a fused sentence |
run-on sentence
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| (Sofia of the Clue Crew on the island of Kauai) Hawaiian agriculture was transformed when this man took his 1899 Harvard degree & headed for the islands |
James Dole
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| It's "The Helpful Hardware Place" |
Ace
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| 1944's Bretton Woods Conference resulted in the creation of the World Bank & this fund |
IMF (International Monetary Fund)
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| In 1801 Giuseppe Piazzi discovered the first known one of these heavenly objects & dubbed it Ceres |
asteroid
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| Fleeing from the mob, Robbie Coltrane & Eric Idle went incognito in a convent in this 1990 farce |
Nuns on the Run
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| "Dark" term for hints in a story that suggest what's going to happen later |
foreshadowing
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