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| BEASTLY NORTH AMERICAN GEOGRAPHY |
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| Monet's painting of a residence in Sassenheim, Holland features a field replete with these flowers |
tulips
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| Straight up now tell me, you're up for this case of smacking your Chevy into that Subaru & just taking off |
a hit and run
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| At Earth's surface the acceleration produced by this force is about 32 feet per second per second |
gravity
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| Celia Keenan-Bolger won a 2019 Tony as this daughter in "To Kill a Mockingbird" |
Scout Finch
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| The highest point on the Canadian Pacific Railway, Kicking Horse Pass is on the border of Alberta & this province to the west |
British Columbia
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| Using the ocean itself to describe the crossing from Portugal to Haiti |
(Francois: What is crossatlantic?)
transatlantic
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| The lithograph of Mount Vernon seen here was from this pair known for their cheap & popular pictures |
Currier & Ives
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| This lawyer's star rose while repping Stormy Daniels but fell after he was accused of trying to extort millions from Nike in 2019 |
(Alex: His name, quickly forgotten obviously--[*].)
Michael Avenatti
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| About 75% of all chemical elements are in this class of substances, all good conductors because of an abundance of free electrons |
metals
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| Zero Mostel, Phil Silvers & Nathan Lane all won Tonys for playing Pseudolus in this "Funny" musical set in Rome |
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
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| In the heart of the "Silicon Forest", Beaverton is a suburb of this Western U.S. metropolis |
Portland
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| Mirowski & Mower developed the implantable one of these medical devices--clear! |
a defibrillator
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| His "Christina's World" depicts a woman with polio straining toward a farmhouse |
(Andrew) Wyeth
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| At the Scopes Trial, this politician said he'd seen nothing to accept the word of scientists against the inspired word of God |
William Jennings Bryan
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| Measured in hertz, it's the term for the number of complete waves passing a certain point in a unit of time |
frequency
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| Ali Stroker was the first wheelchair-using winner, playing Ado Annie in a 2019 revival of this Rodgers & Hammerstein musical |
Oklahoma!
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| This river is the largest tributary of the Columbia, which it joins near Pasco, Washington |
(James: All right, let's try it again--all in.)
the Snake
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| Thinking about the past, or an exhibit spanning the career of one artist |
a retrospective
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| The house in the rear of this Brit's painting "A Bigger Splash" features, of course, a swimming pool |
(David) Hockney
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| The Justice Dept. IDs violations of this 1890 act; timed, uniform price hikes by competitors are a sign of collusion |
the Sherman Antitrust Act
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| Water seems to defy gravity in this "action": the molecules' adhesion to the walls of a tube is stronger than their cohesion |
capillary action
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| Juanita Hall won at the fourth Tonys as Bloody Mary in this WWII-set musical |
South Pacific
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| Ascribe human traits to that cute puppy |
anthropomorphize
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| He eschewed more familiar urban scenes as in his "Nighthawks" to paint "Vermont Sugar House" in 1938 |
(Edward) Hopper
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| This 3-word Latin phrase means "the thing speaks for itself" but lawyers always seem to keep talking anyway |
res ipsa loquitur
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| A 1976 paper has one of the first mentions of this "Model" that accounts for 3 of the universe's 4 fundamental forces |
(Francois: What is, uh... grand unification theorem?)
the Standard Model
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| Mr. Henry Fonda won a Tony as a lieutenant dealing with the boredom of a Navy cargo ship in this play |
Mister Roberts
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| About 40 miles west of Regina, you'll find this Saskatchewan city that sounds like a deer facial bone |
Moose Jaw
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| "V" aware it's the job of one who makes flags |
(James: What is vexillologist?)
vexillographer
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