NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC'S MUST SEE PLACES FOR 2017 |
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"A biodiversity hotspot", this country's Cloud Forests, north of Quito |
Ecuador
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The oldest pro baseball association merges with Woodrow Wilson's pet project |
the National League of Nations
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In this movie Steve Carell's inexperience is revealed to his buddies over a card game |
The 40-Year-Old Virgin
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No, it's a goofy type of person, from the name of a Jim Nabors character |
(Ryan: What is a goober?) ... (Alex: [*] Pyle.)
a gomer
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Iron oxide gives Mars this nickname, also the title of a Robert Heinlein novel |
the Red Planet
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The Roman deity Venus was identified with this Greek goddess of love |
Aphrodite
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For great American music, this state that gave us Luke Bryan & R.E.M. |
Georgia
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Margaret Mitchell's magnum opus soars with a Bette Midler smash |
"Gone With the Wind Beneath My Wings"
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Javier Bardem won an Oscar playing a hit man in this Coen brothers film |
No Country for Old Men
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Yes, it's a small boat; take out the "H" & you get a word meaning "dirty" |
a dinghy
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In 1965 this probe with a seafaring name shot Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to photograph a non-Earth planet |
Mariner
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In mythology Venus is married to Vulcan & is the mother of this winged god |
(Ryan: Who is Mercury?)
Eros (or Cupid)
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After touching down at Incheon International Airport, this city that's kinetic, buzzed & up all night |
Seoul (South Korea)
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Original "Hawaii Five-O" actor who is Tolkien's follow-up to "The Hobbit" |
Jack Lord of the Rings
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Sophia Loren turns up to tempt Walter Matthau in this even more cranky sequel |
Grumpier Old Men
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No, it's a place, right before Kalkaska on the alphabetical list of Michigan counties |
Kalamazoo
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In 1610 this man made early telescopic observations of Mars & noted that it has phases like the moon |
Galileo
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Notable artistic representations of the goddess include this work from around 1485 |
(Alex: Botticelli.)
The Birth of Venus
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Now with tourist access to remote villages, this nation, PNG for short, on the world's second-largest island |
Papua New Guinea
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Woody Guthrie's American anthem salutes a Minnesota butter & cheese supplier |
"This Land Is Your Land" o' Lakes
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Will Ferrell is among those trying to get back his college spirit in this comedy |
Old School
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Yes, it's this 7-letter item seen in a church or an auditorium |
a lectern
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The tininess of Mars' 2 moons suggests that they might have been pulled from this belt between Mars & Jupiter |
(Ryan: What is the Kepler belt?)
the asteroid belt
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Venus' mortal lovers include this proverbially handsome human man |
Adonis
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"Beauty and bliss in the Rocky Mountains": this town & national park in Alberta |
Banff
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Bob Woodward's Capital newspaper hitches up to an old type of fast horse-drawn carriage |
a Washington Post-chaise
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This quirky Korean revenge flick was remade by Spike Lee in 2013 |
Oldboy
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No, it's a foreign person to the Japanese |
gaijin
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About 15 miles high & 400 miles across, this highest mountain on Mars shares part of its name with a Greek peak |
Mons Olympus
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Venus provides guidance to this Trojan hero fated to become an ancestor to the Romans |
(Ryan: Who is Aeneid?)
Aeneas
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