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In the native Inuit language, this place is known as Kalaallit Nunaat |
Greenland
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She didn't just sing the blues, she called her autobiography "Lady Sings The Blues" |
Billie Holiday
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In black holes this force is so strong that not even light can escape |
gravity
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Youngest of the 8 sons of Jesse, this supposedly redheaded King of Israel reigned from 1000 to 962 B.C. |
David
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This southern "Vampire" author continued her purple prose with the bewitching novel "Lasher" |
Anne Rice
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Popular term for a baggage porter at a railway station |
redcap
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Ceded to the U.S. in 1783, it's the oldest city in Wisconsin |
Green Bay
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His early billing as the "Beale Street Blues Boy" was way shortened |
B.B. King
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Micro black holes are believed to have been formed by this primordial event at the beginning of the universe |
Big Bang
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He's the red-headed & lab-challenged Muppet seen here |
(Alex: That's [*]! Come on guys, you missed [*]! Awwww!)
Beaker
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Sister of actress Joan, this author of "The Stud" was dubbed "Hollywood's own Marcel Proust" by Vanity Fair |
Jackie Collins
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In 1982 these 2 organizations merged to become America's largest single provider of managed health-care coverage |
Blue Cross Blue Shield
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They extend from Canada through Vermont into western Massachusetts |
Green Mountains
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The first & last names of this legendary Chicago Blues guitarist can both be slang for "man" |
Buddy Guy
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Black holes are thought to emit a weak form of radiation named for this physicist |
(Chad: Who is Einstein?)
Stephen Hawking
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Totally cosmic, dude-- this redhead orbited the earth in 1962 & again in 1998 |
John Glenn
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This author of "The Carpetbaggers" & "The Betsy" has been called "papa of the purple prose paperback" |
Harold Robbins
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A real-life mutiny aboard a soviet frigate inspired this 1984 Tom Clancy bestseller |
The Hunt for Red October
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Bob Jones University is located in this South Carolina city |
Greenville
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McKinley Morganfield got this nickname from his habit of playing in a creek as a child |
Muddy Waters
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In science fiction stories, black holes are often gateways to these vermiform travel tubes |
wormholes
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A toast to this redheaded 18th c. Scottish outlaw, pardoned after his 1725 capture for his part in the Jacobite rebellion |
Rob Roy
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Fittingly, his "Riders of the Purple Sage" has been accused of having purple prose |
Zane Grey
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In "Othello", Iago warns, "O! Beware, my lord, of jealousy", it is this creature |
a green-eyed monster
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26 miles east of Winston-Salem, this North Carolina city is a leading textile-producing center |
Greensboro
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Credited with writing "Sweet Home Chicago", this "King of the Delta Blues" said the Devil taught him to play guitar |
Robert Johnson
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This "horizon" is the gravitational point of no return in a black hole |
event horizon
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This Dublin-born redhead, called the most important British dramatist since Shakespeare, won a 1925 Nobel Prize |
George Bernard Shaw
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Purple prose is exemplified by this hyphenated author's "It was a dark and stormy night..." |
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
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Porphyrogenitus, a royal epithet given to Byzantine emperors, translates to this phrase |
Born to the purple
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