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FOR MY FIRST CAR I'D LIKE... |
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In 2008 Britain's Laura Robson thrilled the home folks by winning the juniors at this tennis tournament |
Wimbledon
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The Greek for "first combatant" gives us this term for the leading character of a literary work |
protagonist
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Dad had a Bug in college--but I want this company's Jetta |
Volkswagen
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If x2 = 144, x is this |
12
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At 2008's Olympics, some thought athletes in this sport, like 4'6", 68-lb. Deng Linlin, might not be the minimum 16 |
gymnastics
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This literary term refers to a line of 5 metrical feet in which each foot is an unstressed syllable followed by a stressed one |
iambic pentameter
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This Chevy sports car--the ZR1, & make it red to match the ribbon & bow |
(Aidan: What is a Camaro?)
the Corvette
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If 3x + y = 10 & y equals 1, x equals this |
3
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In the 1990s the U.S. Army began adding about 2,000 pounds of armor to this, its most commonly deployed tactical vehicle |
the Humvee
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"When Crocs Ate Dinos" takes us to this period, named for chalk cliffs, the dinosaurs' final period |
the Cretaceous period
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(I'm Danica Patrick.) Long before I got into race cars, I was a 12-year-old winner of the grand national championship in this sport -- if you're cool, you don't put the "go" in front of it |
go-karts
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It's a word or phrase that is self-contradictory, like bittersweet |
an oxymoron
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This emblem & the wheels to go with it |
Jaguar
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This lymphoid organ destroys worn-out red blood cells & filters bacteria & foreign particles |
the spleen
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In 2007 12-year-old Alexis Thompson qualified for this LPGA major, held at the Pine Needles Lodge |
the U.S. Open (Women's Open)
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It's the use of words imitative of sounds, like "buzz" or "hiss" |
onomatopoeia
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A Lexus LS--it's a hybrid, but has this "juicy" alphanumeric engine |
a V8 engine
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They're the x & y coordinates of the point at which the x- & y-axes intersect |
(0, 0)
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Justin Upton is one of the young stars who got the Arizona Diamondbacks dubbed this, like an order of ribs |
the Babybacks
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It's a figure of speech that is an intentional exaggeration for effect, like "to wait an eternity" |
hyperbole
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Uncle Ingemar's '94 Saab--cars from this country really hold up |
Sweden
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To multiply binomials like (3x + 5)(2x + 7), remember the "FOIL" method, which stands for this |
first, outer, inner, last
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From the Latin for "I believe", it's one's system of beliefs or principles |
a creed
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