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BREAKING THE PHONICS RULES |
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Victoria is the capital of this Pacific coast province |
British Columbia
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Genesis 19 says that this man's wife "looked back from behind"... and she became a pillar of salt" |
Lot
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Though blind, I see that you're still reading my "Iliad" & "Odyssey"; you owe me! Or at least the overdue library fees |
Homer
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"C" is generally soft when it comes before "E", but not at the start of this musical instrument |
the cello
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This class of rock is made by changes in heat, pressure or shearing to pre-existing rocks |
metamorphic rock
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"Dr. Strangelove" |
Peter Sellers
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Halifax, the capital of this province, is the home port of the Canadian Atlantic fleet |
Nova Scotia
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One reason for building this waterway was to transport salt from deposits in Syracuse to the coast |
the Erie Canal
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"Slow and steady wins the race" is one of the morals I have taught you; you owe me! |
Aesop
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English words that end in "int" usually have a short "I" --oops, not this measurement |
a pint
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"Saving Private Ryan" |
Matt Damon
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Winnie-the-Pooh was named after a bear owned by a WWI soldier from this Manitoba city |
Winnipeg
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Many chefs prefer this coarse-grained salt named for the fact that it was originally used to meet Jewish dietary rules |
kosher salt
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I left behind treatises on how to treat diseases & my oath is still taken today; you owe me! Do you have Blue Cross? |
Hippocrates
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"SH" doesn't sound as usual in this insect that can leap 20 times its length |
(Kristian: What is... I have absolutely no clue?)
grasshopper
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The Mohorovicic discontinuity separates the Earth's crust from this |
the mantle
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"What's Eating Gilbert Grape?" |
Johnny Depp
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Charlottetown, the capital of this island province, is named for the wife of King George III |
(Jonathan: What is New Brunswick?) (Lisa: What is Newfoundland?)
Prince Edward Island
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Bars of salt called amoles were once a basic currency of this country formerly known as Abyssinia |
(Lisa: What is Egypt?)
Ethiopia
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Without my "Parallel Lives", you'd know a lot less about our history |
Plutarch
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This British distinction, like the Order of the Thistle, includes "th" but not as in thistle |
(Kristian: What is the Order of the Garter?) ... (Alex: The British distinction that we don't have here is [*].)
knighthood
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"The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" (all 3, per favore) |
(Kristian: Who is Clint Eastwood?) (Alex: All three, please.) (Kristian: And... I don't know the other two.)
Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef & Eli Wallach
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Iqaluit, the capital of this territory created in 1999, means "place of fish" in the Inuktitut language |
Nunavut
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Popular with racers, they cover about 100 square miles in Utah, & in some places the salt is 6 feet thick |
(Lisa: What are salt flats?) (Alex: Be more specific.) (Lisa: Uhhh, [*]?)
Bonneville Salt Flats
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For building the Parthenon as leader of Athens, I say to the citizens: you owe me! & please take better care of it |
(Lisa: Who is Julius Caesar?)
Pericles
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There's a "PH" but no "F" sound in this type of difficult, tiring battle |
(Jonathan: What is a Pyrrhic victory?)
uphill
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