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IBM made the Lucifer algorithm in 1974 for the NSA to help with this, from the Greek for "hidden writing" |
cryptography
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Agadir, Morocco is "the City of Blue Men", for the uniform of the drivers of these animals |
camels
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Ex-wife Madonna showed up with him at the 2016 benefit for his Haitian relief organization |
(Sean) Penn
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Since 1989 Poland's GDP has grown about twice as fast as the rest of this organization that it joined in 2004 |
(Katrina: What is NATO?)
the E.U. (the European Union)
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Here's the banded type of this pest controller |
a mongoose
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A temporary route when the usual one is blocked |
a detour
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In 2015 Time magazine told of this website's News Feed algorithm that helped personalize content |
Facebook
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This English university city is "the City of Dreaming Spires" |
Oxford
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Breaking (up) news... this longtime CNN host & wife No. 6, Julie Alexander |
Larry King
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In 966 Duke Mieszko joined the club & bent the knee, bringing this faith to his people |
Christianity
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The "mule" this stubbornly migrates 300 miles round trip, the farthest of any land mammal in the lower 48 |
a deer
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Group that follows an important person around attending to his needs; where's my foot masseuse? |
an entourage
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Dealing with the function of markets, the Gale-Shapley algorithm was part of a Nobel Prize in this field |
economics
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Ratnapura in this Asian island country is "the City of Gems" & that's what its name means in Sinhalese |
(Bill: What is... what is Thailand?)
Sri Lanka
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In 2015 this TV grill master found his union with TV Assistant D.A. Stephanie March was done |
Bobby Flay
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Poland lost its independence in 1795 when Austria & these 2 rhyming countries partitioned the commonwealth |
(Alex: Bill?) (Bill: What is... Norway and Italy? I don't--I don't know.)
Russia & Prussia
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Oh, dear--this South American animal has been known to eat monkeys |
an ocelot
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Give a spectacular acting performance & your reviews might use this 3-word French term |
a tour de force
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Euclidean algorithms are used by mathematicians to find the GCD, this |
the greatest common denominator
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This most populous New Zealand city is known as "the City of Sails" |
Auckland
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He & wife No. 5, Angelina Jolie, were bound by blood--for a while |
(Billy Bob) Thornton
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Ignace Jan Paderewski, used to flattery in this profession, failed as PM in 1919 & lived in exile his last 22 years |
[Katrina gave both listed responses.]
a pianist (or a musician)
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A member of the raccoon family, the coati is also known by this longer name |
(Annie: What is a jaguarundi?)
coatimundi
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The name of this small roundish slice of beef is from the French for "turn" & "back" |
a tournedos
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An algorithm can be a set of steps for a computer; one type covers this process of packing data into files such as mp3s |
a compression algorithm
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The unofficial capital of Flemish-speaking Belgium, it's "the City of the Madonnas" |
Antwerp
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His third wife was Mia Farrow, but she made a brand new start of it |
(Bill: Who is Allen?)
(Frank) Sinatra
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Grant's this, Equus quagga boehmi of Africa, doesn't neigh, it barks |
a zebra
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2-word name for an extended trip through Europe formerly taken by young aristocrats to complete their education |
a Grand Tour
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