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THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION |
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THINGS THAT MAKE YOU GO "HM" |
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Erythro‑ & chloro‑ are these 2 colors; happy holidays! |
red & green
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"Mork & Mindy" |
Happy Days
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In the 2013 winner "The Orphan Master's Son", young Pak Jun Do comes of age in this totalitarian nation |
North Korea
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This country's 1-dollar coin features a loon on one side & is affectionately called a loonie |
Canada
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A 2015-16 MoMA show of this Spaniard's sculputure included a busty bust of his muse Marie-Therese Walter |
(Heidi: Who was Brancusi?)
Picasso
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Germany's Helmut, or the Phillies' Mike, who wore a helmet |
(John: Who is Mike [*]?)
Schmidt
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Belly up to this prefix that means "stomach" or "belly" |
gastro‑
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"Bindi: The Jungle Girl" |
The Crocodile Hunter
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Chapter 1 of this winner introduces the Tarleton Twins, "born to the ease of plantation life" |
Gone with the Wind
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In 1991, after a period of hyperinflation, Peru dropped the inti for the nuevo sol, or "new" this |
sun
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To create his Stone Mountain sculpture, he had to devise a magic lantern to project a sketch onto the mountain |
(Alex: Same man who did Mount Rushmore.)
Gutzon Borglum
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It's Cambodia's official language; "Rouge" followed it, unfortunately |
Khmer
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Find this prefix before ‑meter & you'll have a device to measure wind speed |
anemo‑
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"Snooki & JWoww" |
(Alex: Yeah. Why are you smiling? You don't want to admit that you watched it.)
Jersey Shore
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1959 winner "The Travels of Jaimie McPheeters" tells a tale of a young man heading West as part of this 1849 frenzy |
the California Gold Rush
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Although Slovakia has switched to the euro, this neighbor still uses the koruna as its currency |
the Czech Republic
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Before Michelangelo, this Italian created two Davids; the first, seen here, was in marble, the second in bronze |
Donatello
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This Yiddish word means "to gossip idly" |
schmooze
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Hydro‑ refers to water & this prefix refers to water vapor |
hygro‑
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"Xena: Warrior Princess" |
Hercules
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In 2009 winner "Olive Kitteridge", 13 connected stories in this New England state pack a collective emotional wallop |
Maine
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This South African currency is also legal tender in Lesotho & Swaziland |
(Buzzy: What is the pound?)
the rand
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This Bulgarian-born sculptor's works include wrapping Berlin's Reichstag building in fabric in 1995 |
Christo
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A computer is really good at executing this, defined as a series of steps to reach a goal |
algorithm
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Osteo‑ & myelo‑ refer to these 2 related things |
(John: What are bones and muscles?)
bones & bone marrow
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On the CW, "The Originals" |
The Vampire Diaries
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Disorder wrought by 1960s radicalism tears apart a family in "American Pastoral" by this man |
Philip Roth
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The name of this monetary unit of China means "round coin" |
the yuan
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This Japanese-American sculptor designed a coffee table sold by Herman Miller beginning in 1947 |
(Isamu) Noguchi
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In 1880 he composed the "Tragic Overture" |
(Man in audience: Wow.)
Brahms
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