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SEMILITERATE BEFORE & AFTER |
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A baby has a 1-in-1,461 chance of being this & having his 20th birthday also be his 5th |
being born on February 29th
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The Yucatan Channel connects the Gulf of Mexico & this sea |
the Caribbean
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Team rope-pulling contest that becomes a Tolstoy novel |
tug-of-War and Peace
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Seen here, they can sometimes be in black & white too |
a blueprint
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Other characters in this smash Broadway show include Lafayette & Peggy Schuyler |
Hamilton
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A Japanese company made the world's last one of these TV playback machines |
[Esteban selected the first clue.]
a VCR
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Name of the Punxsutawney groundhog traditionally at the heart of the action on February 2 |
Phil
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The river locally called Song Sai Gon runs mainly through the south of this country |
Vietnam
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A novel about a dog named Buck that can vary its value from 2 through ace |
Call of the Wild card
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A hole for a fox, or what it does as it digs it |
burrow
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In 2016 Leona Lewis earned her whiskers playing Grizabella in the revival of this musical |
Cats
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On August 17th, she was named Donald Trump's campaign manager |
Kellyanne Conway
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The last month of the Roman year, February became our second month when this calendar was proclaimed in 1582 |
(Lilly: What is the Julian calendar?)
the Gregorian calendar
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The "thumb" of Michigan's "mitten" juts north into this Great Lake |
Lake Huron
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Tony Stark creation who becomes Don Quixote in a musical |
Iron Man of La Mancha
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Term for a chance onlooker, perhaps an innocent one |
bystander
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This superhero spun his magic on Broadway in a musical subtitled "Turn Off the Dark" |
Spider-Man
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Protests began as the Standing Rock Sioux moved to block this pipeline that bears the name of a Sioux people |
the Dakota Pipeline
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We'll lead you down this path named for a February birth flower & early spring bloomer |
the primrose path
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This river rises in the Alps & flows through France to the Mediterranean, the most important river to do so |
the Rhône
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Instead of ending so the ballgame can start, the national anthem leads into a 1932 novel of the future |
the home of the Brave New World
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These prevent a horse from being distracted by that cute filly off to the side |
blinders
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From Trey Parker & Matt Stone, it's described as "hilarious and irreverent" |
The Book of Mormon
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Aung San Suu Kyi's friend Htin Kyaw was inaugurated as this country's first freely elected president in decades |
Myanmar
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These hyphenated Germanic people of Britain called February "Solmonath", meaning "mud month" |
Anglo-Saxons
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In 1992 North Korea & South Korea proposed that this sea off their east coasts be called the East Sea |
the Sea of Japan
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9th century English king who lived in West Egg, New York in a 1920s novel |
(Esteban: [No response])
Alfred the Great Gatsby
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An ancient empire lends its name to this term meaning "intricate" or "complex" |
Byzantine
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Neil Patrick Harris won a 2014 Tony for his role in this musical about a transgender punk rocker from East Berlin |
Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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This Silicon Valley entrepreneur revealed he had bankrolled the lawsuit that took down Gawker |
Peter Thiel
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