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Fire departments say when you reset your clock for daylight saving time, also change the batteries in these |
(Mari: What is your smoke detector?) ... (Alex: Category was "S.A." TEST, so only [*] qualifies.)
smoke alarm
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Last name of Leo's title role in "J. Edgar" |
Hoover
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A 1952 bill designated September 17 as Citizenship Day to coincide with the 1787 signing of this |
the Constitution
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On the periodic table, it's the first element to have a 2-letter symbol |
helium
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He penned the lines "The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep" |
Robert Frost
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Ontario's area is 400,000-plus square miles but 1/5 of its population lives in this city |
Toronto
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This period of modern history is said to have begun on October 4, 1957, when the Soviets launched Sputnik I |
the Space Age
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This 1820s-set tale won Leo his first Oscar |
The Revenant
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On this day in 1996 Taco Bell announced it had bought the Liberty Bell & was going to rename it the Taco Liberty Bell |
April Fools' Day
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In nature, it occurs in 3 isotopes: 234, 235 & 238 |
uranium
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"That is no country for old men", begins this Irishman's poem "Sailing to Byzantium" |
(William Butler) Yeats
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The southern border of this westernmost province touches Idaho & Montana |
British Columbia
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This Hebrew greeting means "peace be with you" |
(Mari: What is, uh, shalom...)
shalom alechem
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This 2013 movie had Margot Robbie keeping businessman Leo at foot's length |
The Wolf of Wall Street
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Taking place about 6 weeks before Easter, this day begins a season of fasting & prayer |
Ash Wednesday (first day of Lent)
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Got milk? Yes? Then also got atomic No. 20, this |
calcium
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The City College of New York hosts an annual festival celebrating the legacy of this poet laureate of Harlem |
(Langston) Hughes
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Take the combined area of the Great Lakes, multiply that by 3, & you're still short of this bay named for an English explorer |
the Hudson Bay
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It looks like a flower, but it's actually an aquatic invertebrate |
a sea anemone
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Leo & Matt Damon have competing squad goals as Boston cops in this drama |
The Departed
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President Harding honored this British woman by endorsing her birthday, May 12, to be Natl. Hospital Day |
Florence Nightingale
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It's used for rechargeable batteries; in a Nirvana song, its lyrics include "I love you, I'm not gonna crack" |
lithium
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In a poem by William Carlos Williams, it's easy to visualize this title object "glazed with rain water beside the white chickens" |
the red wheelbarrow
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On the Canadian-U.S. border, this seaway serving Thunder Bay & Hamilton, among others, took 5 years to build |
the St. Lawrence
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In 2011 the body of this first socialist president of Chile was exhumed; an autopsy confirmed he'd committed suicide |
Salvador Allende
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This 1998 adaptation had Porthos wanting to replace French king Leo with non-French king Leo |
The Man in the Iron Mask
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Technically, June 17 in Massachusetts should be called Breed's Hill Day instead of this |
Bunker Hill Day
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The 40 isotope of this element is radioactive; isn't that bananas? |
potassium
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In the 1650s he wrote a very personal sonnet, "On His Blindness" |
(John) Milton
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X-Man Wolverine knows this Yukon mount is almost 20,000' high & has the largest base circumference of any mountain |
(Alex: Highest mountain in Canada, [*].)
Mount Logan
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