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    | She finished writing the first "Harry Potter" book while living in Edinburgh | 
    Rowling
 
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    | AKA Provitamin A, it gives a bright orange color to vegetables | 
    beta-Carotene
 
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    twelve
 
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    | With over 250 billion barrels of crude reserves, this Mideast nation is the world's No. 1 oil exporter | 
    Saudi Arabia
 
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    | In 2016, 40 years after she became a "Today" show regular, she became the new host of CBS' "Sunday Morning" | 
    Jane Pauley
 
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    | A prophetic sign & a prayer ending | 
    omen and amen
 
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    | It's elementary! Here's this author who was born in Edinburgh | 
    (Sir Arthur Conan) Doyle
 
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    | These drugs that suppress reactions in heart cells are prescribed to treat anxiety & angina | 
    beta blockers
 
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    | Legend has it, having forgotten about a 1924 deadline, George Gershwin wrote this piece in 3 weeks | 
    "Rhapsody In Blue"
 
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    | In oil exploration geologists look for these compounds that consist only of the 2 elements symbolized by H & C | 
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  hydrocarbons
 
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    | In 1889 journalist Nellie Bly tried to beat the record of Phileas Fogg in this novel & did, by more than a week | 
    Around the World in Eighty Days
 
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    | Large & heavy & a written message or letter | 
    massive and missive
 
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    | In this time-traveling series, Jamie & Claire Fraser visit Bonnie Prince Charlie at Edinburgh's palace of Holyroodhouse | 
    Outlander
 
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    | It's the second-brightest star in a constellation named for a man-horse hybrid | 
    Beta Centauri
 
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    | Before going solo, Teddy Pendergrass was the lead singer of Harold Melvin & this group | 
    the Blue Notes
 
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    | The jackknife type of this tower over an oil well comes in 2 sections that are assembled on site | 
    an oil derrick
 
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    | This historian wrote the memoir "Wait Till Next Year" about her childhood as Brooklyn Dodgers fan Doris Kearns | 
    Doris Kearns Goodwin
 
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    | The two Greek letters seen here | 
    epsilon and upsilon
 
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    | This Irvine Welsh novel about heroin addicts in Edinburgh became a film starring Ewan McGregor | 
    Trainspotting
 
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    | It was founded at the College of William & Mary in 1776; are you a member? | 
    Phi Beta Kappa
 
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    | He retitled his 1909 song "Mr. Crump" "Memphis Blues" & the rest is history | 
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    | The site of a major oil leak in 1979, the Bay of Campeche is the southernmost part of this body of water | 
    the Gulf of Mexico
 
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    | After the Battle of Cedar Mountain in 1862, a surgeon wrote, "If heaven ever sent out a(n)...angel," she "must be one" | 
    Clara Barton
 
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    | To give an order & to give praise | 
    command and commend
 
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    | Muriel Spark wrote about "The Prime of" this title miss, "An Edinburgh Spinster" | 
    Miss Jean Brodie
 
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    | Electron emission & positron emission are types of this radioactive disintegration | 
    beta decay
 
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    | The 1970 hit song "Roadhouse Blues" by this band warns "Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel" | 
    The Doors
 
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    | Last name of Erle, who started an oil well services firm in 1919 that spread worldwide, including Iraq | 
    (Robert: What is Enron?) (Jon: What is Hess?)
  Halliburton
 
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    | This New York-born Supreme Court justice was the first female U.S. Solicitor General | 
    (Robert: Who is Sotomayor?) (Jon: Who is Ginsburg? Ruth Bader Ginsburg?) (Alex: They narrowed it down for you, Stephanie.) (Stephanie: Who is Sandra Day O'Connor?)
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    | A vow to do something & the basis of a theory or plot | 
    promise and premise
 
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