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On Dec. 12, 2004 Scott Sheppard & colleagues discovered 12 new moons of this ringed planet |
Saturn
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"When I first began 'The Handmaid's Tale' it was called 'Offred,' the name of its central character" |
Margaret Atwood
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Before settling on "Grammy", the recording industry considered calling the award an "Eddie" to honor this inventor |
Edison
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In 2017 LeBron James helped this team get 25 3-pointers, an NBA single-game record |
the Cavaliers
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Keep your nose clean at sea or enter this 4-letter onboard jail |
the brig
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A title for a type of lawman, or type of "law" that means the military rule the streets |
marshal/martial
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With at least 50 other moons for company, Callisto isn't lonely orbiting this planet |
Jupiter
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"I never imagined that I should be able to live by my writing, but now I am kept by a little girl named Lolita" |
Nabokov
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A young man sits under a tree & writes down the song of a muse on the Nobel Medal for this field |
Literature
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Yes, sir! A 2 striper is one of these naval officers |
(Dylan: What's an admiral?)
lieutenant
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It describes the supplies seen here, or the degree of motion they have |
stationery/stationary
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This ferryman paddles his way around a well-known dwarf planet |
Charon
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Comparing himself to his Rabbit Angstrom, he said, "I never was a basketball star. I wasn't handsome the way he is" |
(John) Updike
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Kevin Hart called this network's Golden Popcorn trophy "the heaviest award that you can receive" |
MTV
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Mike Pence called this 1986 hoops movie "the greatest sports film"" & screened it on Air Force 2 using his own copy |
Hoosiers
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Skivvies are these; what, you don't like hearts? |
underwear
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That thin layer of gold you just applied to everything, or the feeling you now have for exceeding your budget |
gilt/guilt
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Discovered in the 1850s, Ariel & Umbriel circle this 7th planet |
Uranus
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On writing up to children, "I handed them...a mouse-boy and they accepted it...I gave them a literate spider, and they took that" |
(Myra: What is Charlotte's Web?)
E.B. White
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The Pritzker Prize medal, given for excellence in this field, is based on the designs of Louis Sullivan |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
architecture
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It wasn't perfect, but the Dodgers used 4 pitchers to get this hyphenated type of win in a 2018 game vs. the Padres |
a no-hitter
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If you've ever swabbed the deck, you know a swab is a large one of these |
(Alex: Less than a minute.)
a mop
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My British friend was talking about gas for his car, but I thought he meant this Antarctic bird |
petrol/petrel
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Neptune's moons include Nereid, Neso & this other "N" creature, also a water nymph |
Naiad
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This "Space Odyssey" author: "I predict that a new species could well appear on Earth--what I call Robo sapiens" |
Arthur C. Clarke
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Lexi Thompson lost a 2017 LPGA tourney after improperly placing a ball & then turning in one of these |
an incorrect scorecard
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For sailors cooped up at sea for months, this type of furlough away from the ship is an important break |
shore leave
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Exiled people of what's now eastern Canada, or bygone people of ancient Mesopotamia |
Acadians/Akkadians
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