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'80s & '90s HIT PARADE |
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Oh, give me a home where the buffalo or bison roam in this national park; it has the largest number of them on public land |
Yellowstone
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Anna Röntgen's wedding ring is visible in the first of these taken by her husband Wilhelm in 1895 |
an X-ray
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High: founded by Ingvar Kamprad in Älmhult, Sweden, it's now the world's largest furniture retailer |
IKEA
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To write her play "Twilight", Anna Deavere Smith interviewed 350 people who experienced the 1992 riots in this city |
Los Angeles
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This group's first No. 1 hit was inspired by a note Andrew Ridgeley left his mum asking her to "Wake him up up" |
Wham!
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These nuts originated in Australia, not Hawaii |
macadamia
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It's the numerical name for the large-holed vinyl single seen here |
a 45
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Galileo mistakenly concluded that these were caused by the orbit of the Earth & not the proximity of the Moon & Sun |
the tides
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Low: in the 1958 World Cup final, Sweden lost on its home soil 5-2 to Pele & the rest of this country's team |
Brazil
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Sarah M. Broom's New Orleans family home, this kind of narrow house with a firearm name, inspired her memoir "The Yellow House" |
a shotgun shack
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A hit by this British group says, "I smell like I sound, I'm lost & I'm found, & I'm hungry like the wolf" |
Duran Duran
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Goodbye, Joe, we gotta go to the bayou for this Cajun rice, seafood & meat dish |
jambalaya
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This U.S. city has been hosting an annual international balloon fiesta for nearly 50 years |
Albuquerque
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This naturalist's journey on the Beagle took him to barren Ascension Island; he promoted terraforming it with trees |
Darwin
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High: this man born in Stockholm in 1833 established some very prestigious awards |
Nobel
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Novelist Marita Golden paid homage to this woman in an essay called "Zora & Me" |
Hurston
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This pop star who passed away in 2020 had his first No. 1 hit in 1980 with "Lady", written by Lionel Richie |
Kenny Rogers
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This royal title is from Sanskrit words meaning "great king" |
(Jack: What is grand poobah?)
maharaja
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2020 marks the 100th birthday of this British lad who, with his toy bear, inspired his dad's famous stories |
Christopher Robin
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Thermometers in Holland got more accurate after this lad moved there in 1701 when poisonous mushrooms left him an orphan |
Fahrenheit
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Low: in a twist like one out of his "Millennium" mysteries, some fans think this author was murdered in 2004 |
Stieg Larsson
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This creator of TV's "Grey's Anatomy" revealed how saying yes changed her life in her book "Year of Yes" |
Shonda Rhimes
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This Bon Jovi album yielded the No. 1 hits "You Give Love A Bad Name" & "Livin' On A Prayer" |
Slippery When Wet
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It's another word for a bachelor's degree |
baccalaureate
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This 11-letter French word means a variety of meats, cheeses and other snacks |
charcuterie
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During WWII this computer scientist & code breaker converted his money into silver & buried it; he never found his buried treasure |
(Alan) Turing
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High: all 3 of the Oscars Sweden won for Best Foreign Language Film were for movies directed by this man |
(Ingmar) Bergman
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In the novel "Black Betty" by this author, P.I. Easy Rawlins is hired to find a missing woman |
Walter Mosley
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In 1999 this Matchbox Twenty frontman joined Santana for the hit song "Smooth" |
Rob Thomas
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This verb means to mix into a compound, specifically with mercury |
amalgamate
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