AROUND THE WORLD IN 50 SECONDS |
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In 2021 France lost about 7' of country after a farmer in this North Sea nation to the north moved a stone marker |
Belgium
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Katniss thinks this man, leader of the Capitol, smells like blood & roses |
(Ken: No Hunger Games fans here? That's [*].)
President Snow
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A planetoid called Farfarout is the most distant object in our solar system at 132 A.U.s, short for this; 1 A.U. is 93 million miles |
(Lynde: What's a light-year?)
astronomical unit
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Won't lovers revolt now? is this type of phrase |
a palindrome
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She sang backup for Garth Brooks before her own career took off & in 2005, she married him |
Trisha Yearwood
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Go south by southwest: MORE ORBS |
a sombrero
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Both the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site & the Evel Knievel Museum are in this state capital |
Topeka
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Things turn out badly for Randle McMurphy in "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" because of this medical pro |
Nurse Ratched
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NASA reported the wingspan of this insect-named nebula covers 3 light-years & ejects layers of gas from a dying star at the center |
butterfly
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The 4 interlocking silver rings in the logo of this brand symbolize the 1932 merger of 4 auto manufacturers |
Audi
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John Lennon not only co-wrote this Bowie song that asks, What's your name? What's your name?, he also sang on it |
[Ken sings the title.]
"Fame"
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'60s sensation: LOX BLIP |
a pillbox
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In 2021, National Geographic recognized a fifth ocean, the one seen here, by calling it this directional name |
the Southern Ocean
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This slimy villain of "David Copperfield" gets his comeuppance as seen in the illustration here |
Uriah Heep
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The nearest example of a red supergiant is this bright star; it's still 724 light-years away, & don't say it 3 times |
Betelgeuse
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Symmetry can give a sense of peace as in a chapel inspired by a Psalm about the shadow of these animal parts |
wings
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She was a backup singer for Brenda K. Starr when she was discovered in the late '80s--19 No. 1 hits later... |
(Carter: Who is Paula Abdul?)
Mariah Carey
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Ideal for detecting: ELK ARRESTED |
a deerstalker
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Considered Japan's mainland, this island has more than 6,000 miles of coastline |
Honshu
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Smallpox is but one of the retributions suffered by the villainous Madame de Merteuil in this 1782 French novel |
(Lynde: What is... uh, Candide?)
Dangerous Liaisons
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In 1977 this probe 2 launched 2 weeks before probe 1; it took 12 years to reach Neptune before hitting interstellar space |
Voyager
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Laying down the math laws, the commutative law is on the top & this law is on the bottom |
(Carter: What is... additive?)
the associative law
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While her song "You're So Vain" is not about Mick Jagger, he did provide backing vocals |
Carly Simon
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Perfect on a president: I TOP VEEPS |
a stovepipe
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Here is Stromboli, an Italian volcano off Sicily, actively volcanoing into this sea of the Mediterranean |
(Lynde: What's the Adriatic Sea?)
the Tyrrhenian Sea
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This character tells Paul Sheldon, "You're going to use this typewriter to write a new novel! Your best novel! 'Misery's Return!"' |
(Ken: Her name in Misery, [*].)
Annie Wilkes
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Launched in 1989, the Galileo craft took the long way 'round to this planet in a 6-year, 2.4-billion-mile circuitous route |
Jupiter
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In radial symmetry called pentamerism, a creature can split along several axes; in this type of symmetry, only the left & right sides match |
bilateral symmetry
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He backed up Steely Dan before fronting the Doobie Brothers, then went solo with songs like "I Keep Forgettin"' |
Michael McDonald
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Chefly chapeau: QUOTE |
a toque
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