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LITERATURE FOR YOUNGER READERS |
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Nazi loot found in a salt mine included precious artworks, items stolen from concentration camp victims & more than 8,000 bars of this |
gold
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In the story of this pair, the witch asks, "Nibble, nibble little mouse, who is nibbling at my house?" |
Hansel & Gretel
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This Google product is the USA's most-used web browser |
Chrome
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A Carmelite sister, for example |
a nun
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"America's most beloved ballpark", it's home to the Green Monster |
Fenway Park
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The symbol for this limitless quantity is a figure eight tipped on its side |
infinity
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When war broke out in September 1939, this country had tanks & a million-man army yet still relied heavily on cavalry |
Poland
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This Dr. Seuss character shows up one boring rainy day when "our mother was out of the house" |
the Cat in the Hat
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The Wow! computer for seniors says it has "free anti-virus" & this bad stuff "protection" |
malware
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To get an apple from the tub with your teeth |
bob
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The address for Oracle Park, home to this team, is 24 Willie Mays Plaza |
the (San Francisco) Giants
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Known as a shape poem, the one seen here from "Alice in Wonderland" is punningly called "The Mouse's" this |
Tale
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Jimmy Doolittle's April 1942 air raid on this Axis capital raised Allied morale at a dark time in the war |
(Mike: What's Berlin?) (Mattea: What is Rome?)
Tokyo
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An annual read aloud book award is named for this "Stuart Little" author |
E.B. White
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Old monitors needed a screensaver, which moved so it wouldn't burn in; today you can use this static image, also a home decorating item |
(Mike: Regretting this wager... What is a...) [The time expiry signal sounds.] (Mike: ...curtain?)
wallpaper
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Slang adjective for someone you think is not what they seem, especially if they might be the impostor in the game "Among Us" |
sus
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The Yankees have spring training in Tampa at GMS Field, GMS being the initials of this longtime owner |
(Mayim: As a sportscaster, I'm glad you got those right.)
(George) Steinbrenner
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Latin for "egg" gives us the word for this 4-letter shape |
oval
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Here's a look at a Canadian regiment moving along the road from Holten to Rijssen in 1945 while liberating this Low Country |
the Netherlands
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Shere Khan, the Bengal tiger in "The Jungle Book", threatens that this character "is mine & to my teeth he will come in the end" |
Mowgli
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Smaller networks can be secured with the packet-filtering type of this protective program |
(Mike: What is antivirus?)
a firewall
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This NL team makes its home in Chase Field, which has a retractable roof to avoid too much heat in summer |
the (Arizona) Diamondbacks
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In an image from the European Southern Observatory, it's the shapely type of galaxy seen here in the constellation Eridanus |
a spiral
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In December 1940 Franklin Roosevelt proposed this alliterative system of aid to allies without immediate payment |
Lend-Lease
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Billy has a pair of hounds named Old Dan & Little Ann in the kids' classic "Where" this plant "Grows" |
the Red Fern
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Like a T-shirt, a computer program is made of these; in an online forum, they're sequences of comments on the same topic |
threads
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It's the raised structure at the back of a sailing ship |
(Mayim: You're gonna make me say it? It's [*].) [Mild laughter]
the poop
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Roy Campanella, Biz Mackey & Jud Wilson, who played for the city in the Negro Leagues, appear in this park's Birdland artwork |
(Reagan: What is Chicago?)
Oriole Park
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As a noun it refers to the curving bend of a river; as a verb, it means to wander aimlessly |
meander
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