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In addition to cranking out mystery novels, she wrote "The Mousetrap", which ran nonstop in London for over 60 years |
Agatha Christie
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When they aren't in any special hurry, the Galapagos giant type of these travel at about .16 miles per hour |
tortoises
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In 1984 she wanted to know, "What's Love Got To Do With It" |
Tina Turner
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The "Convict Era" of this nation's history spans 1788 to 1868, when some 160,000 prisoners were transported there |
Australia
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The mythic Annie Christmas was near 7 feet tall & kept bullies in line on the docks of New Orleans by this river |
the Mississippi
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Abstemious is a synonym for this 5-letter adjective |
sober
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Awarded the Nobel Prize for her truly epic descriptions of peasant life in China, she kept typing away through a long life |
Pearl Buck
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Widely abundant throughout the United States, it's the aptly named game fish seen here |
a largemouth bass
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In 1989 she knocked Milli Vanilli's "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" out of the top spot with her own "Miss You Much" |
Janet Jackson
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This "Age" began in the 1930s with the advent of a new type of engine, though it didn't take off for a decade or so |
the Jet Age
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The 2011 rom-com "Jumping the Broom" is named for a Black American tradition during this life event |
a wedding
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It's the "S" in SJW, a mocking term for an overly progressive person |
social
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"Vicki" Baum is best known for her 1929 novel about a group of people thrown together that became this Greta Garbo film |
Grand Hotel
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Global warming is taking its toll on this biodiverse ecosystem that extends in the ocean for about 1,400 miles |
the Great Barrier Reef
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While Kim Carnes sang about "Bette Davis Eyes", this pair's "Private Eyes" were watching you |
Hall & Oates
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Last & longest of the 3 periods of the Mesozoic era |
(Jason: What's the Jurassic?)
the Cretaceous
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This Harvard professor's "The Signifying Monkey" traces the bond between Black oral tradition & literature |
Henry Louis Gates
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A form of talc, it's used by tailors not to wash their hands but, in the form of "French chalk", to mark cloth |
soapstone
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Educated at Smith College & Cambridge, she works on a poem here |
Sylvia Plath
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This plant whose Italian name means "beautiful woman" produces beautiful but poisonous berries |
belladonna
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He was on a Rick roll with his chart-toppers "Never Gonna Give You Up" & "Together Forever" |
Rick Astley
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Britannica says this late 19th c. era featured "gross materialism & blatant political corruption" in the United States |
the Gilded Age
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In 1895 the exploits of a mack daddy in St. Louis by the name of "Lee" Shelton gave birth to this oft-recorded blues song |
(Jason: What is "The Ballad of [*]"?)
"Stagger Lee"
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Starring Whoopi Goldberg, "Sarafina!" is about South African students fighting apartheid in this township |
Soweto
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Young, gifted & Black, this playwright poses with her typewriter for a Vogue shoot in 1959 |
Hansberry
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Greek for "scale" & "wing", it's the insect order that includes moths & butterflies |
(Juveria: What is "Decidoptera"?)
Lepidoptera
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Remakes of 2 Tommy James & the Shondells hits became back-to-back No. 1s, this song by Tiffany followed by "Mony Mony" |
"I Think We're Alone Now"
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The name of this period when animal life "exploded" on Earth comes from Cymru, or Wales, where many fossils have been found |
the Cambrian
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This language also known as Geechee is spoken along the southeastern coast of the United States |
Gullah
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It's just a fancy French word for a nickname or epithet |
a sobriquet
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