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IT'S ALL GREEK MYTH TO ME |
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The flag of the Northern Mariana Islands features a latte stone surrounded by a Carolinian mwáár, this floral garland |
a lei
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Oceanus & Thea are among these gods who are the children of primordial earth & heaven |
(Tim: Who is Zeus?)
Titan
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Telescopes can be reflectors, which use mirrors to focus light, or these, which use lenses |
refractors
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In 1921, in Atlantic City, 16-year-old Margaret Gorman became the first woman to win this national beauty title |
Miss America
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Quentin Tarantino wrote dialogue for this Denzel-Hackman submarine movie; the Silver Surfer art argument scene, just maybe |
(Lindsay: What is The Hunt for Red October?)
Crimson Tide
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Drop "in" from the end of a synonym for start & get this verb that goes with "borrow or steal" |
beg (from begin)
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Though the olive branch does rep peace, the arrows of this Antillean territory are for its three large land masses |
(Neilesh: What is the Virgin Islands?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
the U.S. Virgin Islands
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Using his chops on the lyre to charm this canine guard of Hades, Orpheus was able to enter & attempt to rescue Eurydice |
Cerberus
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Carbon atoms can form 4 of these with other atoms; in carbene molecules, they form just 2 |
bonds
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By 1920 bobbed hair was becoming a big thing, so much so that he wrote the short story "Bernice Bobs Her Hair" |
Fitzgerald
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JCR (John C. Reilly) & PSH (Philip Seymour Hoffman) had associations with PTA (this director) going back to "Hard Eight" |
Paul Thomas Anderson
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Steal "in" from a Hood who stole to get this synonym for steal |
rob (from Robin)
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The Latin phrase "Joannes est nomen ejus", meaning "Juan is its name", is on this commonwealth's seal |
Puerto Rico
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This name applied to a sea monster with 12 feet & 6 heads, each head containing 3 rows of sharklike teeth, or just a rock |
(Lindsay: What is... a kraken?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry, this is [*] of [*] and Charybdis fame.)
Scylla
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The dynamo theory says that movement of liquid iron in Earth's core creates this protective blanket around the planet |
magnetic field
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Named for a city, this dance swept the nation |
the Charleston
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Everything about this sci-fi epic that Francis Ford Coppola began writing in 1983 & premiered at Cannes in 2024 is big |
(Lindsay: What is Metropolis?)
Megalopolis
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A word meaning added together subtracts its "in" to get this word for what you did to your hair |
combed (from combined)
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Despite the name, these birds aren't dumb--the masked & brown types make their homes on Johnston Atoll, a Nat. Wildlife Refuge |
boobies
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With a little help from Apollo during the Trojan War, this prince shot an arrow into Achilles' heel, killing him |
Paris
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Most elements exist in multiple forms called these; beyond No. 83 on the periodic table, there are no stable ones |
isotope
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This "saintly" resort town in the Alps hosted 25 countries for the 1928 Winter Olympics |
(Neilesh: What is Chamonix?)
St. Moritz
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The TV series "Queen Sugar" is from this auteur who also directed "Selma" |
Ava DuVernay
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Lose "in" from a small statuette to get this shape of the human body |
figure (from figurine)
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Swains Island, part of this territory south of the equator, was claimed by Eli Jennings in 1856 & has remained in the family since |
(Ken: Guess I should take a trip to [*].)
American Samoa
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A skilled yet boastful artisan, she was transformed into a spider after challenging Athena to a weaving contest |
Arachne
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Early electronics used bulky vacuum tubes; beginning in the late 1940s, these compact successors made things portable |
transistor
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In 1926 this L.A. evangelist was the subject of a scandal when she disappeared for a month & claimed to have been kidnapped |
Aimee Semple McPherson
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TV's "Sense8", which followed 8 psychically connected people, was from the "Matrix" siblings with this last name |
Wachowski
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Kick both "in"s out of a 2-word principal route of a railroad to get this gendered 4-letter word |
male (from main line)
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