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    | It's the number of the current year rounded to the nearest thousand | 2000 
 
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    | Like mother, like daughter: her daughter Irene Joliot-Curie also won a Nobel Prize in Chemistry | Marie Curie 
 
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    | The personal computer, the light bulb,
 the transistor radio
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    | The Bulls are beastly when they slam it down in this NBA home city | Chicago 
 
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    | This wormlike creature is a butterfly or moth in the larval stage | a caterpillar 
 
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    | A foot & a half equals this many inches | 18 
 
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    | Researchers say this man killed in 1865 might have been so tall and thin due to a rare condition called Marfan's syndrome | Abraham Lincoln 
 
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    | Tom Sawyer, Harry Potter,
 Nancy Drew
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    | The NFL's Dolphins ride the surf to glory in this city | Miami 
 
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    | This small, heavy object, often made of glass, is designed to keep stuff from blowing off your desk | a paperweight 
 
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    | As a ratio, 7 is to 10 as this is to 30 | 21 
 
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    | This great German composer of "Fur Elise" was born in Bonn in 1770 | Beethoven 
 
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    | World War I, the U.S. Civil War,
 the War of 1812
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    | In the NHL, the Bruins bruise up the opposition when in this home city | Boston 
 
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    | Doctors can look at blood cells under this magnifying instrument | a microscope 
 
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    | If you get 12 questions right out of the 20 on your history test, you got this percent correct | 60 
 
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    | This French military leader was a major general in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War | the Marquis de Lafayette 
 
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    | Hillary Clinton, Dolley Madison,
 Eleanor Roosevelt
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    | This Texas city hosts the WNBA's Comets & the NBA's Rockets, y'all | Houston 
 
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    | Ross Powers won the men's superpipe at the 2003 U.S. Open in this sport | snowboarding 
 
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    | In Islamic tradition, Bilqis is the name of Solomon's guest, the queen of this | Sheba 
 
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    | California statehood, Texas statehood,
 Massachusetts statehood
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    | The NHL's Mighty Ducks get off skate free playing their home games in this city | Anaheim 
 
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    | It's a list of the sources you used when writing a research paper | (Robin: What is a works cited?) 
 a bibliography
 
 
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