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    | The City of Worms, where Martin Luther refused to recant in 1521, is a port on this German river | 
    (Fred: What is the Danube?)
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    | She & hubby Will Arnett played a sister-&-brother ice skating team in "Blades of Glory" | 
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    | Kathleen Kenyon's excavation of this city mentioned in Joshua showed the walls had been repaired 17 times | 
    Jericho
 
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    A tiny terrier:  RISKY HERO | 
    Yorkshire
 
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    | A deep ravine that's often dry in the summer, it shares its name with a "grand" dam in Washington state | 
    (Mai: What is arroyo?)
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    | Established as part of the New Deal, it's the TVA for short | 
    the Tennessee Valley Authority
 
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    | This ocean's deepest point, more than 23,000 feet, is in the Java Trench | 
    (Marty: Pacific?  What is Pacific?)
  the Indian Ocean
 
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    | Anna Torv & Mark Valley played lovers on this eerie Fox show & married in real life in 2008 | 
    Fringe
 
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    | This mystery author & her archaeologist hubby dug in hopes of finding the lost Syrian city of Urkesh | 
    Agatha Christie
 
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    An ape:  MICE ZAP HEN | 
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    | This layer of rock between the Earth's core & crust makes up about 85 percent of the planet's mass | 
    the mantle
 
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    | In the King James Bible, the Book of Psalms says, "Yea, though I walk through" this, "I will fear no evil" | 
    (Marty: What is the valley of darkness?)
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    | This large Central American lake that shares its name with a country has some of the world's few freshwater sharks | 
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    | After 7 months of marriage, Elisabeth Moss of "Mad Men" & Fred Armisen of this late night staple separated | 
    SNL (Saturday Night Live)
 
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    | At the Olduvai Gorge in 1959, she & hubby Louis found a 1.75 million-year-old Australopithecus boisei skull | 
    Mary Leakey
 
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    A fish-catching bird:  MORTAR CON | 
    cormorant
 
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    | From the Greek for "without shape", this term refers to rocks & minerals that have no crystalline structure | 
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  amorphous (amorphic accepted)
 
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    | Where Tut rested undisturbed until 1922 | 
    the Valley of the Kings (the Valley of Kings accepted)
 
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    | The only major river that flows both north & south across the equator is this second-longest river in Africa | 
    the Congo
 
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    | His wife Jennifer Carpenter plays his sister on "Dexter" | 
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    | Harriet Boyd Hawes was the first woman to discover & excavate a Minoan settlement on this island | 
    (Alex: You got it, with less than a minute to go.)
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    A member of the weasel family:  GARBED | 
    badger
 
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    | Lamina is a layer in this type of rock that is less than 1 cm. in thickness & is visually separable from other layers | 
    sedimentary
 
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    | Fragrant perennial with a 4-word name seen here | 
    lily of the valley
 
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    | This "All My Children" star had all his children--Michael, Lola & Joaquin--with wife Kelly Ripa | 
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    | At Mt. Carmel in Israel, Dorothy Garrod was the first to find this prehistoric human skeleton outside of Europe | 
    Neanderthal
 
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    A crocodilian:  MANIAC | 
    caiman
 
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    | Spencer Johnson of "Who Moved My Cheese?" fame wrote a book about life's ups & downs titled these opposites | 
    (Mai: What are Hills and Valleys?)
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