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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?) 
 the Rhine
 
 
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    | She & hubby Will Arnett played a sister-&-brother ice skating team in "Blades of Glory" | Amy Poehler 
 
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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
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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?) 
 a coulee
 
 
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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?) 
 the valley of the shadow of death
 
 
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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 | Lake Nicaragua 
 
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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
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    | From the Greek for "without shape", this term refers to rocks & minerals that have no crystalline structure | (Mai: What is metamorphic?) 
 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" | Michael C. Hall 
 
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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.) 
 Crete
 
 
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    | A member of the weasel family: GARBED
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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 | (Mark) Consuelos 
 
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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
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    | "Bovine" term for a crescent-shaped lake formed in an abandoned river bend | an oxbow 
 
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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?) 
 Peaks and Valleys
 
 
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