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    | A sonata is to be played; the word "cantata" means a work to be performed this way | sung 
 
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    | This mark of punctuation combines 2 other punctuation marks | semicolon 
 
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    | At Harvard, Tony Hsieh sold pizzas out of his dorm room; today he's the CEO of this largest online shoe retailer | Zappos 
 
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    | The company named for him traces its origins to the founding of Muppets, Inc. in 1958 | Jim Henson 
 
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    | She was the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction | (Brandon: Who is Nikki Giovanni?) (Julia: Who is Toni Morrison?)
 
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    | Alessandro Scarlatti's "O di Betlemme altera" was written for this holiday | Christmas 
 
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    | This fuse or percussion cap is used to set off an explosive charge | detonator 
 
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    | It's Nebraska's top plant crop | (Julia: What is wheat?) 
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    | Penn.-raised Daniel Dae Kim had to relearn Korean to play Jin Kwon on this early 2000s adventure series | Lost 
 
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    | In 2013 this onetime Thomas Edison company sold its stake in NBC & Universal Studios | General Electric 
 
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    | The life & death dates for this poet in Britannica simply say, "flourished 9th or 8th century BCE?, Ionia? (now in Turkey)" | Homer 
 
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    | A Handel cantata tells the story of this Greek god & his pursuit of Daphne | Apollo 
 
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    | The derivation & history of a word | etymology 
 
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    | The people of this Indiana city call themselves Hauteans | Terre Haute 
 
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    | Husband & wife Andrew & Peggy Cherng founded & run the 1,500-plus restaurants in this chain; who ordered orange chicken? | Panda Express 
 
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    | In this company's full name, the "G" stands for David Geffen | DreamWorks SKG 
 
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    | This hard-boiled writer took the big sleep for real on March 26, 1959 | Raymond Chandler 
 
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    | "Wachet Auf", one of Bach's greatest cantatas, is based on a hymn of this Christian denomination | Lutheran 
 
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    | In computer lingo, it's the reduced "digital" image of a graphic used so that multiple images can be viewed on a page | thumbnail 
 
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    | Its state song is heard here | (Steve: What is Michigan?) ...
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    | This daughter of Chinese immigrants competed nationally as a figure skater before going into bridal wear design | Vera Wang 
 
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    | In a 2013 spat, this cable company's customers lost CBS for a month | Time-Warner 
 
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    | Published posthumously in 2003, a novel by this Brooklyn guy was titled "Catch as Catch Can" | Joseph Heller 
 
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    | This German was only 1 opera into his career when he wrote a New Year's cantata to welcome 1835 | Richard Wagner 
 
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    | From the Latin for "rise up", it's one who rebels against an established government; today it's often used to mean "terrorist" | insurgent 
 
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    | Tonka Toys got their name from this lake, one of the largest in the Land of 10,000 Lakes | (Julia: What is Minnesota?) 
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    | In 1989 he became the youngest male winner of tennis' French Open | Michael Chang 
 
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    | Once there was a "Big Six" of these; the 2012 breakup of EMI took it down to 3 | record labels 
 
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    | In 1991 this Brooklyn guy penned "Harlot's Ghost", focusing on the CIA | Norman Mailer 
 
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