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    helium
 
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    | You saw some wild moves & costumes if you caught her "Bangerz" tour | 
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    (Jack: What is Sunday?)
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    Hamlet
 
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    a kickoff
 
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    | Big excitement in 1995 when this company launched Windows 95 & the Internet Explorer browser | 
    Microsoft
 
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    | In 2016 at age 25 she got her fourth Academy Award nomination, this time for "Joy" | 
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    Mecca
 
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    scuff
 
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    | This 3-letter dirt-track bicycling event was new at the Olympics in 2008 | 
    BMX
 
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    lead
 
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    | In July 2014 her sweet 16 celebrations included a Pitbull concert on the South Lawn of the White House | 
    Malia Obama
 
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    | From the Greek for "many gods", it's the belief in multiple divine beings as opposed to only one | 
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    King Lear
 
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    Flagstaff
 
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    Altoids
 
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    | "God bless" this radioactive element, atomic No. 95, that was first produced by a team of U.S. chemists in 1944 | 
    americium
 
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    | Country star Hunter Hayes was a teenager in Louisiana when he got interest from a music publisher & moved to this city | 
    Nashville
 
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    the Holy Trinity
 
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    | This play gets a huge body count all because Cassio got the promotion the villain desired | 
    Othello
 
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    the pontiff
 
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    combustion
 
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    boron
 
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    | She played Sam on "iCarly" & on the spinoff "Sam & Cat" | 
    (Sabrina: Who is Miranda Cosgrove?)
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    (Jack: What is Taoism?)
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    | 3 creepy ladies say a guy'll be king, so he has to kill the top dog & order a hit on his pal in this play? That's. messed. up. | 
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