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    | The foundation of this husband & wife "Announces New $17 Bil. Initiative to Eradicate All 3rd-World Mac Users by 2040" | 
    Bill and Melinda Gates
 
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    | This city in Maine--not the Oregon one--is sisters with Shinagawa, Japan, a city of 350,000 inside the borough of Tokyo | 
    Portland
 
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    | An often shameless promotion of a product or one's self | 
    a plug
 
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    | Your face falls as it's 7-card stud & your straight just lost to a hand with 3 queens & 2 jacks, called this | 
    (Mary Ann: What is a flush?)
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    | Petruchio deprives Kate of food & sleep in this play, which makes her grow to love him? That's messed up, Shakespeare! | 
    The Taming of the Shrew
 
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    the Super Bowl (halftime show)
 
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    | She's the White House press secretary who "Flatly Refuses Jim Acosta's Assertion That He's Jim Acosta" | 
    Sarah Huckabee Sanders
 
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    | Boring, Oregon & Dull, Scotland are informal sister communities; some wanted to say g'day to Bland in this foreign nation | 
    Australia
 
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    a pug
 
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    | A twitch of a bettor's face can be this 4-letter word that signals the strength of the player's hand | 
    a tell
 
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    | George & Martha drag Nick & Honey into a nasty liquor-fueled 4-sided battle in this Albee play | 
    Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
 
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    | Born Stefani Germanotta, Lady Gaga is a huge fan of this band & got her stage name from their song "Radio Ga Ga" | 
    Queen
 
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    | "Should" this NFL team that went 0-16 in 2017 "Use the First Overall Pick on a Once-in-a-Generation Long Snapper?" | 
    the Cleveland Browns
 
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    | There once was a town called Spokane / but a long rhyme won't fit here, no, man / so just name this Irish sister city | 
    Limerick
 
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    | Joy fills your face as it did for Phil Ivey after winning bracelets at 10 events held during this Vegas poker tourney | 
    the World Series of Poker
 
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    | This novel ends with Amy & Nick Dunne reunited--sure, she framed him for her murder, but now she's pregnant | 
    (Alex: [Before Mary Ann makes her wager] We have less than a minute to go now.)
  Gone Girl
 
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    | Gaga helped Bradley Cooper rock as they re-re-remade this drama that last starred Streisand & Kristofferson | 
    A Star is Born
 
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    | This rhyme-named exercise tech co. "Releases New Tracking Collar That Gets Tighter Every Second You Are Inactive" | 
    Fitbit
 
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    | Sisters can be so competitive! "You have the Lincoln Memorial, D.C.? OK! This city of ours has the monument of Lysicrates!" | 
    Athens
 
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    | Back in Grandma's day, dancing was also known as "cutting" this | 
    a rug
 
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    | You can now hoot & holler as this last card has flipped over in Omaha poker & your win is secure | 
    the river
 
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    | In this novel by George Eliot, Dorothea thinks she'll find happiness with the aging scholar Casaubon (nope!) | 
    Middlemarch
 
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    | Lady Gaga is on the right track with her charitable foundation named for this hit with a 3-word title | 
    "Born This Way"
 
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    | "Deceased Souls Backed Up at" this river's "Ferry Crossing During Underworld Transit Strike" | 
    the River Styx
 
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    | In 2014 Cambridge, Massachusetts became family with Les Cayes in this nation, 4 years after a terrible natural disaster | 
    Haiti
 
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    | Counterfeit vending machine "coin" | 
    (Jonathan: What is a plug?)
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    | You look chagrined when you forget to put up the "big" this bet, so named because you don't get to see your cards first | 
    the big blind
 
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    | In this novel, Lady Brett Ashley & Jake Barnes could have been great together, if not for her affairs & his war wounds | 
    The Sun Also Rises
 
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    "Alejandro"
 
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