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    | Around 2650 B.C. in Saqqara, an early one of these, rising in a series of 6 big steps, was made for King Zoser | (Alistair: What is a ziggurat?) 
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    | You are a deprived generation--one of these hasn't put on a really good show in the Northern Hemisphere since Hale-Bopp in 1997 | a comet 
 
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    | In 2016 Pernille Blume of Denmark won the women's freestyle gold medal in this, the shortest Olympic swimming distance | 50 meters 
 
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    | In 1187 Pope Gregory VIII called for the third of these military expeditions to the Holy Land | a crusade 
 
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    | 17th century pirates who raided Spanish colonies, or a 21st century team that may take on the Raiders | buccaneers 
 
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    | Do this by riding a surfboard with all your toes curled over the board's front edge | hang ten 
 
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    | Martha's Vineyard is home to several of these cottages named for a sweet holiday treat | gingerbread 
 
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    | With its gravity 38% of Earth's, astronauts on NASA's projected 2030s mission to this planet will weigh 2/3 less than here | Mars 
 
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    | Still the world record holder in both, he won gold medals in the 100m & 200m running events in 3 straight Olympics | Usain Bolt 
 
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    | Greek words meaning "people" & "rule" gave this form of government its name back in the 5th century B.C. | democracy 
 
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    | A person's usual job, or the seizure & control of territory by a foreign army | occupation 
 
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    | This solid figure has 10 faces & a 10-letter name | a decahedron 
 
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    | A style popular in the late 1800s adds "-esque" to this word for a palatial French home | a chateau 
 
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    | Believed to be made of metallic hydrogen, not water, the largest ocean in the solar system is on this planet | (Alistair [Shoves both hands forward] All in.) [Laughter]
 (Alex: Wait a minute. What was--show me that move again.)
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 (Alex: Oh! Jeopardy! James, an influence on our college players.)
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 (Alistair: What is Neptune?)
 
 Jupiter
 
 
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    | The U.S. last hosted the Summer Games in 1996 in this state capital | Atlanta 
 
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    | Built in the 3rd century B.C. on an island in the harbor, the Pharos of Alexandria was one of these structures | a lighthouse 
 
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    | Having gained the title, a new king does this to the throne | (Londyn: What is ascend?) 
 accede
 
 
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    | The Council of Ten helped run this Italian island republic from 1310 until it was overthrown by the French in 1797 | (Kylie: What is Corsica?) 
 Venice
 
 
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    | It's the type of column from antiquity seen here; we'll help a little by saying it doesn't start with a vowel | Doric 
 
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    | Vesta, in the belt of these objects, is the brightest one in our solar system | asteroids 
 
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    | The 3 throwing events in the decathlon are the shot put, the javelin & this one | discus 
 
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    | Mark my words, the triumvirate that succeeded Julius Caesar's was Lepidus, Octavian & this friend of Caesar | Marc Antony 
 
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    | The color of the packets on the right tells you they contain this compound | (Londyn: What is sucrose?) 
 saccharin
 
 
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    | The ballet "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue" is fittingly titled, as that street is part of this "infernal" NYC neighborhood | Hell's Kitchen 
 
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    | We'll be frank--this architect designed Paris' Louis Vuitton Foundation art Museum; as it turns out, he'll be Frank | (Kylie: Who is Frank Lloyd Wright?) 
 Frank Gehry
 
 
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    | Equal to about 230 million of our years, a galactic year is the time it takes for the solar system to make this trip | a trip around the Milky Way 
 
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    | In 2014 Bode Miller became the oldest Alpine skiing medalist & this 18-year-old U.S. woman became the youngest slalom champ | (Alistair: Who is Lindsey Vonn?) 
 Mikaela Shiffrin
 
 
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    | Cyrus the Great of this empire wanted to conquer Egypt; the next ruler Cambyses II did it | Persia 
 
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    | After the second, each term is the sum of its 2 predecessors in this sequence that begins 0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5... | Fibonacci 
 
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    | Fasting on the tenth of Tevet, the tenth month of the Jewish calendar, is done in memory of the siege of this city by Nebuchadnezzar | Jerusalem 
 
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