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    | Natchez was an early capital of this state | Mississippi 
 
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    | The story "January 1999: Rocket Summer" leads off this Ray Bradbury book of "Chronicles" | The Martian Chronicles 
 
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    | I've lost hours on this site, the "leading destination for short-term mobile video"; fittingly, Kesha is a creator | (Ken: Yes, I'm a huge [*]er.) (Colleen: Me too.)
 (Ken: And your dog, probably.)
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 TikTok
 
 
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    | The NCAA trademarked this calendar phrase for springtime buzzer-beating, bracket-busting basketball | March Madness 
 
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    | "Rafa" is the nickname of this winner of more than 20 Grand Slam titles | Rafael Nadal 
 
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    | If you're searching for El Dorado, the city is located about 80 miles from Hope in this state | Arkansas 
 
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    | This 1931 Pearl Buck novel became a Broadway play the next year with Claude Rains as Wang Lung | The Good Earth 
 
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    | Sweet! I just downloaded the "Saga" version of this app with a confectionary name; not sweet: there are over 11,000 levels | Candy Crush 
 
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    | Chicago is practically synonymous with this special type of culinary delight | deep dish (pizza) 
 
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    | This Czech-born woman had a pretty good 1983, winning 86 of 87 matches & 3 Grand Slam titles | Martina Navratilova 
 
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    | An aboveground railway | el 
 
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    | It's estimated that there are as many as 70 streets in Atlanta with this fruity 9-letter name | Peachtree 
 
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    | Protesting the Jim Crow system, Richard Wright's first book was titled this Stowe character's "Children" | Uncle Tom 
 
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    | secretrickroll.com allows my annoying friend to create sneaky links to Rick Astley singing this song; I always fall for it | "Never Gonna Give You Up" 
 
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    | First & last name of the woman in a tongue twister who "bought some butter, 'but', she said, 'the butter's bitter"' | (Colleen: Who is Betty?) (Ken: More specifically?)
 (Colleen: [Shakes head] Mm-mm.)
 
 Betty Botter
 
 
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    | Mark "Eddo" Edmondson in 1976 is the last men's singles winner of this major who's from the country where it's played | (Ed: What is Australia?) 
 the Australian Open
 
 
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    | George Takei's 2-word catchphrase | oh my 
 
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    | North Carolina has 2 national seashores: Cape Lookout & this other cape | Hatteras 
 
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    | Even this Tolstoy heroine thinks it's weird that her husband & lover are both named Alexei | Anna Karenina 
 
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    | With a name that is Latin for "eye", this company offers prescription lenses for its Quest VR headsets; I may never take it off | Oculus 
 
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    | In 2020, it was back to Midgar in this game's "VII Remake" | (Colleen: What is Finals Fantasy? [*].) 
 Final Fantasy
 
 
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    | In women's tennis, 1930s star Alice Marble pioneered this 3-word aggressive style named for a way to begin a point | serve and volley 
 
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    | "Special" is one type of this short form | (Ken: Ed, you should have been there.) (Ed: I feel terrible.)
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    | To see the Crimson Tide play football at Bryant-Denny Stadium, head to this city | Tuscaloosa 
 
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    | This Anthony Doerr novel is tied together by the idea of a paradise for birds, also found in an Aristophanes play | Cloud Cuckoo Land 
 
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    | Companies convey offers via these "notifications", pop-ups on your device that perchance annoy | (Ed: What are... [**]?) (Ken: Sorry, that's out of time.)
 
 push notifications (pushes)
 
 
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    | This group got a 2017 Lasker Award for providing "essential health services & reproductive care" | Planned Parenthood 
 
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    | Nicknamed "Little Mo", this Grand Slam tennis champ of the 1950s was honored on a stamp in 2019 | Maureen Connolly 
 
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    | COVID variant names skipped nu & this 14th Greek letter | xi 
 
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