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  | A TRIP ON THE GULF STREAM |  |
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  | AMERICAN FOLKLORE & LEGENDS |  |
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    | A good first word to learn is this one meaning both "hello" & "peace" | shalom 
 
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    | In 1927, this American became an international idol by flying solo across the Atlantic in his plane Spirit of St. Louis | Charles Lindbergh 
 
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    | The Gulf Stream becomes the North Atlantic Drift & keeps the west of this cold-sounding island country warmer than the east | Iceland 
 
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    | This golf great won his first Masters in 1997 at age 21 & 4 since then | Tiger Woods 
 
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    | A story goes that asked by his father if he'd chopped down a cherry tree, this boy admitted it, saying, "I cannot tell a lie" | George Washington 
 
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    | (Matt Amodio delivers the clue.)  Before the hard disk era, the storage of data or programs known as this word took more cumbersome forms, like huge circular drums & reels bearing hundreds of feet of tape | (Wil: What--is--magnetic tape?  No.) (Mayim: No.)
 (Wil: That's--not--at all it.  It's very much not that.)
 
 memory
 
 
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    | A frequent source of comedy is new speakers who mix up michnasayim, pants, with mishkafayim, these--but you don't have reading pants | (Mayim: Yes.  People often say, "I left my pants at home."  Ha-ha.) 
 glasses
 
 
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    | In the 1605 "Gunpowder Plot", Guy Fawkes & fellow conspirators tried to blow up this English legislative body | Parliament 
 
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    | The Gulf Stream warms Cape Hatteras & adjacent areas of this state | North Carolina 
 
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    | In 2008 this Jamaican sprinter came from out of the blue to set the first of many world records; Olympic gold would follow | Usain Bolt 
 
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    | It's the legendary hairy humanlike creature of the Pacific Northwest also known as sasquatch | Bigfoot 
 
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    | (Matt Amodio delivers the clue.)  Able to recognize patterns & help solve problems, neural networks are designed in imitation of this roughly 3-pound item | the (human) brain 
 
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    | Unlike if you're at Trader Joe's, if you're speaking Hebrew, this dip has a guttural first letter & 2 long vowels | (Mayim: That's right, and we pronounce it "HOO-mus" in Hebrew.) 
 hummus
 
 
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    | This 1803 deal doubled the size of the young United States | the Louisiana Purchase 
 
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    | An undersea area called the Charleston Bump attracts fish like this one to part of the Gulf Stream's course | (Wil: What is a marlin?) 
 a swordfish
 
 
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    | Winner of 20 Grand Slam singles titles, this tennis great recently announced his retirement from competitive play | Roger Federer 
 
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    | This giant lumberjack & hero of logging camps had a giant blue ox named Babe as a companion | Paul Bunyan 
 
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    | Abba is this relative; Jesus says, "Abba... all things are possible unto thee... not what I will, but what thou wilt" | father 
 
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    | Thousands of Cherokee & other Native Americans died along the 1830s relocation route known by this sad name | the Trail of Tears 
 
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    | Leaving this Florida city, or its "West" neighbor, we'll have to cross the Gulf Stream to sail to the Bahamas | (Joel: What is Key West?) (Wil: What is Key Largo?)
 
 Palm Beach
 
 
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    | After retiring from the Houston Rockets, this 7'6" center became president of the Chinese Basketball Association | Yao Ming 
 
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    | William the this ruled England; High John the this is a figure of liberation in African-American folklore | Conqueror 
 
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    | (Matt Amodio delivers the clue.)  A statistician who annoyed some computer scientists by butting into our field, John Tukey came up with this 8-letter word for the programs that tell a computer what to do | software 
 
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    | In Hebrew verb tenses, atid means this; Yesh Atid, or "there is a" this, is an Israeli political party | future 
 
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    | Hopes were high when this predecessor to the United Nations first met in 1920, but it didn't live up to the hype | the League of Nations 
 
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    | Along this country, the west edge of Scandinavia, the Gulf Stream carries 10 sverdrups of water--that's right, 10 sverdrups | Norway 
 
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    | Jackie Joyner-Kersee was the first woman to win this 7-event track & field competition at back-to-back Olympics | the heptathlon 
 
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    | This mythic animal of the West is usually depicted as a rabbit with antelope horns | a jackalope 
 
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