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YOUR VERB FORM IS MOST IRREGULAR |
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Voortrekkers were these migrating South Africans whose name means "farmer" in Dutch |
Boers
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"The Strike" was Ayn Rand's original title for this novel, her longest at over 1,000 pages |
Atlas Shrugged
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He was the first New York governor to be elected president |
Van Buren
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In 2025 this record earned Beyoncé her first Grammy for Album of the Year & also the trophy for Best Country Album |
Cowboy Carter
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Cooking schools teach you to julienne & brunoise with classes in these "skills"; speed contests, you may want to avoid |
knife skills
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This past participle is a noun meaning a basic condition; you must phrase your response as a question--that's one of these |
(Bryce: Uh... what is an interrogative?) (Mike: What is a declarative?)
a given
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The airport of this South African city is named for Oliver Tambo, the president of the ANC from 1967 to 1991 |
(Mike: Uh, what is Praetoria?) (Guy!: What is Cape Town?) (Bryce: What is Bloemfontein?) (Ken: No, it is not one of the capitals, it's [*].)
Johannesburg
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In "Bring Up the Bodies", Hilary Mantel wrote about Thomas Cromwell's role in this woman's downfall |
Anne Boleyn
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In 1824 he made his last appearance on the concert stage for the premiere of his 9th symphony |
Beethoven
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Their greatest hits album, with "Wheel In The Sky" & "Don't Stop Believin"', has spent more than 800 weeks on the Billboard 200 |
Journey
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It's the skill of playing a piece of music you're seeing for the first time |
sight reading
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This hyphenated adjective meaning "prized & hard to find" contains the past form of "seek" |
sought-after
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In 1967 at South Africa's Groote Schuur Hospital, Dr. Christiaan Barnard performed the first of these surgeries |
a heart transplant
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"A Simple Habana Melody" by Oscar Hijuelos focuses on the rumba, but this other 5-letter dance is in the title of his best-known novel |
(Bryce: What is the tango?) (Ken: No, I'm afraid not, it's The [*] Kings Play Songs of Love.)
mambo
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Chris Van Allsburg wrote & illustrated this now-classic children's book about a Christmas train |
The Polar Express
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We swear this album by Kendrick Lamar earned him a Pulitzer Prize |
DAMN
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The computer skills section of a resume may include programming languages like this one once called C with Classes |
(Bryce: What is C-sharp?)
C++
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In a famous Brent Musburger call, it's the past participle that follows "Flutie flushed... throws it down..." |
(Ken: This is a spoiler warning for a very old game, but [*], [*] is the participle.)
caught
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A flanking "bullhorn" military technique helped give this leader dominance of his Zulu empire |
Shaka (Zulu)
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Professor Pierre Aronnax is the narrator of this 1870 novel of nautical adventure |
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
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This 15th century Flemish painter wrote his name in Latin in the wall of his Arnolfini portrait |
van Eyck
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"Back to Broadway" & "Back to Brooklyn" are albums by her |
Streisand
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Horizontal mattress, using a pattern similar to one used for bedding, is a type of this medical skill |
suturing
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Past participles that are the same as the present tenses of the verb include this one done by snakes up to 12 times a year |
(Guy!: What is molt?)
shed
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South African freedom fighters Makhanda Nxele & Indres Naidoo were imprisoned on this island in Table Bay |
(Ken: Just like Mandela, yes.)
Robben
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The prologue of this Colson Whitehead novel mentions a secret graveyard on the north side of the campus |
(Bryce: What is Prep?) ... (Ken: And there's a movie--[*].)
The Nickel Boys
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This physicist discovered 2 radiation belts that surround the Earth & got his name on them |
Van Allen
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In 2006 U2 won Grammys for Best Rock Album & Album of the Year for this "How to" record |
How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
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To get that "Fast & the Furious" drift, stunt drivers master this "excessive" move where the rear wheels go way out to the side |
oversteering
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This past participle is a homophone of a narrow road |
lain
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