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    | Anne is told, "By all means, move at a glacial pace. You know how that thrills me" in this 2006 fashion-forward film | 
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    | A state funeral at Westminster? No, thanks! The family plot in St. Margaret of Antioch churchyard was the choice for this nurse | 
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    | National Yo-Yo Day rolls out & World Tetris Day fits in on this date; need more? Oh yeah, it's also D-Day | 
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    | This dame played Queen Elizabeth in "Shakespeare in Love" & neglected Shakespeare wife Anne Hathaway in 2018's "All Is True" | 
    (Morgan: Who is Mirren?) ... (Shaan: Bring it.)
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    | Crate digging is a pastime for collectors of these, perhaps hoping for "Around Grapefruit" or "Done By the Forces of Nature" | 
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    | Who's a good boy? The predecessor to this herding breed was brought to Wales by the Celts around 1200 B.C. | 
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    | 2 first ladies rest at Quincy's "Church of Presidents", the United First Parish Church: this woman & her son's wife Louisa | 
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    | NASA imagery  shows how nutrient-rich dust blown from this desert feeds the Amazon Rainforest, thousands of miles to the west | 
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    | Anne jumped onto the title object in a "Lip Sync Battle" rendition of this Miley Cyrus hit | 
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    | The office novel "Then We Came to the End" calls tossing this "the great unsung pastime of American corporate life" | 
    (Ken: We've all done it--tossing [*].)
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    | In cricket, this is a score of 100 runs or more by a batsman in a single innings | 
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    | This dictator was removed from his Valle de los CaĆdos Mausoleum in 2019 & reburied north of Madrid next to his wife | 
    (Ken: Yes, still dead.)
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    | This vast region lying between the Altai, Hangayn, Da Hinggan & Tien Shan Mountains is largely covered in rock, not sand | 
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    | January 1 is this 2-word day; celebrate with a free sample of "Ain't Misbehavin'", which entered it in 2025 | 
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    | Accepting the Oscar for "Les Mis", Anne hoped soon, "the misfortunes of" this character "will only be found in stories" & not real life | 
    (Morgan: Who is Cosette?)
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    | Home picklers, lay in a store of the Ball Blue Book, named for the company that became synonymous with this type of jar | 
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    | At the 1925 Scopes trial in Tennessee, William Jennings Bryan argued for this Christian alternative to evolution | 
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    | Levallois-Perret Cemetery is where this civil engineer known as the "Magician of Iron" came to rest after his 1923 death | 
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    | Much of Eastern Wash. is deserty scablands; out West, this rainforest-filled national park lies on the same-named peninsula | 
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    | Feb. 15 is this 3-word day; it's the phrase people rallied around after a ship went down off Havana that day in 1898 | 
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    | Anne & Billy Shakes shared 3 kids: Susanna & the twins, Judith & this boy, whose name is one letter off from a brooding title guy | 
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    | The company Playrix has taken up quite enough of your time with mobile games like Homescapes & this earlier one in the Scapes series | 
    (Shaan: What is RuneScapes?)
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    | This "Creation" composer's head was stolen from his Vienna grave soon after his 1809 burial & not returned until 1954 | 
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