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400

To Ottawa, Canada

Washington, D.C.

400

Change the last 2 letters in "flow" to get this term for the rate of flow through an area

flux

400

A delusion that your life is scripted & being filmed has been named by doctors after this Jim Carrey film

The Truman Show

400

As a poker term, it's a word on its own; as a prefix, it means "before"

ante

400

Part of the Boy Scout law, it refers to one complying with authority, like a good dog

obedient

400

Katniss

Jennifer Lawrence

800

To Canberra, Australia

Wellington, New Zealand

800

2 basic types of motion are moving along a line & this type of movement around an axis

rotational movement

800

Adjective for info received by the brain on an unconscious level, from the Latin for "below the threshold"

subliminal

800

Another word for your rump, this word also means subsequent

posterior

800

This word that also means "trifling" follows "Times" in the name of a New Orleans newspaper

picayune

800

Jake Shuttlesworth,
Easy Rawlins

Denzel Washington

1200

To Paris, France

Brussels (Belgium)

1200

This "O" word refers to 1 complete cycle of a pendulum; the time it takes is called the period

oscillation

1200

Sometimes used in police work, hypermnesia is the technique of increasing a person's memory using this

hypnosis

1200

Adverb heard often in viewing scenes from the last episode of a show, as in this "on AMC's 'The Walking Dead'..."

previously

1200

It's the U.S. military's equivalent of a prison

stockade

1200

J,
Bagger,
Tea Cake Walters

Will Smith

1600

To Rabat, Morocco

Lisbon, Portugal

1600

Victor Hess showed that certain rays intensify with altitude, so they must be from space; Robert Millikan named them these

cosmic rays

1600

Ablutomania is an obsession with doing this

washing

1600

As well as ensuing, it can mean accomplishing a goal

succeeding

1600

It's the type of vehicle seen here

a rickshaw

1600

Renton,
Obi-Wan Kenobi,
Phillip Morris,
Rodney Copperbottom

Ewan McGregor

2000

To Tokyo, Japan

Seoul, Korea

2000

There are rates of this not just for electricity but for heat; copper is 15,000 times faster than air

conductivity

2000

It's "de" treatment of a phobia by gradual exposure to the source of the fear

desensitization

2000

This Shakespearean 3-letter word means before

ere

2000

c. 1666 a British work used this word for a literal barrier; a 1971 text on operating system principles gave it a new sense

a firewall

2000

Cataleya,
Graciela,
Gamora,
Neytiri,
Uhura

Zoe Saldana

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