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MR. DWAYNE JOHNSON
APPROPRIATE FOR MINERS
MEASURING YOUR WORDS
100

In victory in 2008 Barack Obama said, "We will respond with that...creed that sums up the spirit of a people:" these 3 words

yes we can

100

A pale brown color 

beige

100

Channeling his Pacific island heritage, Dwayne was the voice of Maui in this animated movie

Moana

100

A mining co. can get a Kimberley process certificate showing that these gems have been mined in a conflict-free environment

diamonds

100

You can "get off on the right" one (yay!) or have one "in the grave" (yikes!)

foot

200

In a 1945 speech this physicist said, "The war is won, but the peace is not"

Einstein

200

From the Arabic for "old man", it's a tribal or village leader in parts of the Middle East

a sheik

200

In the last 4 films in this speedy franchise, Dwayne has played Luke Hobbs

Fast and Furious

200

First name of Mr. Strauss, who heard California needed sturdy pants & filled the gap for miners, making a fortune

Levi

200

Don't get "tied up in" these measures of speed at sea

knots

300

This orator, a former slave himself, asked, "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?"

Frederick Douglass

300

A organic compound composed of one or more chains of amino acids

a protein 

300

D.J. flew a rescue chopper & saved lives in this "fault"-y disaster film

San Andreas

300

The respiratory affliction coal-workers' pneumoconiosis is also known as "black" this body part

Lung

300

"The whole 9" these means all the way

yards

400

Receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979, this nun said, "Love begins at home"

Mother Teresa

400

The French national anthem gets its name from this port city

Marseille

400

In "Central Intelligence", Dwayne teamed up to catch a spy with this actor of smaller stature

Kevin Hart

400

After 69 days deep in the Earth, in 2010 Florencio Avalos became the first of 33 miners rescued in this S. Amer. country

Chile

400

It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion

a second

500

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country" is attributed to this patriot before his 1776 hanging

Nathan Hale

500

Clearly, you're under this type of close observation

surveillance

500

Still billed as "The Rock" in his film debut "The Mummy Returns", Dwayne played this ruler restored to life by ancient magic

the Scorpion King
500

In 1986 Britain ended its decades-long practice of using these birds as sentinels in coal mines

canaries

500

The arrangement of words in rhythmic verses gives a poem this pattern

meter

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