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On the 1942 raid that bears his name, James Doolittle himself made the first risky takeoff of a big bomber from one of these

What is an aircraft carrier? 

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Kefalonia & Corfu are the 2 largest of this country's Ionian Islands

What is Greece?

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Malware is a blend of these 2 words 

What is malicious software?

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Accepting a SAG Lifetime Achievement Award at 87, she said she's "had a really weird career, and I'm not done"

Who is Jane Fonda?

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You had 12 plates of coconut shrimp, 9 reef lobsters & 24 Cadillac margaritas in one weekend?! Good thing the resort is this!

What is all-included (all-inclusive)?

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Though later derided as "Dugout Doug", in World War I he earned 7 Silver Stars as a daring field commander

Who is Douglas MacArthur?

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Rossini's opera "The Italian Girl in" this North African capital opens at the palace of Mustafa--of course it does

What is Algiers?

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Heading to Coachella? You might wanna consider toughing it out with this form of camping, check out my luxury tent 

What is glamping?

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In between being named Miss Israel & becoming a movie superhero, she served in the Israel Defense Forces

Who is Gal Gadot?

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"The Answer" is this superstar 76ers guard who joined the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2016

Who is Allen Iverson?

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Omar Bradley said the bravest thing he ever saw was this general, the son of a president, leading men under fire at Utah Beach

Who is Theodore Roosevelt Jr.?

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Strategically important to shipping, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait separates this peninsula from Africa

What is the Arabian Peninsula?

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Alternating between winter & summer every 2 years, it's the largest global sporting event for athletes with disabilities

What is the Paralympics?

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She wrote an op-ed piece about how her role in the "Charlie's Angels" films normalized Asian identity for a mainstream audience

Who is Lucy Liu?

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Here's some business jargon: this piece of A.I. is a specific task created in a meeting for someone to follow up with

What is an action item?

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Military genius Gustavus Adolphus made Sweden a power in this war but died leading a charge at the 1632 Battle of Lützen

What is the Thirty Years' War

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These 2 "M" cities about 800 miles apart are 2 of the most populous cities on the Mississippi River

What are Minneapolis & Memphis?

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They're the folks at Disney who come up with all the cool rides & attractions

What is Imagineers?

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In 2021 she was inducted into the Rock Hall of Fame for a second time--by Angela Bassett, who played her on film

Who is Tina Turner?

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For Zyrtec, it's cetirizine hydrochloride

What is active ingredient?

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Escorted by only a handful of Marines, Abraham Lincoln visited this still-smoldering city on April 4, 1865

What is Richmond?

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North of Australia, the second-largest island in the world is split politically between these 2 nations

What are Indonesia & Papua New Guinea?

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A bionic human, a cyborg derives its name from these 2 words

What are cybernetic & organism?

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A 2025 documentary focuses on the life & career of this iconic British model & actress who began her rise in the 1960s

Who is Twiggy?

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A classic work by Richard Hofstadter is titled this hostility-to-eggheads -ism "in American Life"

What is Anti-Intellectualism?