SCIENCE & NATURE
A WORLD OF MOUNTAINS
I MARRIED MY CO-STAR
NEAR & FAR PHRASES
CAVEAT
MENTOR
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These fish of the Amazon are less ferocious in real life than in the movies & some are even vegetarians
What are piranhas?
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Where Europe & Asia meet, the Caucasus Mountains are found between these two large seas
What are the Black Sea & Caspian Sea?
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He & Rachel Weisz formed a "Bond" as a married couple in the film "Dream House" in 2010 & married the following year
Who is Daniel Craig?
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A narrow escape, or what Gillette promises
What is a close shave?
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Makes sense--a caution flag in NASCAR is this color, so slow down!
What is yellow?
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On the passing of this Apple co-founder, Mark Zuckerberg thanked him "for being a mentor and a friend"
Who is Steve Jobs?
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In the 10th edition of his "Systema Naturae" in 1758, he introduced binomial nomenclature for animals
Who is Carl Linnaeus?
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Looking to go skiing in Africa? Try the city of Ifrane, often referred to as "Morocco's Switzerland", in these mountains
What are the Atlas Mountains?
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Anna Osceola had a small part in the final episode of "Mad Men", leading to her 2023 marriage to this star of the series
Who is Jon Hamm?
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A house 1 block east of Doheny Drive might be marketed as "Beverly Hills" this, from Latin for "to lie near"
What is adjacent?
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"All hope abandon ye who enter here" is a line from this 14th century work
What is Dante's Inferno (Divine Comedy)?
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This important annual ritual of the Plains Indians that celebrated the celestial body involved the support of spiritual mentors
What is the Sun Dance?
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You've got grace, you've got poise, you've got this narrow tube on a flower below the stigma
What is a style?
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The spine of Greece, the Pindus Mountains are a southeastern continuation of this mountain system, the largest in Europe
What are the Alps?
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Life imitates TV--on "Once Upon a Time", Ginnifer Goodwin was Snow White & Josh Dallas was this love interest; they lived happily ever after
Who is Prince Charming?
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MTV's first game show, it had categories spewed from the Zenith TV in Ken Ober's basement
What is Remote Control?
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5 is the lowest alert level in this readiness system used by our military; 1 is the most dire
What is DEFCON?
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After a chance meeting in Rome, Father Michael van der Peet became a spiritual advisor to this "Saint of the Gutters"
Who is Mother Teresa?
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Subatomic particles called hadrons are made up of these, anti-these & gluons
What are quarks?
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Daily Double
Found in Table Mountain National Park, Lion's Head & Lion's Rump are 2 peaks overlooking this coastal city
What is Cape Town, South Africa?
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An on-again, off-again couple on "That '70s Show" & in real life, she & Ashton Kutcher tied the knot in 2015
Who is Mila Kunis?
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You & I won't agree on much if there's this watery feature between us, such as the Saronic one
What is a gulf?
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Daily Double
Rattlesnakes warn us by shaking their tails; the sound is the motion of this fibrous stuff that makes up hair & nails
What is keratin?
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He called Gwendolyn Brooks' "A Street in Bronzeville" the biggest little $2 worth of intriguing reading found in bookshops
Who is Langston Hughes?
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Warm-blooded animals are described by this 11-letter adjective, meaning they generate & maintain their own body heat
What is endothermic?
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Part of the Amazon watershed, the Acaraí Mountains are shared by Brazil & this small English-speaking nation to the north
What is Guyana?
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Alan Ruck definitely found out that it's good for a TV & film actor to do a little theater when he met his wife, this luminous actress, as they co-starred in "Absurd Person Singular" on Broadway
Who is Mireille Enos?
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This saying of the guy with property beside Robert Frost's ends the poem "Mending Wall"
What is Good fences make good neighbors?
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Shakespeare used this word for the unnamed character who warned Julius Caesar, "Beware the Ides of March"
What is the soothsayer?
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This Dutch-born scientist discovered a "belt" of small iceballs beyond Neptune & also discovered a smart kid named Carl Sagan
Who is Gerard Kuiper?