2-WORD COUNTRIES
KEEPING UP WITH THE JOANS
GRAMMY-WINNING DIRECTORS
-ISMs
ANIMAL-NAMED ANIMALS
BODY WORDS
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It's on the eastern part of Hispaniola
the Dominican Republic
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A New York Times TV critic once described her as "possibly the most intuitively funny woman alive"
Joan Rivers
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"Hunger Games: Mockingjay" director Francis Lawrence won a Grammy for directing her "Bad Romance" video
Lady Gaga
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This economic -ism is also known as free enterprise
capitalism
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Like certain marsupials, these desert-dwelling rodents hop on 2 legs
kangaroo rats
400
This 3-letter region from the waist to the knees on humans only exists when one is seated
lap
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The official title of its king is "Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques"
Saudi Arabia
800
In 2017 this singer of "The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down" was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Joan Baez
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"Eight Days A Week", a documentary about The Beatles, earned this "Apollo 13" director his first Grammy
Ron Howard
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An erroneous reference in time, like showing a German shepherd in the film "Gladiator" (the breed didn't exist yet)
an anachronism
800
This fearsome predator gets the first part of its name from the stripes on its sides
a tiger shark
800
Aorta comes from the Greek for "great" this other "A" word
artery
1200
Residents of this West African country are known as Burkinabe
Burkina Faso
1200
Like Willem de Kooning & Jackson Pollock, Joan Mitchell was a leading figure in this 2-word art movement
abstract expressionism
1200
This actress was Grammy-worthy for directing "Quincy", a film about her father, a music legend
Rashida Jones
1200
Saying "blushing crow" instead of "crushing blow" is one of these, named for an Anglican clergyman
a spoonerism
1200
This largest pinniped gets its name from its size & its trunk-like snout
an elephant seal
1200
This ridge over your eyes can also refer to the expression of your face
brow
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1600
It's the southernmost 2-named country in Central America
Costa Rica
1600
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She ranks Number 10 on AFI's list of the Greatest American Female Screen Legends
Joan Crawford
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Spike Jonze won for directing this Oscar winner dancing in Fatboy Slim's "Weapon of Choice" video
Christopher Walken
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The Jewish Museum in Budapest, which is part of the Great Synagogue Complex, is built on the site of the house where Theodore Herzl, father of this movement, was born in 1860
Zionism
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Large ears like those on a donkey hybrid give this its name
a mule deer
1600
This part of the knee begins with a 4-letter word for the top of the head
patella
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2000
Population 52 million, it has twice the people but 20 times the per capita GDP of its neighbor to the north
South Korea
2000
"The Center Will Not Hold", a documentary by nephew Griffin Dunne, is a portrait of this iconic author & essayist
Joan Didion
2000
Peter Bogdanovich, director of "The Last Picture Show", won for "Runnin' Down a Dream", about this singer & his backing band
Tom Petty (and the Heartbreakers)
2000
CAT scans can help diagnose pulmonary these -isms, obstructions of arteries
an embolism
2000
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There's a big cat in the name of these colorful Pacific reef dwellers with venomous spines
lionfish
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Iambs are metrical these
feet