2-LETTER WORDS
REMEMBER THE 1990s?
MEERKAT MANNERS
"O" IS FOR OPERA
BIG TOP JOBS
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This biblical word is often found before "& behold"

Lo

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Pentagon employee Linda Tripp secretly recorded phone calls with this friend who discussed an affair with an older man

Monica Lewinski

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Meerkats are members of the family of this rodent commonly found in Africa and Southern Asia

Mongoose

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A moving scene in Ambroise Thomas' opera "Hamlet" includes the funeral procession of this character

Ophelia

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This job title comes from akros, Greek for "highest"

Acrobat

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The 2013 meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association included a paper on "The Social Meaning of" this word

Eh

400

This magazine was launched in 1995 with a cover showing Cindy Crawford dressed as our first president

George

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A meerkat at the San Diego zoo served as an animator's model for this character in "The Lion King"

Timon

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Spoiler: Eurydice dies in Monteverdi's 1607 opera named for this protagonist

Orpheus

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Tramp & Auguste are 2 different types of these performers

Clowns

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"Clumsy" in language, castrated in fact, it's a type of draft animal

Ox

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On July 15, 1997 this designer was killed outside his Miami Beach mansion, an event remembered in a 2018 TV event

Gianni Versace

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A meerkat scans for predators in this posture, a term for a guard against surprise attack, and also a type of big robot "X-Men" foe

Sentinel

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Opera composer Christoph Gluck wrote that this instrumental segment should prepare people for the play's plot

The Overture

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People, not dogs, had this loud job of calling out attractions on the midway

A Barker

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As an adjective, it denotes huge self-interest, like in describing an entire decade

Me

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Bringing gifts & astronauts, in 1995 the Space Shuttle Atlantis docked with this Russian space station

Mir

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The lives of the Whiskers family on "Meerkat Manor" were filmed in this desert that occupies most of Botswana

The Kalahari

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Richard Strauss' "Elektra" has a big recognition scene between the title character & him

Orestes

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Desultor is an old term for someone who does this while 2 horses are running

Jump from one horse to the other

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Dutch for "yes"

Ja

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In the late '90s, this toy from Bandai helped you attempt adulting by raising a digital pet

Tamagotchi

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Meerkats don't ever want to deal with a day of this wolf-like predator, which also feeds on carcasses

A Jackal

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Unfinished at his death, his "Tales of Hoffmann" had to be completed by somebody else

Offenbach

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Dangerous skills include fire-eating & this, requiring the ability to relax your esophageal sphincter

Sword Swallowing