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    | Arthur Rackham's work depicting this young heroine was one of his many illustrations for children's tales | Little Red Riding Hood 
 
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    | "Small" these are insignificant; a "hot" one is an incendiary topic | potatoes 
 
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    | In 1992 George H.W. Bush, Brian Mulroney & Carlos Salinas signed this 5-letter trade pact | NAFTA 
 
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    | After the end of apartheid, this country introduced a new flag in 1994 | South Africa 
 
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    | Mabel Simmons, AKA Madea, was created by this writer/actor for the stage & hit it big in the movies | Tyler Perry 
 
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    | The University of Puerto Rico studies possibly habitable faraway planets; a key requirement is surface this substance | water 
 
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    | 1-word term for the Virgin Mary; there are paintings of her "and Child with Saints" &  "...with Angels" | Madonna 
 
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    | You're crazy if you're described as "out of your" this type of plant that includes squash | (Claire: What is melon?) 
 gourd
 
 
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    | The Y2K bug scared the world in the 1990s because many feared computers would read the year 2000 as this year | (Maya: What is 00?) [Originally ruled incorrect; ruled correct before the second Daily Double]
 
 1900 (or 00)
 
 
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    | The only country without a rectangular flag is this Himalayan nation | Nepal 
 
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    | In this 2008 film Liv Tyler is cellular biologist Betty Ross, in love with a guy who's not the same when he's angry | The Incredible Hulk 
 
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    | This 3-letter word precedes "pack" in a word for a long-awaited solo flying suit | jet 
 
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    | Here's Bernini's sculpture of this monstrous mythological personality | Medusa 
 
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    | This alliterative phrase referring to one's calm suggests a certain amount of refrigeration | cool as a cucumber 
 
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    | In 1995 Colin Firth played this character in "Pride & Prejudice" on a TV miniseries--ask your mom about it | (Fitzwilliam) Darcy 
 
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    | This actor created a lot of howls playing Scott McCall on MTV's "Teen Wolf" | Tyler Posey 
 
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    | Drug-resistant bacteria could end the 70-year medical era of these, such as amoxicillin & the good old Z-Pak | antibiotics 
 
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    | German master Lucas Cranach the Elder painted this Biblical dancer with John the Baptist's severed head | Salome 
 
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    | You are trying to tempt someone to your cause if you "dangle" one of these in front of him | a carrot 
 
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    | In 1992, 8 years after it hosted the Winter Olympics, this Bosnian capital was shelled by Yugoslav forces | (Emma: What is Sofia?) 
 Sarajevo
 
 
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    | Turkey's flag has but 1 star & this on it; Turkmenistan's has it too, but with 5 stars | a crescent moon 
 
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    | Tyler Florence helps up-&-coming chefs hit the road in Food Network's "Race" of these mobile kitchens | food trucks 
 
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    | Inbreeding is a problem if humans move to autogamy, AKA self-this, like some flowers & some worms | (Maya: What is pollination?) ...
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 fertilization
 
 
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    | Crayon, charcoal & watercolors were all used to paint 1939's "Head of an Old Peasant" by this Mexican muralist | Diego Rivera 
 
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    | Bryce Harper says Mickey Mantle was "a typical" this-fed "kid from Oklahoma" | corn 
 
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    | Boasting a whopping 32 MB of space, the first portable device that could play these music files came out in 1998 | mp3s 
 
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    | The motto "Hardships there are, but the land is green and the sun shineth" goes with the flag of this West Indies nation | Jamaica 
 
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    | This Utah band that sang "Everybody Talks" was co-created by Tyler Glenn | the Neon Trees 
 
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