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    | This lead singer was given "the biggest sendoff in history" at the 1992 tribute concert for AIDS awareness | Freddie Mercury 
 
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    | Iroquois creation myths say their land actually rests on the back of one of these reptiles | a turtle 
 
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    | In 1945 more than 5,000 people lived at the top secret lab in this town in New Mexico | Los Alamos 
 
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    | In 1918 the unfinished Italian liner Conte Rosso was refitted by the Royal Navy as the first flat-topped one of these | an aircraft carrier 
 
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    | Enjoy the huge sequoias in California's Kings Canyon, located in this sierra | the Sierra Nevada 
 
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    | A public celebration, perhaps at the Kennedy Center | a gala 
 
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    | Queen stole the show at this July 1985 worldwide concert | Live Aid 
 
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    | The Norse believed that after the giant Ymir died, his skull became the sky & his brains were flung into it, becoming these | clouds 
 
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    | Open Source Development Labs was backed by IBM, Intel & other companies to promote this O.S. outta Finland | Linux 
 
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    | In 1982 the QE2 was requisitioned to transport troops to these islands | the Falklands 
 
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    | The Anasazi, ancestors of these Indians named for their dwellings, once lived in Arizona's Canyon de Chelly | the Pueblo 
 
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    | It was originally a trade name used by the Otis Company | escalator 
 
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    | Queen has been touring with this "American Idol" alumnus as front man, seen here with Brian May | Adam Lambert 
 
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    | While delivering messages, Iris was said to travel along one of these | (Vincent: What is a ray of light?) 
 a rainbow
 
 
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    | With more than 150 scientists, one of the world's largest DNA crime labs is at NYC's OCME, Office of Chief this | the medical examiner 
 
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    | The builders of the SS United States were so concerned with fire safety, they asked Steinway to make an aluminum this | a piano 
 
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    | "Our House" was the very very very fine Laurel Canyon house of Joni Mitchell & this rock star, the "N" of CSN | (Graham) Nash 
 
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    | Collective name for the lands Down Under & some islands north of them | Australasia 
 
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    | Queen kicked off its 2017 North American tour in Phoenix & kicked off the concert singing, "We Will" do this | rock you 
 
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    | After Phaeton crashed a sun chariot, his mournful sisters became trees & their tears became this fossil resin | amber 
 
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    | The Tevatron particle accelerator at the Illinois lab named for this Italian had a circumference of 3.9 miles | Fermi 
 
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    | Anna Magnani was one of the Italian celebrities who boarded this liner in the years before its 1956 sinking | the Andrea Doria 
 
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    | On Idaho's border & deeper than the Grand one, this "infernal" canyon's greatest depth is 7,900 feet | Hells Canyon 
 
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    | Something done promptly & cheerfully is done with this | alacrity 
 
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    | Named for the prisoner number of this man, the 46664 campaign started with a Queen concert in South Africa | Mandela 
 
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    | This river was created when Shiva lowered a goddess slowly to the earth, guiding her across India | the Ganges 
 
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    | "Come up to the lab" took on a whole new meaning in 1973 with the launch of this | Skylab 
 
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    | The Titanic was built by the oceanic steam navigation company, better known as this colorful "line" | White Star 
 
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    | Though this most-visited Utah national park doesn't have "canyon" in its name, a canyon is the big draw | (Vincent: What's Moab?) 
 Zion National Park
 
 
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    | White ornamental stone | alabaster 
 
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