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    | Around 300 B.C. this common class of ancient Romans gained equal rights with the patricians | 
    the plebeians
 
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    | An earthquake where one plate moves under another & pushes the top plate up may cause this wave that can reach around 500 miles per hour | 
    a tsunami
 
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    | "Slow and steady wins the race" is a moral from Aesop's fable of these 2 creatures | 
    the tortoise & the hare
 
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    | For a while, Hasbro changed this profession of Plum in the game Clue to archaeologist, then to video game designer | 
    professor
 
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    | A later owner of this current pop star's childhood home in Pennsylvania says the initials "TAS" in cement may be the singer's | 
    Taylor (Alison) Swift
 
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    | By the 1930s, its tokens included a battleship, a top hat & a shoe | 
    Monopoly
 
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    | Term for businessman like Rockefeller & Pullman; reformist Carl Schurz wrote of "The Modern" these who "Plunder at Will" | 
    Robber Barons
 
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    | In 1964 the Prince William Sound earthquake registered a scary 9.2 in magnitude in the southern part of this state | 
    Alaska
 
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    | In his own version of this rule, Confucius said, "What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others" | 
    the golden rule
 
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    | The kids in "'Twas the Night Before Christmas" had "visions of" these--likely not fruit but sweetened seeds | 
    sugar plums
 
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    | In 1942 the father of this baseball legend was the one doing the hammering, building a house in Mobile that you can visit today | 
    Hank Aaron
 
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    | A failure to pay money on a loan | 
    default
 
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    | In England's Civil War, barbers probably rooted for this Puritan group named for keeping their hair short | 
    the Roundheads
 
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    | Haiti's government reported 300,000 deaths after a 7.0 quake & multiple aftershocks hit about 15 miles from this capital in 2010 | 
    Port-au-Prince
 
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    | Shame on Hipponax' line "There are two days when a woman is a pleasure: the day one marries her and the day one" does this rhyming finish | 
    (Ken: Yes, that hasn't held up well.) [Laughter]
  buries her
 
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    | Michelle Obama's plum-colored outfit on this day in 2021 helped crash designer Sergio Hudson's website | 
    Inauguration Day
 
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    | "There are places I'll remember all my life", & one would have been the home in Liverpool where he lived with Aunt Mimi | 
    John Lennon
 
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    | Apparel for a thespian | 
    (Ken: Has S-T-U in it; that is correct.)
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    | Lower-class people eager to see aristocratic French heads roll were "sans" these fancy breeches | 
    [Finn selected the first clue.]
  culottes
 
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    | A 9.1 off the coast of Honshu in 2011 led to a nuclear accident in this prefecture | 
    Fukushima
 
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    | While in the bath, he reportedly exclaimed "Eureka!" after coming up with a method to test the purity of gold | 
    Archimedes
 
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    | This plant-breeding genius created more than 120 varieties of plum, more than of any other fruit or vegetable | 
    (Finn: Who is Mendel?)
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    | In Palisades, N.Y. the Whitney House, as in the family behind the Whitney Museum, was home to this daughter of Jon Voight | 
    Angelina Jolie
 
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    | Traditional head covering worn by Muslim women | 
    (Margaret: What is a hajib?) ... (Ken: Gotta have H-I-J in there.)
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    | Abbreviated KMT, it once battled Mao & is now one of Taiwan's main political parties | 
    the Kuomintang
 
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    | In 1960 an 8.1 quake that devastated Concepción in this South American nation was but a foreshock to a 9.5 event the next day | 
    Chile
 
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    | From this "Elder" Roman's "Natural History": "When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it" | 
    Pliny
 
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    | Not for the faint of heart or liver, it's European plum brandy, such as Rudolf Jelínek 10 Year Gold | 
    slivovitz
 
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    | Martha Stewart likes to visit Nutley in this state to see her childhood home on Elm Street & the store where her dad bought Gallo wine | 
    New Jersey
 
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    | He led the Greeks against Troy | 
    (Karen: Who's Hector?) ... (Ken: M-N-O in a row; that's correct.)
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