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    | The modern racing of these dogs began in 1907 when a stuffed rabbit skin was attached to a motorcycle | greyhounds 
 
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    | Michael Jackson in this alphabet song: "Reading & writing, arithmetic are the branches of the learning tree" | (Lori: Uh, what is [*] 123?) [Accepted as correct without comment]
 
 "ABC"
 
 
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    | Nashville's sisters include Caen, France & this capital of Northern Ireland | Belfast 
 
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    | This title character thought, "I must stop this Christmas from coming!...but how?" | The Grinch 
 
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    | The reed warbler is this type of creature | a bird 
 
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    | Hackneyed or boring from overuse | trite 
 
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    | On May 19, 1910 a headline read, this "brushes earth with its tail" | Halley's Comet 
 
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    | Nabokov is namechecked in this Police song about a nervous teacher | (Elisabeth: Who is "Roxanne"?) 
 "Don't Stand So Close To Me"
 
 
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    | Most of New York's sisters are world capitals--but not this largest South African city | Johannesburg 
 
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    | The muses taught this creature the riddle that it asked passers-by: Oedipus answered correctly | the Sphinx 
 
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    | Sir Carol Reed directed this 1968 movie musical based on a Dickens tale | (Lori: What is Oliver Twist?) ...
 (Alex: [*] was the musical, Oliver Twist the work.)
 
 Oliver!
 
 
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    | One of these may have led to the extinction of the dinosaurs | a meteorite 
 
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    | The 1913 Owen-Glass Act established this central banking system forcing all national banks to join | the Federal Reserve 
 
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    | The title tutor in this Swedish group's "When I Kissed The Teacher" was just trying to help with geometry | ABBA 
 
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    | This 1858 poem asks, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" | The Courtship of Miles Standish 
 
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    | In 1920 American communist & author John Reed died of typhus in this foreign capital | (Alex: [*], yes. Ten Days that Shook the World.) 
 Moscow
 
 
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    | From the Greek for "decision", this plural means standards used for comparison | criteria 
 
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    | On Nov. 16, 1907 this 46th state was admitted to the Union | (Alex: Big land rush for [*].) 
 Oklahoma
 
 
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    | The Ramones, about this title institute of learning: "Well, I don't care about history" | "Rock 'n' Roll High School" 
 
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    | Albuquerque, New Mexico is sister to this capital of Jalisco, old Mexico | Guadalajara 
 
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    | The answer to this poetic question: "To the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach" | (Alex: Let me count the ways.) 
 How do I love thee?
 
 
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    | During the Spanish-American War, he led a committee to investigate the spread of disease in U.S. Army camps | Walter Reed 
 
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    | In 1915 this birth control advocate was arrested for obscenity for her pamphlet "Family Limitation" | (Margaret) Sanger 
 
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    | Sam Cooke didn't "know much trigonometry", nor "what" this non-electronic calculating device "is for" | (Matt: What's an abacus?) 
 a slide rule
 
 
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    | Charlotte, North Carolina's sisters include Baoding, China & this French town known for its porcelain | Limoges 
 
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    | Byron asked, "think you, if Laura had been" his "wife, he would have written sonnets all his life?" | Petrarch 
 
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    | In this post in the late 19th c.,  Thomas Reed introduced the "Reed Rules" ensuring majority party control of Congress' agenda | Speaker of the House 
 
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    | A typical neuron is made up of an axon, a nucleus & one or more of these | a dendrite 
 
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