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    | This one of the 13 colonies | (Alex: William Penn there.) 
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    | The life span for the desert one of these shelled reptiles is about 50 to 80 years | a tortoise 
 
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    | Ned Flanders & Seymour Skinner are among the runners in a "Ruin Your Knees for Charity" race in this TV town | (Melissa: What is Los Angeles?) 
 Springfield
 
 
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    | In 1973 Norman Mailer added this suffix to "fact" for "facts which have no existence before appearing" in the media | a factoid 
 
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    | 10,000 can be written as 10 to this power | the 4th 
 
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    | On Facebook & Instagram, "TT" can stand for Transformation Tuesday; 2 days later, TBT is this glimpse at the past | Throwback Thursday 
 
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    | This landlocked South American country | Bolivia 
 
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    | This South American fish can grow 9 feet long & deliver a jolting 650 volts | an electric eel 
 
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    | This show's title hero has been running fast--really, really fast--since getting hit by lightning in 2014 | The Flash 
 
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    | Stephen King's "Christine" is the first novel to use "shut your" this pastry orifice | piehole 
 
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    | In Islamic lore, 10,000 was the number of soldiers in Muhammad's army during the conquest of this city | Mecca 
 
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    | A belief held in the Middle Ages that bears & badgers interrupted their hibernation on a particular day led to this observance | Groundhog Day 
 
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    | This home of the main campus of the University of Arkansas | (Alex: For the Marquis.) 
 Fayetteville
 
 
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    | About the size of a large house cat, the red panda also goes by this name, known to users of Mozilla | firefox 
 
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    | On an episode of "Seinfeld", Jerry's alarm clock fails, making an elite runner late for this race | the marathon 
 
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    | Sir Walter Scott used this term to mean a mercenary knight; today, it refers to work project-by-project | freelance 
 
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    | In 2003, at the age of 24 years, 193 days, this Laker became the youngest player to score 10,000 points in the NBA | (Kobe) Bryant 
 
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    | A state holiday in Massachusetts & Maine, Patriots' Day is the third Monday in April, in honor of these 2 battles | Lexington and Concord 
 
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    | This kingdom | (Alex: Ibn Saud.) 
 Saudi Arabia
 
 
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    | The Queen Alexandra's birdwing of Papua New Guinea isn't a bird at all but the world's largest one of these | (Melissa: What is a bat?) 
 a butterfly
 
 
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    | Produced by these 2 actors, the reality show "The Runner" follows contestants across the U.S., not just Boston | Ben Affleck & Matt Damon 
 
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    | Fittingly for some readers, the OED's first citation for "boredom" is this author's "Bleak House" | Dickens 
 
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    | Alaska has "The Valley of 10,000 Smokes" & this Southern state has "The 10,000 Islands", mostly mangrove islets | (Josh: What is Louisiana?) 
 Florida
 
 
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    | Read Across America Day is held on March 2, the birthday of this beloved author & illustrator of kids' books | Dr. Seuss 
 
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    | These 2 states of Australia | Victoria and Queensland 
 
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    | To lead others to a food source, an ant will lay down a scent trail of these chemicals | pheromones 
 
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    | On "The Sopranos" Mikey Palmice was out for a run when this tracksuit-clad guy nicknamed "Walnuts" caught up with him | Paulie 
 
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    | This 1955 novel is responsible for popularizing the word "nymphet" | (Alex: [Before Melissa's wager] And we're almost out of time.) 
 Lolita
 
 
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    | Ten Thousand Villages, selling goods by artisans around the world, sprang from these religious -ites in the Eastern U.S. | Mennonites 
 
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    | The 1865 arrival of Union troops in Galveston, Texas is remembered on this Southern holiday with a portmanteau name | Juneteenth 
 
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