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    | Head to Wamego, Kansas for a museum dedicated to this fictional land created by L. Frank Baum | Oz 
 
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    | 360 to 300 million B.C. is sometimes called the "Age of" these nonflowering, spore-producing plants | Ferns 
 
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    | In observing snowflakes, learn the basic types of these symmetrical structures, including plates, columns & needles | crystals 
 
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    | The group Drive-By Truckers scorned these 2 things often said to be "with the victims" of mass shootings | thoughts and prayers 
 
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    | A burglar's booty & a screwdriver or hammer | loot & tool 
 
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    | In Catholic tradition, October is the month dedicated to the use of this string of prayer beads | rosary 
 
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    | A museum devoted to this literary movement is not far from San Francisco's City Lights Bookstore | the Beat movement 
 
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    | All animals possess this protein that keeps skin firm & is used as a dietary supplement & cosmetic lip injection | collagen 
 
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    | This cereal invented in the 1890s was bleached & used as nice, crunchy underfoot snow in early sound films | (Alisa: What are Frosted Flakes?) 
 Corn Flakes
 
 
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    | Despite police violence & other problems, "Alright" is on his album "To Pimp a Butterfly" | Kendrick Lamar 
 
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    | Created & Dutch cheese | made & Edam 
 
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    | 1662's Act of Uniformity made this Protestant work the standard for prayer in England | the Book of Common Prayer 
 
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    | You can find your roots at the museum devoted to this author of "Roots": genealogy services are offered to its visitors | (Alex) Haley 
 
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    | The Greek for "mushroom" gives us this word for the study of fungi | mycology 
 
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    | Mount Snow, Vermont calls itself these mountains' most accessible ski resort from the big cities south of it | the Green Mountains 
 
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    | He was the man behind 1985's "Sun City", about artists refusing to play at that resort in apartheid-era South Africa | Little Steven (Steven Van Zandt) 
 
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    | Dull & a poet of yore | drab & bard 
 
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    | 19th century Shinto leader Hirata Atsutane laid out a list of morning prayers; No. 1 was worship of this human | the emperor 
 
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    | The Amazing World of Dr. Seuss Museum is in this Massachusetts city, Dr. Seuss' hometown | (Ed: What is Lowell?) 
 Springfield
 
 
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    | To the Romans, Robigus was the god of this fungus that appears as red, orange or yellow spots on plants | (Alisa: Oh, I don't have to buzz in.) [Laughter]
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 (Mayim: For a professor of botany, that is absolutely correct.)
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    | Snow blinded the Lancastrians & wind stopped their arrows at Towton in this war, said to be the bloodiest battle ever in England | the Wars of the Roses 
 
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    | "Killing In The Name" was this L.A. band's reaction to the beating of Rodney King & its aftermath | (Alisa: Who are N.W.A.?) 
 Rage Against the Machine
 
 
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    | A type of frost & a Middle Eastern ruler | rime & emir 
 
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    | A prayer collection dating from around 200 A.D. seeks health & success for followers of this mortal Greek musician | Orpheus 
 
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    | The home of this educator known for his "Readers" is kept as a museum on the campus of Miami University in Ohio | McGuffey 
 
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    | Plants, animals, fungi & protists are the 4 kingdoms of these organisms, from Greek for "good" & "kernel" | eukaryotes 
 
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    | "One must have a mind of winter", begins this Wallace Stevens poem that sets a chilly mood | The Snow Man 
 
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    | A single of his, "A Change Is Gonna Come", was released just days after his tragic death in 1964 | Sam Cooke 
 
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    | An elite British secondary school & an item on a musical staff | Eton & note 
 
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    | In Islam, it's the word for the crier who calls the faithful to prayer 5 times a day | a muezzin 
 
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