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    | After a 1929 earthquake, Inge Lehmann measured seismic waves & discovered the Earth had an "inner" one of these | 
    a core
 
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    | The University of Georgia, kind of going Greek | 
    Athens
 
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    treble
 
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    a reaper
 
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    | Cornell University, kind of going Greek | 
    Ithaca
 
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    | Covering a Toto hit, Weezer blessed "the rains down in" this place | 
    Africa
 
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    a deed
 
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    | Established in 1968, it's the newest of the 6 Nobel Prize categories | 
    Economics
 
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    | Dedicated to protecting the environment, the Sierra Club was founded in 1892 with this naturalist as its first president | 
    Muir
 
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    | Fei-Fei Li took a sabbatical from Stanford to be Google Cloud's chief scientist of AI/ML, artificial intelligence & this | 
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    | The University of New Mexico, where classes began in 1892, before statehood | 
    (Alec: What is Santa Fe University?)
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    | This collaboration between Lil Nas X & Billy Ray Cyrus was Billboard's No. 1 Hot 100 Song of the Year for 2019 | 
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    elite
 
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    Northern Ireland
 
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    | In 1897 this author was released from Reading Gaol & went into exile in France | 
    Wilde
 
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    | Chemist Alice Ball developed an early treatment used for decades for this devastating bacterial skin disease | 
    leprosy (Hansen's disease)
 
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    | "Stick" to it at Louisiana State University | 
    Baton Rouge
 
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    | Her hit "Anaconda" sampled "Baby Got Back" by Sir Mix-a-Lot | 
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    | Use your this & tell us this slang term for your head; it can also mean a small mug or cup | 
    a noggin
 
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    | The "Six Flags" over Texas refer to the entities that have controlled it; sixth is the USA, this was fifth | 
    (Alec: What is Mexico?) (Erin: What is the Republic of Texas?) (Vince: What is Spain?) (Ken: No, no harm, no foul; after Mexico and the Republic of Texas it was part of [*].)
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    | Returning after a 1,500-year break, these opened April 6, 1896 | 
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    | In 1823 Mary Anning discovered the first full fossil skeleton of a "sea dragon", this long-necked marine reptile | 
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    | The University of Virginia, which Jefferson envisioned as his "academical village" | 
    (Erin: What is Charlotteville?)
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    | It became the first mostly Spanish song to top the Billboard Hot 100 since "Macarena" in 1996 | 
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    labial
 
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    | The 4th of the 6 wives of Henry VIII was this woman, whom Henry called "a Flanders Mare" | 
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