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    | In this Bible book, the children of Israel "were departed from Rephidim, and were come to the Desert of Sinai" | 
    Exodus
 
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    Jordan
 
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    | This 1885 book is subtitled "Tom Sawyer's Comrade" | 
    Huckleberry Finn
 
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    | In 1919 this school was established as the Southern Branch of the University of California | 
    UCLA
 
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    snore
 
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    (Daniel: What's a sandstorm?)
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    Phil Jackson
 
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    | In a J.M. Barrie play, she & her brothers Michael & John get sprinkled with fairy dust & fly off into the night | 
    Wendy
 
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    Sun King
 
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    | Colleges in this state include Black Hills State University & Oglala Lakota College | 
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    the Rio Grande
 
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    | In 2001 the Vancouver Grizzlies relocated to this U.S. city | 
    Memphis
 
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    | This feline friend of Winnie-the-Pooh appears in "The House at Pooh Corner", but not in the original book | 
    Tigger
 
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    | Stockbroker Jordan Belfort's nickname, it's the title of Scorsese's 2013 biopic of him | 
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    | Opened in 1865, this N.E. college was started by a scientist for an increasingly industrialized America | 
    [Buzzy reads "N.E." as "New England".] (Matthew: What is Smith?  College?)
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    | The Namib Desert of West Africa is home to a mountain variety of this member of the horse family | 
    [ERRATUM: The Namib Desert is in southwestern Africa, not in the region of West Africa.]
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    | In 1995 this Houston Rockets center scored a then-record 131 points in a 4-game NBA Finals | 
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    | He illustrated his own "Where the Wild Things Are" as well as several of the "Little Bear" books for kids | 
    Sendak
 
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    | This French tennis player & shirt tycoon was "the Crocodile" | 
    Lacoste
 
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    Marshall
 
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    | U.S. Navy rank abolished for good in 1986 | 
    Commodore
 
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    | La Guajira desert is connected by gas pipeline to nearby Barranquilla in this South American country | 
    (Buzzy: Barranquilla, a big city in [*].)
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    | A Yat, as in "Where y'at?", is a person from this Southern U.S. city | 
    New Orleans
 
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    | The Daily Wildcat is the college newspaper from this Southwestern university | 
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    | Classical music greats Horowitz & Rostropovich each put out an album of tunes they used as these crowd-pleasers | 
    encores
 
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