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    | The excavated layers of this ancient city have been numbered I through IX, with VI possibly being from the Homeric Age | 
    Troy
 
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    | The F-16 has the alliterative name "Fighting" this speedy type of raptor | 
    Falcon
 
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    | This woman + The Machine performed "Ship To Wreck" from their album "How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful" | 
    Florence
 
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    | Born in Tulsa in 1962, this country singer known for "The Dance" once tried his hand at baseball while already famous | 
    Garth Brooks
 
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    | When you're eager either to leave or to hop on your Pogo stick, you might say "gotta" this | 
    bounce
 
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    | Icebergs are common in the Davis Strait, which runs between Baffin Island & this even bigger island | 
    Greenland
 
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    | The layers of a company's hierarchy appear in this type of chart, a term popularized in the early 1900s by Willard C. Brinton | 
    an org. chart
 
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    | This Grumman & amphibious plane, essential to the defenders of Bataan, is not named for an amphibian, but for a water bird | 
    the Duck
 
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    | Juvenile, Mannie Fresh, Jon Batiste & Trombone Shorty all hail from this "Crescent City" & showcased bounce hits | 
    New Orleans
 
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    | This "Invisible Man" author made his first appearance March 1, 1914 in Oklahoma City | 
    Ellison
 
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    | A British way of saying goodbye is this, which sounds like a single piece of a circular General Mills cereal | 
    cheerio
 
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    | The city of Colón is this country's major Atlantic port | 
    Panama
 
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    | It's the MD in MDA, an agency working to create a layered system to keep foreign enemies from striking America from afar | 
    Missile Defense
 
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    | In a Shrike Commander, Bob Hoover perfected a routine of aerobatics, landing & taxiing all deadstick, i.e. this | 
    he had no engine power at all
 
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    | The "T" on the 2014 performance of this future winner on "The Masked Singer" is that he sang "Buy U A Drank" sans Auto-Tune | 
    T-Pain
 
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    | This Oklahoma-born guy nicknamed "Gordo" & "Hot Dog" had the "right stuff" for NASA's Mercury & Gemini program | 
    (Deb: Who is Gus Grissom?) (Matt: Who is Glenn?)
  Gordon Cooper
 
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    | At a White House correspondents' dinner, Pres. Obama said goodbye with one of these actions that could have hurt the equipment | 
    a mic drop
 
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    | This river flows into the Atlantic in a giant delta that begins about 400 miles southeast of Caracas | 
    the Orinoco
 
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    | This outermost layer of the Sun can't be seen with the naked eye, unless you use an instrument that adds -graph to the end of the word | 
    (Ken: Correct, or wait for an eclipse.)
  corona
 
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    | 70 years after Louis Blériot first did it, the human-powered Gossamer Albatross flew across this body of water in 1979 | 
    the English Channel
 
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    | This Motown legend played "The Tears Of A Clown" & "Cruisin'" during his Tiny Desk Concert | 
    Smokey Robinson
 
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    | This folk singer was born in Okemah in 1912 & named for President Wilson | 
    Woody Guthrie
 
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    | This word used for wishing someone well on their upcoming journey sounds like it could be Thor's time in a sprint | 
    godspeed
 
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    | Ponta Delgada on São Miguel is the capital of this island group that's about 1,000 miles west of Lisbon | 
    (Matt: What are... are the Canary Islands?)
  the Azores
 
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    | This "wall" that protects your internal organs has 9 layers, including muscles & connective tissue called fascia | 
    the abdominal wall
 
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    | During World War II, one job of the Howard DGA-15 was as a Navy air ambulance with this bird name that's associated with nursing | 
    (Matt: [Exhales] What's a stork?) (Ken: No, I'm sorry, associated with nursing because of Florence [*].) (Matt: Oh, man, that makes more sense.)
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    | This acerbic songwriter sang about "Putin puttin' his pants on one leg at a time” | 
    Randy Newman
 
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    | This radio legend, famous for giving us "The Rest of the Story", received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 | 
    Paul Harvey
 
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    | As this 8-letter word can mean "goodbye forever" in Japan, most Japanese people don't use it that often | 
    sayonara
 
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