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What is POWERPOINT?
This Microsoft program was originally called Presenter
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What is STANFORD?
This California University is home to the Hoover Institution on War Revolution & Peace
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Who is JEAN VALJEAN?
In Les Miserables he's imprisoned for 19 years after stealing a loaf of bread
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What is BOBSLED?
This winter Olympic sport is contested in 2-man & 4-man events
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What is TOUCH?
Haptic feedback uses this human sense to relay information from your smartphone
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What is BAIL?
In 2017 New Jersey eliminated the cash type of this for most defendants
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What is THE UNIVERSITY OF OREGON?
Nike was founded by a track coach & a student both from this university
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What is CRIME AND PUNISHMENT?
Dostoyevsky drew on his own experience in prison to write this 1866 masterpiece
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What is A SWIM?
The Olympic triathlon consists of a 1.5 kilometer THIS, a 40-kilometer bike ride, & a 10-kilometer run
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What are TIDES?
These variations in the level of the oceans have the most variation at the new moon
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What is THE EUCHARIST?
This other term for the Holy Communion comes from the Greek for grateful
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What is BERKELEY?
Of the 10 University of California campuses this one in northern California is alphabetically first
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What is The Great Gatsby?
The last line of this book reads: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
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Who is RYAN LOCHTE?
This swimmer drew a 10-month suspension after his story of a Rio robbery didn't hold water
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What are COLORS?
Dispersion is the breaking of light via a prism into these visible wavelengths
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What is A CREW CUT?
This hairstyle got its name from its popularity among rowers especially in the Ivy League
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What is JOHNS HOPKINS?
Undergraduate education was an option but this Baltimore school started mostly as a graduate school for men in 1876
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Who is Barack Obama?
This former US President recently released a memoir titled "A Promised Land"
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What is THE ATLANTA FALCONS?
In a Super Bowl first in 2017 this team's Matt Ryan had a perfect QB rating for the first half
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What is FIREBALL?
A meteor about as bright as Venus in the sky has this 8-letter incendiary name, also a cinnamon liquor
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What is FARFALLE?
Shaped like a bow tie this pasta has a name that means butterflies in Italian
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What is SPELMAN COLLEGE?
This HBCU was originally founded as the Atlanta Baptist female seminary in 1881
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What is Where the Crawdads Sing?
This novel by Delia Owens was in Reese Witherspoon's Book Club
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Who is ANDY RODDICK?
This A-Rod of tennis was 2003 U.S. Men's Open champ
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What is CLOUDS?
The cirrus ones of these on Earth are ice crystals; the ones on Neptune are probably methane
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