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Yes, you may watch the NFL draft, but not to the exclusion of this.

Please do not reprint questions nor do research.

1..Paul Revere's starting and ending points?

2..There's a big concern that the Raccoon River has excessive nitrates, since it is the source for
drinking water for 1/2 million of the citizens of what state?

3..The current movie WOMAN IN GOLD starring Helen Mirren is about the attempt to restore a
painting by GK(?) to its rightful owner.

4..The world's largest iron ore statue, VULCAN, sits atop Red Mt. in what US city?

5..Acadians from Canada settled in the deep south and became known as..?

6..After much planning and trekking, who arrives in Petaluma?

7..En Espanol "eres tu" (are you) is interrogative, while "tu eres" is declarative.
But the 60's song "Eres Tu" is declarative. Explain this anomaly.

8.."Dueling Banjos" from the flic..? is a misnomer. Explain.

9..What university has recently won 3 consecutive women's NCAA championships in gymnastics?

10..Henry Flagler once had a railroad that went into the Florida Keys. What happened to it?

11.."Would my every prayer begin and end with just your name?"

12..This California crop, which supplies 80% to the world, is under siege due to drought.

13..How did the Magna Carta change politics?
 

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3. gustav klimt

5. Cajun

8. One of the guys was actually playing the guitar (from the movie "Deliverance").

9. Georgia

12. Almonds

13. It was a written document that enumerated the rights of those under the king.
 
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1. Charlestown to Lexington?
10. Grade 5 Hurricane, the "Labor Day" hurricane of .. 1936? .. wiped it out.
 

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1. Charlestown to Lexington. Actually, William Dawes delivered the message all the way.
4. Birmingham, AL
8. Comes from the movie 'Deliverance.' It was actually a dueling banjo and a guitar
11. If I Didn't Care. The Fabulous Ink Spots
 

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2. You keep reading the NY Times to come up with questions, and I keep reading the NY Times to come up with answers. We have to stop meeting surreptitiously this way. The answer: Iowa.
 

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2. You keep reading the NY Times to come up with questions, and I keep reading the NY Times to come up with answers. We have to stop meeting surreptitiously this way. The answer: Iowa.

Whichever one of us becomes hopelessly farsighted first will end the era.
 
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5..Cajuns...

7..I'm guessing the singer uses the passive voice because he's expressing his feelings about how the object of his affections appears to him...

8..Was a guitar versus a banjo in the movie...

9..Georgia

12..Almonds

13..Limited the power of the King...
 

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Yes, you may watch the NFL draft, but not to the exclusion of this.

7. Because what is being said is actually "It is you".

8.. One of the instruments was a guitar.

11. If I didn'c care

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9 - if by any chance the Georgians are wrong, try Utah. They are, whether or not they won any championships, a hugely successful program of late. I think Georgia is probably the right answer, but if not . . .
 

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1..Cambridge, Lexington
3..Gustav Klimt
5..Cajuns
6..Snoopy, the arm-wrestler
8..In "Deliverance" it was a banjo and guitar.
12..Almonds. But alfalfa, used to feed livestock, is a much larger water consumer.
13..It diluted the divine rights of a king by forcing him constitute a legislative body and grant certain rights to his subjects.
 

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7. I don't know but the Mocedades version was '73 or '74.
 

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9..Looking good except here. You may have Georgia on your mind, but...
And Utah fails also.

Go with the school whose coach will be newly thundering.
 

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9..Looking good except here. You may have Georgia on your mind, but...
And Utah fails also.

Go with the school whose coach will be newly thundering.

So, I guess, Florida.
 

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1..Pinot & JR are left without mounts.
https://www.paulreverehouse.org/ride/real.html
Geordi saddles up Carpe Diem and the odds are 8-1 to make it to Lexington.

2..Firing Line is out of Iowa with rbny atop.

3..JR finds a mount finally in Gustav Klimt (Didn't you hear? He replaces El Kabeir.)

4..At the starting gate geordi & VAUC come to blows as to who will bring Mubtaahij from Birmingham.

5..The Wally Quartet throws a Bolo and serenades with a Cajun tune.

6..JR & VAUC try to sneak a dog into the race.

7..I'm sorry, but there's no record of One Trick registered for this outing, despite his accuracy.
Zorro must give up his sword in order to sit atop Triple 8...and to increase his fluency en Espanol.
(The construct is especially romantic, it is you who are the sun and the moon and the stars, so look for me and my guitar under
your window tonight.)

8..The Zorro Quintet asks for Deliverance, having put a wad on Materiality.

9..Gus isn't near the early posters, but he is Far Right at the end.

10..It seems fitting that a Crown should sit atop a Pharoah, no? Silly ol' bear plunks Keen Ice into his Pinot.

11..If I didn't care, would I let zorro & geordi bet on Dormund?

12..The Pony 4some are all "nuts" as they bay at the (Danzig) Moon.

13..JR & Pony demonstrate how a War Story was prevented.
 
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