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Got in about 15 games of table tennis, so now ready to serve you this.

No research permitted nor repeating questions please.

1..Three African nations(?) meet on the Tropic of Cancer line.

2..The year 5 digit zip codes begin?

3..Millions watch Jackie Gleason have a major mishap(?).

4..Here it's Inc. In Canada?

5..His 5 fingers of death get him(?) through most of the 70's.

6..The senate tells Julius to stay on the other bank. Explain.

7..A navy drone just did a first(?).

8..Al-Quds is what Arabs call..?

9.."_____ ___, you are making me crazy."

10..Commodore Perry asks Japan for trade relations(1853) on behalf of what Prez?

11..Commonality? Pyramids, Anger, Sleepy, Yul Brynner.

12..Identify Marguerite Gachet.

13..Mozart's Symphony #41 has a name(?).
 

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6. The Roman senate told Julius Caesar to stay away from Rome and not to cross the Rubicon River with his army. He did anyway, starting a civil war.
13. The Jupiter, Mozart's last and perhaps his greatest symphony, on the cusp of the transition from the classical period to the romanticism of Beethoven and others.
 

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2. Early 60's, around when I was born. 62, 63?? We have the lowest ZIP code (of towns/cities) 01001.
4. Ltd, like in Great Britain?
5. Bruce Lee
10. Taylor? He was around the 1850's
 

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4..Ltd


6..Don't cross the Rubicon.


13..Jupiter
 

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2. guess here - around 1964???
3. didn't he have a real bomb in the movies around that time???
4. Ltd. - just like in England
6. Do not cross the Rubicon - he did anyway
7. Pierce or Fillmore ???? How about Fillmore
 

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10. I'll go with Filmore. The trick is obviously that Pierce took office in early March of 1853. But he was elected in November, same as now. Still, for Perry to get there, etc. I'll stick to Millard.
 

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1..Like Meatloaf said, 2 out of 3 ain't bad, and that's what rob has. Throw out Chad.

3..It was an on-air physical injury.

7.. Involving the George H. W. Bush ship.

8..A city

9..She was a working girl, North of England way.
Now she's hit the big time in the USA.

11..I'll get you started--Anger is one of the 7 Deadly Sins.

12..Has fame for sitting for which Impressionist?
 

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12. Based on your hint, Van Gogh painted a famous portrait of Dr. Gachet, so I'm guessing that Marguerite is Dr. Gachet's wife or daughter and Van Gogh painted her as well.
 

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7. Oh, yeah. Landed on a carrier
 

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1..Libya, Algeria, Niger

2..1963--Meyers is most exact.

3..In a previous skit water wound up on the stage. Jackie walked on it, slipped
and fell. He lay there several seconds before a curtain was drawn, and we found out
in the media that he broke his leg.

4..Zorro among 4 who wrote "Ltd".
 

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5..Bruce Lee, martial artist & movie star, credit to Meyers.

6..See rbny, geordi & zorro too.

7..Geordi remembers that it landed on an aircraft carrier.

8..Jerusalem

9..Late entry from SoCal, the Beatles "Honey Pie".
 

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10..Fillmore--geordi OK & see Knights for extra detail.

11..You can always count on Suebird for a vital assist. Each is in a group of 7.

12..Actually his daughter, rbny. Van Gogh the painter.

13..Again, peruse rbny here for the Jupiter.

Das ist alles.
 
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