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CELEBRITY RELATIVES
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Pam Dawber's famous father-in-law'
|
$500
|
Tom Harmon
|
Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
SPORTS TRIVIA
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'In 1989 this Canadian team won its 1st Stanley Cup'
|
$500
|
Calgary Flames
|
Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
SAY CHEESE
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'According to legend, it was created when a shepherd left a piece of cheese in a cave for several weeks'
|
$500
|
Roquefort
|
Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
EXPLORERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Born Giovanni Caboto, this Venetian did his exploring in the service of England'
|
$200
|
John Cabot
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE HUMAN BODY
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'When this organ churns & makes perisstaltic waves, some people say it's "growling"'
|
$200
|
Stomach
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
AMERICAN LITERATURE
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'This clergyman who wrote "The Short History of New-England" in 1694 was the son of Increase Mather'
|
$200
|
Cotton Mather
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
COMPOSERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'His sister Fanny Mendelssohn wrote some of the songs attributed to him'
|
$200
|
Felix Mendelssohn
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE PLANETS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'As viewed from Earth, it's the brightest planet in the nighttime sky'
|
$200
|
Venus
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
ANTIQUES
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Used as early as the 15th century, apostle spoons usually came in sets of this number'
|
$200
|
12 or 13 (if they included the Christ figure)
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
EXPLORERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'N.Y. observes a holiday honoring the 1524 discovery of N.Y. Harbor by this Italian navigator'
|
$400
|
Giovanni Verrazano
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE HUMAN BODY
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'The oval window is a membrane forming one of the boundaries between the middle & the inner parts of this'
|
$400
|
Ear
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
AMERICAN LITERATURE
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'He wrote "Cadillac Jack" & "Lonesome Dove" after "Terms of Endearment"'
|
$400
|
Larry McMurtry
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
COMPOSERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Of the 3 Bs, the 2 who died in Vienna'
|
$400
|
Beethoven & Brahms
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE PLANETS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'In August 1989 it became the last planet encountered by Voyager 2'
|
$400
|
Neptune
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
ANTIQUES
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Fireplace tool that consists of matching shaped boards, a metal nozzle & flexible leather sides'
|
$400
|
Bellows
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
EXPLORERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Ponce de Leon was looking for it when he discovered Florida; some are still looking for it today'
|
$600
|
Fountain of Youth
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE HUMAN BODY
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'They're also known as your zygomatic bones, & high ones are considered especially attractive'
|
$600
|
Cheekbones
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
AMERICAN LITERATURE
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'He lived for several weeks among the cannibalistic Typee before he wrote the book of the same name'
|
$600
|
Herman Melville
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
COMPOSERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'It was rumored that he committed suicide over the failure of his last symphony, the "Pathetique"'
|
$1,200
|
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky ("6th Symphony")
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE PLANETS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'The 4 largest moons of this planet are called Galilean satellites after Galileo, who saw them in 1610'
|
$600
|
Jupiter
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
ANTIQUES
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'A method of joining 2 pieces of wood at right angles named for its resemblance to a bird's tail'
|
$600
|
Dovetail
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
EXPLORERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'His 1497-98 voyage to India opened the 1st all-water trade route between Europe & Asia'
|
$800
|
Vasco da Gama
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE HUMAN BODY
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'It's the tube that connects your nose & mouth with your larynx & esophagus'
|
$800
|
Pharynx
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
AMERICAN LITERATURE
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Jack Kerouac's 1957 novel about the adventures of Dean Moriarty & friends as they travel the U.S.'
|
$800
|
"On The Road"
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
COMPOSERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'G. Strepponi sang in "Nabucco", the opera that made this composer famous, & later married him'
|
$800
|
Giuseppe Verdi
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE PLANETS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'In 1971 Mariner 9 discovered a volcano on this planet rising 15 1/2 miles above the surface'
|
$800
|
Mars
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
ANTIQUES
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'French for "Chinese Ornament", it refers to willow pattern china & some Chippendale furniture'
|
$800
|
Chinoisserie
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
EXPLORERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Tho he didn't find the Northwest Passage, this Frenchman established France's claim to Canada'
|
$1000
|
Jacques Cartier
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE HUMAN BODY
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'The ovaries are part of both the reproductive system & this system which produces hormones'
|
$1000
|
Endocrine System
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
AMERICAN LITERATURE
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'It was called "A Poem Of Walt Whitman, An American" before it was called this'
|
$1000
|
"Song of Myself"
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
COMPOSERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'Mussorgsky once lived with this "Scheherazade" composer who re-edited "Boris Godunov" after his death'
|
$1000
|
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE PLANETS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'This remote planet orbits the sun at a 98 degree axis, almost lying on its side'
|
$1000
|
Uranus
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
ANTIQUES
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):<br />The kind of clock shown here, invented c. 1800 & named for the musical instrument it resembles:'
|
$1,000
|
Banjo Clock
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
SHAKESPEAREAN TITLE CHARACTERS
| 1990-03-05T00:00:00 |
'He is introduced as "The triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet's fool"'
| null |
Marc Antony
|
Final Jeopardy!
|
1276
|
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'After this early battle, Americans retreated over Charlestown Neck'
|
$200
|
The Battle of Bunker Hill (or Breed\'s Hill)
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GAME SHOWS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'The first letter ever turned by Vanna White on this game show was a "T"'
|
$200
|
Wheel of Fortune
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE ENVIRONMENT
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This "colorful" & controversial activist environmental group was formed in Canada in 1971'
|
$200
|
Greenpeace
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE 50 STATES
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'The diatonic or "Cajun" accordion is the official musical instrument of this state'
|
$200
|
Louisiana
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
PHRASES THAT SELL
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'"Obey your thirst" and drink this'
|
$200
|
Sprite
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE "UNDER" WORLD
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Lingerie is a fancy word for it'
|
$200
|
underwear
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'On the evening of April 18, 1775 Robert Newman displayed 2 lanterns in this Boston structure'
|
$400
|
the Old North Church
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GAME SHOWS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'You might phone a friend on this game show hosted by Meredith Vieira'
|
$400
|
Who Wants to Be a Millionaire
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE ENVIRONMENT
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'In 1970 President Nixon created this government body that sets and enforces national pollution control standards'
|
$400
|
the E.P.A.
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE 50 STATES
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This state's famous Derby at Churchill Downs is held annually on the first Saturday of May'
|
$400
|
Kentucky
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
PHRASES THAT SELL
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'"Be all that you can be" in this military branch'
|
$400
|
the Army
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE "UNDER" WORLD
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Abolitionist "railroad"'
|
$400
|
underground
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'In 1774 the owner of the Peggy Stewart was forced to burn his ship & its 2,000-pound cargo of this taxed item'
|
$600
|
tea
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GAME SHOWS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'In this "Street"-wise game show, you have to predict answers given by people on the street'
|
$600
|
Street Smarts
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE ENVIRONMENT
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This triatomic allotrope of oxygen protects us from the full force of harmful ultraviolet rays'
|
$600
|
ozone
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE 50 STATES
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'New Englanders refer to this state as "Down East"'
|
$600
|
Maine
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
PHRASES THAT SELL
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This network says it's "The most trusted name in news"'
|
$600
|
CNN
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE "UNDER" WORLD
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Vegetation growing beneath the trees in a forest'
|
$600
|
underbrush
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'On September 23, 1779 he & his men successfully attacked a British convoy off Flamborough Head in the North Sea'
|
$800
|
John Paul Jones
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GAME SHOWS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'9 celebrities in a tic-tac-toe-like grid help contestants score 3 in a row on this show'
|
$800
|
Hollywood Squares
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE ENVIRONMENT
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'An animal fills an ecological one of these in a community, from the French for "nest"'
|
$800
|
niche
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE 50 STATES
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'The name of this state comes from 2 Choctaw words that mean "red" & "people"'
|
$1,000
|
Oklahoma
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
PHRASES THAT SELL
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This shipping company asks, "What can Brown do for you?"'
|
$800
|
UPS
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE "UNDER" WORLD
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'The seaward pull away from shore after a wave has broken'
|
$800
|
undertow
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'After the defeat at Yorktown, Gen. Charles O'Hara, acting for this man, gave his sword to the Americans'
|
$1000
|
Cornwallis
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GAME SHOWS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Richard Karn hosts this game show where 2 clans match wits; survey says...'
|
$1000
|
Family Feud
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE ENVIRONMENT
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'In June 1992 over 100 heads of state met in Rio de Janeiro for this environmental "Summit"'
|
$1000
|
the Earth Summit
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE 50 STATES
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'National Battlefield Parks include Manassas in Virginia & Kennesaw Mountain in this state'
|
$1000
|
Georgia
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
PHRASES THAT SELL
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'It's the popular query in Verizon's TV ads'
|
$1000
|
Can you hear me now?
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE "UNDER" WORLD
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'It means to weaken support for something or to unearth too little ore'
|
$1000
|
undermine
|
Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'In 1995 Alabama Gov. James Mocked evolution theory by imitating this type of animal whose name means "to imitate"'
|
$400
|
an ape
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This TV "Friend" was a cheerleader at Mountain Brook High School in Alabama'
|
$400
|
Courteney Cox
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
FAMOUS AMERICANS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'It was the pen name of beloved children's author Theodor Geisel'
|
$400
|
Dr. Seuss
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'The Judgement of Paris refers to the picking of a winner in one of these contests'
|
$400
|
a beauty contest
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'We're not stringing you along: "El Retablo de Maese Pedro" is meant to be peformed by these toys'
|
$400
|
puppets
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
LONG WORDS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'In 1923 Lts. Macready & Kelly made the first nonstop flight of this 16-letter type, Long Island to San Diego'
|
$400
|
transcontinental
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_07.mp3">"Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object... the production of the higher animals, directly follows."</a><br /><br />That was the final paragraph of a famous work by this man'
|
$800
|
(Charles) Darwin
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This daughter of Francis Ford Coppola was an intern for fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld in Paris'
|
$800
|
Sofia Coppola
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
FAMOUS AMERICANS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'In 1844 he succeeded Joseph Smith as leader of the Mormon Church'
|
$800
|
Brigham Young
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Ioalus, the son of Iphicles & Automedusa, helped this man, his uncle, with his labors'
|
$800
|
Hercules
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'At the beginning of an 1893 opera, these little tykes are sent into the woods to pick strawberries'
|
$800
|
Hansel & Gretel
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
LONG WORDS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_23.jpg" target="_blank">Sarah of the Clue Crew writes the names of the seven dwarfs on a blackboard.</a>) It's the re-ordering procedure that I'm implementing'
|
$800
|
alphabetizing
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'He surprised many in 1996 when he told the Pontifical Academy of Science that evolution was no mere hypothesis'
|
$1200
|
Pope John Paul II
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'In 1991 Heather Tom was a teen when she debuted as Victor Newman's daughter on this CBS soap opera'
|
$1200
|
The Young & the Restless
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
FAMOUS AMERICANS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_14.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew wearing goggles and parka stands before majestic mountains in the Sierra National Forest.</a>) The forested area behind me is named for this nature photographer and conservationist'
|
$1200
|
Ansel Adams
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Like father like son--Cronus deposed his father Uranus & this god deposed his father Cronus'
|
$1200
|
Zeus
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'King Solomon is a character in "La Reine de Saba", an opera about the queen of this place'
|
$1200
|
Sheba
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
LONG WORDS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Adjective for an act done without meaning to; legally, it's a type of manslaughter'
|
$1200
|
involuntary
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Orderly people are bothered by the idea of thse random changes in genetic material helping evolution along'
|
$1,000
|
mutations
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This "boulder" sized wrestler & movie star was a star football player at Freedom High School in Bethlehem, Pa.'
|
$1600
|
The Rock
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
FAMOUS AMERICANS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'At the 1855 World's Fair in Paris, one of his sewing machines won first prize'
|
$1600
|
Singer
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Athena gave Perseus one of these to use as a mirror against Medusa &, reflecting back, it was a good thing'
|
$1600
|
a shield
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Flosshilde is a Rhinemaiden in this composer's "Das Rheingold"'
|
$1600
|
Richard Wagner
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
LONG WORDS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'This adjective from the Latin for "to boil" is used of a bubbly liquid or person'
|
$1600
|
effervescent
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE EVOLUTIONARY WAR
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'A 1981 Arkansas law called for balanced teaching of evolution & this opposite type of "science"'
|
$2000
|
creationism
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
WHEN THEY WERE TEENS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'He was known as Chan Kong Sang in his native Hong Kong where he was a teenage stuntman & fight choreographer'
|
$2000
|
Jackie Chan
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
FAMOUS AMERICANS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'He's the explorer seen <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_16.jpg" target="_blank">here</a> with a couple of his pals in 1909'
|
$2000
|
Admiral Peary
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
GREEK MYTHOLOGY
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'With a name from the Greek for "form", he appeared to people in their dreams'
|
$2000
|
Morpheus
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
YOU HAD TO EXPECT OPERA
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'(<a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_25.jpg" target="_blank">Jimmy of the Clue Crew blows an alphorn in front of a Tyrolean chalet.</a>) Appropriately, <a href="http://www.j-archive.com/media/2005-01-28_DJ_25.mp3">an alphorn call is imitated in the overture</a> to this 1829 Rossini opera'
|
$800
|
William Tell
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
LONG WORDS
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'Among bodily noises, hiccup & burp are this type of word that imitates sound'
|
$2000
|
an onomatopoeia
|
Double Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
THE WORLD OF ART
| 2005-01-28T00:00:00 |
'It's the room where you'll find the masterpiece that includes "The Flood" & "The Creation of Eve"'
| null |
the Sistine Chapel
|
Final Jeopardy!
|
4700
|
ART & ARTISTS
| 2012-01-11T00:00:00 |
'In 1956 Time magazine dubbed this abstract expressionist "Jack the Dripper"'
|
$200
|
Pollock
|
Jeopardy!
|
6288
|
TRAVEL
| 2012-01-11T00:00:00 |
'This Rome landmark is 620 feet long by 513 wide-- plenty of room to run away from a wild beast'
|
$200
|
the Colosseum
|
Jeopardy!
|
6288
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CELEBRITIES' MIDDLE NAMES
| 2012-01-11T00:00:00 |
'The L. in Samuel L. Jackson stands for this, like a certain bad, bad Mr. Brown of song'
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$200
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Leroy
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Jeopardy!
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6288
|
CATHOLIC PRIESTS
| 2012-01-11T00:00:00 |
'Served by priests, it may not exceed 18% alcohol'
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$200
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communion wine
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Jeopardy!
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6288
|
TITLE 9
| 2012-01-11T00:00:00 |
'Daniel Okrent: "Nine ___: The Anatomy of a Baseball Game"'
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$200
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Innings
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Jeopardy!
|
6288
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