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1 Red de Colbert: CBS

Stephen Colbert is a political satirist who hosted his own show on Comedy Central, "The Colbert Report." Colbert's first love was the theater, for which he studied to become an actor. He then switched to comedy and ended up on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart." He left "The Daily Show" in 2005 to create his own spin-off, "The Colbert Report." In his inimitable way, Colbert likes to use a "French" pronunciation for his show's name, which is why "The Colbert Report" appears as "The Col-bear Rep-oar". Colbert took over the "Late Show" when David Letterman retired.

4 Chris de “Knives Out”: EVANS

Chris Evans' Hollywood career really took off when he was cast as the Human Torch in the "Fantastic Four" movies starting in 2005. He played another superhero in 2011, playing the lead in "Captain America: The First Avenger." .

“Knives Out” is an intriguing murder mystery film released in 2019. There is a great cast including Daniel Craig, Jamie Lee Curtis, Toni Collette, and Christopher Plummer. I really liked this one, partly because it's a smart, contemporary take on a classic police thriller...

9 Organic Jewelry Source: AMBER

The technical name for amber is "resinite", reflecting its composition and formation. Amber begins life as a soft, sticky tree resin, but it fossilizes under high temperatures and the pressure of the overlying soil layers. The sticky resin can trap organisms or other plant matter, and this material can sometimes remain virtually intact within fossil amber, giving us a unique gift from the past.

15 Search engine name: YAHOO!

Jerry Yang and David Filo called their company "Yahoo!" For two reasons. First of all, a Yahoo is a crude, unsophisticated brute from Jonathan Swift's "Gulliver's Travels." Second, Yahoo stands for "Another Official Hierarchical Oracle."

17 Mexican tradition that goes from 1962 to the other side? : DAY OF THE DEAD

“Dia de Muertos” (Day of the Dead) is a holiday that originated in Mexico and is now celebrated all over the world. It is traditionally celebrated on November 1 and 2 and involves family and friends coming together to remember the deceased. Despite its somber nature, Día de los Muertos often has a joyous undertone, as the family recalls happier events and anecdotes associated with the departed.

22 Monopoly Pay: RENT

The Monopoly trading game is supposedly a remake of "The Landlord's Game", created in 1903 by a Quaker woman named Lizzie Phillips. Phillips used her game as a tool to explain American economist Henry George's single tax theory. The Landlord's Game was first produced commercially in 1924. The incredibly successful spin-off game called Monopoly was introduced in 1933 by Charles Darrow, who became a very wealthy man when Parker Brothers bought the rights to the game just two years later in 1935. .

23 The "N" of the actor known as NPH: NEIL

Neil Patrick Harris (NPH) got his big break very early in his career, playing the lead role in the television series “Doogie Howser, M.D.” Most recently, he played a lead role in the sitcom "How I Met Your Mother," playing shallow ladies' man Barney Stinson. Harris is also a magician and sits on the board of directors for Hollywood's Magic Castle, a nightclub for magicians and magic enthusiasts.

41 Corddry, actor de “Paper Girls”: NATE

Nate Corddry is an actor and comedian who is perhaps best known for playing the manager of the restaurant where Christy works on the sitcom "Mom." Corddry also played lawyer Adam Branch in the comedy "Harry's Game" opposite Kathy Bates. Nate is the younger brother of comedian and actor Rob Corddry, who appeared quite frequently as a correspondent on "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart."

“Paper Girls” is a science fiction television show based on a comic book series of the same name by Brian K. Vaughan. Both the comic and the show are about four girls who deliver newspapers the morning after Halloween. They run into some warring time travelers and end up on a mission to save the world. The show was canceled after just one season.

42 Thompson from “SNL”: KENAN

Kenan Thompson is an actor and comedian who is perhaps best known as a cast member on "Saturday Night Live" (SNL), having joined the show in 2003. Thompson holds the record for most celebrity impressions on SNL, with over a hundred . He is also the longest-serving cast member in the show's history.

44 Devour with gusto: EAT

"Gusto" is an Italian word meaning "taste." We use it in English in the phrase “with pleasure” which means “with great pleasure”.

51 Karate School: DOJO

The Japanese word "dojo" literally translates as "place of the way." Originally, the term was applied to the training rooms that were located in or next to the temples. Teaching in a dojo was not limited to martial arts, but in the western world we use dojo as the name of a training center for judo, karate and the like.

55 Place whose block features an astronaut: OHIO

The Ohio State neighborhood features the phrase "BIRTHPLACE OF AVIATION PIONEERS." There is a picture of the Wright Flyer, the first heavier-than-air aircraft, which was built and flown by Ohioans Wilbur and Orville Wright. The coin also features an image of an astronaut, paying tribute to Ohio space travelers such as John Glenn, Neil Armstrong, James Lovell, and Judith Resnik.

59 Obama's daughter: MALIA

Malia Obama is the older of the two daughters of Barack and Michelle Obama. She graduated from the private Sidwell Friends School in Washington, DC, the same school Chelsea Clinton attended. Malia took a gap year after finishing high school and spent the summer of 2016 interning at the US Embassy in Madrid before heading to Harvard in 2017.

65 Greek Narrator: AESOP

Aesop is remembered today as a fabulist, a writer of fables. Aesop lived in ancient Greece, probably around the 6th century BC. He was supposedly born a slave, somehow became a free man, but then met a sad end. Aesop was sent to the city of Delphi on a diplomatic mission, but instead he insulted the Delphians. He was tried on trumped up charges of robbing a temple, sentenced to death, and thrown off a cliff.

66 Jill coach who won the FIFA Women's World Cup in 2015 and 2019: ELLIS

Jill Ellis is a British-born American soccer coach. She has led the US women's national team to two World Cup victories, in 2015 and 2019.

67 Goldfish Collector: NET

Minnows are small fish that are often used as bait in fishing. The term “little fish” is also used figuratively to describe someone comparatively insignificant or perhaps of small stature.

69 Greenhouse __ : LEON

The Republic of Sierra Leone is a West African country located on the Atlantic coast. The capital, Freetown, was originally created as a colony to house the "poor blacks" of London, England. These people were mostly freed British slaves of Caribbean descent who lived a miserable life in run-down parts of London. Perhaps to help impoverished souls, perhaps to rid the streets of "a problem," three ships were chartered in 1787 to transport a group of blacks, with a few whites, to purchased land in Sierra Leone. Those who made the journey were granted British citizenship and protection. The descendants of these immigrants, and others who made the journey over the next 60 years, make up the ethnic group now called the Sierra Leonean Creole.

70s Rock subgenre: EMO

"Emo" is short for "emotional hardcore."

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1 Morse __: CODE

Samuel Morse created the precursor to modern Morse code for use in the electrical telegraph, of which he was a co-inventor. Morse code uses a series of dots and dashes to represent letters and numbers. The most common letters are assigned to the simplest code elements, for example, E is represented by a period and T by a hyphen. When words are spelled out loud in Morse code, a period is pronounced "dit" and a dash is pronounced "dah."

3 Creature that can house the clownfish: SEA ANEMONE

The name "anemone" means "daughter of the wind" in Greek, and at one time it was believed that the wind was what actually made the flower bloom. The sea anemone is named after the land plant, although the sea anemone is not a plant. The sea anemone is a predatory animal found at the bottom of the ocean.

The clown fish is a very colorful and attractive fish. They are orange in color and often have broad black and white bands on the body, depending on the species. Clownfish spend their lives in symbiosis with sea anemones.

5 Kilmer el “Top Gun: Maverick”: VAL

Val Kilmer's first major lead role in a movie was playing Jim Morrison in the 1991 Oliver Stone biopic "The Doors." A few years later, Kilmer was cast to star in another major production, "Batman Forever." Things haven't been going too well for Kilmer since then, I'd say. Off-screen, he has flirted with the idea of ​​running for governor of New Mexico in 2010. A Hollywood actor as governor? would never happen...

2022's "Top Gun: Maverick" is the long-awaited sequel to the 1986 film "Top Gun." Tom Cruise reprises his role as the Navy pilot going by the name "Maverick," this time training a group of young graduates from Top Gun to fly. on a dangerous mission. I personally think the sequel is better than the original.

9 “__ Maria” : BIRD

“Hail Mary” (“Hail Mary” in English) is the central prayer of the Roman Catholic Rosary, which itself is a set of prayers asking for the help of the Virgin Mary. Much of the text of the "Hail Mary" comes from the Gospel of Luke. The Latin words are:

God save you Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you. Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus. Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death. Amen.

The prayer has been adapted as a hymn. The two most famous musical versions of “Ave Maria” are by Charles Gounod (based on a piece by Bach) and by Franz Schubert.

10 Toni, writer of “Song of Songs”: MORRISON

Writer Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993. Among other things, Morrison is known for coining the phrase "our first black president," in reference to President Bill Clinton.

19 “Do __ others…”: UNTIL

The Golden Rule is also known as the ethics of reciprocity and is the basis of the concept of human rights. Jesus is credited with a version of the rule used in the Christian tradition:

Do to others what you would like them to do to you.

24 One third of a haiku: LINE

A haiku is a very elegant form of Japanese verse. When writing a haiku in English we usually impose the rule that the line must contain 17 syllables. This restriction stems from the Japanese rule that a verse must contain 17 units of sound called "moras," but moras and syllables are not the same. Unfortunately, the difference isn't that clear to me. Here is an example of a Haiku:

haiku is easy
But sometimes they don't make sense
Fridge

26 Symbol of Aries: RAM

According to the ancient Greeks, the constellation Aries, the Ram, represents the mythological winged ram with the Golden Fleece. The Greeks "hijacked" the constellation, because it also represented a ram, in late Babylonian times, long before the appearance of the ram. Golden Fleece.

27 Blade that can move quickly in a storm: CLEANER

You may have seen the 2008 movie "Flash of Genius" which depicted the trouble Robert Kearns (played by Greg Kinnear) had making money from his invention of the intermittent windshield wiper. Well, Mary Anderson developed the original cleaner and received a patent in 1903. She didn't make any money either...

28 “Song of Songs”, for example: NOVEL

The Song of Songs is a 1977 novel by Toni Morrison. It is one of the novels cited when she received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993.

30th grade of the second year: TENTH

The term "sophomore" has been used for a college sophomore since the 1680s. The original meaning of the word was "arguer." The term has Greek roots, from two Greek words that were artificially combined in English. The Greek “sophos” means “wise” and “moros” means “fool”.

31 Elastic playground device: TRAMPOLINE

The first modern trampoline was developed in 1936. The name of the device comes from the Spanish “trampolim”, which means “springboard”. The springboards were used during the Second World War in the training of pilots, to explain to them some spatial orientations that would be found during the flight. The trampolines were also used by astronauts training in the space flight program. The sport of trampoline became an Olympic event after the 2000 Games.

32 Kebab usually served with peanut sauce: SATAY

The dish known as "satay" originated in Java, Indonesia, and consists of marinated pieces of meat that are served on a skewer in a sauce, usually a spicy peanut sauce. "Satay" is the Indonesian spelling and "sate" is the Malay spelling.

36 New York avenue. : LEX

Lexington Avenue in New York City is famous for many things, but my favorite fact is that it was the site of the city's first speeding arrest. In 1899, a policeman on a bicycle passed a taxi driver who was speeding down Lexington Avenue at a breakneck speed of 12 mph...

38 nuggets of Ore-Ida: TATER TOT

The Ore-Ida founders came up with the idea for Tater Tots when they were deciding what to do with leftover potato trimmings. They chopped up the leftovers, added flour and spices, and extruded the mixture through a large hole, forming a sausage that they cut into small cylinders. We eat 70 million pounds of this extruded potato every year!

43 “Old Town Road” Rapper Lil __ X: NAS

“Lil Nas X” is the stage name of the Montero rapper Lamar Hill. He was born and raised outside of Atlanta. His first hit was "Old Town Road", classified as country rap.

49 Cracked Open: Ajar

Our word "ajar" is believed to come from the Scottish dialect, where "a char" means "slightly open."

53 Arena Level: LEVEL

Our term “arena” comes from the Latin “harena”, a place of combat. Originally, "harena" was used to describe sand or a sandy place. Those ancient Roman battlefields were covered in sand to soak up the blood.

56 Stiletto, save one: JUMP

The stiletto knife was developed in Italy and is a knife intended for cutting and stabbing rather than slicing and slicing. The term “stiletto” comes from the Latin “stilus”, which was a thin, pointed writing instrument used in ancient Rome to engrave wax or clay tablets. And there are also stiletto heels in some women's shoes, long thin heels.

57 __ of Wight: ISLAND

The Isle of Wight is the largest island in England and lies about five miles off the country's south coast. For many centuries, the island was a kingdom in its own right. A popular tourist attraction on the Isle of Wight is Osborne House, a former royal residence that was built as a summer home for Queen Victoria and designed by the Queen's consort, Prince Albert. Queen Victoria died at Osborne House in 1901.

58 Norwegian capital: OSLO

Oslo is the capital of Norway. The city burns garbage to power half of its buildings, including all of its schools. The problem facing the city is that it does not generate enough garbage. So Oslo imports rubbish from Sweden, England and Ireland, and is now looking to import American rubbish as well.

63 Special __: Command Tactics: OPS

A commando unit is a body of troops specially trained for quick attacks on enemy territory. We imported the term into English from Afrikaans in the early 19th century. We owe the modern use of "commando" to Winston Churchill, who used it from the 1940s onwards to describe the shock troops whose job it was to stop the planned German invasion of Britain. Churchill was probably familiar with the word from his time as a war correspondent and military officer during the Second Boer War.

64 One in Ten on a Track: PIN

Bowling has been around for a long time. The oldest known reference to the game is in Egypt, where skittles and balls were found in an ancient tomb over 5,000 years old. The first form of the game to reach America was ninepin bowling, popular in Europe for centuries. In 1841, in Connecticut, bowling was banned due to its association with gambling. Supposedly, an extra skittle was added to circumvent the ban and thus the game of skittles was born.