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Take this Super Quiz to a Ph.D. Score 1 point for each
correct answer on the Freshman Level, 2 points on
the Graduate Level and 3 points on the Ph.D. Level.
Subject: STATE MOTTOS
Complete the state motto. The state is given.
(e.g., California: _____. Answer: Eureka
FRESHMAN LEVEL
1. Alaska: North to the ____
2. Florida: In God We ____
3. Indiana: The ____ of America
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___ National
Historic Site
38 Actor McKellen
39 New corp. hire,
maybe
28 Alternative to a
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Cash in
pilsner
41 Team named
30 Scalding
after its official
state bird
31 Land down
under?
43 J.F.K. Library
architect
35 Bagged leaves?
44 Prepare, as a pot
37 Organization
roast
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45 Sports column
Peace Prizes …
or what “corrects” 46 Vote out
the answer to
each of the
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troublemakers
51 Singer whose
name sounds like
a cry of horror
52 Just
54 Overhaul
56 Boo-boo
57 Cougars’ prey
59 Until now
60 Modern term of
endearment
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GRADUATE LEVEL
4. New Hampshire: Live Free or ____
5. Iowa: Our Liberties We Prize and Our Rights
We Will ____
6. Nebraska: Equality Before the _____
Last Week’s Answers:
PH.D. LEVEL
7. Wyoming: Equal ____
8. Delaware: Liberty and _____
9. Georgia: Wisdom, Justice and _____
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ANSWERS: 1. Future. 2. Trust. 3. Crossroads. 4. Die. 5. Maintain. 6. Law. 7. Rights. 8. Independence. 9. Moderation.
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1 Ship that Athena
helped build, in
myth
2 Podcaster Maron
3 Tyrannosaurus
rex, for one
4 “BlacKkKlans-
man” director,
2018
5 Physicist Mach
who lent his
name to a
measure of speed
6 Measure
opposed to strip
mining, e.g.
7 Landlocked
African country
8 Day in ancient
Rome
9 Suffix with rocket
10 Jazz group
11 Classic work
famously
translated by
John Dryden
12 Sell out
15 Pre-Olympic
events
17 Japanese theater
21 Singer Fender
with a 1975 hit
that went to #1
on both the pop
and country
charts
23 Lug
24 Faceplanted, say
25 “Bleah!”
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ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE
62 Biographer Leon
63 Fix for
shortsightedness
64 Playful suffix with
“best”
65 Egg ___
66 Three of the last
seven words in
Joyce’s “Ulysses”
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32 Pieces that can
go left or right
33 One of L.B.J.’s
presidential dogs
34 ___ milk
36 Pitch in
37 Lip
40 Metaphor for
experience
42 Alternative to O
44 *Military medal
48 ___ Lewis, “The
Taste of Country
Cooking” writer
49 Sonata closers
50 1996 hit with the
lyric “It’s like ten
thousand spoons
when all you
need is a knife”
53 Good trait
54 TV executive
Arledge
55 Rich source of
omega-3 fatty
acids
58 “Gotcha!”
59 *Annual Florida
football game
61 Mine layer
ACROSS
1 Bountiful
6 Nobelist Wiesel
10 Something that
might be kept in
a bar
13 Like O negative
vis-à-vis
O positive
14 Turn over
15 You, long ago
16 *Sycophant
18 Let (out)
19 Condition for
Jack Nicholson’s
character in “As
Good as It Gets,”
in brief
20 Arias, usually
21 Less coarse
22 All things
considered
24 Oil-rich region
25 Before
27 *Classic gin-
and-grenadine
cocktail
29 Entrepreneur’s
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