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  1. 1. pioneer of quantum mechanics
  2. 4. Sri Lanka has two capitals, one official, one this
  3. 7. Earth's most precious resource
  4. 8. author of book about red vowel
  5. 12. 1850 semi-autobiographical novel by author considered the greatest Victorian era novelist (2 words, no space)
  6. 13. largest member of cat family native to the Americas
  7. 14. country with longest coastline
  8. 15. more than this percent of Earth's surface is covered by water
  9. 19. country with rich deposits of bauxite, the ore from which aluminum is made
  10. 22. name of street where the purloiner of texts lives
  11. 24. Last name of family in story about a plant developing where Jay-Z grew up
  12. 28. sea north of Iran
  13. 29. long, skinny country in South America
  14. 30. gulf that borders Latvia and part of Estonia
  15. 31. the Plain of _______ in northern Laos, archeologists believe Bronze Age people used them to hold the cremated remains of their dead
  16. 33. the mage's sister's son's name (reminds of HP character)
  17. 37. capital of China
  18. 38. indigenous people of Northern Europe, reindeer farmers
  19. 41. "to die" in French
  20. 42. l'épée
  21. 43. capital of Belize
  22. 45. Brazil's national music
  23. 46. she is the purloiner of texts
  24. 48. narrow piece of land connecting two larger pieces of land
  25. 51. "Killers of the _______ Moon"
  26. 53. a large area that drains into a particular river or lake, human activity puts great stress on these
  27. 56. le somme
  28. 58. "_________ equation": a relativistic equation describing the behavior of fermions, such as electrons
  29. 59. predator of capybaras in Venezuela
  30. 62. Newton's first law, "Law of __________"
  31. 63. Chile produces 28% of the world's supply of this metal
  32. 65. "to flee" in French
  33. 66. "to conquer" in French
  34. 68. picture book about the real story behind A.A. Milne's beloved main character (2 words, no space)
  35. 74. this country's life expectancy is 83 years (2019 data)
  36. 75. largest sea by area
  37. 76. this period of travel in China is considered the world's largest annual human migration
  38. 78. title character's birthplace, 1850 semi-autobiographical novel
  39. 80. the only planet that would float
  40. 82. number of species of penguins that live in South America
  41. 83. la pendule
  42. 85. "to read" in French
  43. 86. third in a witchy series: "A ______ Among Men"
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  1. 2. capital of Cuba
  2. 3. the oldest of all of the major monotheistic religions
  3. 5. Grann writes about their murders in the 1920s
  4. 6. capital of Canada
  5. 9. sea between the UK, Denmark, and Norway
  6. 10. capital of Uruguay
  7. 11. when two plates grind past each other, creating large cracks
  8. 16. capital of Greenland
  9. 17. the kind of home they occupy in Dickens' retelling
  10. 18. le haricot
  11. 20. this ferry in Africa will soon be replaced by a bridge due to heavy migration at that site (the bridge was actually completed in 2021)
  12. 21. born in 19th-century Germany, he created a constant that laid the foundation for quantum theory
  13. 23. this animal is the reason the Caribbean has white sand beaches
  14. 25. "cowboys" in Argentina
  15. 26. le couteau
  16. 27. the United Nations projects the the world population will increase to more than this many billion by 2050
  17. 29. this sea borders Central America
  18. 32. famous type of clock built in 1410 in Prague, Czechia keeps track of more than time
  19. 34. l'arc-en-ciel
  20. 35. phenomenon first described correctly by Leonardo da Vinci
  21. 36. le chou-fleur
  22. 39. the moon appears this way in the Southern Hemisphere compared to the view from the Northern Hemisphere (2 words, no space or hyphen)
  23. 40. mine in Uzbekistan said to hold more gold reserves than any other mine in the world
  24. 41. "to die" in French conjugated with the subject "Elle"
  25. 42. when an oceanic plate dives under a continental plate
  26. 44. this powerful empire dominated much of Mexico and Central America from 1427-1521
  27. 47. Wicked author
  28. 49. dangerous board game, there was a movie of the same name
  29. 50. Merlin's planet
  30. 52. Main character of Towles' Russia-set tale
  31. 54. home of the Count in Towles' Russia-set tale
  32. 55. "_________ Effect": the splitting of spectral lines in an atom due to the presence of a magnetic field
  33. 57. most populous country (as of 2019 estimates)
  34. 60. Earth's this will one day cool completely, no more hot springs
  35. 61. most densely populated country (as of 2019 estimates)
  36. 64. one of the two mountain ranges that marks the western edge of North and South America
  37. 67. protagonist in Dickens' retelling
  38. 69. first chapter, book about the son of a mage's sister, "The ________ Door"
  39. 70. main character, has to wear a red vowel
  40. 71. this bird is only found on the island of Dominica
  41. 72. the "G" in GNI stands for this
  42. 73. capital of Ecuador
  43. 77. the southern tip of South America, Cape ______
  44. 79. "to flee" in French conjugated with the subject "Nous"
  45. 81. groupings of islands
  46. 84. this strait separates Africa and Spain