Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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Because of the holiday, today's game will stay open until the close of R5D6.

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LICENSE PLATES

2: The musical references on this state's license plates changed from “Stars Fell On . . . “ to “Sweet Home” in 2009.

4: Both the Northwest Territories and this territory that split off in 1999 issue polar bear-shaped license plates.

6: Two of the four states that, in 2009, issued license plates depicting Abraham Lincoln either by name, graphically, or both.

8: Celebrating 200 years of statehood in 1996, this state issued license plates with four letters in the word “bicentennial” capitalized and in a different font.

10: On this state's flag, the center of the Zia symbol is yellow and the sunbeams are red, while on the license plate the colors are reversed.

WORLD LITERATURE

3: His book Twenty Years After is a collection of The D'Artagnan Romances, first serialized in 1845.

6: Over two decades elapsed between the publication of his first two novels, “The Sorrows of Young Werther” and “Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship.”

9: His debut novel, 1846's Poor Folk, earned this author of “Crime and Punishment” the nickname “the new Gogol.”

12: The fourth entry in this 1812 German anthology named for its authors was “The Story of the Youth Who Went Forth to Learn What Fear Was.”

15: This Russian poet dedicated his first major work “Ruslan and Ludmila” to the “queens of my soul.”
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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2. Alabama
4. Nunavut
6. Illinois
8. Tennessee
10. New Mexico

3. Alexandre Dumas
6. CLAM
9. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
12. CLAM
15. CLAM
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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2: Alabama
4: Nunavut
6: Illinois, Nebraska
8: Tennessee
10: New Mexico

3: Dumas
6:
9: Dostoyevsky
12: Grimm's Fairy Tales
15: Pushkin?
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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2: Alabama
4: Nunavut
6: Illinois & Nebraska
8: Tennessee
10: New Mexico

3: Dumas
6:
9: Dostoyevsky
12:
15: Puskin
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2: Alabama
4: Nunavut
6: Illinois, Kentucky
8: Tennessee
10: New Mexico

3: Dumas (pere)
6:
9: Dostoyevsky
12:
15: Pushkin
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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2. Alabama
4. Nunavut
6. Illinois, Kentucky
8. Tennessee
10. clam

3. Dumas
6. clam
9. Dostoyevsky
12. Brothers Grimm
15. Pushkin
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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2: Alabama
4: Nunavut
6: Kentucky and Illinois?
8: clam
10: clam

3: Dumas (the younger, if prompted)
6: Goethe
9: Dostoyevsky
12: clam
15: Pushkin
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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LICENSE PLATES

2: CLAM
4: Nunavut
6: CLAM
8: CLAM
10: CLAM

WORLD LITERATURE

3: Dumas
6: Goethe
9: Dostoevsky
12: Grimm's Fairy Tales
15: Alexander Pushkin
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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LICENSE PLATES

2: Alabama
4: Nunavut
6: Illinois, Kentucky
8: Tennessee?
10: Clam

WORLD LITERATURE

3: Dumas
6: Goethe
9: Dostoyevsky
12: Grimm's Fairy Tales
15: Pushkin
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LICENSE PLATES

2. Alabama
4. Nunavut
6. Kentucky and Indiana
8. Tennessee
10. New Mexico

WORLD LITERATURE

3. Alexandre Dumas
6.
9. Dostoyevsky
12.
15.
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2. Alabama
4. Nunavut
6. Illinois and Kentucky
8. Tennessee
10. New Mexico

3. Dumas
6. Goethe
9. Dostoyevsky
12. Tales of the Brothers Grimm
15.
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LICENSE PLATES

2: Alabama
4: Nunavut?
6: IIllinois & Kentucky?
8: Tennessee
10: New Mexico

WORLD LITERATURE

3: Dumas
6: Thomas Mann?
9: Dostoyevsky
12: Grimm's Fairy Tales
15: ??
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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2 - Alabama
4 - Nunavut
6 - Illinois and South Dakota
8 - Tennessee
10 - New Mexico

3 - Dumas
6 - Goethe
9 - Dostoevsky
12 - Grimm's Fairy Tales
15 - Pushkin
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2: Alabama
4: Nunavut
6: Illinois, Kentucky
8: Tennessee
10: New Mexico

3: Dumas
6: Goethe
9: Dostoevsky
12:
15:
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2. Alabama
4. Nunavut
6. Illinois and Kentucky
8. Tennessee
10. New Mexico

3. Dumas
6. Goethe
9. Dostoevsky
12. Grimms' Fairy Tales
15.
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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LICENSE PLATES

2: Alabama
4: Nunavit
6: Illinois, Kentucky
8: Tennessee
10: Arizona

WORLD LITERATURE

3: Alexandre Dumbass (OK, Dumas Pere but I couldn't resist the Shawshank callout)
6:
9: Dostoyevsky
12: Brothers Grimm
15:
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Re: Summer Hiatus Challenge -- Round 5, Day 5

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2: Alabama
4: Alaska
6: Illinois and Kentucky
8: Tennessee
10: Arizona



3: Dumas
6: Goethe
9: Dostoyevsky
12: Tales of Hoffman
15: Maxim Gorky
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LICENSE PLATES
2: Alabama
4: Nunavut
6: Illinois and Kentucky
8: Tennessee
10: New Mexico

WORLD LITERATURE
3: Dumas, père
6: Goethe
9: Dostoevsky
12: Grimm Brothers' Fairy Tales
15: Pushkin
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