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1. This is the most beautiful place I've ever lived. This town on the California coast overlooks a bay named for it, and is home to the Defense Language Institute and Naval Post-Graduate School. Steinbeck's "Cannery Row" still exists here. The Clint Eastwood movie "Play Misty for Me" is set in this area, and he has served as mayor of a nearby city. Summer nights here tend to get very cool when the fog rolls in.
2. The second most beautiful scenery I've encountered is found just around the pair of upstate NY towns where I grew up. One of them hosted a notorious Civil War prison camp, and is the burial place of Mark Twain. In the other, one can find the headquarters of a major US corporation and a regionally well-known museum dedicated to the product that the company made its name with. What is this pair of nearly-adjacent smallish cities located near the Finger Lakes?
3. I spent a few years studying in a university named for the section of the major city in which it is located. This Jesuit school is the oldest Catholic university in the country, and "The Exorcist" was filmed on and around its campus. Among the school's most notable or notorious (depending on your political persuasion) alumni is a recent US president. What is the name of the city district and university?
4. I have spent ten years of my life in this Asian land where, contrary to what they taught you about Gutenberg, movable type was first developed. In the more highly-populated portion of the place, the writing system used is a combination of Chinese characters (the popular use of which is declining), and an ingenious, domestically developed "phonetic" alphabet. In the lesser-populated part, the use of Chinese characters has been almost completely abandoned. What is this land?
5. Being an American football fanatic, I'm happy to have had the pleasure of living in the two most football-crazy states in the USA. In one of these, I lived in a suburb of a major city whose name was once synonymous with primetime soap operas. Tourists in this city often wish to visit the infamous place called Dealey Plaza. What is the CAPITAL of the state where this city is located?
6. Other than my home state of New York, the one where I have lived the longest is in the south. In this state there is no personal income tax because so much state revenue comes from sales taxes paid by visitors. One of its distinguishing natural features is frequent violent lightning storms. If you look at a lightning strike map of the US, the center part of this state appears almost as a "bull's-eye". What is this state?
7. I lived (if you can call army basic training living) in another southern state. One of the better-known landmarks here is a shopping and entertainment stop-off called "South of the Border." One war started in this state, and a movie ("The Patriot") about another is set here. What state is it?
8. I spent a summer making furniture in this New England locality. It is the second largest city in its state, and not the capital. The state is considered of "primary" importance in US presidential elections and is a bastion of libertarian conservatism in largely liberal New England. The city in which I resided is close to the border of Massachusetts, and a horse named for it, ridden by Eddie Arcaro, almost won the 1955 Kentucky Derby. Where did I live?
9. I was stationed at Ft. Lewis in this state for five months. If you ask me what I remember about it, my answer consists of one word: rain. Other words associated with the state: volcano, sound, software, coffee, grunge, Bill, and Purple Haze.
10. I once lived in what is known as "The Capital Region" of upstate NY. While there, I worked in a a city whose name is derived from the Greek appellation of a famous ancient city-state in what is now Turkey. The Latin name for the ancient city was Ilium. Many Kurt Vonnegut novels are set in a city with this Latin name, because he once also lived and worked near this now somewhat run-down town just up the Hudson from New York's capital city.
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