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| This noted astronomer's lists of works include "Comet", "Contact" & "Cosmos" |
Carl Sagan
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| At 80, she won an Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy", making her the oldest Best Actress winner ever |
Jessica Tandy
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| Washington Irving said it was the "renowned & ancient city of Gotham |
New York
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| 3 days after the Korean War began this capital fell to invaders |
Seoul
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| You might have 32 of these in your mouth but a music box can have several hundred |
teeth
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| If you can spell this "Road House" star's last name he might take you "Dirty Dancing" |
S-W-A-Y-Z-E
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| This Mark Twain novel starts a few days before the death of Henry VIII |
The Prince and the Pauper
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Heard here, he won a 1984 Oscar for writing the following song:
"I just called to say I love you..." |
[The song was not reprised going into the break.]
Stevie Wonder
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| William Cooper Brand wrote this city "runs to brains as well as to bread and baked beans" |
Boston
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| He was born July 12, 100 B.C. but it wasn't called July yet |
Julius Caesar
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| The cosmetic kind is made to be rinsed or peeled off, unlike the gas or Halloween kind |
a mask
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| Formerly Allie on "Kate & Allie", she is no plain Jane |
(Jane) C-U-R-T-I-N
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| H.H. Munro got his pen name, Sake, from this Persian collection of quatrains |
the Rubáiyát (of Omar Khayyám)
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| After winning for this film Sissy Spacek thanked Loretta Lynn |
(Fred: Um... who is Country Girl?)
Coal Miner's Daughter
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| Carl Sandburg called it "Stormy, husky, brawling, City of the Big Shoulders" |
Chicago
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| In 1651, the Dutch East India Co. sent Jan van Riebeeck to establish a settlement on this cape |
the Cape of Good Hope
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| This university's alumni association offers a Visa card that sports a color photograph of Tommy Trojan |
the University of Southern California
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| The last name of the Congresswoman who was Walter Mondale's running mate in 1984 |
(Geraldine) F-E-R-R-A-R-O
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| Nathan Zuckerman appears in the 6th of his novels starting with "My Life as a Man" through "The Counterlife" |
Philip Roth
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| His role as a troubled ex-colonel in "Separate Tables" earned him the 1958 Best Actor Oscar |
David Niven
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| "They got some crazy little women there and I'm gonna get me one" |
Kansas City
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| Louis-Philippe replaced this family's white flag with the tricolour as the emblem of France |
the Bourbon
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| The National Honey Board honored David Letterman, Johnny Carson & Willard Scott with busts made out of this |
beeswax
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| "Golden Girl" Rue |
(Alex: We have less than a minute to go.)
(Rue) M-C-C-L-A-N-A-H-A-N
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| This Belgian-born French novelist wrote over 200 novels, many about Inspector Maigret |
George Simenon
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| The son of a British Poet Laureate, he won a Best Actor Oscar for his role in "My Left Foot" |
Daniel Day-Lewis
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| "North Beach to Tenderloin, over Russian Hill, The grades are something giddy, and the curves are fit to kill!" |
San Francisco
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| In 1780 Prussia was ruled by this "Great" man, Russia by this "Great" woman |
Frederick & Catherine
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| Umberto Nobile flew over the North Pole in a dirigible 3 days after he flew over it in a plane |
Admiral Byrd
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| The surname of evangelists Jim & Tammy Faye |
B-A-K-K-E-R
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