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"Along Came Polly", "Office Space", "Love Happens" |
Jennifer Aniston
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In 1900 they made history with a glider that had a new feature: a horizontal front rudder for pitch control |
the Wright Brothers
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The dad & brother of this House Speaker have both served as the mayor of Baltimore |
Nancy Pelosi
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In the 1950s Sinatra described the music of this rock legend as "deplorable, a rancid smelling aphrodisiac" |
Elvis Presley
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After Zelda broke their engagement, he went on a bender, then to St. Paul to rewrite a novel he'd begun at Princeton |
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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A scatterbrained or eccentric person |
a ditz
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"Laugh-In", "Shampoo", "Private Benjamin" |
Goldie Hawn
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This duke of Bohemia spread Christianity, was martyred & is remembered in a Christmas carol as a "good king" |
Wenceslas
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In her 2008 memoir "Audition", this journalist from "The View" says that Alan Greenspan is "a very nice dancer" |
Barbara Walters
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From Old French for "entertainer", they were the strolling musicians of the Middle Ages |
minstrels
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This author of the 1950 novel "Burning Bright" felt the wrath of grapes |
John Steinbeck
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From the German for "to spray", it's a quick spray or squirt |
spritz
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"Sleeper", "Annie Hall", "The Godfather" |
Diane Keaton
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It's what the "W" stands for in WPA, a New Deal program FDR created for the unemployed in 1935 |
Works
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...And God created this French actress & animal rights activist in Paris Sept. 28, 1934 |
Bardot
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Though it wasn't particularly jazzy, the ukulele reached its peak of popularity in the U.S. in this decade |
(Shawna: What is the 1960s?)
the '20s
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An overdose of alcohol helped kill this Welsh poet on Nov. 9, 1953 |
Dylan Thomas
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This cracker was introduced by Nabisco in 1934 & named to conjure up an image of wealth & glamour |
Ritz
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"Boys on the Side", "Never Been Kissed", "Charlie's Angels" |
Drew Barrymore
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This English cardinal died Nov. 29, 1530, on the way to face treason charges |
Wolsey
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This style maven launched her "Everyday" collection at Kmart in 1997 |
Martha Stewart
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Timpani are multiple mounted ones of these instruments |
drums
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In 1929 this Algonquin wit's "Big Blonde", about an alcoholic serial mistress, won the O. Henry Award |
Dorothy Parker
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This 2-time Winter Olympics site has been known for its mineral springs since Roman times |
Saint Moritz
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"Henry & June", "Pulp Fiction", "The Truth About Cats & Dogs" |
Uma Thurman
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Signed in 1648, the peace of this historic German region ended the Thirty Years' War |
Westphalia
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In a letter to Abelard, she not-so-subtly hinted, "letters from absent friends are welcome" |
Héloïse
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Of classical music's "three B's", the one born in Hamburg in 1833 |
Johannes Brahms
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This alcoholic playwright created the bitter alcoholic Jamie Tyrone & a "long day" for his cursed family |
(Shawna: Who is... F. Scott Fitzgerald?) (Alex: No. The play was Long Day's Journey into Night, and it was [*]. The Tyrone family.)
Eugene O'Neill
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Nickname of Friedrich Christian Lang, director of the classic 1927 film "Metropolis" |
Fritz
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