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QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONOURS 2000 |
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SECOND-MOST POPULOUS CITIES |
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"Now, for the third time, a new century is upon us, and another time to choose" |
Bill Clinton
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This "Dead Cert" writer jockeyed to the forefront of the list, getting a CBE |
Dick Francis
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Of John, Paul, or George, Byron's given name |
George
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Maureen McCormick, who played Marcia on this TV series, recorded a country music album in 1995 |
The Brady Bunch
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He scribed "The Green Mile" & "Carrie", but not while aping around the Empire State Building with Fay Wray |
Stephen King Kong
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"Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed..." |
John F. Kennedy
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Sam Mendes was directed to pick up this CBE in June 2000, 3 months after winning an Oscar for directing this film |
American Beauty
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In 1816 Byron summered in Switzerland where he joned this poet & his wife Mary |
Percy Shelley
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When she played a stage mother in the TV movie "Model Behavior", her real-life son Cody appeared as her son |
Kathie Lee Gifford
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"Hit The Road, Jack" hitmaker who hit us in print with "Oliver Twist" & "David Copperfield" |
Ray Charles Dickens
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"Eight years from now America will celebrate its two-hundredth anniversary as a nation" |
Richard Nixon
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Oh me oh my -- this Scottish singer's OBE was given "To" her "With Love" by the Queen |
Lulu
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While helping this country fight for its independence, Byron died at Missolonghi in 1824 |
(C: What is Italy?)
Greece
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An understudy in "Biloxi Blues", this "Cheers" co-star was back on Broadway in '99, starring in "The Rainmaker" |
Woody Harrelson
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1988 Brat-Packer western starring the rock band that charted with "Welcome to the Jungle" |
(C: What is Young Guns?)
Young Guns N' Roses
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"...Let us strive on to finish the work we are in...to do all which may achieve & cherish a just & lasting peace..." |
Abraham Lincoln (second inaugural)
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Hazel Ann Esson, the head housemaid at this Scottish castle, got a Royal Victorian Medal |
(buzzer sounds) (Alex: You guys have to establish a closer relationship with Her Majesty the Queen for next year's honours list!)
Balmoral Castle
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One of Byron's greatest poems was his unfinished epic about this villainous Spanish rake |
Don Juan
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Few believed this actor's weird journalistic discoveries as "The Night Stalker" |
Darren McGavin
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"Talented Mr. Ripley" actor whose colorful stories became "Guys and Dolls" |
Matt Damon Runyon
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"In the field of world policy I would dedicate this nation to the policy of the good neighbor" |
(G: Who is Theodore Roosevelt?)
Franklin D. Roosevelt
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Byron first came to fame with a poem about this young noble's "Pilgrimage" |
(we have less than a minute to go, right now...)
Childe Harold
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John Lithgow appeared as a Broadway director in this autobiographical Bob Fosse film |
All That Jazz
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He sang for Motley Crue but only after he'd teamed up with Crosby, Stills & Nash |
Vince Neil Young
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