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  | QUEEN'S BIRTHDAY HONORS 2001 |  
   
 
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    Read all about it. His magazine cover "Little Spooners," or "Sunset," seen here, appeared in 1926 | 
    Norman Rockwell
 
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    | If your affairs are in shambles, they've gone to "rack &" this | 
    ruin
 
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    | It became Alabama's capital in 1847 | 
    Montgomery
 
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    | This Irish flautist can now flaunt his knighthood | 
    (James) Galway
 
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    | Sylvester Stallone was inspired to write this film after seeing underdog Chuck Wepner take on Muhammad Ali | 
    Rocky
 
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    | In 1932 she flew from Newfoundland to a pasture near Londonderry in 14 hours, 54 minutes | 
    (Alex: Correct, a minute to go.)
  Amelia Earhart
 
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    | Between 1971 & 1985 he depicted his neighbor Helga in over 240 of his works | 
    (Valerie: Who is Wyeth?) (Alex: Which one?)
  Andrew Wyeth
 
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    | One possible origin for this state of uncertainty is the Latin quando, "when" | 
    quandary
 
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    | An industrial center, this city was named for an industrial city in England | 
    Birmingham
 
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    | "Thunderbirds are go!" to see this man, their creator, pick up an MBE | 
    Gerry Anderson
 
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    | In "Knute Rockne: All American", this actor delivered the famous deathbed line "Win one for the Gipper" | 
    Ronald Reagan
 
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    | Of monoplane, biplane or triplane, the first to achieve manned, powered, heavier-than-air flight | 
    biplane
 
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    | The feminist artist born Judy Cohen in 1939 goes by this last name, the city of her birth | 
    (Valerie: Oh gosh. Who is Judy...Judy New York?)
  Judy Chicago
 
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    | The band Big Star sang, "I've been built up and trusted, broke down and" this | 
    busted
 
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    | It's Alabama's only seaport | 
    Mobile
 
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    | This director of "The English Patient" gets to put CBE between his name & "Oscar-winner" | 
    Minghella
 
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    | This 1981 film about 2 participants in the 1924 Olympics ran off with 4 Oscars including Best Picture | 
    Chariots of Fire
 
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    | On December 31, 1968 this country's Tupolev Tu-144 became the first supersonic transport plane to be test flown | 
    USSR
 
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    | He modeled the male diners in his "Nighthawks" after himself & the female diner after his wife Jo | 
    (David: Who is Grant Wood?)
  (Edward) Hopper
 
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    | A difficult situation to be "in"; or a way to repair it | 
    fix
 
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    | The U.S. Space & Rocket Center is at Tranquility Base in this city | 
    Huntsville
 
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    | "Shirley" you know 2001 honoree Pauline Collins got a 1989 Oscar nomination for playing this woman | 
    [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
  Shirley Valentine
 
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    | Susan Sarandon & Tim Robbins struck up a romance after meeting on the set of this baseball flick | 
    Bull Durham
 
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    | This term for the flight of an airplane on a combat mission is from the French for "to go out" | 
    sortie
 
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    America's most collected living artist, he's the painter of light whose work is seen here | 
    Thomas Kinkade
 
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    | As a verb it's an old synonym for "pledge"; as a noun, a difficult condition | 
    (Valerie: What is predicament?)
  plight
 
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    | A group of black aviators or "airmen" trained near this city during WWII | 
    Tuskegee
 
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    | This 1977 film featured Paul Newman as aging hockey coach Reggie Dunlop | 
    Slap Shot
 
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    | In 1962 Robert White, the first pilot to qualify as an astronaut, flew this experimental plane to over 50 mi. up | 
    (David: What is the X-1?) ... (Alex: Came much later than the X-1--the [*].)
  X-15
 
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