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Former name of Ethiopia

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Abyssinia

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Hitchcock film about mistaken identity, with an innocent man pursued across the United States by agents of a mysterious organization trying to prevent him from blocking their plan to smuggle out microfilm which contains government secrets. This is one of several Hitchcock films which feature a music score by Bernard Herrmann.

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North by Northwest

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1949 British film noir directed by Carol Reed, written by Graham Greene and starring Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles, and Trevor Howard. Set in postwar Vienna, the film centres on American Holly Martins (Cotten), who arrives in the city to accept a job with his friend Harry Lime (Welles), only to learn that Lime has died. Viewing his death as suspicious, Martins elects to stay in Vienna and investigate the matter.

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The Third Man

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American Old West lawman, bartender and customs agent known for killing Billy the Kid. He was the sheriff of Lincoln County, New Mexico as well as Doña Ana County, New Mexico.

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Pat Garrett

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Countries formerly known as north/south Rhodesia

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Zambia and Zimbabwe

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Best-known of the pro-Confederate partisan guerrillas (also known as “bushwhackers”) who fought in the American Civil War. Attacked Lawrence, KS and killed 180 civilians.

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Quantrill’s Raiders

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1954 American mystery thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and starring James Stewart and Grace Kelly. Recuperating from a broken leg, professional photographer L. B. “Jeff” Jefferies is confined to a wheelchair in his apartment in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. Jeff thinks his neighbor murdered his wife.

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Rear Window

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Movie that stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade and Mary Astor as his femme fatale client. Gladys George, Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet co-star, with the last appearing in his film debut. The story follows a San Francisco private detective and his dealings with three unscrupulous adventurers, all of whom are competing to obtain a jewel-encrusted statuette.

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The Maltese Falcon (Dashielle Hammett, falcon statuette)

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60s-80s, rare American winner in Formula 1, also won Indy 500 and races NASCAR

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Mario Andretti

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Moravia

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Region now part of Czech Republic

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River border between TX and Louisiana

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Sabine River

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Architecture school that became famous for its approach to design, which attempted to unify the principles of mass production with individual artistic vision and strove to combine aesthetics with everyday function.

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Bauhaus

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1940 American romantic comedy film directed by George Cukor, starring Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, and Ruth Hussey. Based on the 1939 Broadway play of the same name, the film is about a socialite whose wedding plans are complicated by the simultaneous arrival of her ex-husband and a tabloid magazine journalist. The socialite character of the play—performed by Hepburn in the film—was inspired by Helen Hope Montgomery Scott (1904–1995), a socialite known for her hijinks.

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The Philadelphia Story

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Rodgers and Hart musical about duplicitous letter writing with “bewitched bothered and bewildered,” Sinatra in movie version

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Pal Joey

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Cole porter musical written for Ethel Merman

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Anything Goes

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Wind beneath my wings is a song from the movie

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Beaches

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Former name of Sri Lanka

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Ceylon

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Jacobite rising of 1745 was _____ against _____. Ended with battle at ______.

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attempt by “Bonny Prince” Charles Edward Stuart to regain the British throne for his father, James Francis Edward Stuart, from King George II. Culloden - last pitched (pre-planned) battle in UK.

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Let’s call the whole thing off song from the movie

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Shall We Dance

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American-born Israeli ordained Orthodox rabbi, writer, and ultra-nationalist politician who served one term in Israel’s Knesset.[2] A cofounder of the Jewish Defense League and founder of the Israeli political party Kach, he espoused militant views and terrorist actions to combat anti-Semitism.

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Meir Kahane

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Mountain range running east from Turkey and forming Iraq/Iran border

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Zagros Mountains

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Astaire/Garland Irving Berlin movie

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Easter Parade

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I got rhythm is a song from the movie

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An American in Paris

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Obama portrait painter

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Kehinde Wiley

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American painter and illustrator active in the first half of the 20th century. He is known for his distinctive saturated hues and idealized neo-classical imagery. His career spanned fifty years and was wildly successful: His painting Daybreak (1922) is the most popular art print of the 20th century

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Maxfield Parrish

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50s-60s Boston Celtics, 11 championships in 13 years

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Bill Russell

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1934 pre-Code American romantic comedy film with elements of screwball comedy directed and co-produced by Frank Capra, in collaboration with Harry Cohn, in which a pampered socialite (Claudette Colbert) tries to get out from under her father’s thumb and falls in love with a roguish reporter (Clark Gable).

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It Happened One Night

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Irene Cara song “what a feeling” is from the movie

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Flashdance

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29
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2 sets of outlaw brothers at the OK Corral

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Ike and Billy Clanton, Tom and Frank McLaury. All but Ike killed.

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1944 American psychological thriller film noir directed by Billy Wilder, co-written by Wilder and Raymond Chandler.

The film stars Fred MacMurray as an insurance salesman, Barbara Stanwyck as a provocative housewife who is accused of killing her husband, and Edward G. Robinson as a claims adjuster whose job is to find phony claims.

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Double Indemnity

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American outlaw who gained national notoriety after her violent death.[1]

She associated with the James–Younger Gang and other outlaws. She was convicted of horse theft in 1883. She was fatally shot in 1889 in a case that is still officially unsolved. Her story was popularized by Richard K. Fox — editor and publisher of the National Police Gazette — and she later became a popular character in television and films.

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Belle Starr

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32
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On the good ship lollipop is from the movie

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Bright eyes with Shirley Temple

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33
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Kampuchea

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Cambodia

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Orson Welles/Marc Blitzstein 30s musical about Steeltown USA

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Cradle will rock

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Raindrops keep falling on my head this song from the movie

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Butch Cassidy and Sundance kid

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36
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Arizona/Mexico border town pair

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Nogales

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37
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Musical about Berry Gordy

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Motown the musical

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38
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Resort town at end of Yucatán peninsula

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Cancun

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Folk hero of the American Old West known for his life on the frontier as a soldier, scout, lawman, gambler, showman, and actor, and for his involvement in many famous gunfights. He earned a great deal of notoriety in his own time, much of it bolstered by the many outlandish and often fabricated tales he told about himself. Spied for the Union Army. Shot and killed while playing poker.

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Wild Bill Hickock

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Comic strip about boy having fantastical dreams

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Little Nemo in Slumberland

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Movie with Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn on a riverboat in German East Africa

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The African Queen

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70s-80s, greatest running back, called “the Sweetness,” part of champ 85 bears that did “superbowl shuffle” song)

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Walter Payton

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43
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Official capital of Tanzania

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Dodoma

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44
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Comden/green and Bernstein musical about sailors in nyc

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On the town

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American outlaw, bank and train robber, guerrilla, and leader. Joined pro-Confederate guerrillas known as “bushwhackers” operating in Missouri and Kansas during the American Civil War. After the war, as members of various gangs of outlaws, he and his brother robbed banks, stagecoaches, and trains across the Midwest, gaining national fame and often popular sympathy despite the brutality of their crimes.

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Jesse James

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46
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Hotel salad with apples and celery

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Waldorf salad

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1952 American musical romantic comedy film directed and choreographed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen, starring Kelly, Donald O’Connor, and Debbie Reynolds and featuring Jean Hagen, Millard Mitchell and Cyd Charisse. It offers a lighthearted depiction of Hollywood in the late 1920s, with the three stars portraying performers caught up in the transition from silent films to “talkies”.

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Singin’ in the Rain

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2010s basically only woman in NASCAR

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Danica Patrick

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Tennis young, current champ player; in news for taking stand for mental health and not wanting to do interviews)

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Naomi Osaka

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1971 American crime thriller film directed by William Friedkin. TIt tells the story of NYPD detectives Jimmy “Popeye” Doyle and Buddy “Cloudy” Russo, whose real-life counterparts were Narcotics Detectives Eddie Egan and Sonny Grosso, in pursuit of wealthy French heroin smuggler Alain Charnier.

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The French Connection

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came from japanese league to play for LA Angels, big deal right now; basically the first time a pitcher has also been the best hitter and it’s blowing minds

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Shohei Otani

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Film where Howard Beale, longtime evening newscaster for the Union Broadcasting System (UBS), learns from friend and news division president, Max Schumacher, that Beale has just two more weeks on the air because of declining ratings.

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Network

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53
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George C. Scott as General Buck Turgidson, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Sterling Hayden as Brigadier General Jack D. Ripper, a paranoid commander of Burpelson Air Force Base, which is part of the Strategic Air Command.

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Dr. Strangelove

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event, 1980 lake placid Olympics; USA beat USSR during Cold War

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Miracle on Ice

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1969 American independent road drama film written by Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, and Terry Southern, produced by Fonda, and directed by Hopper. Fonda and Hopper play two bikers who travel through the American Southwest and South, carrying the proceeds from a cocaine deal. A landmark counterculture film, and a “touchstone for a generation” that “captured the national imagination.”

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Easy Rider

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Make em laugh is a song from

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Singin in the rain

57
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Mountains north of LA

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San Gabriel

58
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Between Baffin Bay and Labrador Sea

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Davis Strait

59
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Largest lake in Central America

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Lake Nicaragua

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1948 American Western adventure drama film written and directed by John Huston. It is an adaptation of B. Traven’s 1927 novel of the same name, set in the 1920s, and follows two downtrodden men (played by Humphrey Bogart and Tim Holt) who join forces with a grizzled old prospector (Walter Huston, the director’s father), in searching for gold in Mexico.

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

61
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Astaire and Rogers musical about Lucky and Penny in a dance contest

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Swing time

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Brecht and Weill musical

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Threepenny opera

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Diamonds are a girls best friend is a song from the movie

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Gentlemen prefer blondes

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Fosse/Coleman musical about times square dance hall hostess

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Sweet charity

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Jukebox musical with 1980s hits like Dont Stop Beliving, we built this city, we’re not gonna take it

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Rock of ages

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Dutch deconstructivist architect - Seattle library

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Rem Koolhaas

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Fats Waller musical revue

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Ain’t misbehavin

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The man that got away is a song from the movie

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A star is born

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1959 American romantic comedy film directed, produced, and co-written by Billy Wilder. It stars Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon. The film is about two musicians who disguise themselves by dressing as women in order to escape from mafia gangsters whom they witnessed committing a crime (inspired by the Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre).

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Some Like It Hot

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The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams, in order to help others in his community, and whose suicide attempt on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers). Clarence shows George how he, George, has touched the lives of others and how different life would be for his wife Mary and his community of Bedford Falls if he had not been born.

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It’s a Wonderful Life

71
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Pre-code busby Berkeley backstage musical

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Gold Diggers of 1933

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Bauhaus architect

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Walter Gropius

73
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Born to be wild is a song from the movie

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Easy rider

74
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Afam musician and artist of 20th century - collages and paintings

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Romare Bearden

75
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“When you wish upon a star” song from the movie

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Pinocchio

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1939 American Western film directed by John Ford and starring Claire Trevor and John Wayne in his breakthrough role. The screenplay by Dudley Nichols is an adaptation of “The Stage to Lordsburg”, a 1937 short story by Ernest Haycox. The film follows a group of strangers riding on a stagecoach through dangerous Apache territory.

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Stagecoach

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50s musical about a factory, Doris Day in movie version

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The pajama game

78
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Hickock’s poker hand

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two pair, aces and eights (dead man’s hand)

79
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notably outspoken current coach, San Antonio Spurs, vocally pro-BLM and anti-Trump

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Gregg Popovich

80
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Everybody’s talkin is a song from the movie

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Midnight Cowboy

81
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Golfer 90s-current, just won the PGA championship in 2021 at oldest age ever, 51

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Phil Mickelson

82
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1975 American satirical musical ensemble comedy-drama film directed by Robert Altman. The film follows various people involved in the country and gospel music businesses over a five-day period, leading up to a gala concert for a populist outsider running for President on the Replacement Party ticket.

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Nashville

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All-black Hammerstein/Bizet musical

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Carmen Jones

84
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1952 American Western film produced by Stanley Kramer from a screenplay by Carl Foreman, directed by Fred Zinnemann, and starring Gary Cooper. The plot, which occurs in real time, centers on a town marshal whose sense of duty is tested when he must decide to either face a gang of killers alone, or leave town with his new wife.

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High Noon

85
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Fight the power is a song from the movie

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Do the right thing. This song is by public enemy

86
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Putting on the Ritz is famously used in the movie

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Young Frankenstein

87
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1964 french movie musical about romance with a car mechanic drafted for Algerian war

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The umbrellas of Cherbourg

88
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In 1701, Parliament passed the Act of _______, which reserved the throne for _______ only.

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Settlement

Protestants.

89
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Mountains in Arkansas south of ozarks

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Ouachita

90
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“Mrs Robinson” song in the movie

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The graduate

91
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Danish physicist whose model of the atom was central to quantum theory

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Niels Bohr

92
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Musical of fellini’s 8 1/2 about Guido Contini

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Nine

93
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Hockey 50s-80s, the “golden jet,” son Brett was also a famous player

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Bobby Hull

94
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Born Robert Leroy Parker. American train and bank robber and the leader of a gang of criminal outlaws known as the “Wild Bunch” in the Old West. engaged in criminal activity for more than a decade at the end of the 19th century and the early 20th century, but the pressures of being pursued by law enforcement, notably the Pinkerton detective agency, forced him to flee to South America.

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Butch Cassidy

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“Moon River” song in the movie

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Breakfast at Tiffany’s

96
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Muhammad Ali upset win over _____ at 22 to take title; win over ______ at Thrilla in Manila, win over _______ Rumble in the Jungle

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Sonny Liston
Joe Frazier
George Foreman

97
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1957 epic war film directed by David Lean and based on the 1952 novel written by Pierre Boulle. Although the film uses the historical setting of POWs and the construction of the Burma Railway in 1942–1943, the plot and characters of Boulle’s novel and the screenplay are almost entirely fictional.

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The Bridge on the River Kwai

98
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Kubrick movie about an unhinged United States Air Force general who orders a first strike nuclear attack on the Soviet Union.

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Dr. Strangelove

99
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90s-00s, Formula 1 GOAT, German, drove for Ferrari, paralyzed in skiing accident and maybe a vegetable so no one has seen him since, had records for most wins and most championship titles but records have been tied or beaten

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Michael Schumacher

100
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1973 American coming-of-age comedy film directed by George Lucas, produced by Francis Ford Coppola, written by Willard Huyck, Gloria Katz and Lucas, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard (billed as Ronny Howard), Paul Le Mat, Harrison Ford, Charles Martin Smith, Cindy Williams, Candy Clark, Mackenzie Phillips, Bo Hopkins, and Wolfman Jack. Suzanne Somers, Kathleen Quinlan, Debralee Scott and Joe Spano also appear in the film.

Set in Modesto, California, in 1962, the film is a study of the cruising and early rock ‘n’ roll cultures popular among Lucas’s age group at the time. Through a series of vignettes, the film tells the story of a group of teenagers and their adventures over the course of a night.

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American Graffiti

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1989 American comedy-drama film produced, written, and directed by Spike Lee. The story explores a Brooklyn neighborhood’s simmering racial tension between its African-American residents and the Italian-American owners of a local pizzeria, culminating in tragedy and violence on a hot summer day.

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Do The Right Thing

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1969 American epic revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O’Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means.

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The Wild Bunch

103
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Astaire and Rogers Gershwin musical with “let’s call the whole thing off”

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Shall we dance

104
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German physicist who laid foundation for quantum theory

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Max Planck

105
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Tap musical telling story of Afam history

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Bring in da noise, Bring in da funk

106
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00s-current, multiple teams, won with Golden State Warriors but now with Brooklyn Nets

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Kevin Durant

107
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50s Musical about love in 1850s Oregon frontier, based on Roman legend of Sabine women

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Seven brides for seven brothers

108
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1950s Arabian nights musical set to classical score

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Kismet

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1951 American drama film based on the 1925 novel An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser and the 1926 play, also titled An American Tragedy. It tells the story of a working-class young man who is entangled with two women: one who works in his wealthy uncle’s factory, and the other a beautiful socialite. All these works were inspired by the real-life murder of Grace Brown by Chester Gillette in 1906, which resulted in Gillette’s conviction and execution by electric chair in 1908.

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A Place in the Sun

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Previous Star Is Born couples

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Judy Garland and James Mason, Streisand and Kristofferson

111
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American clerk, transcontinental pioneer, frontiersman, hunter, trapper, author, cartographer, and explorer of the frontier. After 75 years of obscurity following his death, he was rediscovered as the American whose explorations led to the use of the 20-mile (32 km)-wide South Pass as the dominant point of crossing the Continental Divide for pioneers on the Oregon Trail.

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Jedediah Smith

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20th c black American artist “dynamic cubism” and color

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Jacob Lawrence

113
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Auto racing 00s-present, current champ, upcoming GOAT, British, our age, only black guy ever in Formula 1, is taking all of Schumacher’s records

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Lewis Hamilton

114
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Zip a Dee Doo Dah is a song from the movie

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Song of the south

115
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Former name of DRC

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Zaire

116
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A group of outlaws in the American Old West during 1890–1892. Four of its members were brothers. The gang specialized in bank and train robberies. During an attempted double bank robbery in Coffeyville, Kansas in 1892, two of the brothers and two other gang members were killed.

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The Dalton Gang

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Swinging on a star is a song from the movie

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Going my way

118
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Queen jukebox musical

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We will rock you

119
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Movie and musical about man who is killed in a mugging and communicates with his fiancé through a medium

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Ghost

120
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Outlaw and gunfighter of the American Old West, who killed eight men before he was shot and killed at the age of 21. After killing a blacksmith in August 1877, he bjoined a group of cattle rustlers. He became well known in the region when he joined the Regulators and took part in the Lincoln County War of 1878. Captured, escaped from prison, shot in Fort Sumner NM.

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Billy the Kid (born Henry McCarty)

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“People” is a song from the movie

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Funny Girl

122
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Texas border town pair midway up the southern part

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Laredo/Nuevo Laredo

123
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Gershwin musical from Depression era that lampooned politics

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Of thee I sing

124
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Black American 20th century photographer

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Gordon Parks

125
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Author of A Clockwork Orange

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Anthony Burgess

126
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Stephen King novel where man comes back to his town and find the residents are turning into vampires

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Salem’s lot

127
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Stephen King novel about a school shooting

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Rage

128
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Stephen King pseudonym

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Richard Bachman

129
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Stephen King novel about Set in a future dystopian America, ruled by a totalitarian and militaristic dictator, the plot revolves around the contestants of a grueling, annual walking contest.

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The Long Walk

130
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King novel - story follows Johnny Smith, who awakens from a coma of nearly five years and, apparently as a result of brain damage, now experiences clairvoyant and precognitive visions triggered by touch. When some information is blocked from his perception, Johnny refers to that information as being trapped in the part of his brain that is permanently damaged

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The dead zone

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King novel story follows protagonist Ben Richards as he participates in the reality show in which contestants, allowed to go anywhere in the world, are chased by the general public, who get a huge bounty if they kill him.

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The Running Man

132
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King novel about alien spacecraft buried in the woods that starts transforming townsfolk

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The Tommyknockers

133
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King novel - collectibles and antiques, managed by Leland Gaunt, a new arrival to the town of Castle Rock, Maine, the setting of many King stories. Gaunt often asks customers to perform a prank or mysterious deed in exchange for the item they are drawn to. As time goes by, the many deeds and pranks lead to increasing aggression among the townspeople, as well as chaos and death

A

Needful Things

134
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Hillbilly elegy is by

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JD Vance

135
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Aaron Sorkin movie with Abbie Hoffman

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The Trial of the Chicago Seven

136
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Mr Rodgers movie

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

137
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The Fox News movie

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Bombshell

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