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Neils movie recollections
The dad from my 3 sons killed the husband of that lady from the big valley and tried to make it look like an accident for insurance fraud

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Double indemnity - insurance pays out double If you die by accident
Fred mc Murray is the dad ? Absent minded professor , shaggy dog
Jack lemon in thr apartment ?

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Neils movie recollections
That guy that was in all of those gangster movies kills mr white because pimping out thr woman who won best actress Oscar for the accused

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Taxi driver
Jodi foster - silence of the lambs and the accused
Robert dinero- guy from all gangster movies
Mr white - Harvey ki tell resoviour dogs

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On tv series quantum leap his character shares his name with this Nobel prize winning author

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Scott bakula back yuh luh
Samuel Beckett

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Worn by emperors and celebrated generals the toga picta had gold embroidery on this color fabric

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Purple

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Thin wall between your nasal passages

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Septum
Can be deviated

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In the legend of Jason and thr argonauts iris is the sister of this menacing bird like creatures with a woman’s face

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Harpy

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21st century presidential elections
It was the first election since this year in which neither the incumbent president nor the incumbent Vice President was a candidate

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2008
Obama defeated John McCain

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Lisa loeb song

94

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Stay ( I missed you)

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Wild thing song

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The Troggs

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Most populous country whose name in English contains the letter Z

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Brazil

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As part of a purification ritual some sumo wrestlers throw this into the ring before a match

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Salt

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This legendary New York disco wqs located in the same space where episodes of captain kangaroo were once taped

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Studio 54

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This voice operated browser on the international space station is this woman’s name

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Clarissa
Has ISS in a row

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A theater superstition around today this color clarinet must never be allowed in thr orchestra of a musical play

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Yellow

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19th century American outlaw Robert Leroy Parker wqs better known by this name

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Butch Cassidy

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A long internal monologue with almost no punctuation Molly blooms thoughts make up the final pages of this classic novel

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Ulysses

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Neils movie recollections
That woman from Fargo took out an advertisement to shame the guy who was in natural born killers but I guess was a cop in this o e

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3 billboards outside ebbing Missouri
Frances McDormand
Emmy away from an EGOT
Tony 2 prime time Emmy’s 3 Oscar’s for acting 1 for producing

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Hans solo is chased around by agent K but mostly in Chicago for some reason and not outer space

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The fugitive
Tommy Lee Jones
Harrison ford

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In 1911 Pablo Picasso wqs arrested as a suspect in the theft of this piece of art

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Mona Lisa - falsely accused
Found pieces in his apartment- friend stole ?

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In 1947 she was murdered near Hollywood in this unsolved infamous case
With this Nickname

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Elizabeth short aka black dahlia

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In 97 he killed 4 other people in Minnesota Chicago and New Jersey before murdering this fashion designer in Miami

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Andrew cuh nan in murdered Giovanni Versace
Then killed himself

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Sammy the bull gruh vahn o was instrumental in the prosecution and conviction of whom

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John gotti the Teflon Don

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Song lyrics

you no say Daddy me Snow me I’ll go blame,
A licky Boom Boom Down.
Detective mon said Daddy me Snow me stab someone down the lane,
A licky Boom Boom Dow

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Informer by snow

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This actor went from playing an enigmatic billionaire in watchman to being a caregiver in thr whale

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Hong chau CHOW

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Alone song
87

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Heart

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In the plastic surgery procedure known as a lower blepharoplasty excess fat is removed from underneath this organ
Blef uh row plasty

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Eye

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This classic condiment is rejected at the factory if it doesn’t exit the bottle at precisely .028miles per hour

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Heinz ketchup
Right viscosity
Chop it at the 57

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This may be an unimportant fact but this word comes from the Latin for the place where 3 roads meet

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Trivia
Tri 3
Via roads

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This was a rare new mineral discovered on the moon and named for thr astronauts from this nasa mission

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Armalcolite - r mal co lite

Apollo 11

Buzz Aldrin
Michale Collins
Neil Armstrong

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The name of this type of tea comes from a Chinese phrase meaning black dragon

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Oolong
Ew long
Oxidized so stronger flavor

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Princess yasodhara was the wife of
Yuh shad huh rah

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Buddha - when he left home to pursue enlightenment

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Olympics
Sport Derived from the Greek word to exercise naked

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Gymnastics

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US government
This Federal agency is parent agency to such programs as fish and wildlife service the bureau of Indian affairs and bureau land management

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Department of the interior

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“Killing Me Softly With His Song” singer

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Roberta flack

Roberta Flack discovered Lori Lieberman’s “Killing Me Softly With His Song” on a plane from L.A. to New York, and made it her own. “I was not limited to just taking the song off of the page of music,” said Flack.

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Filmmaker George who won five Hugo Awards for Best Dramatic Presentation

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Lucas

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Patricharchial mythology
This Greek goddess of agriculture has this daughter with him who is cursed to stay in the underworld with hades for half of the year

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Demeter with Zeus
Daughter is pru sef uh knee

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First Hispanic woman in space

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Ellen Ochoa

Ellen Ochoa was the first Hispanic woman in space, serving on a nine-day mission on the space shuttle Discovery in 1993. She spent over 1,000 hours in space over the course of four missions. Ochoa is now the Deputy Director of the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.