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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In April 2010 People reported this daughter of Tom Cruise is turning 4 with a style all her own

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Suri

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The magazine loves those “mid-life moms”, like this actress who’s “Pretty in Pink… and blue!”

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Molly Ringwald

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| A 2010 story informed us that Mike Sorrentino aka the Situation, is loving his new fame as part of this show

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Jersey Shore

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| A 2000 issue had Caroline Kennedy on the cover with the line “Profile in” this

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Courage

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| We believe the only Canadian political wife to make the cover was this one linked in the ’70s to players like Mick Jagger

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Margaret Trudeau

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| After the murder of Joseph Smith in 1844, he took over as leader of the Mormons

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Brigham Young

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Seen <a>here</a>, this Spavinaw, Oklahoma native joined the Yankees in 1951

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Mickey Mantle

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| John E. Franz was inducted into the Inventors H.O.F. for creating this trademark herbicide for sidewalk weeds

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Roundup

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$1500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He was the U.S. Secretary of State between 2 female Secretaries of State

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Colin Powell

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Not to be confused with the actress, she’s alphabetically the last of Henry VIII’s wives by first name

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Jane Seymour

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| To mark his 18th birthday in 2002, this prince visited the sick & homeless to carry on the work of his late mother

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Prince Harry

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1996 he was “Livin’ La Vida Loca” on Broadway, playing Marius in “Les Miz”

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Ricky Martin

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The website of this tennis “goddess” told us that she’s 6’2”, loves to write poetry & wants to go to Croatia

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Venus Williams

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Visitors to the Sundance Film Festival know that the Sundance Institute was founded by this man in 1981

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Robert Redford

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He wore a kilt when he married Madonna in a Scottish castle

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Guy Ritchie

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1964 he became the first African American to be named Time magazine’s “Man of the Year”

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Dr. (Martin Luther) King (Jr.)

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| “I kid you not!” was the classic catchphrase of this early 1960s “Tonight Show” host

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Jack Paar

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| (<a>I am NFL wide receiver and Stanford graduate, Ed McCaffrey.</a>) The first Stanford player to win the Heisman Trophy was this quarterback who led the Raiders to victory in Super Bowl XV

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Jim Plunkett

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Anita, Ruth & June are these singing sisters who hit the pop music charts with “I’m So Excited”

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the Pointer Sisters

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Occult magician known as “The Beast”

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Aleister Crowley

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This mogul is the star of the reality show “The Apprentice”

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Donald Trump

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1974 People magazine’s first African-American cover subject was this actress who played Miss Jane Pittman

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Cicely Tyson

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This “American Idol” judge lost about 100 pounds with the help of gastric-bypass surgery

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Randy Jackson

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He worked for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation before joining “60 Minutes” in 1970

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Morley Safer

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1947 this Oklahoma faith healer began his Healing Waters Ministry

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Oral Roberts

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| June 30, 2003: This royal vies with movie stars to top the list of the “25 Hottest Bachelors”

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Prince William

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Nov. 6, 1978: This ex-urban guerrilla “From Inside Prison, the Exclusive Story of Her Romance with Her Bodyguard”

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Patty Hearst

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| May 8, 1989: Chemist Stanley Pons stirs up science “with His Stunning Claim to Have Achieved” this

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cold fusion

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1997 People was on the crime beat with this victim

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(Gianni) Versace

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| April 2, 1990: Hollywood stars protest this pesticide “Which Comes in on Medfly Wings and a Sprayer”

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malathion

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The tribute issue to her sold over 2.5 million copies

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Princess Grace (Grace Kelly)

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The headline on the 2002 cover seen here was this word “Renewed”

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Faith (as in Faith Hill)

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Back in 1987 this TV star had the coveted “Sexiest Man Alive” title

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Harry Hamlin

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In one cover story, this TV news personality discussed her new look

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Greta Van Susteren

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He’s the actor on the right in the “tropical” 1980 cover seen here

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Christopher Atkins

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This Asian-American woman once co-anchored the “CBS Evening News”

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Connie Chung

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He’s the cookie maker seen here

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(Wally) “Famous” Amos

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$1200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Aah, the life of a billionaire: this Microsoft co-founder owns the Seattle Seahawks & the Portland Trail Blazers

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Paul Allen

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$1600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The team of Mark Badgley & him has dressed stars like Halle Berry for the Oscars

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James Mischka

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$2000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| As a Democrat he won 94% of the vote in Texas’ 6th Congressional District in 1982; 55% as a Republican in 1983

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Phil Gramm

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$None ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He said, “I…really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit”

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Fred Rogers (of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood)

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| For 20 years Jan Miner intoned, “You’re soaking in it!” as this manicurist in Palmolive ads

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Madge

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| As a partner in a law firm in Arkansas, she earned a higher salary than her husband, then the state’s governor

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Hillary Rodham Clinton

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$1200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew in New York City) At one end of Rockefeller Plaza, a large granite block is inscribed with the credo of this famous son

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John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

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$1600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This Irish playwright of the absurd was active in a resistance group in German-occupied France

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Samuel Beckett

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$2000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This British nurse, executed during World War I, is honored with a statue near Trafalgar Square

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Dame Edith Cavell

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Don’t call us with your research questions; call this U.S. first lady who has a master’s degree in library science

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Laura Bush

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 2002 this former Clinton cabinet member ran for governor of Florida

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Janet Reno

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He brought out his best when he introduced his pre-made mayo in jars around 1912

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Richard Hellmann

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Registered nurses take a pledge named for this woman

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Florence Nightingale

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Erich Maria Remarque was a pen name; he came up with it by spelling this, his real last name, backwards

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Kramer

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Florida’s governor John Ellis Bush goes by this 3-letter nickname

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Jeb

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Karrie Webb has been called one of the greatest players of this sport, male or female

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golf

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1970 this future actor showed some muscle & won the titles Mr. World, Mr. Universe & Mr. Olympia

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

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$None ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| A British airport recently named for him features a logo with the words “Above Us Only Sky”

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John Lennon

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This wrestler nicknamed his daughter born in August 2001 Pebbles

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The Rock

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Fatally, American groupie Nancy Spungen was this British punk rocker’s girlfriend

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Sid Vicious

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| She owns the St. Louis Rams

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Georgia Frontiere

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This actor gave a speech for Harvard roommate Al Gore at the 2000 Democratic Convention

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Tommy Lee Jones

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| M.C. Hammer earned his nickname from his resemblance to this “Hammerin’” home run king

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Hank Aaron

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$None ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In honor of his 50th birthday, Nov. 14, 1998, 50 of his watercolors were displayed at Hampton Court

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Prince Charles

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1999 basketball mourned the loss of this legendary Laker nicknamed “The Big Dipper”

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Wilt Chamberlain

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Many consider him the 264th successor of St. Peter

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Pope John Paul II

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1939 this famous architect polished off his Johnson Wax Building in Racine, Wisconsin

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Frank Lloyd Wright

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1919 mental illness ended the career of this Russian ballet dancer

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Vaslav Nijinsky

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This astronaut who piloted the command module during the first moon landing was born in Rome, Italy

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Michael Collins

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Her final answer?: On Feb. 29, 2000 she announced she’s leaving Regis & her TV show to spread her “creative wings”

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Kathie Lee Gifford

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| For the November 1999 opening of his Notting Hill bookstore, owner Robie Uniacke had this actor friend clerk for a day

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Hugh Grant

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Using a pack mule, David Jones delivers mail to Supai Village at the bottom of this landmark

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Grand Canyon

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| (Hi, I’m Patrika Darbo of “Days of our Lives”) In a 1994 TV movie I played this domestic goddess comedienne turned sitcom star

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Roseanne

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This ’70s diet doc returned to the weight-loss forefront with his 1999 “New Diet Revolution”

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Robert Atkins

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The first name of this “Ally McBeal” star means “most beautiful” in Greek

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Calista (Flockhart)

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$1700 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| (Alex: To read the clue, now appearing in “The Royal Tour”, please welcome Dame Edna Everage) England’s current royal family belongs to the House of this; it’s also the name of a castle

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Windsor

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1976, at the ripe old age of 25, this future “Dateline” anchor succeeded Barbara Walters on “Today”

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Jane Pauley

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He wrote the script to “Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery” in 3 weeks

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Mike Myers

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| While in college, this Chicago Sun-Times film critic was editor of the Daily Illini student newspaper

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Roger Ebert

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This Guns N’ Roses lead vocalist was born William Bailey

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Axl Rose

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In “Blue Hawaii”, this “Murder, She Wrote” star, then 35, played the mother of 26-year-old Elvis Presley

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Angela Lansbury

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In the 1960s he founded a bricklaying business, pumping bricks, to finance his bodybuilding career

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1998 this former “Entertainment Tonight” host apppeared on boxes of Kellogg’s Oat Bran Flakes

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John Tesh

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This director of the Vietnam War film “Platoon” was awarded a Bronze Star during his tour of duty in the war

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Oliver Stone

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| His trademarks were jeweled costumes & elaborately designed pianos topped by candelabra

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Liberace

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1989 this sitcom star was reunited with the daughter she’d given up for adoption at 18

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Roseanne Barr

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1998 supermodel Rebecca Romijn married this former star of TV’s “Full House”

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John Stamos

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This “Fast Car” singer honed her style on the Boston circuit while a student at Tufts University

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Tracy Chapman

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| With dad in tow, this young royal took in a 1997 Spice Girls concert in South Africa

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Prince Harry (Henry)

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Geena Davis must like smorgasbords – she spent her senior year in high school as an exchange student in this country

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Sweden

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Dean & Davis, great-grandsons of this makeup mogul, have taken their Smashbox Cosmetics Company to the “Max”

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Max Factor

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He’s the tightwad comedian heard here in the golden days of radio

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Jack Benny

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Regis Philbin has 2 middle names: Xavier & this saintly one that often precedes Xavier

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Francis

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$None ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| People Magazine’s 1989 & 1998 Sexiest Men Alive, they played father & son in a blockbuster 1989 film

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Sean Connery & Harrison Ford

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Genesis printer: 1450s

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Johannes Gutenberg

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Great epic-writing Ionian: 9th century B.C.

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Homer

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| 2 moonwalkers: July 20, 1969

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Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Inventive brothers at Kill Devil Hill: December 17, 1903

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Wright Brothers

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Vienna’s first psychoanalyst: late 1800s

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Sigmund Freud

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The leader of rock & roll’s Family Stone

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Sly

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The collective big screen name of brothers Arthur, Herbert, Julius & Leonard

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The Marx Brothers

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This man was in the news in 1978 (Guyana)

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Rev. Jim Jones

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This 11-year-old girl won an Oscar for a 1993 film

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Anna Paquin

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This former head of the Urban League & of Bill Clinton’s transition team testified on tape Feb. 2, 1999

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Vernon Jordan

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This media mogul & owner of the Atlanta Braves is the USA’s largest private bison rancher

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Ted Turner

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The youngest American billionaire ever at age 31, he now owns the Bettman Archive of photo images

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Bill Gates

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The female lead in “Basic Instinct”, she’s definitely not a dumb blonde; her IQ is said to be 154

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Sharon Stone

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| She wore bulky trench coats in episodes of “The X-Files” to hide her real-life pregnancy

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Gillian Anderson

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1987 this director of “Taxi Driver” directed Michael Jackson’s “Bad” video

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Martin Scorsese

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$None ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He made the cover of Life magazine 3 times in February & March of 1962, & again in October 1998

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John Glenn

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This former CBS anchorman is affectionately known as “Uncle Walter”

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Walter Cronkite

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Marilyn Tucker married this fellow Indiana Univ. law student after a whirlwind 10-week courtship

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Dan Quayle

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He played a cab driver obsessed with government cover-ups in “Conspiracy Theory”

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Mel Gibson

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Congressman heard here, years before he entered politics: <i>Babe, I got you babe…</i>

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Sonny Bono

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This woman who married a Beatle attended elementary school with Emperor Akihito

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Yoko Ono

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Diane Sawyer was a staff assistant to this president in the White House & after his resignation, in San Clemente

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Richard Nixon

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Regis Philbin is a proud graduate of this Indiana university, where he majored in sociology

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Notre Dame

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1996 Fatuma Roba became the first woman from this continent to win an Olympic marathon

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Africa

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1991 this billionaire publisher’s body was found in the ocean hours after he vanished from his yacht

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Robert Maxwell

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This director of “The Big Chill” broke into films as co-author of the screenplay for “The Empire Strikes Back”

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Lawrence Kasdan

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This opera star & “Celebrity Jeopardy!” contestant began life as Belle Silverman

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Beverly Sills

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The son of French immigrants, he’s credited with opening the nation’s first health club in 1936

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Jack LaLanne

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| It was the middle name & the more famous name of fashion designer Roy Frowick

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Halston

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell of this state was formerly a top-ranked judo champion

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Colorado

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1994 Chandrika Bandaranaike Kumaratunga became this island country’s first woman president

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Sri Lanka (Ceylon)

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| “You Oughta Know” that her “Jagged Little Pill” is the best-selling debut solo album by a female in the U.S.

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Alanis Morissette

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Yes Sir! In January 1997 this former Beatle & former leader of Wings was made a knight

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Paul McCartney

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered this planet in 1930, passed away in 1997; he was 90

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Pluto

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Dana Owens is the real name of this actress & “royal” rap star

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Queen Latifah

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This retired cartoonist was recently quoted as saying, “I couldn’t conceive of ever going back to ‘The Far Side’”

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Gary Larson

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| On September 1, 1996 this former first daughter married Jim Wentzel at the Pond House near Plains

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Amy Carter

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| After the 1992 election, he managed the Clinton transition team, then became Secretary of State Jan. 20, 1993

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Warren Christopher

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Billboard called this contemporary jazz saxophonist the top instrumentalist of the past decade in terms of sales

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Kenny G

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1995 this paleoanthropologist helped form Safina, a new political party, to rid Kenya of corruption

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Richard Leakey

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This prosecutor of Charles Manson gives his take on the O.J. Simpson trial in his bestseller “Outrage”

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Vincent Bugliosi

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In her divorce from Prince Andrew, she lost the title “Her Royal Highness”

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Sarah Ferguson

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This “King Of Pop” & a Saudi prince launched Kingdom Entertainment, a joint venture, in 1996

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Michael Jackson

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Her estate went on sale at Sotheby’s in New York April 23-26 1996

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Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This daughter of Tony Curtis is now Lady Haden-Guest; husband Christopher inherited the barony

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Jamie Lee Curtis

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This rapper, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was acquitted of murder in February 1996

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Snoop Doggy Dogg

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In March 1996 this husband of Kim Basinger was acquitted of battering a photographer

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Alec Baldwin

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| On Oct. 25, 1993 John Shalikashvili became the first foreign-born chairman of this group

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Joint Chiefs of Staff

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Christine Todd Whitman was elected the 50th governor of this state in 1993

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New Jersey

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This PBS late night talk show host previously worked for Bill Moyers on 3 series

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Charlie Rose

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1989 Daniel Arap Moi named this paleo-anthropologist head of the Kenya Wildlife Service

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Richard Leakey

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| It’s the nickname of Vice President Gore’s wife, Mary Elizabeth

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“Tipper”

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| As Elwood Blues, he hosts “The House of Blues Radio Hour”

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Dan Aykroyd

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This “If It Makes You Happy” singer once sang back-up for Michael Jackson

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Sheryl Crow

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In a 1996 ad campaign Nike ran this Seattle Mariner for president

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Ken Griffey, Jr.

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Nick Park’s “Wallace & Gromit” shorts have earned 3 Oscars using this film making process

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claymation

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This vice president quipped that he’s so boring his Secret Service code name is Al Gore

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Al Gore

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| On Dec. 12, 1995, his 80th birthday, the top of the Empire State Building was lit with blue lights to match his eyes

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Frank Sinatra

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The 1st Canadian journalist to arrive at the scene of JFK’s assassination, he’s now an anchorman

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Peter Jennings

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Patty Hearst had a good laugh when this lawyer began serving a jail term in March 1996

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F. Lee Bailey

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| After dropping out of the 1996 presidential race, this wealthy Republican guest-hosted “Saturday Night Live”

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Steve Forbes

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This actor’s brother-in-law Robert Shriver co-executive-produced his 1994 film “True Lies”

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Arnold Schwarzenegger

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Elected governor of Arkansas in 1978, he was defeated for reelection but later won 4 consecutive terms

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Bill Clinton

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He skated a victory lap at the ‘94 Olympics holding his baby daughter Jane, named for his late sister

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Dan Jansen

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This novelist made a music video of his own song “The Madison County Waltz”; his wife played Francesca in it

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Robert James Waller

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This little girl born March 23, 1990 is the younger sister of Princess Beatrice of York

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Eugenie

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In April 1996 this “Doonesbury” creator joined Time magazine as a regular contributor

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Garry Trudeau

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This “Dr. Quinn” star’s twins John & Kristopher are named in part for Christopher Reeve & Johnny Cash

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Jane Seymour

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This son of A.A. Milne, the inspiration for Winnie-The-Pooh’s human friend, passed away in 1996

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Christopher Robin Milne

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| A vice-presidential candidate in 1984, she recently became co-host of CNN’s “Crossfire”

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Geraldine Ferraro

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1996 this Illinois Democrat pleaded guilty to mail fraud & was sentenced to 17 months in prison

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Dan Rostenkowski

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In July of 1996 an era in baseball ended when this Dodgers manager retired after 20 seasons

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Tommy Lasorda

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This Nation of Islam leader formerly went by the name Louis X

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Louis Farrakhan

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This actress, who stopped traffic in “It Happened One Night”, passed away in 1996

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Claudette Colbert

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Bob Kerrey & J. James Exon, senators from this state, have also served as its governor

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Nebraska

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| After leaving China in 1935, this architect studied at M.I.T. & became a U.S. citizen in 1954

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I.M. Pei

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This current Bulls player holds the career NBA record for points scored per game with 32.2

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Michael Jordan

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The father of this actor best known as Lt. Frank Drebin in the “Naked Gun” movies was a Canadian Mountie

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Leslie Nielsen

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| William Daniels of “Boy Meets World” formerly played Dr. Mark Craig on this TV medical series

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St. Elsewhere

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In July 1993 this Seattle outfielder tied a Major League record by hitting home runs in 8 straight games

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Ken Griffey, Jr.

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| John Beradino, who passed away in 1996, played Dr. Steve Hardy on this daytime soap for over 30 years

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General Hospital

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| According to Forbes Magazine, this talk show host is on her way to becoming America’s first black billionaire

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Oprah Winfrey

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In March 1996 a Johannesburg judge pronounced their 38-year marriage officially over

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the Mandelas

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1995 Jordan’s King Hussein eulogized this slain Israeli PM as “a brother, a colleague and a friend”

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(Yitzhak) Rabin

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| 1995 DNA tests confirmed that a body exhumed in Missouri probably was this notorious outlaw

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Jesse James

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Anchor of the “NBC Nightly News” 1970-1982, he passed away in 1996

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John Chancellor

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Legend says Norma Talmadge began a tradition by accidentally stepping in this at Grauman’s Chinese Theater in 1927

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cement

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Judy Bayly’s dog Lyric saved her by doing this when her oxygen mask slipped off & an alarm sounded

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dial 911

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| After spending an estimated $30 million, he backed out of the presidential race in March 1996

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Steve Forbes

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Her kids are Cody Newton & Cassidy Erin

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Kathie Lee Gifford

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| On March 26, 1996 this Interior Secretary deliberately opened the flood gates of the Glen Canyon Dam

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(Bruce) Babbitt

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| His record as the youngest international grand master in chess stood from 1958-1991

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Bobby Fischer

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1995, 8th grader Chris Galeczka won this contest by knowing that Afghanistan is where Pashtu & Dari are spoken

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the National Geography Bee

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1995, for her groundbreaking study of African chimps, she was awarded the Hubbard Medal

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Jane Goodall

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The daughter of a world champion steer roper, she was the Country Music Association’s best Female Vocalist, 1984-1987

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Reba McEntire

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1993 the Metropolitan Museum presented an exhibition of paintings by this grandson of Sigmund Freud

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Lucien Freud

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Notified of this rival’s death in March 1993, Dr. Jonas Salk called it “a great loss”

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Sabin

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This British expert on black holes has been called “the greatest theoretical physicist since Einstein”

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Stephen Hawking

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This Soviet-born dancer was director of the Paris Opera Ballet from 1983 to 1989

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Nureyev

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1989 his wife Sarah was named chairperson of Handgun Control Inc.

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(James) Brady

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$2000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In August 1994 he was sworn in as the 108th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court

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Stephen Breyer

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| You could say Ellen Gordon’s career is “on a roll”; she’s president of this candy company

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Tootsie Roll

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1983 he said, “We at Chrysler borrow money the old fashioned way: we pay it back”

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Lee Iacocca

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This director of “Seven Samurai” is descended from the great 11th century samurai Abe Sadato

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Akira Kurosawa

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This late “60 Minutes” reporter & ABC anchorman wrote a 1946 novel titled “Tell Me About Women”

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Harry Reasoner

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| At the age of 58, he became the youngest man elected pope in the 20th century

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John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla)

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In commercials for Pizza Hut, this Queen of Soul sang “Deliver Me” to the tune of “Rescue Me”

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Aretha Franklin

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| His father’s first name was Herbert but this general’s first name is just the initial H.

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H. Norman Schwarzkopf

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1976 Ludmila Pakhomova & Aleksandr Gorshkov won the 1st Olympic gold medals in this skating event

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ice dancing

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This former First Lady was president of the Dramatic Club at the Girls’ Latin School in Chicago

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Nancy Reagan

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This straight-shooting Texas governor called her autobiography “Straight from the Heart”

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Ann Richards

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This New York governor is the son of immigrant parents from Salerno, Italy

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Mario Cuomo

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| As a child, he billed himself as “Davino, the Boy Magician”; now he uses this Dickens name

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David Copperfield

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1993 Don Juan de Borbon y Battenberg, the 79-year-old father of this monarch, passed away

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King Juan Carlos

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This “20/20” host got his start in television as the MC for “The Kukla, Fran & Ollie Show”

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Hugh Downs

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This current chairman of the Federal Reserve Board was an ardent follower & friend of Ayn Rand

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Alan Greenspan

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In the last week of July, 1992, 3 books about this woman were on “The New York Times” best-seller list

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Princess Diana

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| She had never held public office before she was elected governor of Alabama in 1966

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Lurleen Wallace

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Famed for his coverage of the Gulf War, this CNN corrspondent was born in New Zealand in 1934

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Peter Arnett

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This showbiz agent is famous for throwing star-studded parties at Spago on Oscar night: think fast!

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Irving “Swifty” Lazar

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Dian Fossey was murdered in this country in 1985

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Rwanda

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Kidnapped from a Detroit area restaurant in 1975, this teamster leader’s disappearance is still a “riddle”

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Jimmy Hoffa

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He was chairman of Columbia Pictures & a VP of Coca-Cola before becoming baseball comm. in 1989

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Fay (Vincent)

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| With Theodore Simon, this French psychologist developed a series of intelligence tests

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(Alfred) Binet

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Aristotle Onassis’ middle name was that of this great Greek philosopher

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Socrates

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This economist & author of “The Affluent Society” served as ambassador to India under JFK

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(John Kenneth) Galbraith

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| With plans uncertain, he told his E Street Band that they could pursue other projects

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Bruce Springsteen

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In October 1989 someone socked this Ohio senator in the jaw during a TV interview

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John Glenn

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1989 this 88-year-old British novelist dictated her 500th novel, “Spirit of Love”

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Dame Barbara Cartland

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In “And the Walls Came Tumbling Down”, this former SCLC head wrote about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

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Dr. Ralph Abernathy

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He was extradited from Switzerland to the U.S. to face charges he aided the Marcoses

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Adnan Khashoggi

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| She got into the advice business before her twin sister, Dear Abby

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Ann Landers

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Evicted from his Oregon ashram, he now lives in Bombay & is called “Zorba The Buddha”

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Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Herbert Ross, who directed the film “Steel Magnolias”, is married to this sister of Jackie Onassis

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Lee Radziwill

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| William J. McCarthy is president of this union

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Teamsters

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This historian & former Librarian of Congress was teaching history at Harvard while studying law at Yale

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Daniel Boorstein

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He played with a Dixieland band & a jazz band before he joined The Police

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Sting (Gordon Sumner)

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Tai Babilonia was only 9 when she began skating with this partner, who was 11

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Randy Gardner

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Her maiden name was Marilyn Tucker, & she met her husband at Indiana University law school

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Marilyn Quayle

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$1100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Performer heard <a>here</a> talking about his craft; you may never have heard him before: <i>“If I want to mime a flower, I take the shape of the flower…”</i>

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Marcel Marceau

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Olympic stars Florence Griffith Joyner & Jackie Joyner-Kersee are related this way

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sisters-in-law

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Ginger Alden, Miss Memphis Traffic Safety, was this rock star’s fiancee at the time of his death in 1977

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Elvis Presley

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1975 Mr. Blackwell called this “Cuchi Cuchi” girl “Carmen Miranda with cleavage”

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Charo

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| When Paramount asked him to tone down the ending of “Do The Right Thing”, this director took it to Universal

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Spike Lee

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This chief foreign correspondent for ABC was recently married for the 4th time

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Pierre Salinger

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Michelle Pfeiffer & Jeff Goldblum starred in his ‘89 Central Park production of “Twelfth Night”

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Joseph Papp

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Reba McEntire was a rodeo rider before she became famous in this profession

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singing

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| According to People Magazine, Prince Charles calls him “Willie the wombat”

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Prince William

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Her good friend Bella Abzug was executive producer of her “Inner Workout” video

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Shirley MacLaine

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Born in the 1890s, this modern dancer became a star in “Xochitl”, an Aztec ballet created for her

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Martha Graham

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$2000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In recent years his widow Jihan was been teaching at a number of U.S. universities

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(Anwar) Sadat

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Last year this man’s son Robbie jumped his motorcycle over 22 cars & broke….his dad’s record

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Evel Knievel

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The N.Y. Times ran a correction when it misstated the shoe size of this Philippine first lady in November, 1988

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Imelda Marcos

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| People Magazine called her 4 year-old daughter Athina “The richest little girl in the world”

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Christina Onassis

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| He says that Gerry Rivers is not his real name but admits he was sometimes called Gerry as a kid

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Geraldo Rivera

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Mary Pickford’s stepson; he made his film debut at 13 in 1922, & in in 1989 he was a guest star on “B.L. Stryker”

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Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| “Today” Show weatherman Willard Scott was the 1st to play this clown for McDonald’s

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Ronald McDonald

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This movie star left his wife down under for actress Linda Kozlowski

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Paul Hogan

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| A Yankee broadcaster for 18 yrs., this former Cardinal player became president of the N.L. in 1989

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Bill White

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The Kennedy who announced he & wife Sheila would separate & he would not run for Mass. governor in 1990

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Joseph Kennedy II

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| The books “In God’s Name” & “A Thief in the Night” investigated his 1978 death

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Pope John Paul I (Albino Luciani)

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| She was crowned queen of England just 4 days after Edmund Hillary conquered Mount Everest

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Elizabeth II

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1978 the duchess of Alba, one of the wealthiest women in this country, married an ex-priest

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Spain

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Surprisingly, this man, Elvis’ manager, was born in Holland, & his real name is Andreas van Kuijk

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Colonel Parker

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| When he auctioned off his wacky wardrobe, his Pinball Wizard boots sold for over $20,000

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Elton John

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This star of 1940s aquatic movie musicals is in the swim again with her own line of swimwear

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Esther Williams

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Pen name of Lafayette Hubbard, who died in 1986 after spending years in seclusion

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L. Ron Hubbard

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| This lyricist co-edited the Choate Prep School yearbook with JFK before he wrote “Camelot”

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(Alan Jay) Lerner

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Heavyweight Italian tenor who says he doesn’t like to sing until he’s found a bent nail on the stage floor

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Luciano Pavarotti

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| His wife Leona was a self-made millionairess before she became “queen” of his hotels

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(Harry) Helmsley

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| A goddaughter of the Duke & Duchess of Windsor, this debutante used to date Sly Stallone

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Cornelia Guest

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Michele L’Esperance made the cover of people after having this many test tube babies all at once

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Tony Award-winning daughter of Tony winners Tammy Grimes & Christopher Plummer

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Amanda Plummer

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Historian who wrote about “The Calamitous 14th Century” in “A Distant Mirror”

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Barbara Tuchman

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$800 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| A hall at this NYC site is named for Alice Tully, who provided most of the funds

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Lincoln Center

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In 1971, at the age of 19, this now-exiled leader became the youngest president in the world

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Jean-Claude (“Baby Doc”) Duvalier

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$100 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Choosing not to eat in homes of others, Mother Teresa said no to this NYC mayor’s cookies & lemonade

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Koch

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Michael Jackson tried to buy from a London College the remains of John Merrick, better known as this

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the Elephant Man

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$300 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Model Paulina Porizkova said that due to a recent bonding job, she’ll now show these on magazine covers

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her teeth

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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In June 1987, Gary Eugene Duda petitioned a Georgia court to have his name changed to this, my oh my

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Zippity (Duda)

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$500 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| According to Forbes magazine, distinction of Sam Walton of Bentonville, Ark. among all the people in the U.S.

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the richest

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$200 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Actress whose exercise plan is called “The Body Principal”

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Victoria Principal

274
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$400 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| “Yippie” leader who wrote a book called “Steal This Book”

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Abbie Hoffman

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$600 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| Now a real estate developer, this actor opened up territory as “Daniel Boone”

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Fess Parker

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$1000 ||| Category: PEOPLE ||| In March, 1985, Michael Lewis, intending to fly to Oakland, Cal. inadvertently ended up in this city

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Auckland

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