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THE STAR OF OSCAR'S BEST PICTURE |
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HE GREW UP TO BE PRESIDENT |
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After the success of "The Grapes of Wrath", he went to Mexico to collect marine life with a biologist buddy |
Steinbeck
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1976: Sylvester Stallone |
(Alex: A minute to go now.)
Rocky
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My winnings are in the overhead bin as I sit on the runway of the airport in this city, 5757 Wayne Newton Blvd. |
(Penn: [Protesting at being beaten at the buzzer] I--I had it.)
Las Vegas
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Upon signing this document, John Hancock supposedly said, "I guess King George will be able to read that" |
the Declaration of Independence
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At Eureka College, he was an athlete as well as an actor & student body president |
Ronald Reagan
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The Torah has 5 books; this is the first |
(Zachary: What is the Talmud?)
Genesis
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Chapter IX of this Dumas novel is "D'Artagnan Takes Command" |
The Three Musketeers
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1990: Kevin Costner |
(Zachary: What is Field of Dreams?)
Dances with Wolves
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You'll find the runway of Gdansk Lech Walesa Airport in this country |
Poland
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Attributed to the Duchess of Windsor is the quote "You can never be too rich or too" this |
thin
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As a 5-year-old, he made $5 on Saturdays selling boiled peanuts on the street |
Jimmy Carter
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This "Wild" star was alphabetically last among the 5 Best Actress Oscar nominees for 2014 |
Reese Witherspoon
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He never said "nuclear wessel"; he did say his "Cherry Orchard" was "a comedy, in places even a farce" |
(Anton) Chekhov
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2010: Colin Firth |
The King's Speech
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If you've just landed at this New York City airport, your checked bags are tagged "LGA" |
LaGuardia
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The Bible says to "lay up... treasures in" this place, "where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt" |
heaven
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Arthur Andersen of the "Big 5" in this profession turned out to be cooking Enron's books |
accounting
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In an 1851 novel, this character is monomaniacal, blasphemous, 1 for 2 in the legs department & ultimately doomed |
(Penn: I love you! What is Moby-Dick? Oh, no--[*]! What is [*]?) (Alex: Thank you for correcting yourself so quickly.) [Penn walks out from behind his lectern, over to the side of the lecterns at the front of the stage, puts his head down on his lectern, and walks back again.]
Ahab
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1986: Charlie Sheen |
Platoon
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In France most traffic is at de Gaulle, but 29 million used the runways of this other Paris airport in 2014 |
Orly
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This football coach is known for the motto "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing" |
Vince Lombardi
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The MPAA's 5 movie ratings are G, PG, PG-13, R & this one |
(Cynthia: What is X?)
NC-17
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Though this poet was noted for drinking, rabies rather than alcohol may have caused his 1849 death in Baltimore |
Edgar Allan Poe
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1970: George C. Scott |
Patton
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On the runway in Pisa at night, look at the stars as you leave the airport named for this 17th c. Italian astronomer |
Galileo
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In 1971, as head of the National Security Council, he said that power "is the great aphrodisiac" |
Kissinger
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In 1924, at the age of 15, he graduated from his Texas high school, then worked as a grape picker |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Lyndon Baines Johnson
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In this ancient text, Sun Tzu outlined 5 advantages to use against a military opponent |
The Art of War
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