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  | DEATH? NO, THANK YOU! (MOVIE EDITION) |  
   
 
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    | Not that long ago in our galaxy, President Reagan's Strategic Defense Initiative was commonly called this | 
    Star Wars
 
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    | The old design here is sometimes called this kind of man's lock, as the key could still be guided to the hole after a few pints | 
    (Alan: What's [**]?) (Ken: Yes, we'll take that--[*].)
  the drunk man's lock (the drunken man's)
 
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    Bakarl: Actor named after his father, not the Chicago Bull | 
    Michael (B.) Jordan
 
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    | Dany says, "'My speech may be Tyroshi, and my garb Dothraki, but I am of" this continent, "of the Sunset Kingdoms"' | 
    Westeros
 
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    | Kylo Ren throws the kitchen sink of weaponry at this character, but as the dust settles, he just flicks some off his shoulder, NBD | 
    Luke Skywalker
 
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    | Gotta stop by Tim Hortons & pick up a double-double, coffee with 2 servings of each of these | 
    (Cynthia: What is... milk and sugar?)
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    | Heading out on the Oregon Trail? Grab a prairie schooner in Independence in this Midwest state | 
    Missouri
 
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    | After singer Connie Francis was attacked in a hotel room, a fan designed a now-standard type of door lock with this for a key | 
    a card
 
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    Brownell: A major figure in the women's suffrage movement | 
    Susan B. Anthony
 
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    | "Do you stand there, Scarlett O'Hara, and tell me that" this place--"that land--doesn't amount to anything?" | 
    Tara
 
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    | After countless TV deaths--okay, we chose not to count 'em all--he made another comeback on the big screen | 
    Kenny
 
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    | Molson muscle is synonymous with this other alliterative anatomical feature you might develop from drinking too much Molson | 
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    | He made his fortune selling gear to miners in California, expanded it with railroads & founded a university | 
    (Aaron: Go, Cardinal.) (Ken: Are you a [*] grad?) (Aaron: Yes, I am.) (Ken: Well, there you go; you didn't want to miss that one.) (Aaron: Not at all.)
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    | These moveable lock parts that must be aligned can be in the form of pins, discs, wafers or levers | 
    tumblers
 
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    Gamaliel: Ohioan who won the presidency with a front porch campaign | 
    Warren G. Harding
 
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    | In "A Confederacy of Dunces", "There may be a few costumes. That's what's so wonderful about" this city | 
    New Orleans
 
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    | This character died at the end of the second film of a franchise, but luckily for him, film 3 was "The Search for" him | 
    Spock
 
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    | A type of flat, sweet pastry is a "tail" of this very Canadian animal | 
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    | "One of those uncommon geniuses", said William Henry Harrison of this Shawnee chief whose people he defeated at Tippecanoe | 
    Tecumseh
 
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    | You might remember this company's black-faced 1500 series combination padlock hanging from your high school locker | 
    Master Lock
 
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    Stockton: Gonzo journalist & counterculture author | 
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    | Jack Torrance learns "one reason" this hotel "lost so much money lies in the depreciation that occurs each winter"; yup, that's 1 reason | 
    (Ken: In The Shining, right.)
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    | Stephen Lang's Colonel Miles Quaritch shook off death with a big, new blue body in this 2022 sequel | 
    (Ken: Yes, you remembered what the second [*] was called, well done.)
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    | A bunny hug is this garment, with hood attached | 
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    | Frances Perkins first worked for FDR when he was governor of N.Y.; in 1933, he appointed her secretary of this department | 
    Labor
 
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    | From French, it's the term for a lock that's recessed inside a door, as well as for the pocket in which it's installed | 
    (Ken: Tough clue, that's called a [*].)
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    Blount: Director of close-up & wide shots in epic films | 
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    | Her last novel, 1940's "Sapphira and the Slave Girl", is set in Virginia, not frontier Nebraska | 
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    | This mask-wearing maniac of many films has been killed by Tommy Jarvis, obliterated by the FBI & sent to hell by his niece | 
    (Ken: It is tough to be [*], yes.)
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    | A coupe longueuil is this fashionable(?) look, commerce in the front & fête in the back | 
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