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'Catch 22' character. Seemingly innocuous at first, he turns out to be one of the most evil in the book when he mindlessly defenestrates a working girl thus killing her.
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Aarfy Aardvark
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Wife of 2nd US president. Mother of 6th US president.
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Abigail Adams
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Capital of Ethiopia.
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Addis Ababa
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US actor. Films 'The Seduction of Joe Tynan'. 'To Kill a Clown'. 'Same Time Next Year'.
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Alan Alda
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US tennis player. Australian Open 1995, 2000, 2001, 2003. French Open 1999. Wimbledon 1992.
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Andre Agassi
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"My name is _____ and I am a _________ ."
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Alcoholics Anonymous
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Fifth largest city in Michigan. Home of the University of Michigan.
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Ann Arbor
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UK actor. TV 'Brideshead Revisited'. 'The Scarlet Pimpernel'. 'Danger UXB'. Films 'Operation Daybreak'. 'The King's Speech'. |
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Anthony Andrews
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UK singer. Birth name - Stuart Goddard. Stage name an insect.
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Adam Ant
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"Up and at 'em, **** ***!"
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Atom Ant
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US actor. 'Last of the Red Hot Lovers'. 'Catch 22'. 'Freebie and the Bean'.
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Alan Arkin
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US tennis player. Only black male to win Wimbledon. Died of AIDS.
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Arthur Ashe
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UK car club founded in 1905. Still going.
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Automobile Association
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US actress/model. 'The Spy Who Loved Me'. 'Force Ten From Navarone'.
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Barbara Bach
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US composer, songwriter, record producer, pianist and singer. He was married to Angie Dickinson and Carole Bayer Sager (not at the same time but). Considered influential in his chosen career.
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Burt Bacharach
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Fictional character in a movie featuring a portrayal of real-life gangster 'Dutch' Schultz.
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Billy Bathgate
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French model/actress. 'And God Created Woman'.
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Brigitte Bardot
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Fictional character. "Now go and get your ******* shine box."
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Billy Batts
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German tennis player. Australian Open 1991, 1996. Wimbledon 1987, 1989, 1991. US Open 1989.
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Boris Becker
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Confederate general mortally wounded at the First Battle of Manassas,1861. He died the following day. His shout to his men "There's Jackson standing like a stonewall!" gave General Thomas Jackson his nickname.
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Bernard Bee
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This TV show was much acclaimed by viewers and critics alike. The central character is an alliterative in this quiz.
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Breaking Bad
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Irish writer. Plays/books 'The Quare Fellow'. 'The Hostage'. 'Borstal Boy'. 'Confessions of an Irish Rebel'.
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Brendan Behan
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Fictional character in a gangster movie. "Look into your heart!"
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Bernie Bernbaum
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Fictional 'Wild West' showman with a travelling act.
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Bronco Billy
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US TV actor. Had an alien 'uncle' in the 'sixties. Later turned green when he was pissed off about something. Went through a lot of shirts.
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Bill Bixby
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Cantankerous, alcoholic, Irish, book seller played by Dylan Moran.
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Bernard Black
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US baseball player. Pittsburgh Pirates. San Francisco Giants.
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Barry Bonds
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Cartoon flapper of the 'Jazz Age'. First appeared in 1934.
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Betty Boop
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Swedish tennis player. Five times Wimbledon champion. Winner of more than ten grand slams.
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Bjorn Borg
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Confederate general. Commanded the Army of Mississippi (later renamed the Army of Tennessee) from June 1862 until December 1863. Commanded a corps at Shiloh.
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Braxton Bragg
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Son of Lloyd. Brother of Jeff.
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Beau Bridges
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Australian actor. Films 'The Thorn Birds'. 'Breaker Morant'. 'FX'. 'Cocktail'.
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Bryan Brown
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Clothes horse during 'Regency England' (1811-1820). His fashion sense was widely imitated by men the world over. Friend of future king George IV until they fell out. Died shabbily dressed and insane in Cohen, France.
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Beau Brummel
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Aboriginal Australian sportsman/activist .
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Burnum Burnum
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Wife of 41st US president. Mother of 43rd US president.
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Barbara Bush
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Professor friend of Tintin and Captain Haddock. He takes them to the moon.
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Cuthbert Calculus
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World War II Australian fighter pilot. Australia's top fighter ace ever. 28.5 enemy aircraft shot down including an 'ace in a day.' Flew over 300 operational sorties.
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Clive Caldwell
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US jazz singer. Cotton Club. "Hi-de-ho."
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Cab Calloway
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Fictional Hawaiian detective. A vast contrast to Fu Manchu.
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Charlie Chan
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New York City entertainment venue. Prohibition. Jim Crow. Jazz. Blues.
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Cotton Club
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Darling of perfume and fashion. Born in Saumur, France 1883. Died in Paris, France 1971. Accusations of collaborating with occupying Nazi forces in France during WWII are not as nice a scent as her No. 5.
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Coco Chanel
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English born US actor. Scruffy vagabond whose style of moustache was more famous/infamous when worn by an Austrian born German.
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Charlie Chaplin
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Prussian general and military theorist. Wrote 'On War'. You have forgotten the 'von' bit like I did, haven't you? Good lad/lass. We can be friends.
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Carl Clausewitz
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Former name of 'The Greatest'.
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Cassius Clay
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24-year-old Girondin sympathiser who stuck a knife in a Jacobin leader while he was taking a medicinal bath for a skin disease he picked up in the Paris sewers when using them to flee from his enemies. The poor, wee lass had to face one of those horrifying machines with a huge Gillette blade on it, four days later.
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Charlotte Corday
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Wrigley Field.
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Chicago Cubs
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Saxophonist. E Street Band.
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Clarence Clemons
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1492.
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Christopher Columbus
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US baseball player/actor. Brooklyn Dodgers. Pittsburgh Pirates. TV 'The Rifleman'. 'Roots'. Films 'The Big Country'. 'Soylent Green'.
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Chuck Connors
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30th president of the US.
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Calvin Coolidge
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UK cricketer. 7,624 runs in Test cricket. 42,719 runs in First Class cricket.
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Colin Cowdrey
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US singer. Songs 'Sailing'. 'Arthur's Theme'.
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Christopher Cross
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Cartoon character. 'Whacky Races'. Has a sniggering dog.
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Dick Dastardly
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"Que, Sera Sera."
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Doris Day
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UK writer. Shipwreck. Cannibals. Loyal native companion.
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Daniel Defoe
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US actress. TV 'China Beach'. 'Desperate Houewives.' Films 'Tombstone.' 'This Beautiful Life.'
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Dana Delany
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RCMP. It is DD-R actually and I will scrub this entry if I get at least three objections from my viewers.
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Dudley Doright
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English actress. Films 'Oliver Twist'. 'Lady Godiva Rides Again'. 'Doctor at Sea'.
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Diana Dors
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US actor. Unexplained mysteries. Marley smoker. The truth is wherever you can nail it down.
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David Duchovny
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Speech impediment. White ring around his neck. Quacks.
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Daffy Duck
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Eyelashes. Hair bow. Heeled shoes. Quacks.
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Daisy Duck
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Wears a sailor uniform. Quacks.
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Donald Duck
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Premier of South Australia. His casual attire whilst conducting state business annoyed a lot of people. Fair enough. Not much to do in Crow-Eater-Land except bitch and develop skin cancer.
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Don Dunstan
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Fictional character in the film adaptation of 'The Searchers' by Alan LeMay. Quite ruthless Texan prairie man. 'Amos' in the book.
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Ethan Edwards
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'Popeye' Doyle was based on this real-life New York detective.
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Eddie Egan
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Son of Martin. Brother of a warlock with tiger blood.
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Emilio Estevez
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US actress. Diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia. Jessica Lange portrays her in a 1982 film.
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Frances Farmer
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US model/actress. TV 'Charlie's Angels'. Films 'Extremities'. 'The Burning Bed'.
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Farrah Fawcett
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UK actor. Films 'The Informers'. 'The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner'. Plays the cursing, bad-tempered native village Catholic priest in 'The Wild Geese'.
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Frank Finlay
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Alright. Dino... Bamm-Bamm... Barney... Wilma... Betty... The Great Gazoo... Pearl Slaghoople... Mister Slate... Creepella Gruesome... Fred Flintstone... Hanna- Barbera Productions.
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Fred Flintstone
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Australian ophthalmologist and missionary priest. Notable for his contributions to medicine, Aboriginal welfare and religion.
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Frank Flynn
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US actor. Played 'Chef' in 'Apocalypse Now'. Other films 'When the Legends Die'. 'The Conversation'. 'The Missouri Breaks'. 'The Rose'. 'Falling Down'.
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Frederic Forrest
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UK writer. Books 'The Dogs of War'. 'The Odessa File'. The Day of the Jackal'.
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Frederick Forsyth
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Smiling dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975. France handed over to him 40,000 republicans at the end of the Spanish Civil War. Firing squads all over the place. |
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Francisco Franco
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German general. Turned a blind eye to the activities of the July Plot conspirators who tried to assassinate Hitler. When the coup d'etat failed, he quickly had the leaders executed to silence them. It did not save him.
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Friedrich Fromm
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Italian astronomer. Often accredited with Copernicus' discoveries and vice versa. Doesn't matter. At least things are discovered. I, personally, think it is important to know that Neptune has six moons and that Pluto has been an imposter for centuries.
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Galileo Galilei
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Swedish/US actress. Born Stockholm, Sweden. She wanted to be left alone.
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Greta Garbo
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One of a trio of UK comedians. TV show 'The Goodies'.
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Graeme Garden
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UK/US actress. Films 'Goodbye, Mr. Chips'. 'Blossoms in the Dust'. 'Mrs. Miniver'. 'Madame Curie'. 'Mrs. Parkington'. 'The Valley of Decision'. 'Little Women'.
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Greer Garson
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US singer. Seriously needs a locksmith that knows what he/she is doing. She will persevere though.
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Gloria Gaynor
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Fictional character. Greedy corporate raider.
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Gordon Gekko
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US pianist/composer. Compositions 'Rhapsody in Blue'. 'An American in Paris'. 'Porgy and Bess'.
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George Gershwin
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World War II UK wing commander. VC. Led the 'dam busters' raid, 1943. KIA 1944.
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Guy Gibson
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Executed in Utah for two murders, 1977. Requested and was granted being taken out by firing squad. The Nike company's logo was inspired by his last words (according to their advertising chief executive).
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Gary Gilmore
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Australian cricketer. All rounder. His name pronounced identically to the above but the surnames are spelt differently.
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Gary Gilmour
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UK singer. Birth name Paul Gadd. Sex offender. Gaoled for 16 years. Happily, he is still there.
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Gary Glitter
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UK cricketer. Captained Essex and England. 67,057 runs in first class and limited over cricket combined. One of 25 players to have scored over 100 first class centuries.
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Graham Gooch
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UK novelist. Books 'Brighton Rock'. 'Our Man in Havana'. 'The Third Man'.
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Graham Greene
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West Indies cricketer. Born Barbados. Opening batsman. 7,558 runs in Test cricket. 37,354 runs in First Class cricket.
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Gordon Greenidge
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Australian 'writer'. Scribbled something that got published somehow. A serial pest of US and UK celebrities. Slept with anyone. Even Norman Mailer nailed her. She was naked and he was 'dead'.
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Germaine Greer
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US actor. TV 'L.A. Law'. 'Favourite Son'. Films 'Clash of the Titans'. 'Strange Wilderness'.
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Harry Hamlin
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US film director. Films 'Bringing Up Baby'. 'His Girl Friday'. 'The Big Sleep'. 'Red River'. 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes'.
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Howard Hawks
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Men's magazine creator and publisher.
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Hugh Hefner
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German born Swiss poet/writer. Books 'Demian'. 'Steppenwolf'. 'The Glass Bead Game'.
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Hermann Hesse
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Reichsfuhrer SS. One of the most feared men in Europe before and during WWII. The man himself was scared of his own shadow.
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Heinrich Himmler
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Adolf Hitler's official photographer. He introduced his assistant, Eva Braun, to Hitler.
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Heinrich Hoffmann
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US actor. Films 'Magnum Force'. 'All the President's Men'. 'Wall Street'. 'The Firm'. 'The Star Chamber'.
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Hal Holbrook
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17th prime minister of Australia. Drowned in office.
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Harold Holt
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31st president of the US.
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Herbert Hoover
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Actress/Hollywood gossip columnist. Strongly supported the Hollywood blacklist. Named names... even one poor soul she saw sipping a pink gin. Louella Parsons was her arch-rival.
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Hedda Hopper
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Fictional Royal Navy officer. Napoleonic Wars. First book 'The Happy Return'. The last book 'The Last Encounter'.
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Horatio Hornblower
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Hungarian born US escape artist.
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Harry Houdini
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Explorer. 'Halve Maen'. 'Discovery'. Mutiny.
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Henry Hudson
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'Spruce Goose.'
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Howard Hughes
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Lyndon Johnson's vice president. Supported the Vietnam War. Lost to Richard Nixon when he ran for president.
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Hubert Humphrey
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US actress. TV sitcom 'Mad About You'. Films 'Twister'. 'As Good as It Gets'.
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Helen Hunt
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US actress. Films 'Raising Arizona'. 'The Piano'. 'The Firm'. 'Crash'.
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Holly Hunter
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Australian writer. Books 'Lasseter's Last Ride'. 'Flynn of the Inland'. 'The Cattle King'. The last book is about Australian cattleman and pastoralist Sir Sidney Kidman. Nicole Kidman is related to him.
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Ion Idriess
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Australian lawyer/politician/judge. 9th governor-general of Australia.
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Isaac Isaacs
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Sister of a singer who wore only one glove and was constantly groping his crotch while performing.
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Janet Jackson
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A cross between a Confederate guerilla and later outlaw who rode with William Quantrill and 'Bloody' Bill Anderson (first name) and a Confederate general who was wounded by friendly fire shortly after achieving his greatest victory. The general died eight days later when pneumonia set in (last name).
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Jesse Jackson
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UK singer/songwriter. "Kill all the blacks... kill all the reds... and if there's war between the sexes then there'll be no people left."
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Joe Jackson
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