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A tactile gesture, real or metaphoric, that all workers would love to receive at the end of their tenure in a position of employment.
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Golden handshake
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Famous Las Vegas casino. Opened 1946.
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Golden Nugget
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Pierce Brosnan's first appearance as James Bond.
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Goldeneye
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1830 Stendhal novel. It chronicles the life of a social climber of modest beginnings, in Bourbon Restoration France (1814-1830).
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The Red and the Black
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Name of one of the factories that was the scene of brutal fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad.
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Red October
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1895 novel by Stephen Crane. A young Union soldier flees from his first engagement and later wants to get a musket ball lodged in a part of his anatomy or at least get nicked with a length of cold steel to make amends for his earlier flight.
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The Red Badge of Courage
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"The Vodka Swillers are a-comin'!" World War Three and the USA is saved by teenagers who call themselves 'Gulo gulo luscus'. Helping American victory is the supreme sacrifice of two brothers... a dirty dancer and a warlock with tiger blood.
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Red Dawn
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1959 science-fiction film. Mars Rocket-1 (MR-1) lands on Mars. Carnivorous plants. Bat-rat-spider-crab creature. MR-1 escapes back to Earth. Martians let it be known to the Earthlings via a recording on the MR-1's database that... basically... they know where they live... come back to Mars again... and we will work on a Final Solution for you.
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The Angry Red Planet
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Two periods in American history... so far. The first (1917-1920). The second (1947-1957). The second instalment of the phenomenon is also known as 'McCarthyism' after Senator Joseph McCarthy who not only saw manifestations of this threat under his bed but also in his coffee and stool when he looked down before he flushed.
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Red Scare
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Star. According to estimates this type of star makes up three quarters of the stars in the Milky Way. I believe it. Even though it is said you cannot see a ___ _____ from Earth with the naked eye.
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Red Dwarf
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1948 John Wayne film. Also Walter Brennan, Montgomery Clift. Fictionalised account of the first cattle drive from Texas to Kansas.
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Red River
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1983 Prince song.
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Little Red Corvette
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Name of the capital of Mongolia translated to English.
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Red Hero
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A misleading fish.
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Red herring
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Infectious disease. Most commonly affects children aged 5-15 years. No vaccine.
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Scarlet fever
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Belle of Tara.
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Scarlett O'Hara
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Nemesis of the Mysterons.
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Captain Scarlet
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1850 historical fiction work by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
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The Scarlet Letter
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1887 novel. First appearance of Sherlock Holmes. (Is it banned in Utah, USA I wonder?)
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A Study in Scarlet
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1982 novel. 1985 film adaptation. Dark happenings in rural Georgia amongst African-Americans.
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The Color Purple
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1984 Prince song.
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Purple Rain
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1912 Western book by Zane Grey.
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Riders of the Purple Sage
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1967 Jimi Hendrix song.
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Purple Haze
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Capital of Northwest Territories, Canada.
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Yellowknife
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1970 Joni Mitchell song.
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Big Yellow Taxi
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She secured one hundred of these around a plant of the genus Quercus.
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Yellow Ribbon
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Viral disease transmitted by mosquitoes. If there is kidney damage to the victim the skin colour changes.
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Yellow fever
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Impure uranium oxide.
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Yellowcake
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3,395 mile long river in China. Second longest in the country.
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Yellow River
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1866 waltz composed by Johann Strauss about a 1,770 mile long river in Europe. Second longest in the continent.
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Blue Danube
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1983 movie about a police helicopter that has far too much 'gun.'
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Blue Thunder
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1965 movie. A blind young woman who has suffered domestic violence and worse befriends an educated, African-American man in a park. They become close. Based on the 1961 novel 'Be Ready with Bells and Drums' by Australian writer Elizabeth Kata.
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A Patch of Blue
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A solid form of pure carbon. In the case of the answer, it gets a colouring through traces of boron.
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Blue diamond
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1990 action thriller. Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown. A policewoman gets really annoyed with the change of attitudes towards her by people, on finding out she is a representative of the law enforcement community.
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Blue Steel
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1988 French film about free diving. Jean Reno.
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The Big Blue
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Elvis Presley in the islands of the Spam lovers.
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Blue Hawaii
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1986 movie. "Don't you look at me, ____!" Another in a long list of Dennis Hopper's over-the-top, psychotic roles.
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Blue Velvet
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1980 movie about two children and a cook shipwrecked on an island in a tropical paradise. Poisonous berries. The female lead's performance did not impress the critics. Not far behind her, in their view, was the performance of the male lead. Box office did not care. Some peoples' wallets and purses were fattened.
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Blue Lagoon
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1972 novel by Joseph Wambaugh, whilst he was a serving officer of the LAPD. The book covers the last week of a LAPD officer's service before retirement. Wambaugh also wrote 'The New Centurions' (1971) and 'The Choir Boys' (1975). These books also cover the lives of officers in the LAPD.
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The Blue Knight
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1973 crime thriller. Robert Blake. Motorcycle police officers in Arizona. The title is a reference to a Harley Davidson model that came out in 1965.
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Electra Glide in Blue
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1936 Tintin adventure set in China during the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931.
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The Blue Lotus
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Colloquial name of the Nazi Party's paramilitary organisation Sturmabteilung (SA). The SA was superseded by the SS in 1934 after 'The Night of the Long Knives.'
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Brownshirts
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US actor. Prolific voice actor. Films 'Shoot to Kill' (aka 'Deadly Pursuit'), Highlander, Blue Steel. Well known role is the captain of the prison guard in a movie about wrongful incarceration and survival.
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Clancy Brown
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"... meaner than a junkyard dog."
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Leroy Brown
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Well known type of townhouse in the US, especially New York City. To be considered a true example of the answer it must have at least two storeys.
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Brownstone
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"Good grief."
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Charlie Brown
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2017 Western film. Bill Pullman, Peter Fonda, Tommy Flanagan.
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The Ballad of Lefty Brown
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1985 Western film. Kevin Kline, Scott Glenn, Danny Glover, Kevin Costner, Brian Dennehy, John Cheese.
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Silverado
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1976 comedy/thriller film. Gene Wilder, Richard Pryor, Jill Clayburgh.
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Silver Streak
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1985 werewolf movie. What kills them.
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Silver Bullet
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1883 novel. Answer is the main antagonist, arguably the most famous fictional pirate in literature.
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Long John Silver
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What every cloud supposedly has.
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Silver lining
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Rolls Royce model. Production (1906-1926). 7874 manufactured. Also called a 40/50.
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Silver Ghost
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Rolls Royce model. Production (1965-1980). 30,057 manufactured. Also called ______ Wraith II.
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Silver Shadow
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Having a wealthy or privileged background.
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Silver spoon
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United States Armed Forces' third highest military decoration for valour in combat.
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Silver Star
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