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[Fifth Generation]

12) On this date in 1998, forty-six states agreed to a $206 billion settlement of health claims against the (Product, please) industry. The industry also agreed to give up billboard advertising of cigarettes.

[Fifth Generation]

13) On this date in 2001, the (Governmental Body, please) headquarters building was renamed the Robert F. Kennedy building by President George W. Bush. The event was held on what would have been Kennedy's 76th birthday.

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I) An American jurist, he served as a federal judge from 1905 to 1922 and as the first Commissioner of Baseball from 1920 until his death. (Personality, please) (20 November, 1866 – 25 November, 1944) is remembered for his handling of the Black Sox scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His firm actions and iron rule over baseball in the near quarter-century of his commissionership are generally credited with restoring public confidence in the game.

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II) An American astronomer, (Personality, please) (20 November, 1889 – 28 September, 1953) played a crucial role in establishing the field of extragalactic astronomy and is generally regarded as one of the most important observational cosmologists of the 20th century. Our orbital observational and photographic scientific platform is named for him.

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III) He was a supporting actor in dozens of films, including “The Little Minister” (1934) with Katharine Hepburn, “Anna Karenina” (1935) with Greta Garbo, Alfred Hitchcock's “Rebecca” (1940) and the Frank Sinatra crime caper film “Assault on a Queen” (1966). (Personality, please) (20 November 1891 – 16 June 1967)’s last role was in “Batman” (1966) as Commodore Schmidlapp.

[Fifth Generation]

IV) He was a British/American journalist, television personality and broadcaster. Outside his journalistic output, which included “Letter from America” and “(Personality, please) (20 November, 1908 – 30 March, 2004)’s America”, he was well known in the United States as the host of PBS “Masterpiece Theater” from 1971 to 1992. After holding the job for 22 years, and having worked in television for 42 years, he retired in 1992, although he continued to present “Letter from America” until shortly before his death.

[Fifth Generation]

V) This American comedienne, actress, singer, and radio personality appeared on Broadway and in films. She hosted her own network radio program, a popular series broadcast from 1943 to 1955. By the time her radio program ended in 1955, she easily made a smooth transition to television with appearances on “The Colgate Comedy Hour”, “The Steve Allen Show”, “Matinee Theatre”, “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”, “Make Room For Daddy”,and other shows. In 1967, (Personality, please) (20 November, 1913 – 05 August, 1983) portrayed Mammy Yokum in an unsold TV pilot adapted from Al Capp's “Li'l Abner”. She also worked on Broadway and in Vegas nightclubs through the early 1970s, touring with “No, No Nanette” in 1971.

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VI) This English actor was well known for playing Corporal Peter Newkirk on “Hogan's Heroes”. (Personality, please) (20 November 1932 – 02 June 2012) was the original host of the “Family Feud” game show from 1976–1985 and 1994–1995, and a regular panelist on the 1970s version of “Match Game” on CBS from 1973 to 1978.

[Fifth Generation]

VII) She served as the chief White House correspondent for “NBC News” from 1977 to 1982, and covered Washington, for NBC's “The Today Show” from 1982 to 1983. In 1983, (Personality, please) (20 November, 1946) moved to PBS, where for 10 years she was chief Washington correspondent for “The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour”. From 1984 to 1990, she was also the host of the PBS documentary series “Frontline With ___”. In 1993 she joined CNN, where for 12 years she was the host of “Inside Politics”. She is a board member at the International Women's Media Foundation and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

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VIII) He had recurring roles in “Rhoda” from 1974 to 1978; “One Day at a Time” from 1975 to 1976; “Hot L Baltimore” in 1975; and the pilot to an NBC sitcom,“Bumpers”, in 1977. In January 2006, he began appearing as a recurring character on the soap opera “All My Children”.(Personality, please)(November 20, 1948) has also appeared in guest spots on many TV shows, including “M*A*S*H”,“All In The Family”,“Hawaii Five-0",“Happy Days”,“Picket Fences”,“Matlock”,“Murphy Brown” and “Law & Order”. Look for him, also, in “Encino Man”(1992), as husband to Mariette Hartley.

[Alex Trebek]

Fifth Generation wrote:

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Did Danny Kaye sing about Wonderful Copenhagen?

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Would that be Mexican?

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Ooh! Are we going Dutch?

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<quoted text>Would we say Jerusalem?

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<quoted text>Do you drink Darjeeling?

correct a+

[Alex Trebek]

Fifth Generation wrote:

<quoted text>Do we call it pollen?

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Would that be 'mach'?

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<quoted text><coff, coff> Is that ammonia?

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<quoted text>Is that Carotin?

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<quoted text>Is that Bozo's Bozon?

Gluons

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PROOF Obama's ReElection = ANTICHRIST_______

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[Alex Trebek]

Fifth Generation wrote:

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Z'at Franz Liszt?

correct

[Alex Trebek]

Fifth Generation wrote:

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Evaporated milk makes really good fudge.

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<quoted text>Do we call it quinine?

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<quoted text>I don't think I'd be too fond of kippers.

correct

[Alex Trebek]

Fifth Generation wrote:

<quoted text>Is that a drachma?

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<quoted text>Was that the Eagle, landing on the Moon?

correct
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Fifth Generation wrote:

<quoted text>Was that Pius XII?

John 23

[beachball]

Alex Trebek wrote:

Repost ....______ CLASSICAL COMPOSERS __________
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$300 ~ In 1977, his "Immortal Beloved" was identified as Antonie Brentano, wife of a merchant
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$500 ~ He composed his "Leningrad Symphony" during the World War II siege of Leningrad

Beethoven

Dmitri Shostakovich

[beachball]

Alex Trebek wrote:

Repost ....______ POETRY __________
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$600 ~ Originally, he didn't want his "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" published
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$800 ~ His series "Bells and Pomegranates" included "Pippa Passes" and "My Last Duchess"
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$1000 ~ This poet to whom T.S. Eliot dedicated "The Wasteland" ended up in a mental institution

Thomas Gray

Robert Browning

Ezra Pound

[beachball]

Alex Trebek wrote:

Repost ....______ ART __________
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$500 ~ Hats off to this Belgian whose 1926 painting "The Menaced Assassin" features men in bowler hats

Rene Magritte

[beachball]

Alex Trebek wrote:

Repost ....______ U.S. PRESIDENTS __________
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$800 ~ Not only the first president to marry in the White House, he was also the first to have a child born there

Grover Cleveland