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VI) This Japanese-born American actor has often been nominated for Oscar and Tony awards. Many of his acting roles credited him omitting his surname. (Personality, please) (10 December, 1933 – 21 July, 2006) is known for his acting role as Akiro the Wizard in “Conan the Barbarian” (1982) and “Conan the Destroyer” (1984). His voice roles include Aku from “Samurai Jack” (2001 - 2004), and Iroh from “Avatar: The Last Airbender” (2005).

[Fifth Generation]

VII) Her more prominent parts came as elder daughter, Laurie Partridge, on the 1970s sitcom “The Partridge Family”, and as Grace Van Owen, a California assistant district attorney and judge on the dramatic series, “L.A. Law”, a role (Personality, please) (10 December, 1952) played from 1986 to 1992.

[Fifth Generation]

VIII) He is best known for directing and/or starring in several film adaptations of William Shakespeare's plays including “Henry V” (1989) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Awards for Best Actor and Best Director), “Much Ado About Nothing” (1993), “Othello” (1995), “Hamlet” (1996) (for which he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay), “Love's Labour's Lost” (2000), and “As You Like It” (2006). Look for (Personality, please) (10 December 1960), also, in “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” (2002).

[Fifth Generation]

IX) She is perhaps best known for her role as Nicole Chapman on “Fame”. (Personality, please) (10 December, 1961) is also known for her role as Karen Taylor Winters on “The Young and the Restless”, and as Sydney Cooke on “Walker, Texas Ranger”.

[Fifth Generation]

X) An American actor, (Personality, please) (December 10, 1957 – September 3, 2012) was best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in “The Green Mile” (1999), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. He was also recognized for his appearances in motion pictures such as “Armageddon” (1998), “The Whole Nine Yards” (2000), “The Scorpion King” (2002), and “Daredevil” (2003), as well as voice acting roles in works such as “Brother Bear (2003), and Kung Fu Panda (2008).

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Fifth Generation wrote:

X) An American actor,(Personality, please)(December 10, 1957 – September 3, 2012) was best known for his breakout role as John Coffey in “The Green Mile”(1999), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe. He was also recognized for his appearances in motion pictures such as “Armageddon”(1998),“The Whole Nine Yards”(2000),“The Scorpion King”(2002), and “Daredevil”(2003), as well as voice acting roles in works such as “Brother Bear (2003), and Kung Fu Panda (2008).

Michael Clarke Duncan.

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Once a professor of astronomy, he designed the Royal Observatory at Greenwich
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Who was Sir Christopher Wren

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$400 ~ His monumental collection "La Comedie Humaine" encompasses about 90 novels & stories

Who was Joel Chandler Harris

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$400 ~ This Greek who supposedly sought an honest man was influenced by the less cynical Antisthenes
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$500 ~ The title of this opera by Pietro Mascagni means "rustic chivalry"

Diogenes

Cavalleria rusticana

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$600 ~ Steve Kmetko is letter perfect as the host of this show biz-oriented cable network's "News Daily"
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$800 ~ Now the "Today" show's co-anchor, she once produced the CNN news & information show "Take Two"
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$1000 ~ He won a Pulitzer Prize for reporting on the Vietnam War before he covered the Gulf War for CNN

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Katie Couric

Peter Arnett

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$100 ~ 41 years after "On The Waterfront", he played Johnny Depp's therapist in 1995's "Don Juan DeMarco"
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$200 ~ James Cromwell, Farmer Hoggett in this 1995 film, is the son of John Cromwell, who directed "Algiers" in 1938
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$400 ~ A telekinetic teenager on the TV series "Misfits of Science", she now stars as Monica in "Friends"
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$500 ~ Joan Allen earned an Oscar nomination for playing this famous woman in a 1995 film

Marlon Brando

Babe

Courteney Cox

Pat Nixon

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$400 ~ He & co-author Richard Suskind served brief prison terms for their forged bio of Howard Hughes

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$400 ~ John Milton wrote a sonnet praising this lord protector whom he served as secretary for foreign languages
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$600 ~ "Batter My Heart" is one of the best-known "Holy Sonnets" by this author of "Death, Be Not Proud"
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$800 ~ "My love is like to ice, and I to fire" wrote this "Faerie Queene" poet in his sonnet sequence "Amoretti"
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$1000 ~ Irish poet & playwright who wrote the 1928 sonnet "Leda And The Swan"

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$500 ~ The ancient poets of India called this longest river of Pakistan "King River"

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$1000 ~ After Chippendale used this dark, rich wood for dining tables, its name became synonymous with them

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It's the only country whose name begins with "A", but doesn't end with "A"

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In 1839, at age 19, he joined the crew of the freighter St. Lawrence that ran between NYC & Liverpool

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When Einstein won the 1921 Nobel Prize in physics, he was a naturalized citizen of this country

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Merlin the Magician cast a spell putting this title character to sleep for 1,300 years

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The 14th Earl of this was prime minister in 1852; the 12th Earl of this had a race named for him

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