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What is Cagney and Lacey?This series, which was located in Boston, featured a woman detective and a medical examiner. The latter actress is the daughter-in-law of Sophia Loren.
What is Rizzoli & Isles?This long running TV investigative series on “Real People. Real Crimes. Real-life drama” began by highlighting events which had taken place over a two-day time-line.
What is 48 Hours?This battle on July 21, 1861, was fought close enough to Washington D.C. so that some civilians attended.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run (First Battle of Manassas}?On July 21, 1925, the defendant in this famous trial in Dayton, TN, was found guilty and fined $100 and costs.
Who is John T. Scopes?Clarence Darrow also represented these two young men in a controversial murder trial.
Who are Leopold and Loeb?These actual brothers, who became a famous singing duo, grew up harmonizing together in Iowa and Tennessee. They were inducted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 and the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001.
Who are the Everly Brothers?This song by Alex North was the theme for a 1955 prison movie, but really achieved popularity when recorded by the Righteous Brothers and others.
What is Unchained Melody?This movie, about a young Sicilian boy who grows up to be a famous movie director, won an Academy Award for Best Foreign Film in 1990.
What is Cinema Paradiso?This 1960 film was the first in which a performer won a Best Actress Oscar in a non-English speaking part.
Who is Simone Singoret?This popular game was conceived on December 15, 1979.
'Room at the Top' was in English, even though Simone Signoret was French so that is not the correct answer.
Betsy wrote: "What is Cinema Paradiso?This 1960 film was the first in which a performer won a Best Actress Oscar in a non-English speaking part."
Who is Sophia Loren?
Missy wrote: "Who is Simone Singoret?This popular game was conceived on December 15, 1979."
What is Trivial Pursuit?
This country won the first FIFA World Cup in 1930.
What is Uruguay?On July 22, 1812, the decisive battle of Salamanca took place between these two armies, which was part of what Napoleon called the "Spanish Ulcer."
(The film that Sophia Loren won for was 'Two Women.')
An Anglo-Portuguese army commanded by the Duke of Wellington defeated the French.This first book in a series of spy thrillers had this opening line: "The scent and smoke and sweat of a casino are nauseating at three in the morning."
What is Casino Royale?This baseball movie has the line "There's no crying in baseball!"
What is 'A League Of Their Own'?What is Madonna's maiden name?
What is Ciccone?This Southwestern mystery book series features two Navajo policemen.
What are the Leaphorn mysteries?He is the current host of the TV show $100,000 pyramid.
Who is Michael Strayhan?This former NFL coach was NFL rookie of the year in 1961.
Who is Mike Ditka?HMS COMPASS ROSE is a corvette in this classic WWII novel, which was also made into a film.
What is The Cruel Sea?He is a criminal mastermind whom Holmes describes as the "Napoleon of crime"
Who is Professor Moriarty?This actor is best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes on stage and in a 1916 silent film thought to be lost until it was rediscovered in 2014. He also built a castle in Hadlyme, CT, which is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Who is William Gillette?This Miss America gave up her title on July 23, 1984, the first in Miss America history, after it was announced "risque" photos of her were going to be published.
Who is Vanessa Williams?This dog breed is is a mix of Newfoundland and Saint Bernard. This breed stands between 27-31 inches tall and can weigh as much as 170 pounds.
What is a Leonberger? (I love Newfoundlands, but have never heard of this hybrid before.)On July 19 a duck boat sank in a storm on a lake near this well-known music town.
What is Branson, Missouri?This sitcom was about two overweight people (a cop and a teacher) who meet and fall in love at Overeaters Anonymous.
What is Mike & Molly?This 50s tv show had the same name as the nickname of the 1st Volunteer Cavalry in the Spanish-American War.
What is The Rough Riders?In one of television's first adult Westerns, this famous marshal, played by Hugh O'Brian, puts his life on the line to maintain order, first in Dodge City, Kan., then in Tombstone, Ariz.
Who was Wyatt Earp?Wyatt Earp, his two brothers, and Doc Holliday had a major confrontation with the Clanton gang in this 30-second shootout.
What is the shootout at the OK corral, Tombstone, AZ.She is the author of an alphabetical list of mysteries.
Who was Sue Grafton?This dish, which consists of an open-faced turkey sandwich covered with a cheese sauce and bacon, is the specialty of a Louisville hotel.
What is a Hot Brown sandwich?This Norwegian sweet is made with almond paste rings that are stacked and served for special occasions.
What is Kransekake?This purge took place in Nazi Germany June 30 to July 2 1934
What is the Night of the Long Knives when the SA leadership was attacked?In November of 1938 this pogrom showed the intentions of the Nazis against the Jews of Germany.
What is Kristallnacht? ("Night of Broken Glass" )On this date (June 25) in 1956, this Italian ocean liner collided with a Swedish passenger ship off the coast of New England, killing 51 people.
What is the Andrea Doria?In February, 1942, this ship, the largest ocean liner in the world, which had been docked in NYC since the outbreak of war, caught fire and eventually sank.
What was the SS Normandie?This archipelago off the southwestern tip of Cornwall, is the most southerly point in both England and the United Kingdom, being over 4 miles (6.4 km) further south than the most southerly point of the British mainland at Lizard Point.
What is Scillies?This is the cape that forms the westernmost extent of mainland Portugal, continental Europe and the Eurasian land mass
What is Cabo da Roca?This moves at about the same rate as your fingernails grow.
What are the continents splitting apart?This film has the memorable last line, "Nobody's perfect."
What is "Some Like It Hot"? (I think the line actually is "Well, nobody's perfect")This is the common name for Acer saccharum.
What is a sugar maple tree?
What is the rate at which continents are spreading?This novel, published in 1813, tells of a father with 5 daughters and their suitors.
You skipped several comments as we were on #2553, but I will answer yours What is Pride and Prejudice?This woman was the first woman to hold the Women's Chess Championship title, and was tragically killed during WWII.
Who is Vera Menchik? (why hasn't her story been made into a movie?)This female child star went on to become a diplomat, including being the US Ambassador to Czechoslovakia.
(Good question. What a tragedy for such a remarkable woman!)Who is Shirley Temple?
One of Shirley Temple's most famous dance partners was this African-American in 'The Little Colonel' in 1935.
Who is Bill Robinson?On this day in 1868 the 14th amendment was passed. What did this result in?
What is citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War?The grounds and buildings of this still working plantation have been featured in The Notebook, Queen, North & South, and Scarlett.
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This famous TV show about two woman police detectives started as a tv movie staring Loretta Switt.