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Who is Bob Crane?Crane's life and murder were the subject of this 2002 movie.
What is Autofocus?William Holden won an Oscar for this film about another prisoner-of-war camp.
What is Stalag 17This famous B-17 completed 25 missions over Germany in World War II and inspired 2 movies.
What is the Memphis Belle?This the name of the B-29 which dropped the atomic bomb on Nagasaki.
What is Enola Gay?This was the name of the bomb the Enola Gay dropped.
Enola Gay dropped Little Boy on Hiroshima, not Nagasaki.
Oops. I didn't read #3014 carefully enough.What is Bockscar?
This was the name of the bomb it dropped.
What is Fat Man?This famous musical premiered on Broadway November 16, 1959.
What is Sound of Music?Mary Martin was famous as Maria, but she is also remembered for this 1954 role for which she won a Tony.
What is Peter Pan?Who played Peter Pan in the movie Hook?
Who is Robin Williams?Because he improvised most of his lines it this animated movie it was rejected by the Academy for Best Adapted Screenplay.
What is Aladdin?This 8 letter word, beginning with the letter p, means excessively concerned with details or rules; over scrupulous.
What is pedant?She is the storyteller of the Arabian Nights (Or One thousand and one night).
Who is Scheherazade?In 'Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves', these two words opened the way to treasure.
What is "open sesame"?This funny and quirky book by Gail Honeyman is soon to be developed into a movie by Reese Witherstone.
What is Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine?This is the living history museum in Massachusetts that attempts to replicate 17th century life of the early English colonists.
What is Plimouth Plantation?This underwater sinkhole is in the center of Lighthouse Reef, 60 miles off the coast of Belize.
What is the Great Blue Hole?This actress turns 56 today, but was a teen when she was in Taxi Driver.
Who is Jodie Foster?November 19 is known as 'Remembrance Day' in Gettysburg because of this 1863 event.
What is Lincoln's delivery of the Gettysburg Address?She was the only direct civilian casualty of the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who was Jennie Wade?The film 'Gettysburg' was based on this Pulitzer Prize winning novel.
What is "The Killer Angels"? This book by E.L. Doctorow tells the true story of general Sherman’s march of union soldiers during the civil war.
What is The March?On November 21, 1976, this first film in the Philadelphia-based series about a boxer opened in NYC.
What is "Rocky"?This 1997 movie is about an ex-con trying to go straight in the fraught IRA territory of ’90s Belfast.
What is The Boxer?The day after Thanksgiving is usually referred to as this in the shopping world.
What is Black Friday?The Tuesday after Thanksgiving now has a name that encourages people to support non-profits.
What is Giving Tuesday?This famous 1951 mystery novel revolves around the efforts of Detective Alan Grant to determine the culpability of Richard III in regard to the disappearance of the two princes.
What is the Daughter of Time by Josephine Tey?Peter Robinson writes a series of detective books featuring this Yorkshire copper.
Richard wrote: "What is Tim Horton's (also commonly referred to as 'Timmies')It's Spanish for "pineapple", as those who drink pineapple-coconut cocktails should know"
I understand you might not have this letter on your keyboard but the correct answer would be "What is piÑA" (with an Ñ).
Who is Inspector Alan Banks? (love this series).Val McDermid writes this series about this cold case detective.
Who is DCI Karen Pirie?This New Yorker, who became infamous as a western outlaw, was born on November 23, 1859, and died when only 21.
Who was Billy the Kid? On April 3, 1882, Jesse James was shot and killed by this man.,
Who was Robert Ford?During the Civil War, this detective and his Chicago-based agency provided intelligence (frequently wrong) to the Union about Confederate army numbers. It is still in exstence.
Who was Pinkerton?On Nov 24, 1950, this Broadway musical based on Damon Runyon stories opened. It won 5 Tony awards in 1951.
What is Guys and Dolls?In 1967 Gold Medal flour used some of the lyrics and music from this Guys and Dolls film song as part of its promotion.
What is "Fugue for Tinhorns" (or, by the lyrics, "Can Do" or "I've Got a Horse Right Here")?On this date (Nov 26) in 1883, this former slave and abolitionist (and women's rights activist) died in Battle Creek, Mich.
Who was Sojourner Truth?This man survived the Khmer Rouge regime, wrote a book about his experiences, and also won an Oscar based on those experiences.
Who is Haing S. Ngor?This is the beginning of the liturgical year for Christians which begins four Sundays before Christmas and ends on Christmas Eve.
What is Advent?This character, Spock's father, was portrayed by Mark Lenard
Who is Sarek of Vulcan?This southern confection, which is frequently served at the holidays, consists of stiff egg whites beaten with a hot sugar syrup, after which nuts and vanilla may be added. The light and airy confection is then dropped in small mounds when just firm enough.
What is Divinity?She requested her royal bakers create gingerbread cookies shaped like visiting dignitaries in order to honor them.
Who is Elizabeth I?This English folk song, frequently heard during the holidays, was rumored to have been written by Henry VIII, but is more likely to be Elizabethan. It is commonly heard at Madrigal performances.
What is "Greensleeves" (or "What Child Is This")?This eight-day Jewish celebration commemorates the rededication during the second century B.C. of the Second Temple in Jerusalem.
What is Chanukah?One of the traditions of Hanukkah is this spinning 4-sided top, which has the four Hebrew letters for, "A great miracle occurred there" on it.
What is Dreidel?The colors of his clothes come from a well-known soft drink.
Who is Santa Claus?It was included in the 20th century with the other 8 Santa's reindeer.
Who is Rudolph?Blue Bayou was a song by this American singer.
Who is Roy Orbison?It was traditionally decorated with "roses made of colored paper, apples, wafers, tinsel, and sweetmeats".
What are Christmas trees?This British born actor, who didn't appear in films until he was 62, frequently portrayed a cunning, not-too-honest character. He appeared in 9 films with Peter Lorre.
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