THE LIBRARY OF ALEXANDRIA
TAKE THE CAKE
1948
BRIT ROCK
FURNITURE
200
'To make up for damage Julius Caesar did to the library, this man gave Cleopatra 200,000 manuscripts'
Mark Antony
200
'This loaf cake is traditionally made with 16 ounces each of flour, sugar, butter & eggs'
Pound cake
200
'Denmark, Norway & Sweden combined their major airline companies into this one'
SAS (Scandinavian Arilines)
200
'Mick Jagger first met this future bandmate in primary school when they were 7'
Keith Richards
200
'Often part of the frame, it's the panel or the pillowed end of a bed'
Headboard
400
'Librarian Zenodotus divided these 2 Homer works into 24 books each'
"The Iliad" & "The Odyssey"
400
'German for "something strewn", it's a coffeecake with a crumbly topping'
Streusel
400
'On the third ballot on June 24, the Republican nomination for president went to this governor'
Thomas Dewey
400
'Group heard here with a 1984 request:

"Wake me up before you go go..."'
Wham!
400
'A home workman's holds tools; a ballpark's holds the home team'
Bench
600
'Often seen around the stacks was this "Elements" author'
Euclid
600
'This "pie" is actually 2 layers of sponge cake filled with custard, & topped with sugar or a chocolate glaze'
Boston cream pie
600
'Baby seen here in 1948:
(mother is Princess Elizabeth)'
Prince Charles
600
'This "dark" heavy metal band of the 1970s consisted of Bill Ward, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler & Ozzy Osbourne'
Black Sabbath
600
'A ball-and-claw, scroll or Dutch foot may be on the end of a cabriole one of these'
Leg
800
'Third librarian Eratosthenes is famous for determining this measurement of the Earth'
Circumference
800
'As you might gather from its name, this rich, dark chocolate layer cake is fiendishly delicious'
Devil\'s food cake
800
'This Egyptian king's divorce was announced the same day as his sister's; she was married to the Shah of Iran'
King Farouk
800
'This band, heard here with a 1985 hit, stuck around & won the 1997 Eurovision Song Contest:
("I'm walking on sunshine...")'
Katrina and the Waves
800
'Once painted over in early pine furniture, these flaws in the wood grain are now used for decorative effect'
Knots
1000
'The fourth librarian, he shared his name with this author of "The Birds", whose works he critiqued'
Aristophanes
1000
'This cake that's soaked in liquor may derive its name from the Polish for "old woman"'
Rum baba
1000
'To life, to life, to this man, elected provisional president of Israel May 16, 1948'
Chaim Weizmann
1000
'"Therapeutic" name of the band led by lipstick-sporting Robert Smith'
The Cure
1000
'Duncan Phyfe worked in this 1780-1830 period of American furiniture, but didn't make a "case" of it'
Federal period
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