j-archive-3950-D-2001-11-02

LITERARY TRILOGIES

200

'Rosalind Miles wrote a trilogy of novels about this queen who knew her way around the round table'

Guinevere

400

'"The Romantic Comedians" begins an Ellen Glasgow trilogy that "Carries us back to" this Southern state'

Virginia

600

'This existentialist never finished the fourth volume of "Les Chemins de la Liberte", so it's a trilogy'

Jean-Paul Sartre

800

'The "Lords of Two Lands" trilogy leads up to the story of Ahmose, who founded this civilization's 18th dynasty'

Egypt

1000

'Robertson Davies called the third book in his Cornish trilogy "The Lyre of" this mythological figure'

Orpheus

ALL-AMERICAN FOLKS

200

'Seen here, guitarist Rudy Gonzalez is the first man with this job to play the Kennedy Center'

cowboy

400

'Leonard Goldenson was the man who built this "patriotic" TV network'

ABC (American Broadcasting Company)

600

'One of his classic Western photographs is seen here:'

Ansel Adams

800

'(We'll hear from Jimmy):
This man built a chain of roadside stores featuring pecan log rolls like the one I'm about to enjoy'

Williamson S. Stuckey

1000

'A California Air Force base is named for this man, a test pilot & an excellent dancer & apple pie baker'

Glenn Edwards

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

200

'Herman J. Mankiewicz & Orson Welles
(1941)'

Citizen Kane

400

'Marc Norman & Tom Stoppard
(1998)'

Shakespeare In Love

600

'Cameron Crowe
(2000)'

Almost Famous

800

'Jane Campion
(1993)'

The Piano

1000

'Budd Schulberg
(1954)'

On The Waterfront

HANG "IN" THERE, BABY!

200

'Meaning "impossible to separate into parts", it's found in the Pledge of Allegiance'

indivisible

400

'The introduction of a fluid by syringe'

injection

600

'On the field of play in sports'

inbounds

800

'It fits inside a pneumatic tire'

inner tube

1000

'An unsophisticated girl or a play's young heroine'

ingenue

NOBEL LAUREATES SPEAK

200

'(Alright, we start off with a Nobel laureate from CalTech):
"Hi, I'm Dr. David Baltimore, in 1975 I shared a Nobel Prize for my work in virology.
This molecule found in all living cells consists of thousands of chemical units called nucleotides"'

DNA

400

'(Alright, someone from CalTech now):
"Hi, I'm Rudy Marcus, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
Ferrous sulfide is produced when these 2 elements are heated together"'

iron & sulphur

600

'(Let's hear from someone at USC): "Hi, I'm George Olah, Nobel Prize winner in chemistry.
The "P" in Boyle's Law, PV=K, stands for this"'

pressure

800

'(Here's Dr. Baltimore again):
"This infectious agent that lives inside a cell & causes disease can be 100 times smaller than a bacterium"'

virus

1000

'(Alright, we'll go to UC-Santa Barbara): "Hi, I'm Dr. Alan Heeger, Nobel prize winner in chemistry.
In 1936 this German-born biochemist discovered his "cycle" of metabolism & energy production"'

Hans Krebs