PENNSYLVANIANS
"Little Women" was based on her own "poor but happy" family of mom, dad, 3 sisters & herself
Louisa May Alcott
About 90% of the world's seismic energy is released in a belt girdling this ocean
the Pacific Ocean
Hawaiian wine is made from grapes or this other fruit
pineapple
Appropriately, this James Bond villain's first name is Auric
Goldfinger
The Library Awareness program is an effort by this bureau to flush out Soviet spies
the FBI (Federal Bureau of Investigation)
In 1869 Philadelphia's John Wanamaker founded one of the 1st of these in the U.S.
the department store
Of 300, 3,000 or 11,000, the No. of quakes recorded in southern Calif. by Caltech in an average year
11,000
Wine that's soured has turned to this, from the French for "sour wine"
vinegar
Parts of "Rambo: First Blood Part III" were actually filmed in Sodom in this country
Israel
Jean Valjean was sentenced to prison for stealing a loaf of bread in this Victor Hugo novel
Les Misérables
An educator & writer of 19th century "Readers", he began teaching at age 13
(William) McGuffey
In 1935 this seismologist devised a system of measuring the magnitude of earthquakes
(Charles) Richter
A Magnum holds the equivalent of this many standard bottles of wine
2
Paul Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Warren Beatty & Elaine May all wrote songs for this 1987 comedy
Ishtar
It's what the "con" in con man stands for
confidence
His water colors are set almost entirely in the Brandywine Valley & Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania
(Andrew) Wyeth
The Jan. 1989 quake in Tadzhikistan was the 2nd major one in this country within 2 months
Russia (the Soviet Union)
The name of this white German table wine means "holy mother's milk"
liebfraumilch
In "Casablanca", after Ingrid Bergman's plane takes off, he & Bogey walk into the misty night
Claude Rains
This author of "The Gift of the Magi" served over 3 years in prison for embezzlement
O. Henry
Surnames of the philanthropists who founded 2 Pittsburgh institutes which merged into 1 univ. in 1967
Carnegie (and) Mellon
It's the part of the Earth's surface directly above the origin of an earthquake
the epicenter
Young red wine whose name can be followed by "nouveau", "superior" or "villages"
beaujolais
True or False: I, Vance, have seen Casablanca
False
In '77 this French singer was given a 30-day sentence for accidentally shooting her ski instructor/lover to death
Claudine Longet