U.S. CITIES
GARDENING
ACTORS & ROLES
POTPOURRI
1978
100

When this Arkansas city was chosen as capital, there were fewer than 50 people living there

Little Rock

100

As Mark Twain could probably tell you, this berry, also called the tangleberry, has 10 hard seeds

huckleberry

100

You bet your life he played Ko-ko in a 1960 TV version of "The Mikado"

Groucho Marx

100

The Latin word "radix", meaning root, is the root word for this root vegetable

radish

100

When chosen in 1978, he became the 1st Pope in a thousand years whose name was followed by "I"

John Paul I

200

Home of the Cotton Bowl, this city was a major cotton market long before it became an oil center

Dallas

200

Onions can be grown from seeds, & like tulips, from these

bulbs

200

The 2 stars who won Oscars playing the title roles in "Kramer vs. Kramer"

Meryl Streep & Dustin Hoffman

200

Cabinet member who outranks all other cabinet members

Secretary of State

200

Carter traveled to this city to sign a bill giving the city $1.65 billion in federal loan guarantees

New York City

300

The 1st night baseball game was in 1883 in this Indiana city named for a "mad" general

Fort Wayne

300

Bark, cocoa hulls, coffee grounds, hay & straw can all be used as this type of plant protection

mulch

300

This rock star played Pontius Pilate in "The Last Temptation of Christ"

David Bowie

300

The job of a "nose" in France is to create these

perfumes

300

The Senate voted to extend the deadline for ratification of this until June 1982

the Equal Rights Amendment

400

French for "mound", this Montana city is described as "a mile high & a mile deep"

Butte

400

A lath house is designed to keep your plants from getting too much of this

sun

400

Offscreen, this Canadian is a son of a Mountie, on film, he was the deadpan doctor in "Airplane!"

Leslie Nielsen

400

The surname Wallace originally denoted a man from this country

Wales

400

Comedian heard here in his only Top 40 single:

"Now when he was a young man / He never thought he'd see / People stand in line to see the boy king / (King Tut) How'd you get so funky?"

Steve Martin

500

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier for the Rev. War isn't in Arlington but in this nearby Virginia city

Alexandria

500

Bamboo is a member of this plant family

grass

500

This Austrian went to Vienna to play Hamlet after he got "Out of Africa"

Klaus Maria Brandauer

500

This language spoken in the Pyrenees does not belong to the Indo-European group

Basque

500

Her book "If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries -- What Am I Doing in the Pits?" was a plum of a best seller

Erma Bombeck

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