MUSIC
BOOKS & AUTHORS
WORLD CAPITALS
MATHEMATICS
POISONS
200
'A male singing voice artificially producing tones above its normal range'
a falsetto
200
'"Millie's Book...", published in September 1990, is by the presidential dog, as dictated to her'
Barbara Bush
200
'This city's royal palace was built for Philip V on the site of an ancient Moorish fortress'
Madrid
200
'The number of degrees in any one angle in a rectangle'
90
200
'If a spy's taken a pill containing this poison, his breath will smell like bitter almonds'
cyanide
400
'In Italian this instrument is the corno inglese'
the English horn
400
'His fourth & he says final Rabbit Angstrom novel is "Rabbit at Rest"'
John Updike
400
'From 1822 to 1960 this city served as Brazil's capital'
Rio de Janeiro
400
'If a pyramid is also a tetrahedron it means its base is in this shape'
a triangle
400
'Gas masks were first used in this war to counter the effectiveness of poison gas'
World War I
600
'Beethoven set this F. von Schiller work to music for the Ninth Sympony's choral movement'
"Ode To Joy"
600
'Published by the Naval Institute Press in 1984, it became a best seller & a 1990 film'
The Hunt for Red October
600
'Belmopan takes its name from this Central American country & a Mayan Indian tribe'
Belize
600
'A cube has 6 faces & this number of vertices or corners'
8
600
'It's used in making transistorized circuits or deadly dinner wine'
arsenic
800
'His operas include "Goya", "Help, Help, the Globolinks!" & "The Saint of Bleecker Street"'
Menotti
800
'Robert Rimmer added a new epilogue to the 25th anniversary edition of his novel about this "Experiment"'
The Herod Experiment
800
'The National Museum in this Northern European capital was co-designed by E. Saarinen'
Helsinki
800
'In a Fibonacci sequence like:
1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8,
each number from the third on is this'
the sum of the previous two numbers
800
'The seeds of the Nux vomica tree of Asia & Australia yield this, used as a rat poison for centuries'
strychnine
1000
'At 17 this Russian was an enfant terrible; in 1929 he composed the ballet "L'Enfant Prodigue"'
Prokofiev
1000
'Author of 1987's "The Black Dahlia", he calls himself "the demon dog of American literature"'
James Ellroy
1000
'This Caribbean capital lies near the foothills of the Blue Mountains'
Kingston (Jamaica)
1000
'A spiral-shaped curve; the threads on a tapered screw form a conical one'
a helix
1000
'This poison producing paralysis in its victims was used on South American Indian arrows'
curare
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