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THE OSCARS
TRAINS
200
'Target and field as well as flight shooting are popular versions of this sport'
Archery
200
'Dee Brown's Indian history of the American west is called "Bury My Heart at" this place'
Wounded Knee
200
'It's the opposite of larboard'
Starboard
200
'When he won for the 1st time in 1970, he said he "should have put on that eyepatch 35 years earlier"'
John Wayne
200
'"You can be sure" it was this manufacturer & inventor who first patented the railroad air brake'
George Westinghouse
400
'A heavenly herb, or a dessert wine said to have originated near Los Angeles, for which it's named'
Angelica
400
'In 1941, a collection of his speeches was published under the title "Blood, Sweat, & Tears"'
Winston Churchill
400
'Besides a young man, Horace Greeley also told the unemployed in New York City to head this way'
West
400
'These 2 "Becket" stars have each been nominated 7 times without winning'
Peter O\' Toole & Richard Burton
400
'The track consists of 2 rails held by these supports that bind them'
Ties
600
'It's a violent dance performed by Parisian couples, not by American Indians, as its name implies'
Apache Dance
600
'"Hit Men" is Frederick Dannon's 1990 book about powerbrokers and fast money inside this business'
Music Business
600
'Acoording to the kids' joke, you "don't get it from an elephant; you get it from a duck"'
Down
600
'The only Oscar-winning song sung by a cricket'
"When You Wish Upon a Star"
600
'Term for the uniform distance between the rails; each country has a standard one'
Gauge
800
'The name of this island precedes "and Barbuda" in the name of a Caribbean country'
Antigua
800
'In "History of My Calamities", he wrote about his tragic romance with Heloise'
Abelard
800
'If you own a watch, you might know this direction is also known as withershins'
Counter-clockwise
800
'These two actors have won Oscars only as directors in 1980 & 1981'
Robert Redford & Warren Beatty
800
'Running from Paris to Constantinople, it was called the "king of trains" & the "train of kings"'
Orient Express
1000
'This Egyptian god of the dead is often depicted with the head of a jackal'
Anubis
1000
'This author of "Our Man in Havana" published a volume of his letters to the editor in 1990'
Graham Greene
1000
'In general, the Nile flows in this direction'
North
1000
'She broke an Academy ban when she walked up to receive her "Darling" Oscar in 1966 in a mini-dress'
Julie Christie
1000
'The world's longest railroad line connects Vladivostok to this city, 5600 miles away'
Moscow
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