COMPOSERS
U.S. STAMPS
SWITZERLAND
SCIENCE
NONFICTION
200
'Francis Hopkinson, who composed 1754's "Ode to Music", also signed this famous 1776 document'
the Declaration of Independence
200
'A 1974 stamp celebrating this tale showed the headless horseman in pursuit of Ichabod Crane'
"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
200
'In the mid-1980s, the Swiss exported about 25 million of these devices a year'
watches
200
'This most malleable metal can be beaten into sheets 1 ten-thousandth of a millimeter thick'
gold
200
'In 1872 he published "How I Found Livingstone"'
Stanley
400
'This "Bolero" composer orchestrated Mussorgsky's piano work "Pictures at an Exhibition"'
Ravel
400
'A mortar & pestle & an Rx symbol are featured on a 1972 stamp honoring this profession'
pharmacy
400
'The Swiss gave the world of music this form of wordless singing that echoes through the hills'
yodeling
400
'This element whose symbol is Zr is alphabetically the last element'
zirconium
400
'Betty Edwards' 1979 bestseller on creativity was called "Drawing on the Right Side of" this'
the Brain
600
'The first of Bernard Herrmann's many film scores was for this 1941 classic'
Citizen Kane
600
'As a tribute to WWII Marines, the Post Office issued a 1945 stamp depicting this event'
the raising of the flag on Iwo Jima
600
'Lucerne is known for its lion & Bern is associated with this animal'
a bear
600
'The Portland type of this substance is limestone & shale heated until almost fused, then ground'
cement
600
'"Forgiven" by Charles E. Shepard tells of "The Rise and Fall of" this PTL leader'
Jim Bakker
800
'He wrote "Peter and the Wolf" for a Moscow Children's Theatre'
Sergei Prokofiev
800
'In 1991 a stamp commemorating the 100th anniversary of this sport was issued in Springfield, Mass.'
basketball
800
'Two of these that predominate during the year and affect the country are the Bise & the Foehn'
winds
800
'This term can mean active by day, or happening every day'
diurnal
800
'This comedienne wrote of good times & bad in her autobiographical "It's Always Something"'
Gilda Radner
1000
'This Norwegian composer was sometimes called "The Chopin of the North"'
(Edvard) Grieg
1000
'This late California governor & U.S. Chief Justice was honored on a postage stamp in 1992'
(Earl) Warren
1000
'This densely woolly plant is the floral emblem of Switzerland'
edelweiss
1000
'In the third century B.C. this "principled" Greek showed the value of pi was between 223/71 & 220/70'
Archimedes
1000
'He titled his eyewitness account of the Russian Revolution "Ten Days that Shook the World"'
John Reed
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