AVIATION
FIRST NAMES
BLACK AMERICA
ASIAN CITIES
FICTIONAL FEMALES
200
'1997 marks the 60th anniversary of her disappearance over the Pacific'
Amelia Earhart
200
'Though it's old German for "famous wolf", we know it better as the name of a red-nosed reindeer'
Rudolph
200
'This queen of talk shows ranked among Ebony magazine's 15 Most Beautiful Black Women of 1996'
Oprah Winfrey
200
'China's national legislature meets in this capital's Great Hall of the People'
Beijing/Peking
200
'One book calls her " a stereotypical nice girl"; we wonder how Mark Twain would have answered that'
Becky Thatcher
400
'Grounded for 3 1/2 months after a crash in the Everglades, this airline resumed flights in September 1996'
ValuJet
400
'Bram, as in Bram Stoker, is short for this name'
Abraham
400
'A statue of this late tennis star now stands on Monument Avenue in his hometown of Richmond, Virginia'
Arthur Ashe
400
'This Saudi Arabian holy city was called Macoraba by the ancients'
Mecca
400
'Holland is the last name of this character whose life was chronicled by Wendy Wasserstein'
Heidi
600
'In 1995 this airport, in operation for 66 years, was replaced by Denver International'
Stapleton International Airport
600
'A French form of "white", it was a popular name for women around the turn of the century'
Blanche
600
'For President Clinton's 1st inauguration, she wrote & recited the poem "On The Pulse Of Morning"'
Maya Angelou
600
'This Vietnamese city's downtown area is still called Saigon'
Ho Chi Minh City
600
'In this poet's only novel, "The Bell Jar", she related the coming of age of Esther Greenwood'
Sylvia Plath
800
'In 1913 he built & flew the first 4-engine airplane; later he built helicopters'
Igor Sikorsky
800
'Denise is derived from the name of this Greek god of wine'
Dionysus
800
'In 1990 he took office as New York City's first black mayor'
David Dinkins
800
'The tomb of Pakistan's founder, Muhammad Ali Jinnah, is a landmark in this former capital'
Karachi
800
'Miranda, a young woman, appears in several of her works, including "Pale Horse, Pale Rider"'
Katherine Anne Porter
1000
'Famous for his 1942 raid on Tokyo, he was named Aviator of the Decade in 1950'
Jimmy Doolittle
1000
'Name of a late actor-director, it's from Latin meaning "like a bear"'
Orson
1000
'This bandleader whose theme was "One O' Clock Jump" was pictured on a 1996 postage stamp'
Count Basie
1000
'With a population of over 2 million, this capital of Uzbekistan is central Asia's largest city'
Tashkent
1000
'This Scottish teacher & spinster is Muriel Spark's most famous creation'
Miss Jean Brodie
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