5-LETTER CAPITALS
SPORTS
PRE-COLUMBIAN CULTURES
20th CENTURY INVENTION
ON THE MOVE
200
'12 avenues radiate from Place Charles de Gaulle in this city'
Paris
200
'This Florida-born women's great who retired in 1989 wrote the World Book Encyclopedia article on tennis'
Chris Evert
200
'Probably the biggest big game the Clovis culture went after 11,200 years ago, it was woolly'
Mammoth
200
'3M's Richard Drew invented it in 1930 to have something to seal the cellophane of food products'
Scotch tape
200
'Long, flat-bottomed & painted a somber black, they're the traditional taxis of Venice'
Gondolas
400
'Bridges crossing the Nile River in this capital include El Gama'a & El Giza'
Cairo
400
'In 1984 this quarterback became the first Boston College player to win the Heisman Trophy'
Doug Flutie
400
'The Folsom culture about 10,900 years ago had a fluted type of this weapon & a "thrower" for it'
Spear
400
'Newsweek reports Westinghouse made one in 1952 that played "How Dry I Am" at the end of each cycle'
Clothes dryer
400
'In 1980 the U.S. government loaned this auto company $1.5 billion; the loans were repaid within 3 years'
Chrysler
600
'Haiphong near the Gulf of Tonkin serves as this city's main port'
Hanoi
600
'Babe Ruth's father once operated a saloon on what is now center field in this Baltimore ballpark'
Oriole Park at Camden Yards
600
'The Anasazi, a word from this Indian language for "ancient ones", lived in what's now the 4 Corners area'
Navajo
600
'In 1939 the Hydra-Matic system made this automatic in the Oldsmobile'
Transmission
600
'This U.S. city has more miles of subway than any other subway system in the Western Hemisphere'
New York City
800
'The ancient Greeks called this Jordanian capital Philadelphia'
Amman
800
'In the 1997 Belmont Stakes, Touch Gold dashed this "charmed" horse's Triple Crown bid'
Silver Charm
800
'The Adena-Hopewell culture in the Ohio area was known for building these, both the burial & effigy types'
Mounds
800
'In 1983 the first U.S. commercial call on one of these was from Chicago to a descendant of Bell in Germany'
Cellular phone
800
'In Britain, it's a kitchen on a ship's deck; in the U.S., it's traditionally the last car on a freight train'
Caboose
1000
'In 1809 one of the first revolts for independence in Latin America broke out in this Ecuadoran capital'
Quito
1000
'National Hockey League team whose logo is seen here:
(knife through a "B")'
Buffalo Sabres
1000
'Warriors of this Yucatan civilization battle in the computer-enhanced mural seen here:'
Mayans
1000
'They were invented in 1947 & by the 1990s millions were being placed on a single chip'
Transistors
1000
'When it opened, it cut the distance from London to Bombay by 5,100 miles'
Suez Canal
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