THE HISTORY CHANNEL
SPORTS LEGENDS
ADJECTIVES IN NATURE
THE GONE WITH THE WIND MOVIE MUSEUM
FOREWORDS
200
'The "History's Mysteries" program did a show on this June 1944 event, "The Best Kept Secret"'
the invasion of Normandy
200
'In 1998 he was named MVP of the NBA, MVP of the All-Star Game & MVP of the NBA finals'
Michael Jordan
200
'Chimps & gorillas are classified as "great" ones'
apes
200
'The apartment house she lived in while writing the novel is adjacent to the museum'
Margaret Mitchell
200
'This author said that he would have offered the savage a third alternative if he were to rewrite "Brave New World"'
Aldous Huxley
400
'It's the New Deal organization that's the subject of the program seen here:
"The plan--tame the river with dozens of dams & 200,000 workers"'
the TVA (Tennessee Valley Authority)
400
'She dominated women's figure skating in 1992 by winning the U.S., World & Olympic championships'
Kristi Yamaguchi
400
'This seabird may be "stormy"'
a petrel
400
'One of the museum's most treasured movie artifacts is the front doorway of this plantation, Scarlett's home'
Tara
400
'A translator's introduction to this novel says that Dostoyevsky was, "Like Raskolnikov, up to the neck in debt"'
Crime and Punishment
600
'Part history, part fashion, "Battle of the Clans" tells of these patterns banned in the 18th century'
Tartans
600
'In the 1990s this Seattle Mariner led the AL in home runs 4 times, more than any other player in the decade'
Ken Griffey, Jr.
600
'Ulmus rubra is this "slippery" tree'
the elm
600
'The museum is part of a 2-block historic district on this Atlanta street'
Peachtree Street
600
'He said that freelance photography helped pay the bills while he wrote "Invisible Man"'
Ralph Ellison
800
'This designer's Y-line dress, seen here, highlighted a show on the year 1955'
Christian Dior
800
'The Pittsburgh Penguins' No. 1 draft pick in 1984, he played his last NHL game on April 26, 1997'
Mario Lemieux
800
'Used of pythons, it means "having a net-like pattern"'
Reticulated
800
'Scarlett was often laced up into one of these undergarments, & one of them is on display'
a corset
800
'In the foreword to her 1818 novel, she recalls a trip to Switzerland & a ghost story contest with Lord Byron'
Mary Shelley
1000
'A program on ocean liners featured this ship, seen here:
"She could carry 3,000 passengers & crew in unparalleled comfort..."'
the Queen Mary
1000
'(Hi, I'm Steve Smith of the NBA.) My boyhood idol, George Gervin, had this nickname because he always kept his cool'
"The Iceman"
1000
'An informal word meaning "arrested", or a type of peccary'
Collared
1000
'You can see the broken vase Scarlett threw when this character she loved spurned her at Twelve Oaks'
Ashley Wilkes
1000
'This 1955 novel's foreword says, "I have no intention to glorify 'H.H.'....he is a shining example of moral leprosy"'
Lolita
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