PLAYWRIGHTS
THE 1890s
AMERICAN NICKNAMES
"S"-OTERICA
VIETNAM
200
'Critic Walter Kerr called this man's "Camino Real" "The worst play yet written by the best playwright of his generation"'
Tennessee Williams
200
'Japan had an emperor, Russia, a czar & Italy was ruled by one of these'
king
200
'She was called "Little Missy" & "Little Sure Shot"'
Annie Oakley
200
'Examples of this TV format include "Leave It to Beaver" & "The King of Queens"'
sitcom
200
'It's not the capital, but this Vietnamese city is the most populous'
Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon)
400
'"May All Your Fences Have Gates" is a book of "Essays on the Drama of" this African-American playwright'
August Wilson
400
'Of "Frankenstein", "The Invisible Man" or "Dracula", the one not created in 1897'
"Frankenstein" (created in 1818)
400
'The "Plant Magician" was Luther Burbank; this man was the "Plant Doctor"'
George Washington Carver
400
'Slang term for a left-handed boxer or fiddle player'
southpaw
400
'Of the 3 countries that border Vietnam, the one whose name does not begin with the same letter as the other 2'
Laos
600
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew at the Nederlander Theatre in New York City) This creator of "Rent" died the night of its final dress rehearsal, never knowing he would win the Pulitzer Prize'
Jonathan Larson
600
'Relationship of Lizzie Borden to the woman she was acquitted of killing'
stepdaughter
600
'Born in 1905, he was the "Billionaire Recluse"'
Howard Hughes
600
'It's a low-level football "catch" made near the ground by a running player'
shoestring catch
600
'A fertile marshland, Vietnam's southernmost region is the broad delta of this river'
Mekong
800
'These British twin brother playwrights wrote mystery novels under the rather obvious alias Peter Anthony'
Peter & Anthony Shaffer
800
'Sam Rayburn was "Mr. Sam", not "Mr. Democrat"; this politician was "Mr. Republican", not "Mr. Robert"'
Robert Taft
800
'(I'm NFL running back Shaun Alexander) I play in this city that's the farthest distance away from any other NFL city'
Seattle
800
'The large "S" shape that is Vietnam juts out into this sea with a directional name'
South China Sea
1000
'Born in 1799, this poet, novelist & playwright is to Russian literature what Shakespeare is to English literature'
Alexander Pushkin
1000
'Gloria Vanderbilt or Doris Duke; it's also the translation of the Victoria Ruffo telenovela title "Pobre Nina Rica"'
Poor Little Rich Girl
1000
'Peter Falk narrated this 1978 documentary in which hardened convicts frightened delinquent kids'
Scared Straight
1000
'Vietnam's narrowest point, about 30 miles, is just north of this port city where U.S. troops landed in 1965'
Da Nang
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