SPORT OF KINGS
TREBEK, SAJAK OR OZZY OSBOURNE
NEW YORK CITY HISTORY
THE MORGAN WEB
"COOL", DUDE!
200
'The clerk of scales weighs these at the start & the finish of each race'
the jockeys
200
'Graduated from college with a degree in philosophy'
Trebek
200
'Opened in 1871, the first rail depot called this didn't function too well; trains could only exit in reverse'
Grand Central Station
200
'He was Oscar nominated for his role as a chauffeur in a 1989 film'
Morgan Freeman (in "Driving Miss Daisy")
200
'Paul Newman refuses to conform to rural prison life in this movie'
Cool Hand Luke
400
'After Red Pollard was injured, George Woolf rode this horse in his famous race against War Admiral'
Seabiscuit
400
'He's the youngest'
Ozzy Osbourne
400
'On Dec. 5, 1783 the British left the city for good, from this island borough'
Staten Island
400
'Morgan le Fay was the half-sister of this legendary king'
King Arthur
400
'In the late 19-teens, he was the governor of Massachusetts'
Calvin Coolidge
600
'Before these were mechanized in the 1930s, races had been started by a red flag being waved or a drum beaten'
the (starting) gates
600
'Worked as a DJ for the Armed Forces Radio Network while serving in Vietnam'
Sajak
600
'This geometric area is seen here in the 1890s, when it got its name after a gift from New York City's Italians'
Columbus Circle
600
'This game with indoor & outdoor versions was invented by William G. Morgan at a Massachusetts Y'
volleyball
600
'In the 1980s Ernest & Julio Gallo introduced these beverages under the Bartles & Jaymes label'
wine coolers
800
'Sire of Slew O' Gold'
Seattle Slew
800
'Played himself in the Adam Sandler movie "Little Nicky"'
Ozzy Osbourne
800
'Anger about the first one of these established by federal law spurred riots in July 1863'
a draft
800
'Architect Julia Morgan designed this publisher's castle at San Simeon, California'
William Randolph Hearst
800
'Rapper born Artis Ivey Jr.'
Coolio
1000
'A coin toss in 1780 between a lord & Sir Charles Bunbury left us with the Epsom this instead of the Epsom Bunbury'
the Epsom Derby
1000
'Played Kevin Hathaway on the soap opera "Days of Our Lives"'
Sajak
1000
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew) In 1940 this mayor established Arthur Avenue Market to eliminate the pushcarts he found a nuisance'
Fiorello LaGuardia
1000
'Thomas Hunt Morgan won a Nobel Prize for his work on heredity using this insect's genes'
fruit fly
1000
'Nickname of ballplayer James Bell, said to be so fast that a ball he hit struck him as he slid into second'
"Cool Papa"
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