THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARDS
VEGAS ON FILM
FAMOUS NAMES
PRESIDENTIAL FACTS
ON THE "MAT"
200
'David McCullouch earned the 1978 History Award for "Path Between the Seas", about the creation of this from 1870 to 1914'
the Panama Canal
200
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from outside a casino.) In this 1998 film, Raoul Duke and Dr. Gonzo cruise the strip, terrorizing squares'
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
200
'William of Orange, like his father William II, wed an English girl named this'
Mary
200
'He left the White House in 1809, went home & never left Virginia for the remaining 17 years of his life'
Jefferson
200
'Term for a person who keeps taking abuse & humiliation: it's like he has "welcome" written on him'
a doormat
400
'At the first National Book Awards, in 1950, Ralph Rusk won for his biography of this other Ralph, an essayist'
Emerson
400
'After her single mom/waitress turn in "As Good as It Gets", she played a single mom/Vegas waitress in "Pay it Forward"'
Helen Hunt
400
'Doing this 48 times in 1963 put Valentina Tereshkova in the headlines'
circling the Earth
400
'The portrait seen here is a mosaic done in these, a favorite of President Reagan's'
jelly beans
400
'Type of business seen here that was popular in the '40s & '50s'
an automat
600
'His novel "Herzog" won in the Fiction category in 1965'
Saul Bellow
600
'Spacy 1984 film featuring the following sequence

"Hit the giant jackpot and your troubles are over! Half a million dollars, folks! Who's gonna take a shot?"
"Define giant jackpot."
"A giant jackpot is a lot of money."
"Money? Geetus? Bread? An arm and a leg?"'
Starman
600
'In 1628 the British took this founder of Quebec prisoner, holding him in England until 1633'
Champlain
600
'During the Vietnam War, LBJ dreamed he was this WWI president after the stroke'
Wilson
600
'Ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary is the highest rank of this'
a diplomat
800
'She won in the category children's fiction (paperback) for "Ramona and her Mother"'
Beverly Cleary
800
'In the first of these films, Whoopi Goldberg was a Reno lounge singer; in the second she's a Vegas headliner'
Sister Act
800
'Depicted here during a demonstration in 1854, he's the inventor safe & sound up on the platform'
(Elisha) Otis
800
'A heating pad kept him warm during his second inauguration, the first one held in January'
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
800
'If you have a radioactive spill, who do you call? This emergency team'
the HAZMAT team
1000
'Jonathan Franzen didn't want Oprah's Book Club seal, but thanked her when this novel won the 2001 fiction award'
The Corrections
1000
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew reads from Las Vegas.) In "Viva Las Vegas", Elvis and his rival, Count Elmo Mancini, tour the strip looking for her'
Ann-Margret
1000
'By 1946, he'd catalogued over 29,000 galaxies, almost 4,000 asteroids & 1 new planet--Pluto'
Clyde Tombaugh
1000
'Washington, D.C. locale where President Garfield was fatally shot'
the railroad station
1000
'This prefix is from the Greek for "blood"'
hemato- (or hemat-)
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