NUMERICAL HOMOPHONES
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SPORTS QUOTES
BUSINESSMEN
AUTHORS
200
'Was victorious'
won
200
'As a Swiss Guard, today you are responsible for the safety of this one person'
John Paul II (the Pope)
200
'Before winning the World Heavyweight title, he said he wasn't "the greatest; I'm the double greatest"'
Ali
200
'His partnership with Alvah Roebuck began when he placed a classified ad looking for a watchmaker'
Sears
200
'During the War of 1812 this "Rip Van Winkle" author wrote biographies of naval commanders'
(Washington) Irving
400
'Completes the title of Jeffrey Steingarten's book "It Must Have Been Something I ..."'
Ate
400
'To score 2 points at once in pro football the offense has a 2-point conversion & the defense has this'
a safety
400
'Of baseball, this Yankees Hall of Fame catcher remarked, "Ninety per cent of the game is half mental"'
Yogi Berra
400
'On Business Week's 2003 list of the 50 most generous philanthropists, he & wife Melinda ranked first'
Bill Gates
400
'His father was also a count; his mother was Princess Volkonskaya'
Leo Tolstoy
600
'A negative, in Neuberg'
nein
600
'To know the truth of the Matrix, take this color pill'
the red pill
600
'This Chicago Bears defensive tackle nicknamed "Refrigerator" said that "Even when I was little, I was big"'
Willam Perry
600
'In the 1890s he stopped selling baking powder to concentrate on a freebie he'd been giving away--chewing gum!'
(William) Wrigley
600
'At one time this author owned his own magazine, Master Humphrey's Clock, in which he published "Barnaby Rudge"'
Dickens
800
'It means "toward the bow", you landlubber'
fore
800
'You mix, then heat, lime, silica, alumina & iron oxide with gypsum to create the Portland type of this'
cement
800
'Asked about his golf game after leaving the White House, this 34th Pres. said that "a lot more people beat me now"'
Eisenhower
800
'Jeff Bezos, CEO of this giant online retailer, was Time's Person of the Year for 1999'
Amazon.com
800
'In 1882, at age 16, he found work as sub-editor of the Civil and Military Gazette in Lahore, India'
Kipling
1000
'Unleashes a dog to attack'
sics
1000
'To read the Mahabharata in its original language you have to know this one'
Sanskrit
1000
'Vince Lombardi declared that "Winning isn't everything, it's" this'
the only thing
1000
'In 1913 he spent some of those nickels & dimes to build in NYC what was then the world's tallest building'
Woolworth
1000
'This author of "The Outcasts of Poker Flat" served as U.S. consul in Germany & Scotland between 1878 & 1885'
Bret Harte
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