THE WINTER OLYMPICS
SECRETARIES OF STATE
"HOME" DEPOT
FOOD ACROSS AMERICA
RUSSIAN WRITERS
200
'1 of only 2 Americans to win the men's figure skating gold medal since 1960'
Scott Hamilton (or Brian Boitano)
200
'She was the first female Secretary of State'
Madeleine Albright
200
'The last section of a racecourse'
the home stretch
200
'A 13-foot-tall one of these stands on the highway near the city limits of Plains, Georgia'
a peanut
200
'Perhaps best known for his plays, such as "Uncle Vanya", he was also a famed short-story writer'
Chekhov
400
'In 1998, the first Olympics in which it was held, Italy's Gian Simmen won the men's halfpipe in this sport'
snowboarding
400
'George Washington picked this future president to be his first Secretary of State'
Jefferson
400
'School study of household management'
home economics
400
'These off the state tree of Illinois were ground, leached & cooked by Indians for food'
acorns
400
'After winning the Nobel Prize for Literature for "Doctor Zhivago", he was expelled from the Soviet Writers Union'
Pasternak
600
'Lydia Skoblikova has a record 6 gold medals in speed skating; this American woman is second with 5'
Bonnie Blair
600
'Dwight Eisenhower & JFK both attended the 1962 dedication of the airport named for him'
John Foster Dulles
600
'Civilian activities in support of a war waged overseas'
the home front
600
'New Yorkers claim their bagels are best, because this ingredient is best in New York'
the water
600
'His novella "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" was based on his own struggles in a Siberian labor camp'
Solzhenitsyn
800
'In 1992 Kjetil Aamodt set the Olympic record at 1 min., 13.04 sec. in the Super G, short for super giant this'
slalom
800
'This silver-tongued orator & publisher of "The Commoner" resigned as Secretary in 1915'
(William Jennings) Bryan
800
'In this 1978 film, Jane Fonda becomes involved with a paraplegic war veteran played by Jon Voight'
Coming Home
800
'Bill Rosenberg opened the first shop in this chain in 1950 in Quincy, Ma. (we don't know when the cops came)'
Dunkin\' Donuts
800
'One of this poet's great-grandfathers was a black Ethiopian courtier to Peter the Great'
(Alexander) Pushkin
1000
'The Winter Olympics have been held in Austria twice, both times in this city'
Innsbruck
1000
'In 1842 this silver-tongued orator negotiated a treaty with Lord Ashburton which settled the Maine boundary dispute'
(Daniel) Webster
1000
'Equilibrium'
homeostasis
1000
'Famous for its seafood, this "Old Original" restaurant in Philly is a premier reading, er, dining spot'
Bookbinder\'s
1000
'Novelist & short-story writer Aleksey Maksimovich Peshkov used this pseudonym'
(Maxim) Gorky
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