AN AMERICAN IN PARIS
1950s MOVIES
ON THE WATERFRONT
ALL ABOUT EVES
"GG"
200
'In 1984 this Yank received the French Legion of Honor award for his work with muscular dystrophy'
Jerry Lewis
200
'"Ah, but the strawberries... that's where I had them!" says Humphrey Bogart as Captain Queeg in this film'
The Caine Mutiny
200
'This port on the Tyrrhenian Sea is Sicily's capital & largest city'
Palermo
200
'In European tradition the 23rd of this month brings midsummer's eve frolic'
June
200
'Rocky Mountain NBA Team'
the Nuggets
400
'His surname sounds French, but this Yank ended up in Paris by winning the Tour de France in 1986, 1989 & 1990'
Greg LeMond
400
'3 years after "Sunset Boulevard", he won an Oscar for "Stalag 17"'
William Holden
400
'An anchor from Columbus' ship the Santa Maria is on display in a museum in this Haitian port'
Port au Prince
400
'My answer to the musical question "What are you doing" then is "sitting home, drinking, watching the ball drop"'
New Year\'s Eve
400
'Wintry activity seen here'
tobogganing
600
'This first Chief Justice of the U.S. negotiated the Treaty of Paris in 1782'
John Jay
600
'This Tony Curtis-Sidney Poitier film could have been calleed "We Are Two Fugitives from a Chain Gang"'
The Defiant Ones
600
'Until 1991 this sprawling port on the Gulf of Guinea was Nigeria's capital city'
Lagos
600
'Detroit became notorious for "Devil's Night", a yearly arson spree on the eve of this day'
Halloween
600
'What Harry Potter would consider me as a non-practitioner of magic'
a muggle
800
'Named for latitudinal lines, these 2 novels were penned by Henry Miller while he was in Paris'
Tropic of Cancer & Tropic of Capricorn
800
'James Dean starts an oil empire in this film'
Giant
800
'This Ukrainian Black Sea port was the site of a 1905 naval mutiny portrayed in the film "Battleship Potemkin"'
Odessa
800
'On this day, October 1, in 2006, Jews are encouraged to eat & drink'
the day before Yom Kippur
800
'Some linguists claim this word can mean only "to make worse" & never "to irritate"'
aggravate
1000
'This companion of Gertrude Stein raised some eyebrows with her 1954 cookbook'
Alice B. Toklas
1000
'People often cite this 1950 Japanese film when describing situations seen differently by different people'
Rashômon
1000
'In 1980 this port SW of Havana was the site of a mass "boatlift" of humans seeking freedom from Castro'
Mariel
1000
'On the eve of the feast day of this saint symbolized by a lamb, girls are supposed to dream of their future husbands'
(Saint) Agnes
1000
'"Worn out" surname of a "King Solomon's Mines" author'
H. Rider Haggard
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