THE SPORTING LIFE
EXECUTIVE PERKS
JAVA, THE HUT
OLD TESTAMENT BOOKS IN OTHER WORDS
WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS
200
'Probably by not hitting into his last name, he won the 1997 Masters by 12 strokes, an all-time best'
Tiger Woods
200
'From 1997 to 2001 Tyson Foods paid 84,000 of green to care for this area at the homes of its chairman'
the lawn
200
'Madrid's Gran Cafe de Gijon serves blanco y negro--coffee with this cool treat, cinnamon flavor'
ice cream
200
'Roy Bean & Kenesaw Mountain Landis'
Judges
200
'Although this creature walks on 8 arms, its name is Greek for "8-footed"'
an octopus
400
'In 1999 at Wimbledon, Pete Sampras had 108 of these unreturned serves "up his sleeve"'
aces
400
'In "Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?", Tony Randall's goal is to get the key to this executive sanctum'
the executive washroom
400
'In the early '60s, many folkies flocked to Cafe Wha?, at MacDougal & Minetta in this Manhattan area'
Greenwich Village
400
'Short pithy sayings espousing fundamental truths'
Proverbs
400
'This 2-word phrase meaning essential food or money needed in order to live comes from the Lord's Prayer in Matthew'
daily bread
600
'This Chargers back rewrote the NFL record book in 2006 with 31 touchdowns & 186 points'
LaDainian Tomlinson
600
'An exec might be kept happy with a membership in one of these, like Winged Foot'
a country club (or a golf club)
600
'In the early 1700s there were 550 coffeehouses in this city, including Edward Lloyd's'
London
600
'Mike Rutherford, Phil Collins, Peter Gabriel, et al.'
Genesis
600
'This phrase arose from a man who rented horses & gave customers one "pick", the horse nearest the stable door'
Hobson\'s choice
800
'(Hi, I'm Keith Olbermann.) This heavyweight boxing champ was adopted by Cus D'Amato, & since my uncle wed Cus' niece, that makes him my cousin'
Mike Tyson
800
'A book helping women get ahead is called "Nice Girls Don't Get" this desirably positioned workspace'
the corner office
800
'Daddy-o, leave the squares at home on Wednesday--it's open mic night at Sacred Grounds in this city's Haight'
San Francisco
800
'Many acts of mourning'
Lamentations
800
'From the Latin for "elbow", it's the forearm bone that...well, forms the elbow'
the ulna
1000
'In baseball it's a brutish swing, or the nickname of Lewis Wilson, who holds the one-season RBI record'
Hack
1000
'The right to buy a certain number of shares of the company you work for for a certain price at a certain time'
a stock option
1000
'After World War II, Paris's Cafe de Flore became awash with tourists hoping to find this man pondering the purpose of being'
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
1000
'Slang term for an illegal lottery run by organized crime'
Numbers
1000
'This name for a type of flask invented by James Dewar in 1892 became a trademark'
a Thermos
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