GETTING AROUND THE CITY
RELIGIOUS MATTERS
CHOP-A-HOLICS
YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED
TIME IS "SHORT"
200
'If you're in Barra da Tijuca, you can head right along the coast to Ipanema'
Rio de Janeiro
200
'Part of this religion's Manu Smriti, or Code of Manu, sets forth the basis of the caste system'
Hindu
200
'Around 1800 Parson Weems wrote of this man's unauthorized juvenile lumberjacking'
George Washington
200
'Number of months with only 30 days'
four
200
'One of the railroads in the board game Monopoly'
Short Line
400
'Hurry up Via Mazzini so you can bear right on Santa Margherita in time to make it for the curtain at La Scala'
Milan
400
'"Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam", "To The Greater Glory Of God", is the motto of this Catholic teaching order'
the Jesuits
400
'The name of this light axe is from the Algonquian for "cutting utensil"'
tomahawk
400
'Years that read the same upside down & right side up include 1881, 6009 & this year of the 1960s'
1961
400
'Assume this baseball position'
shortstop
600
'Just learn the alphabet--heading down Beacon St., it's Arlington, Berkeley, Clarendon, then Dartmouth'
Boston, Massachusetts
600
'Jews from many nations come to Jerusalem to pray at this, all that remains of the Holy Temple'
the Wailing Wall (or Western Wall)
600
'This legendary timber toppler was said to have dug Puget Sound to float huge logs to the mill'
Paul Bunyan
600
'Title of the 1965 Beatles No. 1 hit song that is a calendrical impossiblity'
"Eight Days A Week"
600
'To the IRS, the 1040EZ is one of these'
a short form
800
'From the Scott Monument, take a wee walk up to St. David Street to get to St. Andrew Square'
Edinburgh
800
'In 1644 his "History of the Reformation in Scotland" was published posthumously'
John Knox
800
'In 1893 this Massachusetts woman was acquitted of giving her parents the axe'
Lizzie Borden
800
'Dies Martis is the Latin name for this day of the week'
Tuesday
800
'Briefly, it's butter or lard used to make pastry'
shortening
1000
'Head down Front Street & not far from the corner of John Street is the CN Tower--you can't miss it, you really can't'
Toronto
1000
'This "colorful" house of worship in Istanbul was designed to compete with the Hagia Sophia opposite it'
the Blue Mosque
1000
'The short-bladed type of this 7-letter South American item is used to cut sugar cane'
machete
1000
'In the DD/MM/YYYY format, it was the most recent date in which all 3 were even numbers'
December 30, 2006
1000
'Pitman & Gregg developed modern versions of this technique used in dictation'
shorthand
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