BOOK TITLES
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED MAGIC NUMBERS
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
BOYFRIENDS & GIRLFRIENDS
"AA"
200
'Hemingway got the title for this 1926 novel from Ecclesiastes'
The Sun Also Rises
200
'Baseball: 4,192 hits'
Pete Rose
200
'The 735-acre campus of this Baptist school is on the banks of the Brazos River in Waco, Texas'
Baylor
200
'Nancy Spungen's punk rocker'
Sid Vicious
200
'A conspiracy led by this former V.P. aimed to set up an independent nation in the Mississippi Valley'
Aaron Burr
400
'Dickens: Let's see..."Martin Sweetledew"? No. "Martin Sweetleback"? No. I've got it... "Martin" this!'
Chuzzlewit
400
'Hockey: 92 goals'
Wayne Gretzky
400
'One of the most popular organizations at this state univ. in Louisiana is the Tiger Marching Band, founded 1926'
Grambling
400
'The Old West's Big Nose Kate's "medical" maniac'
Doc Holliday
400
'This Scandinavian auto company started out in 1937 as a national aircraft manufacturer'
Saab
600
'Shakespeare's Sonnet 30 says, "I summon up" this, which became the title of a Proust work'
Remembrance of Things Past
600
'Baseball: 2.131 consecutive games'
Cal Ripken Jr.
600
'This college was intended to be the first college within the University of Dublin, but it's still the only one'
Trinity College
600
'Virginia Hill's gunned-down gangster'
Bugsy Siegel
600
'Also called the Taal, this language developed from the 17th century Dutch'
Afrikaans
800
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Rowan Oak Home) Faulkner was using "Dark House" as a novel title but on this porch, his wife said there was something about the light in this month'
August
800
'Track & field: 29 feet 2 1/2 inches'
Bob Beamon
800
'Charles, not Sonny, was the benefactor of this Medford, Massachusetts university'
Tufts
800
'Lady Hamilton's nautical loverboy'
Horatio Nelson
800
'Arabic for "renaissance", this political party carries a lot of water in the Middle East'
the Baath Party
1000
'James Jones considered "Old Soldiers Never Die" as a title for his WWII novel but settled on this, from a Kipling line'
From Here to Eternity
1000
'Football: 63 yards'
Tom Dempsey
1000
'Beloit College in this state was founded in 1846, while that state was still a territory'
Wisconsin
1000
'Beatrice Portinari's pining poet'
Dante
1000
'This carnivorous jackal-like animal of South Africa eats mostly insects'
the aardwolf
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