IN THE MIDDLE OF THE COUNTRY
U.S. MUSEUMS
BROADWAY DEBUTS
AUTHORS ON AUTHORS
DID YOU PLANET THAT WAY?
200
'Get out your dancing shoes and cut a "rug" in this South American country'
Uruguay
200
'You can get customized gris-gris bags at the Historic Voodoo Museum on Dumaine Street in this city'
New Orleans
200
'He made his debut as Katharine Hepburn's grandson in "A Matter of Gravity" before flying high as Superman'
Christopher Reeve
200
'His "A Moveable Feast" calls Fitzgerald's talent as natural as the pattern of the dust on a butterfly's wings'
Hemingway
200
'This planet averages about 67 million miles from the sun; Earth's in the 90 millions'
Venus
400
'You've "aced" the category if you know that Albania lies on the Western border of this country'
Macedonia
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew maps out the narrow hallway of a museum.) As this society has a long history of publishing maps & sponsoring exploration, it makes sense that maps were the theme of a major 2007 exhibit at its museum, Explorer's Hall'
National Geographic
400
'(Hi, I'm Joely Fisher.) In 1995 I made my Broadway debut as Rizzo in this musical; it's the word'
Grease
400
'Edgar Lee Masters wrote that this "genius from Missouri" had "affection for his fellows, yet... despised them"'
Mark Twain
400
'Its moon Ganymede is the largest in the solar system'
Jupiter
600
'You'll need a lot of "gas" to drive from Androka to Ambilobe in this African island country'
Madagascar
600
'You can ham it up at a museum in this Virginia Town; it houses a ham cured in 1902'
Smithfield
600
'In 2006, in her first big project since giving birth to twins, she starred on Broadway in "Three Days of Rain"'
Julia Roberts
600
'T.S. Eliot wrote that this "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" author was "unhampered by any ideas"'
(Thomas) Hardy
600
'The least dense planet in the solar system, it would actually float if you could find a big enough tub to put it in'
Saturn
800
'I'll bet you a "ten" that this tiny country last fought in a war in 1866'
Liechtenstein
800
'An arm of the Simon Wiesenthal Center, this L.A. museum teaches about bigotry & racism as well as the Holocaust'
the Museum of Tolerance
800
'(I'm Susan Lucci.) In 1999 I took aim at Broadway, I made my debut as the title sharpshooter in this musical'
Annie Get Your Gun
800
'Reviewing "An Ideal Husband", G.B. Shaw said this fellow Irishman "has the property of making his critics dull"'
Oscar Wilde
800
'In 2005 NASA experimented with a low-pressure greenhouse to grow plants on this carbon dioxide-rich planet'
Mars
1000
'This country might "tug" at your heartstrings with its sad fado songs'
Portugal
1000
'The U.S. Space & Rocket Center in this Alabama city contains a vast collection of rockets & space memorabilia'
Huntsville
1000
'He made his debut starring opposite Natasha Richardson in "Anna Christie"; they were married soon after'
Liam Neeson
1000
'Byron on this poet: "Strange, the mind, that very fiery particle / Should let itself be snuff'd out by an article"'
Keats
1000
'In 1781 it became the first planet discovered in modern times'
Uranus
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