B, D, & A: Author Sandwiches
(Musician) Rick _____ _____ Carol Oates (Author)
James Joyce
What Michigan town hosts an annual summer festival called Satan's Holidays?
Hell
What future White House resident called Geraldine Ferraro "a four-million dollar... I can't say it, but it rhymes with rich"?
Barbara Bush
What darkly comic novel about a reporter named Quoyle won E. Annie Proulx a Pulitzer?
The Shipping News
What vehicle was home to Norman Thagard in 1995, when he lost 17 pounds on a diet including jellied perch and freeze-dried borscht?
What former US president was inducted into the Colorado Ski Hall of Fame in 2001?
Gerald Ford
(Comedian) Jerry _____ _____ O'Connor (Actor)
Lewis Carroll
What southern US state loses the highest percentage of men to heart disease?
Mississippi
What leader's wife, Mira Markovich, jumped to her captive hubby's defense in 2001 with: "I still find him cute and likable"?
Slobodan Milosevic's
What disease does bioweapons expert Jonathan Tucker chillingly describe in Scourge?
Smallpox
What member of the mint family is dried and marketed as Ola' Kola Budz, Meowi Zowie, and Zoom Around the Room?
Catnip
Who was the first player to have a Padres logo on his plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame?
Dave Winfield
Percy Shelley
What "liquid pride and joy" is celebrated with a monument and library in Uglich, Russia?
Vodka
What chain has crowned Washington DC's Waheed Awsim its fastest pizza maker seven times?
Domino's
What best-selling Southern novelist caused Oxford American's founder to gush: "He's King Midas. Everything he touches works"?
John Grisham
What pop superstar holds a US patent on shoes that attach to a stage, allowing the wearer to lean in apparent defiance of gravity?
Michael Jackson
What hockey-crazed city did The Sporting News name the "least best" sports town, in 2001?
Montreal
(Diarist) Anne _____ _____ Hoover (President)
Frank Herbert
What eastern US State's Rural Route 22 was the site of the world's first drive-thru strip joint?
Pennsylvania
What 2000 Republican presidential hopeful dove into a mosh pit to gain an 'endorsement' from Michael Moore's cable TV show?
Alan Keyes
What US novelist answered fan queries in her newsletter titled Commotion Strange?
Anne Rice
What do folks hope to slow the body's production of, with brand-name drugs like Lescol, Mavacor, and Pravachol?
Cholesterol
What famed sports trophy did an angry Maori activist bludgeon with a sledgehammer in 1997?
The America's Cup
(NBA Player) Carmelo _____ _____ Meredith (Actor)
Anthony Burgess
What deadbeat nation's unpaid United Nations bill reached a record $2.3 billion in 2001?
USA
Who was pictured topless in the never-before-seen photos Alan Reid unearthed from under his bed and auctioned off in 2001?
Marilyn Monroe
What illustrator, famed for restyling Spider-Man, left Marvel to spawn Image comics?
Todd McFarlane
What disabled and fuel-starved "little spacecraft that could" made NASA proud when it lived to photograph the Borrelly comet in 2001?
Deep Space 1
What nation boasted 10,000 citizens playing pro soccer for teams around the world, in 2000?
Brazil