THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
MEASURING YOUR WORDS
A WRITER'S LIFE
COMPUTER CONNECTIONS
Final Jeopardy!
200

Inti was the sun god of this empire centered in Cusco, Peru

the Inca

200

You can "get off on the right" one (yay!) or have one "in the grave" (yikes!)

a foot

200

While in Samoa, this author penned a sequel to "Kidnapped" called "David Balfour"

(Robert Louis) Stevenson

200

Term for a system of interconnected computers & devices; a LAN is a "local area" one

a network

200

18th CENTURY AMERICANS

"Essays to Do Good" by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man

400

Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico

the Rockies

400

Don't get "tied up in" these measures of speed at sea

knots

400

Nicole Diver in "Tender is the Night" is based in part on his wife Zelda

Fitzgerald

400

Nations get their own domain extensions; .dk is the one for this country

Denmark

400

"Essays to Do Good" by Cotton Mather inspired Silence Dogood, the newspaper pseudonym of this man

Benjamin Franklin

600

This Native American stick & ball game is Canada's official national summer sport

lacrosse

600

"The whole 9" these means all the way

yards

600

Ironically, poet Hart Crane, whose father invented this ring-shaped hard candy, died after jumping overboard

a Life Saver

600

World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee gets questions like "Why are links" this color?--"There is no reason"

blue

800

Port-au-Prince is the capital city of this nation on the island of Hispaniola

Haiti

800

It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion

a second

800

This author's close relationship with the Davies family was the subject of the film "Finding Neverland"

James Barrie (J.M. Barrie)

800

Your online shopping cart couldn't stay up to date without these data packets that help websites track you

cookies

1000

Named after a saint, this most populous Brazilian city is also the most populous metro area south of the Equator

São Paulo

1000

The arrangement of words in rhythmic verses gives a poem this pattern

meter

1000

Years after this alliterative poet wrote "Tintern Abbey", he was made poet laureate

Wordsworth

1000

Microsoft's Internet Explorer uses "favorites" where other browsers use this word from the non-wired world

bookmarks