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THE SIX WIVES OF HENRY VIII

100

'Delivered the male heir'

Jane Seymour

200

'He signed off his TV show with the line "Good night, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are"'

Jimmy Durante

300

'& then there's this actress, truly a "Golden Girl" when she won an Emmy in 1988'

Bea Arthur

400

'On this day, October 1, in 2006, Jews are encouraged to eat & drink'

the day before Yom Kippur

500

'In this Russian-American's "Pale Fire", John Shade is the late author of a 999-line poem'

Vladimir Nabokov

HEY, J.D.

100

'The German (who outlived them all)'

Anne of Cleves

200

'In 1934 he got the FBI on his trail by crossing the Indiana-Illinois line; he didn't live much longer'

John Dillinger

300

'This admiral led a third Antarctic expedition, discovering Thurston island in 1939'

Richard Byrd

400

'In European tradition the 23rd of this month brings midsummer's eve frolic'

June

500

'Stephen Daedalus is the writer hero of this Joycean "Portrait"'

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

THE "BYRD"s & THE "BEA"s

100

'Convicted of treason, 1536'

Anne Boleyn

200

'From 1970 to 1973 he was White House counsel to Richard Nixon'

John Dean

300

'This West Virginian has cast more votes in the Senate than any other senator in history'

Robert Byrd

400

'My answer to the musical question "What are you doing" then is "sitting home, drinking, watching the ball drop"'

New Year\'s Eve

500

'Philip Jose Farmer wrote a novel under the name of this sci-fi writer invented by Kurt Vonnegut'

Kilgore Trout

ALL ABOUT EVES

100

'The Spaniard'

Catherine of Aragon

200

'In 1971, this Caribbean leader succeeded his father to become the youngest president in the world'

Jean(-Claude) Duvalier

300

'Jesus uttered 9 of these, from the Latin for "blessedness", in the sermon on the mount'

the beatitudes

400

'On the eve of the feast day of this saint symbolized by a lamb, girls are supposed to dream of their future husbands'

(Saint) Agnes

500

'Writer Philip Quarles in "Point Counter Point" is a self-portrait by this author'

Aldous Huxley

LITERARY LITERARY CHARACTERS

100

'Twice widowed & the last'

Catherine Parr

200

'He forgot to duck in 1926 when he lost to Gene Tunney'

Jack Dempsey

300

'Called "The Mama of Dada", this ceramicist's relationship with Roche & Duchamp inspired the novel "Jules et Jim"'

Beatrice Wood

400

'Detroit became notorious for "Devil's Night", a yearly arson spree on the eve of this day'

Halloween

500

'He's Philip Roth's novelist alter ego in books like him "Unbound"'

Zuckerman