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ACTORS & THEIR ROLES

200

'Tom Hanks got the starring role in this "huge" film after Robert De Niro turned it down'

"Big"

400

'The great 19th C. actor Edwin Booth was most famous for playing this Shakespearean role'

Hamlet

600

'(AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE):
"Dallas" actor heard here singing in a 1953 movie musical:
"Where is the light that's lit by land? Where is it now?"'

Howard Keel

800

'He was the first actor to win an Oscar & a Tony for the same role, for "Cyrano de Bergerac"'

Jose Ferrer

1000

'He was Ingrid Bergman's leading man in her 1st American film, "Intermezzo"'

Leslie Howard

WORLD CITIES

200

'Hadrian's Wall is in England; Hadrian's Tomb is in this city'

Rome

400

'The chief port in Australia's Northern Territory; it was named after a naturalist on the Beagle'

Darwin

600

'The 1759 British victory on the Plains of Abraham at this city helped them conquer Canada'

Quebec City

800

'It's the only city on St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands'

Charlotte Amalie

1000

'This city is the eastern terminus of the Trans-Siberian Railway & home to the Soviet Pacific fleet'

Vladivostok

THE ENVIRONMENT

200

'Emmissions of nitrogen & sulfur oxides into the air cause this, endangering fish & aquatic life'

Acid Rain

400

'In 1985 French military advisors at Auckland, New Zealand sank this group's vessel, the Rainbow Warrior'

Greenpeace

600

'This device added to a car's exhaust system eliminates much of the pollution produced by gas combustion'

Catalytic Converter

800

'It's said various medical problems have resulted from toxins dumped in this part of Niagara Falls, N.Y.'

Love Canal

1000

'In 1978 the U.S. banned use of these, called CFCs for short, as propellants in most spray cans'

Chloroflourocarbons

HISTORIC QUOTES

200

'In a 1956 speech, he said, "Whether or not you like it, history is on our side. We will bury you."'

Nikita Khrushchev

400

'Alfred E. Smith said, "All the ills of democracy can be cured by more" of this'

Democracy

600

'This great Prussian king is credited with saying, "An army, like a serpent, travels on its belly"'

Frederick the Great

800

'Asked after the Constitutional Convention "What have we got?", he replied "A republic, if you can keep it"'

Benjamin Franklin

1000

'When Napoleon said "England is a nation of shopkeepers", he was quoting this economist'

Adam Smith

COMPOSERS

200

'This "Threepenny Opera" composer studied with Engelbert Humperdinck -- the composer, not the singer'

Kurt Weill

400

'Great Broadway composer who wrote the music for the documentary series "Victory At Sea"'

Richard Rodgers

600

'Borodin, the illegitimate son of a Russian prince, died before finishing his opera about this prince'

Prince Igor

800

'Rossini called this composer of "Gaite Parisienne" "Our little Mozart of the Champs-Elysees"'

Jacques Offenbach

1000

'Trained as an engineer, this Hungarian composed the operettas "The Desert Song" & "The New Moon"'

Sigmund Romberg