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PLAYWRIGHTS

200

'He wrote the dialogue for "Oklahoma!", "Carousel" & "The King & I", as well as the lyrics'

Oscar Hammerstein

400

'First name shared by playwrights Webster, Dryden & Singe'

John

600

'"Catty" poet whose 1949 play "The Cocktail Party" is based on an ancient Greek play by Euripides'

T.S. Eliot

800

'He co-wrote the stage version of his novel "Native Son" with Paul Green'

Richard Wright

1000

'His lesser-known plays include "Fools", "God's Favorite" & "The Gingerbread Lady"'

Neil Simon

HISTORIC CITIES

200

'This capital of Turkey was once known as Angora & became known for its mohair'

Ankara

400

'The 2 cities that have served as capitals of Japan whose names are anagrams'

Kyoto & Tokyo

600

'Also known as Aix-La- Chapelle, Aachen, Germany is the city where this ruler established his court in 794'

Charlemagne

800

'At the Diet held in this city in 1521, Martin Luther refused to eat his words'

Worms

1000

'The oldest stock exchange in Europe is located in this Belgian center of the world diamond trade'

Antwerp

PROPHECIES & PREDICTIONS

200

'In April 1865 he had a dream foretelling his assassination'

Abraham Lincoln

400

'Attributed to the apostle John, this prophetic work is the last book of the New Testament'

Revelation/The Apocalypse

600

'He supposedly predicted the Great Fire of London & the death of King Henry II of France'

Nostradamus

800

'Some ancient cultures made predictions by hepatoscopy, examining this organ of a sacrificed lamb'

Liver

1000

'Known as "The Sleeping Prophet", in 1941 he predicted NYC would be destroyed near the year 2000'

Edgar Cayce

THE DAKOTAS

200

'In the Badlands area these animals live in colonies called dog towns'

Prairie Dogs

400

'Both states are split by the Missouri River & both fall into these 2 time zones'

Central & Mountain

600

'The 2 states' largest cities are Fargo & Sioux Falls, not these, their capitals'

Bismarck & Pierre

800

'It took treaties with these 2 countries for the U.S. to get all the area that's now North Dakota'

England & France

1000

'When B. Harrison signed the 2 bills making the Dakotas states, this information was kept secret'

Which state was first

LIBRARIES

200

'This university's Bodleian Library is entitled to free copies of all books printed in England'

Oxford

400

'This 7-day observance promoted by the American Library Association takes place in April'

National Library Week

600

'In the 1870s this type of catalog began to replace the book-form catalog'

Card Catalog

800

'The Jerome Robbins Archive of the Recorded Moving Image is part of the library at this theater complex'

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

1000

'Paris library whose beginning may be traced back to the 1300s, making it one of the world's oldest'

Bibliotheque Nationale