j-archive-1486-D-1991-02-04

1958

200

'The IRS approved this form for use by all persons whose income was $10,000 or less'

Short Form

400

'In December, he became head of France for the 2nd time'

Charles de Gaulle

600

'The World's Fair, symbolized by a 334-foot high atomium, was opened April 17 by King Baudouin in this capital'

Brussels

800

'Jordan's King Hussein's cousin was overthrown and killed in this neighboring country'

Iraq

1000

'This Russian made news on October 29th when he turned down a cash prize worth $41,420'

Boris Pasternak

SCIENCE

200

'On June 1, 1831, James Clark Ross discovered this when a compass needle he was holding pointed straight down'

Magnetic North Pole

400

'Newton figured the Earth should be an oblate spheroid with an equatorial bulge because it does this'

Spin on its Axis

600

'From the Greek for "number", it's the science of numbers'

arithmetic

800

'A lean, small-boned person is an ectomorph; an endomorph is round; and this type is muscular'

Mesomorph

1000

'In this pre-birth procedure, a small amount of fluid is withdrawn from the sac in the uterus and tested'

amniocentesis

MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS

200

'The saxophone belongs to this family, not the brass'

Woodwinds

400

'If someone showed you his "Fender Stratocaster", you'd be looking at one of these'

Guitar

600

'Term for the various strands of gut, nylon, or wire stretched over the head of a sidedrum'

Snares

800

'In a famous opera, the Queen of the Night gives Tamino this instrument'

The Magic Flute

1000

'The pitch of one of the two standard orchestra clarinets'

B Flat and A

WORLD CAPITALS

200

'The University of San Marcos, Peru's oldest school of higher learning, was founded here in 1551'

Lima

400

'From 1936-1961, this capital of the Dominican Republic was called Ciudad Trujillo'

Santo Domingo

600

'This city was founded in 1434 to succeed Angkor Thom as capital of the Khmer Empire'

Phnom Penh

800

'Windhoek is the capital & largest city of this newly independent former mandate of South Africa'

Namibia

1000

'When in this European capital, don't forget to see the Antonin Dvorak Museum and the tomb of St. Wenceslas'

Prague

FAMOUS QUOTES

200

'In "The Compleat Angler", Izaak Walton wrote "I have laid aside business and gone to do this"'

Fishing

400

'When crowned in 1804, he told the Pope, "I am the successor of Louis XIV, not Charlemagne"'

Napoleon

600

'In March, 1964, he said, "For the first time in our history, it is possible to conquer poverty"'

Lyndon Johnson

800

'American wit who said that "Puritanism was the haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy"'

H.L. Mencken

1000

'Failing to corner the silver market in 1980, he said "A billion dollars is not what is used to be"'

Bunker Hunt