j-archive-1795-D-1992-05-22

MONTHS

200

'One Saxon name for this month was Aefter-Yula or "after Christmas"'

January

400

'The name of this month might come from a Latin word meaning "to open", being a time when flowers open'

April

600

'The 11th of this month once marked the beginning of winter; now it commemorates the end of WWI'

November

800

'The Greeks honored Demeter & the Romans honored Ceres during this harvest month'

September

1000

'In the part of South America south of the equator, summer begins during this month'

December

BUSINESS & FINANCE

200

'The term for regular payments you get from your employer after retiring'

a pension

400

'NASDAQ deals in OTC stocks, OTC standing for this'

over the counter

600

'It provides transportation & utility stock averages as well as its famous industrial'

(the) Dow (Jones)

800

'"Geographic" term for corporations registered in places where taxes are less, like the Caymans or Bahamas'

offshore

1000

'A strike is a stoppage of work by the workers & this is a stoppage decided by management'

a lockout

QUOTES

200

'Ira Gershwin wrote, "Summertime and the livin' is" this'

easy

400

'According to playwright William Congreve, "You must not" do this "and tell"'

kiss

600

'Milton Friedman said, "There's only one place where inflation is made: that's in" this city'

Washington (D.C.)

800

'17th century poet Jean de la Fontaine said, "A hungry" one of these organs "cannot hear"'

a stomach

1000

'In "The People, Yes" this poet wrote, "Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come"'

Carl Sandburg

EMPERORS

200

'Japan's Showa reign ended in 1989 with the death of this emperor'

Hirohito

400

'On Christmas Day, 800, as he prayed at St. Peter's Church, he was crowned Emperor of the Romans'

Charlemagne

600

'After becoming emperor of Ethiopia in 1930, he gave the country its first written constitution'

Haile Selassie

800

'It's uncertain whether this Aztec emperor was killed by Cortez' troops or by his own people'

Montezuma

1000

'Maximilian, who became emperor of Mexico in 1864, was the brother of this Austrian emperor'

Franz Josef

WORLD CITIES

200

'Major hotels in this city include Shepheard's & the Nile Hilton'

Cairo

400

'This city on the Tiete River accounts for about 40% of Brazil's industrial output'

São Paulo

600

'The tombs of Michelangelo & Machiavelli are in the Church of Santa Croce in this Italian city'

Florence

800

'Nymphenburg Palace, the summer residence of the Bavarian kings, lies on the outskirts of this German city'

Munich

1000

'Regina, this Canadian province's capital, was originally called Pile O'Bones'

Saskatchewan