j-archive-1886-J-1992-11-16

ETIQUETTE

200

'Emily Post's "Etiquette" says you should try to put these tomatoes in your mouth, whole'

Cherry Tomatoes

400

'At a funeral, a honorary one of these is not expected to help carry the coffin'

Pallbearer

600

'The custom of tapping a man on the shoulder when you want to dance with his partner is called this'

Cutting In

800

'It's traditional to serve this expensive treat with toast, chopped hard-boiled egg & onion'

Caviar

1000

'Serving champagne in a tall glass with this floral shape helps preserve its fizz'

Tulip

ANAGRAMS

200

'The last seasoning to put on a dish'

Salt (Last)

400

'Cathy wants to sail on one'

Yacht (Cathy)

600

'Soon after I'd risen, I heard the wailing of this'

siren (risen)

800

'Bob taught himself this low country language'

Flemish (himself)

1000

'Bill bargained for a suit made of it'

Gabardine (Bargained)

STATE CAPITALS

200

'The 40-story TCBY Towers office building in this city is Arkansas' tallest building'

Little Rock

400

'It's the state capital in which Huey Long is buried'

Baton Rouge

600

'Stapleton International Airport in this capital is one of the USA's busiest'

Denver

800

'It's the eastern terminus of the Erie Canal'

Albany, New York

1000

'The home of William Jennings Bryan is preserved in this state capital where he lived from 1887-1921'

Lincoln, Nebraska

HITCHCOCK'S BLONDES

200

'She played the wife who knew too much in the remake of "The Man Who Knew Too Much" --que sera, sera'

Doris Day

400

'This "regal" blonde stabs Anthony Dawson to death with a pair of scissors in "Dial M For Murder"'

Grace Kelly

600

'She was Mrs. Clark Gable when she starred in Hitchcock's comedy "Mr. And Mrs. Smith"'

Carole Lombard

800

'Glamour girl whose femme fatale role in "Vertigo" was no picnic'

Kim Novak

1000

'She stole her way into Sean Connery's heart as the title kleptomaniac in "Marnie"'

Tippi Hedren

MUSIC

200

'2-word "bread-spread" term for an impromptu performance by jazz musicians'

jam session

400

'One common type of this Russian lute usually has its three strings tuned to E, E & A above middle C'

Balalaika

600

'Josef Lanner was one of the first composers to write music for this dance that evolved from the landler'

Waltz

800

'This 9-letter word can refer to any singer in a church, but in England it often means a choirboy'

Chorister

1000

'Italian for "going"; it's a musical direction to play in a moderate walking tempo'

Andante