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SPACE FIRSTS

200

'It's also called EVA & Buzz Aldrin was the first to do it twice'

extravehicular activity

400

'Leonid Kizim was the first to become one of these while in space, in 1984'

a father

600

'The Russian Voskhod I was the first single ship to fly 3 astronauts; this was the first to fly 4'

the space shuttle

800

'He was the first to touch down rather than splash down'

Yuri Gagarin

1000

'The first American politician in space, he was the first passenger-observer, too'

Jake Garn

OPERA

200

'In 1910 "The Pipe of Desire" became the first opera by an American produced at this NYC opera house'

the Met

400

'In "The Tales of Hoffman", Hoffman falls in love with Olympia, a mechanical one of these'

a doll

600

'It's how Tosca kills Scarpia & Don Jose kills Carmen'

stabbing

800

'This genius of Salzburg never finished his comic opera "The Goose of Cairo"'

(Wolfgang Amadeus) Mozart

1000

'In "Madama Butterfly", this leading male character is a Naval lieutenant, not a detective'

Lieutenant Pinkerton

PRESIDENTS

200

'In 1956 this President's cabinet gave him a Grandma Moses painting of his Gettysburg farm'

(Dwight) Eisenhower

400

'His daughters Luci & Lynda both got married while he was President'

LBJ

600

'[AUDIO DAILY DOUBLE]
He's the subject of the following song from a 1969 Broadway musical:

"He plays the violin/He tucks it right under his chin/And he bows, oh he bows/For he knows, yes he knows..."'

Thomas Jefferson

800

'"Profiles in Courage" won JFK the 1957 Pulitzer Prize in this category'

Biography

1000

'One of his 1856 slogans was "Buck and Breck"; Breck was John Breckinridge'

(James) Buchanan

COOKING

200

'According to "Cooking A to Z", the best of these basting utensils have natural boar bristles'

a brush

400

'Boiled favas, which are these, can be eaten cold or dressed with vinaigrette for a salad'

beans

600

'To get the best beaten egg whites, use a balloon whisk & a bowl made out of this metal'

copper

800

'If you've made cups out of the globe variety of these, you can use the leftover leaves to make a soup'

an artichoke

1000

'This type of dough is used to make up the many thin layers in baklava'

phyllo

17th CENTURY LITERATURE

200

'Cervantes wrote in "Don Quixote", "There are only two families in the world, the Haves and" these'

Have-Nots

400

'His sonnet published in 1609 began, "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"'

(William) Shakespeare

600

'Matsuo Basho was bashing out these 3-line poems in Japan during the 17th century'

haiku

800

'In "Alexander's Feast" John Dryden wrote, "None but the brave deserves" them'

"the fair"

1000

'The romantic troubles in his personal life inspired his "The School for Husbands" & "The School for Wives"'

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