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FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

200

'This hard-hitting defense lawyer appears in about 80 of Erle Stanley Gardner's novels'

Perry Mason

400

'Irwin Shaw introduced brothers Thomas & Rudolph Jordache in this 1970 bestseller'

Rich Man, Poor Man

600

'"Keeper of the Keys" was Earl Derr Biggers' final adventure about this Chinese-American sleuth'

Charlie Chan

800

'In a George Eliot novel, this miserly weaver becomes stepfather to Eppie Cass'

Silas Marner

1000

'After giving up his wealth, this Dumas character sails away with Haydee, never to be seen again'

the Count of Monte Cristo

ASSASSINATIONS

200

'Umberto I, king of this country, was assassinated in Monza in 1900'

Italy

400

'In 1881 Czar Alexander II was blown up in this city, his capital'

St. Petersburg

600

'In 1989 a court in this country overturned Carl Pettersson's conviction for killing Olof Palme'

Sweden

800

'Returning home after a 3-year self-exile, he was slain at Manila airport August 21, 1983'

Benigno Aquino

1000

'Descended from a freed U.S. slave, William Tolbert was president of this country when killed in a 1980 coup'

Liberia

FRENCH ART & ARTISTS

200

'Courbet said, "I cannot paint" one of these heavenly beings "because I have never seen one"'

an angel

400

'Among those Toulouse-Lautrec painted going into this club were Jane Avril & La Goulue'

the Moulin Rouge

600

'His "Olympia" was accepted for the Salon, but after the scandal it caused, few of his later works were'

Manet

800

'He titled his study of the harbor of Le Havre "Impression: Sunrise"'

Monet

1000

'In 1992-93 the Museum of Modern Art devoted a major show to this fauvist'

Matisse

SECOND PEOPLE

200

'This king & Bible authorizer has been called "the wisest fool in Christendom" as well as "the second Solomon"'

King James I

400

'This president was called "Second John"'

John Quincy Adams

600

'He's been called "the second man on the moon"'

Buzz Aldrin

800

'This author of "Tamburlaine" has been called "a second Shakespeare", but some think he was the first'

(Christopher) Marlowe

1000

'This poet's nickname "a second Johnson" probably wasn't an albatross hung around his neck'

(Samuel Taylor) Coleridge

SCIENCE

200

'This is the formulation of the Einstein equation'

E = mc2

400

'This is the permanent removal of unwanted hair by destroying its roots with electric current'

electrolysis

600

'This pole star is the brightest one in the constellation Ursa Minor'

Polaris

800

'This synthetic metallic element is named for scientists Marie & Pierre'

curium

1000

'Estimated temperatures on this planet range from 950° F. on the sunlit side to -346° on the dark side'

Mercury