j-archive-2682-J-1996-04-09

LITERARY HODGEPODGE

200

'This author of "The Color Purple" won a 1986 O. Henry Prize for her story "Kindred Spirits"'

Alice Walker

400

'His sci-fi novel, "The Invisible Man" is sometimes subtitled "a fantastic sensation"'

H.G. Wells

600

'She wrote of the Chinese people, "They yield, they bend to the wind, but they never break"'

Pearl S. Buck

800

'"August 1914" is a novel about the first days of WWI by this author of "The Gulag Archipelago"'

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

1000

'This Voltaire title character is thrown out of the baron's castle with several kicks to his backside'

Candide

POP MUSIC

200

'In 1960, the year of his Army discharge, he had 3 No. 1 hits including "It's Now Or Never"'

Elvis Presley

400

'His 1983 hit "Beat It" featured Eddie Van Halen on gutiar'

Michael Jackson

600

'This band adapted its name from Leonard Skinner, a gym teacher who loathed their long hair'

Lynyrd Skynyrd

800

'Her 1985 hit "Crazy For You" reached the top 5 in the U.K., as did its 1991 remixed version'

Madonna

1000

'While touring with The Beach Boys, she was cast in a major role in "To Sir With Love"'

Lulu

AMERICAN MUSEUMS

200

'The Pharmacy Museum in this city's French Quarter has an enormous leech jar on display'

New Orleans

400

'Fantastic figureheads are on display in the Mariners' Museum in Newport News in this state'

Virginia

600

'There's a small museum devoted to Father Damien in this state capital'

Honolulu

800

'The Enid A. Haupt garden sits atop this institution's underground museum, education, & research complex'

Smithsonian Institution

1000

'Edward Kemeys designed the bronze lions guarding the main entrance to the art institute of this Midwest city'

Chicago

GAMES

200

'This is a game of guessing words or phrases acted out, sometimes syllable by syllable'

Charades

400

'Of boccie, bagatelle, & baccarat, the one that doesn't use balls'

Baccarat

600

'You take an opponent's checker after you do this to it'

Jump It

800

'In this game a person whose eyes are covered must determine a person's identity by feeling the face'

Blind Man\'s Bluff

1000

'In gin rummy, a hand ends when one player calls "Gin" or does this'

Knock

JAPAN

200

'This custom is not observed in Japan; if you leave change behind, it may be returned to you'

Tipping

400

'The name of this monetary unit comes from the word for "round"; earlier coins were often oval'

Yen

600

'Tokyo is served by two of these: Narita & Haneda'

Airports

800

'After being rebuilt in 1855, the Imperial Palace in this former capital was home to just 2 emperors'

Kyoto

1000

'The custom of using these seabirds to catch fish has been practiced for over a millennium'

cormorants