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TV THEME SONGS

200

'"Come'n listen to my story 'bout a man named Jed"'

"The Beverly Hillbillies"

400

'"Making your way in the world today takes everything you've got"'

"Cheers"

600

'"Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale"'

"Gilligan\'s Island"

800

'"Boy the way Glen Miller played songs that made The Hit Parade"'

"All In The Family"

1000

'"Meet Cathy who's lived most everywhere, from Zanzibar to Berkeley Square"'

"The Patty Duke Show"

BIRDS

200

'Not only do these birds hover, they're the only ones capable of flying backwards'

Hummingbirds

400

'This tallest Australian bird stands 5 to 6 feet high'

Emu

600

'The young of this 'wandering" seabird have brown plumage which becomes white as they grow'

Albatross

800

'In some parts of the U.S. the "ruffed" species of this bird is referred to as a pheasant or partridge'

Grouse

1000

'Nutcrackers & magpies belong to this bird family'

Crow

U.S. MUSEUMS

200

'The National Air & Space Museum in Washington is the largest museum of this institution'

Smithsonian Institution

400

'A southwestern Pennsylvania museum is devoted entirely to this 1889 disaster'

The Johnstown Flood

600

'This Chicago museum houses more than 19 million artifacts & specimens'

Field Museum of Natural History

800

'Paducah in this state is home to the Museum of American Quilters'

Kentucky

1000

'Wesley Peters, Frank Lloyd Wright's son-in-law, designed a 4-story annex to this NYC art museum'

The Guggenheim

WORLD CAPITALS

200

'This Swiss capital is the headquarters for the International Copyright Union'

Bern

400

'The name of this capital of Bosnia & Herzegovina is from the Turkish for "palace"'

Sarajevo

600

'The street that runs along this city's western dike is known as Nieuwendijk, or New Dike'

Amsterdam

800

'During the Roman & Byzantine Empires, this Jordanian capital was known as Philadelphia'

Amman

1000

'It's located on Liberia's Bushrod Island & Cape Mesurado'

Monrovia

GOOD THINKING

200

'With little wind resistance, these domes housed the radar equipment along the DEW line'

Geodesic Domes

400

'Sales were slow for cellophane Scotch Tape until John Borden invented one of these for the roll'

Dispenser

600

'After his 3-year-old was impatient to see the photo he'd taken, he set out to invent an "instant" camera'

Edwin Land

800

'In 1892 Henry Perky invented a machine to shred this grain & form it into little pillow-shaped biscuits'

Wheat

1000

'In 1949 he created a machine to shave an ice rink, scoop up debris & spread fresh water'

Frank Zamboni