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BOOKS OF THE '90S
PEOPLE
ANCIENT GREECE
GEOGRAPHY
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
200
'In 1996 this master of horror turned to serial fiction with a 6-part thriller called "The Green Mile"'
Stephen King
200
'In March 1996 this husband of Kim Basinger was acquitted of battering a photographer'
Alec Baldwin
200
'In 146 B.C. what's now Greece was conquered by this western Mediterranean power'
Rome
200
'Canada's James Bay was named for Thomas James, who explored it while looking for this passage'
Northwest Passage
200
'This country's University of Havana was authorized by the Pope in 1721 & founded 7 years later'
Cuba
400
'This Peter Benchley book about a giant killer squid was turned into a 1996 TV miniseries'
"The Beast"
400
'On Oct. 25, 1993 John Shalikashvili became the first foreign-born chairman of this group'
Joint Chiefs of Staff
400
'Around 430 this large temple on the Acropolis was converted into a Christian church'
Parthenon
400
'It flows around the Ile de la Cite'
The Seine
400
'The Meadows Museum at this church-founded Dallas school houses a large collection of Spanish art'
Southern Methodist University
600
'He dedicated his bestseller "The Rainmaker" "To American Trial Lawyers"'
John Grisham
600
'Christine Todd Whitman was elected the 50th governor of this state in 1993'
New Jersey
600
'This city-state's men were required to eat in the soldiers' barracks until age 60'
Sparta
600
'Ulm in this country is home to the cathedral with the tallest spire in the world'
Germany
600
'The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory is located at this Boston-area "institute"'
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
800
'Newsweek's Joe Klein turned out to be the "Anonymous" author of this 1996 "Novel of Politics"'
"Primary Colors"
800
'This PBS late night talk show host previously worked for Bill Moyers on 3 series'
Charlie Rose
800
'This civilization flourished on Crete beginning around 1900 B.C.'
Minoan
800
'The Golden Gate of Yaroslav the Wise can be seen in this largest city in the Ukraine'
Kiev
800
'This Hanover, New Hampshire college was established in 1770 when Eleazer Wheelock erected a single log hut'
Dartmouth
1000
'Betty J. Eadie touched many lives with this 1992 mega-bestseller about her near-death experience'
"Embraced By The Light"
1000
'In 1989 Daniel Arap Moi named this paleo-anthropologist head of the Kenya Wildlife Service'
Richard Leakey
1000
'This plain northeast of Athens was the site of the Athenians' victory over the Persian army in 490 B.C.'
Marathon
1000
'You can find the Wilhelmina Mountains in this South American country'
Suriname (formerly Dutch Guyana)
1000
'This De Land, Florida university is named for a 19th century Philadelphia hat maker'
Stetson