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NOTABLE NAMES

200

'On his return to England in 1836, he began setting down his theory of evolution'

Charles Darwin

400

'This czar died in the Russian city he named for his patron saint February 8, 1725'

Peter the Great

600

'At Moscow's American National Exhibition in 1959, they engaged in an impromptu "kitchen debate"'

Richard Nixon & Nikita Khrushchev

800

'5 Hawaiian kings assumed this name meaning "The Very Lonely One" or "The One Set Apart"'

Kamehameha

1000

'A clinic at Johns Hopkins hospital is named for this financier who had a penchant for sparkling jewelry'

James "Diamond Jim" Brady

LITERATURE

200

'This Dickens novel about a foundling is subtitled "The Parish Boy's Progress"'

Oliver Twist

400

'His "Anna Karenina" was originally published in installments between 1875 & 1877'

Leo Tolstoy

600

'It's the English title of Isabel Allende's novel "La Casa de los Espiritus"'

The House of the Spirits

800

'William Dean Howells wrote of Silas Lapham & she wrote of "Silas Marner"'

George Eliot

1000

'In this 1979 book Norman Mailer told the story of convicted killer Gary Gilmore'

The Executioner\'s Song

AGRICULTURE

200

'This country usually produces almost one-third of the world's coffee crop'

Brazil

400

'Nitrogen fertilizers are produced primarily from this gas'

Ammonia

600

'It's the main labor union for migrant workers'

UFW (United Farm Workers)

800

'The Department of Agriculture's official seal features corn & this farm implement'

Plow

1000

'More of the Earth's surface is covered by this grain than by any other food crop'

Wheat

ROCK MUSIC GEOGRAPHY

200

'You can get down under to the music of this country's Hoodoo Gurus, Midnight Oil & INXS'

Australia

400

'Punk precursors The MC5 were named for this "Motor City", their home base'

Detroit

600

'The songs of Jefferson Airplane were in the air during this city's 1967 "Summer Of Love"'

San Francisco

800

'Georgia college town that gave us R.E.M. & the B-52's'

Athens (home of the Univ. of Georgia)

1000

'Prince, a native of this city, pioneered the smooth, funky "sound" named for it'

Minneapolis

CROSSWORD CLUES "A"

200

'Biblical boat
(3)'

Ark

400

'Wonderland waif
(5)'

Alice

600

'"Baked" state
(6)'

Alaska

800

'Letter-perfect soup
(8)'

Alphabet

1000

'It's close to Curacao
(5)'

Aruba