j-archive-2920-J-1997-04-18

TV CATCH PHRASES

200

'"Nanu, Nanu" & "Shazbat" were Orkan words frequently heard on this sitcom'

Mork & Mindy

400

'On "The Addams Family", he would enter & croak, "You rang?"'

Lurch

600

'On this game show, answers were checked against what the "Survey Says!"'

Family Feud

800

'As Arnold Jackson on "Diff'rent Strokes", he asked, "What you talkin' about, Willis?"'

Gary Coleman

1000

'She signed off "NBC News Overnight" with "And so it goes"'

Linda Ellerbee

REAL ESTATE

200

'These "lords" live like peasants when courts make them stay in their undermaintained tenements'

Slumlords

400

'Term for buying the right to use vacation property for a certain period each year'

Timeshare

600

'In 1996 California created a state agency to provide this type of homeowners' insurance'

Earthquake insurance

800

'It's the deposit of funds or documents with a neutral third party instructed to carry out an agreement'

Escrow

1000

'A claim on a debtor's property; the "mechanic's" type is held by a worker who wasn't paid'

Lien

HAIL TO THE CHIEF

200

'His last will & testament left his Virginia estate Monticello to his daughter Martha'

Thomas Jefferson

400

'His war record as a Rough Rider helped him win the New York governorship in 1898'

Theodore Roosevelt

600

'At 12:03 P.M., August 9, 1974 he was sworn in as president in the East Room of the White House'

Gerald Ford

800

'In the 1950s a putting green was installed for him near the Rose Garden'

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1000

'This first president from Massachusetts was called "The Colossus of Independence"'

John Adams

TRAVEL U.S.A.

200

'Restaurants on this Massachusetts cape include the Impudent Oyster & Aesop's Tables'

Cape Cod

400

'This state's World Potato Exposition in Blackfoot promises "Free Taters for Out-of-Staters"'

Idaho

600

'Alien Encounter is one of the scariest attractions in this Florida theme park'

Walt Disney World

800

'Some of this illustrator's models serve as hosts for the exhibition devoted to him in Arlington, VT.'

Norman Rockwell

1000

'Visitors to this Midwestern city may tour the Pabst Mansion, built in 1893 in the Flemish Renaissance style'

Milwaukee

BY GEORGE

200

'The first line in Encarta's article on him includes the words "Last Stand" in quotes'

George Custer

400

'He's the only George to win an Olympic gold medal in boxing's heavyweight division'

George Foreman

600

'He fired Billy Martin 5 times'

George Steinbrenner

800

'Name shared by a 1926 Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright & a 1930s gangster nicknamed "Machine Gun"'

George Kelly

1000

'In 1924 this king wrote, What would "Dear Grandmama....have thought of a Labour government"'

King George V