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HOMONYMS

200

'A 1-horse carriage on springs, or a device that may spring a surprise on a mouse'

Trap

400

'The gullet of a bird, something for a farmer to harvest, or a riding whip'

Crop

600

'It can be your best buddy, or the chopped bait used to attract fish'

Chum

800

'To soak in liquid, or marked by an extreme angle'

Steep

1000

'It can be a short run, a punctuation mark indicating a break, or a part of a car'

Dash

THE ENVIRONMENT

200

'While the Feds still consider these reptiles threatened, there are enough in Florida for an annual harvest'

Alligators

400

'When assassinated in 1988, Chico Mendes had devoted his life to protecting these places'

Rainforests

600

'This 1970 act set standards for major pollutants, including ozone & carbon monoxide'

Clean Air Act

800

'As opposed to wind or solar energy, fossil fuels are these types of "resources"; they run out'

Non-renewable

1000

'A reporter is credited with creating this term for the wind-eroded area of the Great Plains in the 1930s'

Dust Bowl

ART

200

'This beloved folk artist painted "Look, It's A New Little Colt" in 1945, when she was in her '80s'

Grandma Moses

400

'The title of Botticelli's famous painting "Primavera" means this season of the year'

Spring

600

'Peter Blume's 1930 painting "The Eternal City" depicts this fascist as a surreal green jack-in-the-box'

Benito Mussolini

800

'This Frenchman finished his paintings of "Poplars" before he began his "Water Lily" murals'

Claude Monet

1000

'From 1912 to 1933 this "Bird In Space" sculptor created a series of abstract busts of "Mademoiselle Pogany"'

Constantin Brancusi

HISTORIC PLACES

200

'This Virginia site has replicas of the 3 ships that brought settlers there in 1607'

Jamestown

400

'This cemetery just outside Washington, D.C. was laid out on land once home to Robert E. Lee'

Arlington National Cemetery

600

'A visitor center devoted to this judge in Langtry, Texas has his law book on display'

Roy Bean

800

'This president's national historic site in West Branch, Iowa has a Quaker meetinghouse on the grounds'

Herbert Hoover

1000

'This industrialist stocked the woodlands around his home, Fair Lane, with about 300 deer'

Henry Ford

PEOPLE

200

'On September 1, 1996 this former first daughter married Jim Wentzel at the Pond House near Plains'

Amy Carter

400

'After the 1992 election, he managed the Clinton transition team, then became Secretary of State Jan. 20, 1993'

Warren Christopher

600

'Billboard called this contemporary jazz saxophonist the top instrumentalist of the past decade in terms of sales'

Kenny G

800

'In 1995 this paleoanthropologist helped form Safina, a new political party, to rid Kenya of corruption'

Richard Leakey

1000

'This prosecutor of Charles Manson gives his take on the O.J. Simpson trial in his bestseller "Outrage"'

Vincent Bugliosi