j-archive-2952-D-1997-06-03

REGIONS OF THE WORLD

200

'It's the Mideastern river whose west bank is the famous West Bank region'

Jordan River

400

'The region once known as Alsace-Lorraine is part of these 2 countries'

France & Germany

600

'Mexicali & La Paz are capitals of states on this peninsula'

Baja California

800

'Liguria is a resort area on this country's Riviera'

Italy

1000

'The Qing dynasty which ruled China until the late 19th century forbade development of this region'

Manchuria

HISTORY

200

'After finding this man, Henry Morton Stanley spent the next 4 months traveling with him'

Dr. David Livingstone

400

'Around 1240 this mongol's grandson Batu founded the Golden Horde'

Genghis Khan

600

'The famous regional defensive alliance treaty creating this organization was signed April 4, 1949'

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

800

'Amsterdam was chartered as a city in 1300 & joined this confederation of cities 69 years later'

the Hanseatic League

1000

'While Richard the Lion-Hearted was on a Crusade in the 1190s, this youngest brother tried to usurp the crown'

John ("John Lackland", "Poor John")

MAGAZINES

200

'Vassar Quarterly & Trojan Family are university news magazines for these people'

Alumni

400

'Founded in 1912, the magazine named for this literary genre has published Wallace Stevens & T.S. Eliot'

poetry

600

'This short form of the word "magazine" refers to personal & electronic publications'

zine

800

'National Review advocates this political attitude; Commentary Magazine stands for the "neo" type'

conservatism

1000

'Flashy journal of cyberspace that shares its name with a biography of John Belushi'

Wired

WORD ORIGINS

200

'The name of this wild horse is from the Spanish word for a stray animal, "mesteno"'

mustang

400

'From the Greek for "treasure", this type of book contains a trove of synonyms'

thesaurus

600

'These photographers take their name from a character in Fellini's "La Dolce Vita"'

paparazzi

800

'In the late 1880s Americans borrowed this title for powerful businessmen from Japanese shoguns'

tycoons

1000

'The word for this legal defense comes from the Latin for "elsewhere"'

alibi

BOOKS INTO MOVIES

200

'"The Bible", with George C. Scott as Abraham, restricts itself to this Biblical book'

Genesis

400

'Book 9, chapter 5 of this Fielding novel became a famous erotic eating scene in the movie'

Tom Jones

600

'This Lorenzo Carcaterra book that became a 1996 movie was published as a true story; some doubted it'

Sleepers

800

'Cameron Crowe returned to high school to research the book that became this 1982 Sean Penn film'

Fast Times at Ridgemont High

1000

'Francois Truffaut based 2 films on Henri-Pierre Roche love triangle tales: "Two English Girls" & this one'

Jules et Jim