j-archive-3049-J-1997-11-27

HOW “SWEET” IT IS

200

'It boasts that it's “the world's most popular sugar substitute”'

Sweet’N Low

400

'This 1969 hit was Neil Diamond's first million seller'

"Sweet Caroline"

600

'They're the female counterpart of male barbershop quartet singers'

Sweet Adelines

800

'In 1985 moviegoers went “crazy” over Jessica Lange's performance as Patsy Cline in this film'

Sweet Dreams

1000

'This Tennessee Williams play features fading film star Princess Kosmonopolis'

Sweet Bird of Youth

PILGRIMS

200

'Thousands of pilgrims gather annually in Cairo & Damascus to join caravans to make the hajj to this holy city'

Mecca

400

'This religion has 7 holy cities of pilgrimage, including Varanasi & Ayodhya'

Hinduism

600

'In 1623 he married fellow Pilgrim Priscilla Mullens'

John Alden

800

'About 3 million pilgrims a year visit this cityon the Gave du Pau stream near the Pyrenees in France'

Lourdes

1000

'Each year many pilgrims visit the site at Bodh Gaya where this once grew'

Bodhi Tree

TV GOES TO WORK

200

'He's the assistant director of personnel at Cleveland's Winfred-Louder Department Store'

Drew Carey

400

'Bill McNeal & Catherine Duke are behind the mikes at WNYX on this sitcom'

NewsRadio

600

'Mary Steenburgen & Ted Danson played editor & reporter for the New York Sun on this CBS sitcom'

Ink

800

'It's the literary cafe where Joe Farrell, Audrey Penney & Ellen Morgan worked'

Buy the Book

1000

'Captain John Sheridan & ambassadors from all over the galaxy work at this space station'

Babylon 5

LEFTOVERS

200

'Cavemen first got it from natural sources; rubbing sticks & sparking flint came later'

fire

400

'He designed airplanes & a man-lifting kite but is better known for the telephone'

Alexander Graham Bell

600

'The floor on a ship, it's what a swabby swabs'

deck

800

'Bullfight ticket prices vary by your seat location & the fame of this person'

matador

1000

'This phrase applies to to a relative that you know well enough to smooch upon meeting'

kissing cousins

COOKING

200

'In a family of flat noodles, these are wider than fettuccelle but narrower than fettucce'

fettuccine

400

'This substance, sugar browned by heating, is used in dishes from soup to nut brittle'

caramel

600

'Pour beaten eggs slowly into simmering broth to make this Chinese dish'

egg drop soup

800

'Baking & this oven-cooking method are basically the same process, at the same temperature'

roasting

1000

'In novels it means to pale, as with fear; in cooking, to place food in boiling, then in cold water'

blanche