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15 MINUTES OF FAME
"CAP" & "GOWN"
FOREIGN STATES
BEATNIK LIT
ANIMALS
200
'William Figueroa's moment came in 1992 when he spelled this word for Dan Quayle'
Potato
200
'The nip before you're tucked in'
Nightcap
200
'Puebla, Zacatecas & Jalisco'
Mexico
200
'This 1957 Kerouac novel begins in New York City & ends thousands of miles later south of the border'
On The Road
200
'On a turtle, it's made up of a carapace & plastron'
Shell
400
'In 1968 Valerie Solanas shot & wounded this man who said everyone will be famous for 15 minutes'
Andy Warhol
400
'A train may follow this when a woman makes tracks down the aisle'
Wedding gown
400
'Queensland, Victoria & New South Wales'
Australia
400
'This "Howl" poet spent the last days before his death on April 5, 1997 writing poems'
Allen Ginsberg
400
'Only gorillas & these other primates walk on their knuckles'
Chimpanzees
600
'Hello, her name became a household name in early 1997:'
Dolly (the cloned sheep)
600
'A plum achievement or a plume achievement'
Feather in your cap
600
'Bahia, Parana & Sao Paulo'
Brazil
600
'Gregory Corso's poem "Bomb" was printed in the shape of this type of cloud'
Mushroom cloud
600
'Sapsuckers are a type of these birds that extract insects from trees by strokes of their bills'
Woodpeckers
800
'In the 1970s a purported will made by this man left millions to former gas station operator Melvin Dummar'
Howard Hughes
800
'From the window of your beachfront home you may see one of these foam-topped waves'
Whitecap
800
'Tripura, Sikkim & Punjab'
India
800
'His "Naked Lunch" provoked an obscenity trial in 1962'
William S. Burroughs
800
'Biologist Johannes Schmidt located the Sargasso Sea breeding area of this "elongated" freshwater fish'
Eel
1000
'Oliver Sipple gained fame in 1975 by grabbing Sara Jane Moore's arm as she tried to shoot this man'
Gerald Ford
1000
'Nickname of Teddy Roosevelt's daughter, Mrs. Longworth'
"Alice Bluegown"
1000
'Kogi, Oyo & Lagos'
Nigeria
1000
'The poetry of Gary Snyder reflects the 10 years he spent in Japan studying this religion'
Zen Buddhism
1000
'These small, slender mammals often kept as pets were domesticated from the European polecat'
Ferrets