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BROOKLYN NEIGHBORHOODS

200

'In 1968 this area called "Bed-Stuy" elected Shirley Chisholm, the first black woman in Congress'

Bedford-Stuyvesant

400

'Created in 1903, Luna Park in this amusement area was sort of an early version of Fantasyland'

Coney Island

600

'A street gang in a 1974 film was called "The Lords of" this large Brooklyn neighborhood'

Flatbush

800

'As the setting for "The Honeymooners", this area is SW Brooklyn could be called Kramdenhurst'

Bensonhurst

1000

'These "Heights" populated by African Americans & Hasidic Jews were the site of rioting in 1991'

Crown Heights

MEET AL GORE

200

'Enlisting in 1969, Gore served as an Army reporter in this foreign country'

Vietnam

400

'This film star was Al's roommate at Harvard around the time Will Smith was born:

"I'm talkin' to you! You know how many of your kind I've swatted with a newspaper? You're nothing but a smear on the sports page to me, you slimy, gut-sucking, intestinal parasite!"'

Tommy Lee Jones

600

'Author Erich Segal says Oliver Barrett IV in this 1970 novel was partly based on Al'

Love Story

800

'Al's 1992 treatise on the environment was titled this "in the Balance"'

Earth

1000

'On his way to defeat in the heated 1992 campaign, this man called Al "Mr. Ozone" & a "Bozo"'

George Bush

PUNCHY WRITERS

200

'"By George" is an appropriate title for this boxer's 1995 autobiography'

George Foreman

400

'In this Hemingway story, the title thugs come to Henry's diner looking to bump off a prizefighter'

"The Killers"

600

'He discussed Ali vs. Foreman in his book "The Fight" & in the 1996 film "When We Were Kings"'

Norman Mailer

800

'He was boxing editor for Sports Illustrated before writing the script for "On the Waterfront"'

Budd Schulberg

1000

'Based on a play by Clifford Odets, it's the 1939 boxing film seen here:

"Well, I've made up my mind to win the middleweight crown."
"But your heart's in music!"'

Golden Boy

SNOW WHITE'S UNKNOWN DWARFS

200

'The name of this dwarf, a cousin of Happy, is also associated with a Green Giant'

Jolly

400

'This weak & ineffectual dwarf shares his name with a hamburger-loving friend of Popeye's'

Wimpy

600

'The name of this dazed dwarf comes from the Royal Navy's word for rum'

Groggy

800

'One of the smaller dwarfs dislikes hearing his name in the expression, "Cut off my legs and call me" this'

Shorty (or Stumpy)

1000

'The dwarf formerly known as "swollen" changed his name to this adjective, after rap artist Sean Combs'

Puffy

BUFF ACTORS

200

'45 seconds of Sharon Stone & this naked actor were cut from "Basic Instinct" to get an R rating'

Michael Douglas

400

'In his 1995 film "Braveheart", this actor-director showed us what Scotsmen wear under their kilts'

Mel Gibson

600

'Holly Hunter was speechless when Harvey Keitel exposed himself in this 1993 film'

The Piano

800

'Killer Schwarzenegger cyborg whose time travel device can't send his clothes with him'

the Terminator

1000

'Jaye Davidson surprised movie audiences when he slipped out of his clothes in this 1992 film'

The Crying Game