j-archive-3153-D-1998-04-22

PHONY EXPRESS

200

'The term "con man" is short for this'

Confidence man

400

'It's not AU, it's FeS'

Fool\'s gold (iron pyrite)

600

'Posing as Arabs with lots of cash, the FBI caught 7 members of Congress in this 1970s sting operation'

Abscam

800

'He served time for fraud after writing a fake Howard Hughes biography'

Clifford Irving

1000

'Dummkopfs! This German newsmagazine paid millions for forged diaries of Adolf Hitler in 1983'

Stern

GEE, YOUR HOUSE SMELLS NICE

200

'Scent these by adding pieces of mint or a few drops of essential oil to the melted wax before molding'

Candles

400

'A mixture of fragrant flowers & leaves in a bowl, its name is French for "rotten pot"'

Potpourri

600

'SC Johnson Wax, who makes Raid, also makes this rhyming air freshener'

Glade

800

'From French for "little bag", rose petals may fill this in your lingerie drawer'

Sachet

1000

'To make one of these, begin by pressing cloves into the skin of an orange'

Pomander

TAKE "TEN"

200

'She shared "Muskrat Love" with the Captain'

Toni Tennille

400

'An athlete with this inflammation that affects a certain arm joint may make quite a "racket"'

Tennis elbow/tendonitis

600

'Title shared by a Jazz Age novel & the Jackson Browne song heard here:'

"Tender is the Night"

800

'Notable Nepalese Norgay'

Tenzing Norgay

1000

'If you want to peek at Spain's highest peak, look for El Teide on this Canary Island'

Tenerife

GUYS WHO FOUND THINGS

200

'In the 1570s this British circumnavigator attacked many Spanish ships as a pirate in the Caribbean'

Sir Francis Drake

400

'This naval commander discovered a mountain range in Antarctica while aboard the plane (Stars and Stripes) seen here:'

Richard Byrd

600

'This man who sought the source of the Nile was knighted in 1886'

Sir Richard Burton

800

'This priest first met Louis Joliet when Joliet arrived at his mission at St. Ignace in December 1672'

Marquette

1000

'In 1497 this Venetian sailing for England became the first European since the Vikings to reach N. America'

John Cabot

CONTEMPORARIES

200

'Burnt at the stake in 1431, she was probably a pin-up girl for 11-year-old Torquemada'

Joan of Arc

400

'While James Watt was getting steamed up in Scotland, she was heating up the throne in Russia'

Catherine the Great

600

'While Copernicus was staring up at the stars, this emperor was staring down Cortez'

Montezuma

800

'While Leif Ericsson had his first look at the New World, this man was sitting as first king of Hungary'

St. Stephen

1000

'In 1850, Hawthorne wrote of Hester Prynne's crime, & this Scot opened his Chicago detective agency'

Allan Pinkerton