WORLD HODGEPODGE
NEW YORK TIMES HEADLINES
ENGINEERING
BETTER KNOWN AS...
THE LAST MAN
200
'Pato, a combination of basketball & this game played on horseback, is quite popular in Argentina'
Polo
200
'The November 25, 1963 front page read, this man "Shot To Death In Jail Corridor By A Dallas Citizen"'
Lee Harvey Oswald
200
'Tajikistan has the highest one of these in the world; the U.S. doesn't even make the Top 10 with Hoover'
Dam
200
'Marion Morrison'
John Wayne
200
'In the 1996 book "The Presidents: A Reference History"'
Bill Clinton
400
'From the old French for "ice", these cover about 1/8 of Iceland; some are 3/4 of a mile thick'
Glaciers
400
'The revelation of "Undreamed Of Splendors" was reported with the 1923 opening of his inner tomb'
King Tut
400
'The longest trip by rail you can take underwater is between these 2 countries'
England and France
400
'Raquel Tejada'
Raquel Welch
400
'In "Asimov's Biographical Encyclopedia of Science & Technology" is this "Cosmos" astronomer'
Carl Sagan
600
'Jorge Icaza, who was born in Quito, was one of this country's most famous 20th century authors'
Ecuador
600
'On Sept. 9, 1974 news fit to print included the pardon of this man & "Knievel Safe As Rocket Falls"'
Richard Nixon
600
'Able to carry over 2 million barrels of crude a day, it runs from Prudhoe Bay to Valdez'
the Alaska Pipeline
600
'Archibald Leach'
Cary Grant
600
'In "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations", he's paired with Michael Jackson for writing "We Are The World"'
Lionel Richie
800
'On Dutch maps, this country is called Oostenrijk'
Austria
800
'The 1945 headline "Bomber Hits" this skyscraper meant a plane, not a person'
Empire State Building
800
'Charles Buchinsky'
Charles Bronson
800
'In the "Book Of Sports Legends" is this man who threw the first pitch in a World Series game'
Cy Young
1000
'When shopping on Saba, an island in this sea, look for the beautiful, delicate Saba lace'
Caribbean Sea
1000
'"Berlin Reported Him Missing And Insane" when he "Flies To Scotland" in May 1941'
Rudolf Hess
1000
'Margarita Cansino'
Rita Hayworth
1000
'In "The Almanac of Famous People" is this "Father of Television"'
Vladimir Zworykin