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LITERATURE

200

'Chapter one of this book informs us that "There was unquestionably a Chuzzlewit in the Gunpowder Plot"'

Martin Chuzzlewit

400

'Originally, the term Picaresque referred to fiction from this country about rogues called Picaros'

Spain

600

'The last chapter of this Charlotte Bronte novel begins with the words "Reader, I married him"'

Jane Eyre

800

'In a poem dedicated to this lord, Longfellow wrote, "Poet! I come to touch thy lance with mine"'

Alfred Lord Tennyson

1000

'A category called Famous Andres would have to include this Frenchman who wrote "Man's Fate" & "Man's Hope"'

Andre Malraux

DIRECTORS

200

'Mel Brooks' film "High Anxiety" spoofed this director's films, including, of course, "Vertigo"'

Alfred Hitchcock

400

'This director claimed he called his 1971 film "Bananas" "Because there are no bananas in it"'

Woody Allen

600

'"I like to use cities as characters", said this "Meet Me In St. Louis" director, Liza's dad'

Vincente Minnelli

800

'He directed his good friend John Wayne in many films; the last was "Donovan's Reef", in 1963'

John Ford

1000

'He said, "My wife has taught me the meaning of uxoriousness" when he won an Oscar for "The English Patient"'

Anthony Minghella

WORD ORIGINS

200

'This "relative" term for sorority members is derived from middle English & old Norse'

Sister

400

'It's the part of a saddle whose name comes from a Latin word for "fruit"'

Pommel

600

'This type of tripe is named for its resemblance to a certain bee structure'

Honeycomb

800

'This insect's name is derived from the superstition that it enters a sleeping person's aural organs'

Earwig

1000

'The name of these strips of cloth wound around soldiers' lower legs comes from Hindi & Sanskrit for "bandage"'

Puttees

TUESDAY

200

'Tuesday Weld had one child, not 10, while married to this star of "10"'

Dudley Moore

400

'Weld co-starred with him in "Wild In The Country" & played a mother in love with him in "Heartbreak Hotel"'

Elvis Presley

600

'On TV, Tuesday was one of "The Many Loves Of" this title character'

Dobie Gillis

800

'Tuesday was Oscar-nominated for her role in this 1977 Diane Keaton film'

Looking For Mr. Goodbar

1000

'With Tuesday at his side, he starred in "Soldier In The Rain" & "The Cincinnati Kid"'

Steve McQueen

THIS MUST BE BELGIUM

200

'Its upper city portion is home to the parliament & the royal palace'

Brussels

400

'This fictional Belgian detective fled to England when World War I broke out'

Hercule Poirot

600

'This Motown star was living in Ostend when he co-wrote "Sexual Healing"'

Marvin Gaye

800

'Declared a traitor by the Jacobins, this hero of the American Revolution fled to Flanders'

Marquis de Lafayette

1000

'A famous musical had this Belgian-born singer-songwriter "Alive And Well And Living In Paris"'

Jacques Brel