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"ACK"!

200

'A 1930 Marx Brothers film, or treats packaged in a box that looks like a circus wagon cage'

Animal Crackers

400

'The British national flag'

Union Jack

600

'This 1877 Anna Sewell novel helped establish the pony story as a popular genre in England'

"Black Beauty"

800

'(Hi, I'm Derrick Alexander of the Kansas City Chiefs) The Kansas City Chiefs played in the very first Super Bowl but lost to this team 35--10'

Green Bay Packers

1000

'In DOS this character separates directory names & file names'

Backslash

NOTABLE WOMEN

200

'She's the woman in power seen here
(Clinton's attorney general)'

Janet Reno

400

'After she was married, this Indian princess was known as Rebecca Rolfe'

Pocahontas

600

'Russia fought 2 wars with Turkey & annexed the Crimea during her reign as Russia's empress'

Catherine the Great

800

'Her 1951 book "La Razon de mi Vida" ("The Purpose of my Life") was once mandatory reading in Argentine schools'

Eva Peron

1000

'In her 1903 autobiography, she wrote, "Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence"'

Helen Keller

I DON'T SPEAK...

200

'Je ne parle pas Francais'

French

400

'Ich spreche kein Deutsch'

German

600

'Ik spreek geen Nederlands'

Dutch

800

'Nihongo ga Wakarimasen'

Japanese

1000

'Nie mowie po Polsku'

Polish

TEENS IN LITERATURE

200

'When Antonia Shimerda is introduced in this novel, she's "a girl of fourteen" with curly, wild-looking hair'

"My Antonia"

400

'The first chapter of "Little Women" says this girl is 15 years old, "very tall, thin and brown" with "a comical nose"'

Jo

600

'This Bronte novel says of Cathy, "At fifteen she was the queen of the country-side; she had no peer"'

"Wuthering Heights"

800

'When this Jane Austen novel begins, Elinor Dashwood, the eldest daughter, is "only nineteen"'

"Sense and Sensibility"

1000

'Chapter 2, part 4 of this Pasternak novel tells us "Lara was only a little over sixteen but she was well developed"'

"Doctor Zhivago"

MYSTERY MEAT

200

'This popular sliced pizza sausage usually made of beef & pork is named for what seasons it'

Pepperoni

400

'Demonic adjective that describes a type of canned ham or an egg appetizer'

Deviled

600

'This North American marsupial finds its way into a tasty stew'

Opossum

800

'The U.S. poultry industry calls them "paws" & exported 264,000 tons of them to China in 1997'

Chicken feet

1000

'French chefs use this part of the goose to make pate de foie gras'

Liver