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A CHRISTMAS SONGBOOK

200

'"Then one foggy Christmas Eve, Santa came to say, 'Rudolph with your nose so bright, won't you'" do this'

Guide my sleigh tonight

400

'Its second verse begins, "See the blazing yule before us, fa la la la la la la la la"'

"Deck the Halls"

600

'In song he says, "Let's run and we'll have some fun now before I melt away"'

"Frosty the Snowman"

800

'This song heard here was a big hit for The King in 1964:
("Decorations of red, on a green...")'

"Blue Christmas"

1000

'This is the true title of the song that begins, "Chestnuts roasting on an open fire"'

"The Christmas Song"

THE GREAT LAKES

200

'Geologists believe the basins of the Great Lakes were scooped out by these about 20,000 years ago'

Glaciers

400

'The 5 Great Lakes border 8 U.S. states but only this one Canadian province'

Ontario

600

'Superior, Wisconsin & this Minnesota port lie at the western terminus of the Great Lakes'

Duluth

800

'Manitoulin Island in this second-largest Great Lake is the world's largest freshwater island'

Lake Huron

1000

'This Frenchman's interpreter actually saw the Great Lakes first, but the boss got the credit'

Samuel de Champlain

ANAGRAMMED MUSICALS

200

'Lots of suckers saw it:
"Ban Rum"'

"Barnum"

400

'Let's clap for this one:
"Lap Pause"'

"Applause"

600

'Lerner & Loewe's Scotstravaganza:
"A Goon Bird"'

"Brigadoon"

800

'A Rodgers & Hammerstein classic:
"Car Louse"'

"Carousel"

1000

'Mark my words, Twain would have loved it:
"Rib Giver"'

"Big River"

BLACK AMERICANS

200

'In 1940 he won the NCAA title in the broad jump; 7 years later, he joined the Brooklyn Dodgers'

Jackie Robinson

400

'In 1896 he became director of agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute'

George Washington Carver

600

'In 1952 she made her opera debut in "Four Saints in Three Acts", which led to her playing Bess in "Porgy and Bess"'

Leontyne Price

800

'On March 11, 1959 her "A Raisin in the Sun" became the first play on Broadway written by a black woman'

Lorraine Hansberry

1000

'Robert Peary's companion on several Arctic trips, he wrote the 1912 book "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole"'

Matthew Henson

MY DAD

200

'Anna, founder of child psychoanalysis, was the youngest daughter of this man, founder of a similar field'

Sigmund Freud

400

'Mehli Mehta, conductor & founder of the American Youth Symphony, is the father of this famed conductor'

Zubin Mehta

600

'This leader of the Argonauts was raised by Chiron, a Centaur'

Jason

800

'(Hi, I'm Holly Robinson-Peete) My dad, Matt Robinson, played Gordon on this PBS series'

Sesame Street

1000

'This author's dad was a missionary in China; she was a teacher there in the 1920s'

Pearl S. Buck