WORLD CITIES
CONTESTS
THE ASSASSIN'S VICTIM
CHARLIE CHAPLIN
GOLD RUSH
200
'About 1 out of every 10 Japanese people lives in this city's metropolitan area'
Tokyo
200
'134-pound Hirofumi Nakajima holds the record of eating 24 1/2 of these in 12 minutes at the Nathan's July 4th contest'
Hot dogs
200
'44 B.C.:
Casca & company'
Julius Caesar
200
'A 1915 film named for Charlie's most famous character was called simply this (no "Little")'
Tramp
200
'In 1880 Joseph Juneau & Richard T. Harris found gold in the Gastineau Channel of this U.S. territory'
Alaska
400
'In 1973 a highway bridge opened connecting the European & Asian parts of this Turkish city'
Istanbul
400
'This cruise ship favorite played on a 52-foot court is an event at the National Senior Games'
Shuffleboard
400
'1881:
Charles Guiteau'
James Garfield
400
'Chaplin went on stage at age 5 in this type of "hall", the British equivalent of Vaudeville'
Music Hall
400
'The Black Hills Gold Rush of 1874 spilled over into territory claimed by this Native American tribe'
Sioux
600
'It served as Australia's capital from 1901 to 1927'
Melbourne
600
'Theta Tau at Purdue holds a contest for convoluted machines in the spirit of this cartoonist'
Rube Goldberg
600
'1984:
Beant Singh & Satwant Singh'
Indira Gandhi
600
'Nigel Bruce of Dr. Watson fame played an impresario in this "glowing" 1952 Chaplin film'
Limelight
600
'Tourists now rush to this man's 1839 Adobe Fort in Sacramento, California'
John Sutter
800
'This Cairo suburb, near the Pyramids, is home to most of Egypt's motion picture industry'
Giza
800
'In 1999 'N Sync performed at the 17th annual pageant to crown Miss this'
Miss Teen USA
800
'1901:
Leon Czolgosz'
William McKinley
800
'The last of Chaplin's 4 teenage brides was Oona, this playwright's daughter'
Eugene O\'Neill
800
'An 1859 gold strike brought miners to Cherry Creek, the site of this future state capital'
Denver
1000
'Recife is called "The Venice of" this South American country'
Brazil
1000
'At the 1999 Westminster Dog Show, CH Loteki Supernatural Being won this award for matching the breed standard'
Best in Show
1000
'1170:
Reginald Fitzurse & 3 other knights'
Thomas Becket
1000
'Charlie made 35 films in about a year at this Mack Sennett studio'
Keystone Studios
1000
'Forty-niners from this European country were called Keskydees, a corruption of an oft-used phrase'
France