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ALASKA

200

'4 different species of bears live in Alaska: Kodiak, grizzly, black & this'

Polar bears

400

'Tony Knowles is pulling in $81,648 per annum in this job'

Governor

600

'This second-largest Alaskan city wasn't named for an actor'

Fairbanks

800

'One of the 3 mottos that have been featured on regular Alaskan license plates'

"The Last Frontier", "The Great Land", or "North to the Future"

1000

'The mainland peninsula closest to Russia is named for this man'

William Seward

INTERNATIONAL SPORTSMEN

200

'Nike's stock fell when this basketball player announced his retirement in January 1999'

Michael Jordan

400

'Ronaldo Luiz Nazario de Lima began playing this sport for Brazil's national team at age 17'

Soccer

600

'Vladimir Samsonov is touted as Europe's only hope against China in this game'

Ping-pong

800

'The Times of London estimates this chess player is taking home $20 mil. a year; that's some check, mate!'

Garry Kasparov

1000

'New Zealand-born Jonah Lamu is tops on the pitch of this sport'

Rugby

DRAMA QUEENS

200

'In Euripides' play about this famed beauty, it's her double who goes to Troy'

Helen

400

'In a Shaw play, Caesar finds her hiding on a Sphinx'

Cleopatra

600

'A 1952 play covered the young life of this queen, like a 1998 Cate Blanchett film'

Elizabeth I

800

'In 1935 & '36 Helen Hayes reigned for 517 Broadway performances as this queen who reigned for 63 years'

Victoria

1000

'The queen in Marlowe's "Edward II" is named this, like a famous queen of Spain'

Isabella

ANGELS

200

'In 1996 John Travolta spread his wings as this archangel'

Michael

400

'In Book III of "Paradise Lost", the angels play these, which are "golden" & "ever-tuned"'

harps

600

'ABBA sang about these & Curtis Lee sang about "Pretty Little" these'

Angel Eyes

800

'Group whose feast day is October 2, or a group founded in 1979 by Curtis Sliwa'

Guardian Angels

1000

'With an appropriate-sounding name, John Dye plays the angel of this on "Touched By An Angel"'

Angel of Death

IN EXILE

200

'Porfirio Diaz seized power in this country in 1876, ruled for 35 years, fled in 1911 & died in exile'

Mexico

400

'In 1462 this printer known for movable type had to move out of Mainz'

Johannes Gutenberg

600

'Exiled for manslaughter, Eric the Red was forced to leave this country around 981'

Iceland

800

'David Ben-Gurion went to the U.S. in 1915 when this empire exiled Zionists from Palestine'

Ottoman Empire

1000

'Moshoeshoe II was exiled twice before regaining this southern African country's throne in 1995'

Lesotho