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STATES' MOST POPULOUS CITIES

200

'North Carolina:
Pop. 396,000'

Charlotte

400

'Alabama:
Pop. 266,000'

Birmingham

600

'Alaska:
Pop. 226,000'

Anchorage

800

'South Dakota:
Pop. 101,000'

Sioux Falls

1000

'Vermont:
Pop. 39,000'

Burlington

"SY"ENCE

200

'Your blood pressure has 2 measures, diastolic & this'

Systolic

400

'Hopefully, these connections between your nerve cells aren't misfiring at the moment'

Synapses

600

'[Hi, I'm Nicole DeBoer of "Deep Space Nine"] From the Greek for "to live together", it describes the relationship between Ezri & the Dax within her'

Symbiotic/symbiosis

800

'It's a balanced arrangement in geometry, or an agreement in the number of parts in botany'

Symmetry

1000

'It's a conclave at which a bunch of scientists get together to discuss a special topic'

Symposium

TIGER WOODS

200

'Tiger must love Mickey Mouse: he went to school in Anaheim, California & lives in this Florida city'

Orlando

400

'When Tiger became the youngest Masters winner, he broke this man's records for low 72-hole score & margin of victory'

Jack Nicklaus

600

'In 2000 Tiger won the U.S. Open at this California course by a staggering 15 strokes'

Pebble Beach

800

'Tiger was this California university's male freshman of the year in 1995'

Stanford

1000

'In a thrilling playoff, Tiger beat this man at the 2000 PGA Championship'

Bob May

INTERNATIONAL DATEBOOK

200

'This eastern Mediterranean nation famous for its cedars declared its independence on Nov. 26, 1941'

Lebanon

400

'On trial for his 1953 raid on the Moncada barracks, he declared "History will absolve me"'

Fidel Castro

600

'On Feb. 23, 1997 a report revealed scientists had cloned an adult sheep in this U.K. country'

Scotland

800

'On May 2, 1965 President Johnson sent 14,000 U.S. troops to this Caribbean "republic"'

Dominican Republic

1000

'China ceded this strategic territory to Portugal on December 1, 1887'

Macao

___THE___

200

'Carry off the prize; it's what the peasants might have done after Marie Antoinette's exclamation'

Take the cake

400

'Type of theater you're doing if you're surrounded by the audience'

In the round

600

'Make an exhaustive search to flush out birds, or what the Gores want to do'

Beat the Bushes

800

'Something irrelevant to the matter is this, where you'll find the units in a decimal'

Beside the point

1000

'Relinquish responsibility, especially on the way to the Olympics opening ceremony'

Pass the torch