j-archive-3764-J-2001-01-04

DAYS OF THE WEEK

200

'Crusoe's companion'

Friday

400

'Morning for an armchair quarterback with 20/20 hindsight'

Monday

600

'"Special" night for an easily obtained & hidden handgun'

Saturday night

800

'"Bloody" day in a U2 song title'

Sunday

1000

'Days Mitch Albom spent "With Morrie"'

Tuesdays

TALL BUILDINGS

200

'In 1977 George Willig was fined $1.10, a penny a story, for climbing one of these NYC towers'

World Trade Center

400

'The Otis Company says it has installed these in 10 of the world's 20 tallest buildings'

Elevators

600

'At 1,136 feet, the Amoco Building is the second tallest in this U.S. city'

Chicago (behind the Sears Tower)

800

'Japan's tallest skyscraper isn't in Tokyo -- it's the Landmark Tower in this nearby port'

Yokohama

1000

'This Vegas tower seen here is the tallest building west of the Mississippi & has a roller coaster 900 feet up'

Stratosphere

TOYS ARE US

200

'Peter Hodgson Sr. saw the appeal of synthetic rubber that bounced & sold it in a plastic egg under this name'

Silly Putty

400

'Interestingly, this Sanrio character seen here has no mouth'

Hello Kitty

600

'Nintendo's N64 lets you sample 5 PGA courses with a cyber version of this real golfer born in 1975'

Tiger Woods

800

'For many adults, the sweet scent of this soft modeling compound is the smell of childhood'

Play-Doh

1000

'"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs...everyone loves" this wonderful toy'

Slinky

ANIMAL PLANET?

200

'It seems odd, but in baseball you usually get a strike when you swing & don't strike the ball with this'

Bat

400

'It's a small metal disk used illegally in a vending machine'

Slug

600

'In gymnastics, it's safe to vault over; its body is upholstered'

Horse

800

'Slang for your feet, or a verb meaning "tracks persistently"'

Dogs

1000

'It's a crude block of iron, or the type of iron cast in one'

Pig iron

THE AGE OF REASON

200

'In 1773 this ex-printer & inventor published "Rules By Which A Great Empire May Be Reduced to A Small One"'

Benjamin Franklin

400

'Pioneering economist Francois Quesnay saw some spending in this opulent palace city where he lived & died'

Versailles

600

'Montesquieu's doctrine of the separation of these influenced our system of separate branches of govt.'

Powers

800

'The ideas of deism are usually represented by God making one of these & then just letting it run'

Watch

1000

'Thomas Paine wrote, "I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and" this title'

"Common Sense"