j-archive-3911-D-2001-09-10

OOH... A WISE GUY

200

'Therefore it's this 17th century mathematician and philosopher--I think'

Descartes

400

'Peachy thoughts from this uber philosopher include "God is Dead" & "Is Man only a blunder of God?"'

Nietzsche

600

'The writings of this man seen here were truly Revolutionary'

Karl Marx

800

'He coined the term "utopia" now meaning "an ideal place" & used it for the title of a 1516 satire'

Thomas More

1000

'By pure reason you should know he's the categorical German seen here'

Immanuel Kant

WONDER DRUGS

200

'Humulin used by diabetics is short for "human" this'

insulin

400

'Football coach & triple-bypass patient Dan Reeves advertises Zocar, which mainly aims to lower this'

cholesterol

600

'Adult migraine? Ease the throbbing with 200 milligrams of this'

ibuprofen

800

'The arthritis medicine lodine is an NSAID, a non-steroidal anti-this drug'

inflammatory

1000

'Chlorpromazine, aka this, was approved by the FDA in 1954 & became the prototype antipsychotic'

thorazine

DON'T MESS WITH SICILY

200

'At nearly 11,000 feet this "active" spot is Sicily's highest point'

Mount Etna

400

'Sicily was ceded to the Romans in 241 B.C. after they won the first of these wars'

Punic

600

'The father of this US Supreme Court Justice was a romance language professor who had emigrated from Sicily'

Scalia

800

'Heading west to Sicily from Calabria, Italy will take you "strait" to this port city of 263,000'

Messina

DIRECTED BUT DID NOT STAR

200

'"Ordinary People"
(1980)'

Robert Redford

400

'"Apollo 13"
(1995)'

Ron Howard

600

'"Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil"
(1997)'

Clint Eastwood

800

'"Rachel, Rachel"
(1968)'

Paul Newman

1000

'"Cradle Will Rock"
(1999)'

Tim Robbins

PRESIDENTIAL FINAL MOMENTS

200

'He shuffled off this mortal coil in Warm Springs, GA from a cerebral hemorrhage'

FDR

400

'His passing came in Buffalo, New York from gunshot wounds'

McKinley

600

'He died in the White House, from pneumonia'

(William Henry) Harrison

800

'The end finally came for this Pres. in Elberon, New Jersey from blood posioning after being shot'

Garfield

1000

'The 2nd Prez to die in the White House, he was felled by acute indigestion (or was it poison?)'

Zachary Taylor