j-archive-4092-D-2002-05-21

CELEBRITY MARRIAGES

200

'Hank Azaria & this actress split up after less than a year of marriage; maybe they weren't so mad about each other'

Helen Hunt

400

'He & Angelina Jolie are bound by blood; they've worn amulets with each other's blood around their necks'

Billy Bob Thornton

600

'Linda Hamilton was the fourth of 5 women he's directed down the aisle'

(James) Cameron

800

'In 1951 Frank Sinatra married this glamorous star, the ex-wife of both Artie Shaw & Mickey Rooney'

Ava Gardner

1000

'For much of the '80s, Cicely Tyson was married to this jazz trumpeter'

Miles Davis

NOW, YOU TELL ME

200

'In June 1982 NOW conceded defeat in getting this Constitutional amendment ratified'

the ERA (Equal Rights Amendment)

400

'NOW's policy on this 1991 scandal says, "Whereas" Navy aviators cornered women & "passed them down a gauntlet…"'

the Tailhook Scandal

600

'NOW's first presidential endorsement was of this Democratic nominee; makes sense…'

Walter Mondale

800

'NOW hailed the approval of this "abortion pill", calling it a promising breast cancer treatment, too'

RU-486

1000

'This "national" figure, who retired in 2001 as NOW's president, says, "The right to safety should be fundamental"'

Patricia Ireland

"B" SHARP

200

'Sepia & mahogany are tones of this color'

brown

400

'A joke says that when you play country music this way, your wife, your dog & your car return'

backwards

600

'From the Italian for "jest", it's a clown or a fool'

a buffoon

800

'"To jump" this household item means to get married'

the broom

1000

'Last name of Edwin, C. Harold Smith's cousin & partner in the Crayola biz'

Binney

ARE THE STARS OUT TONIGHT?

200

'The Virgo cluster is a cluster of these, some of them spiral'

galaxies

400

'It's the astrological sign of a New Year's Day baby'

Capricorn

600

'NASA says the next best windows for man to visit this planet & keep the trip short occur in 2003, 2018 & 2020'

Mars

800

'King Richard could tell you Regulus is the star that marks the heart of this constellation'

Leo (the lion)

1000

'This L.A. landmark will be closed for renovation from 2002 to late 2004, leaving stargazers out in the cold'

the Griffith Obervatory

IT'S GREEK MYTH TO ME

200

'He led the Titans into battle against the gods & had to shoulder the responsibility'

Atlas

400

'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) The blue morpho's name comes from "morpho", meaning "shapely", one of the epithets of this Greek goddess of love'

Aphrodite

600

'Pan hung out a lot with this wine god, known to some as Bacchus'

Dionysus

800

'Robert Graves says the Greek equivalents of the Vedic male trinity of Mitra, Varuna & Indra are Zeus, Hades & him'

Poseidon

1000

'Ares had a twin sister named Eris who helped cause the Trojan War with her golden "apple of" this'

discord