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19th CENTURY QUOTES

200

'Henry Clay told the U.S. Senate that he'd "rather be" this "than be President"'

right

400

'In 1807 this inventor went from New York City to Albany "wholly by the power of the steam engine"'

(Robert) Fulton

600

'This President said that the second bank of the U.S. is "trying to kill me, but I will kill it"'

Andrew Jackson

800

'In 1886 this Chiricahua Apache told government troops, "Once I moved about like the wind, now I surrender to you"'

Geronimo

1000

'In McCulloch v. Maryland in 1819, this Chief Justice wrote, "The power to tax involves the power to destroy"'

John Marshall

HIT THE ROAD

200

'It's the road where Big Bird lives'

Sesame Street

400

'Freddy Krueger induced fitful sleep on this thoroughfare'

Elm Street

600

'In literature, it leads to The Emerald City'

The Yellow Brick Road

800

'Built over 2,000 years ago & still in use, it was the main "way" to get from Rome to Greece'

the Appian Way

1000

'Tucked behind Regent Street, you'll find this street was the fashion center of swinging 1960s London'

Barnaby Street

BEFORE & AFTER

200

'Clint Howard's nice TV bear who makes Cherry Garcia ice cream'

Gentle Ben & Jerry\'s

400

'"Hee Haw" regular whose straw hat had a $1.98 price tag still attached is a 2001 WWII flick with Ben Affleck'

Minnie Pearl Harbor

600

'Russian Empress who is a "pip" of a Dickens novel'

Catherine The Great Expectations

800

'In a Shakespeare play, it's the drink Viola, Orsino, & Malvolio drink when they can't get a bottle of Thunderbird'

Twelfth Night Train

1000

'Dee Snider band who sang "We're Not Gonna Take It" to Caroline Meeber in a Dreiser novel'

Twisted Sister Carrie

MEDICAL PREFIXES

200

'Hypo- means "deficient"; add one letter to make it this, meaning "sleep"'

hypno-

400

'Pedo- can mean "child"; pedi- can be used for this body part'

the foot

600

'Ovi- is a 3-letter prefix for "egg"; oto- is this 3-letter body part'

the ear

800

'Melano- means "black"; leuko-, "white"; & erythro-, this'

gray

1000

'We know you know blepharo- is this body part (Nudge, nudge, wink, wink, know what I mean?)'

the eyelids

CHRIS COLUMBUS

200

'What's Chris been up to lately? Directing the first 2 films based on this book series'

"Harry Potter"

400

'Chris wrote this 1984 film directed by Joe Dante, but not the 1990 "New Batch" sequel'

"Gremlins"

600

'1 of the 2 films Chris directed in which Robin Williams played the title character'

1 of ("Mrs. Doubtfire" and "Bicentennial Man")

800

'Chris adpated this 1995 comedy with Hugh Grant from the French film "Neuf Mois"'

"Nine Months"

1000

'Sean Astin was one of the treasure-hunting kids in this 1985 Steven Spielberg film with a script by Chris'

"The Goonies"