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WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT
WRITERS' PEN NAMES
GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT
POP MUSIC DECADES
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'In 1998 this largest automaker of South Korea acquired a major stake in Kia Motors'
Hyundai
200
'Taft was criticized for not doing more to reduce the power of Joe Cannon, holder of this post in Congress'
Speaker of the House
200
'Richard Bachman'
Stephen King
200
'A steenbok is a grassland antelope; this is the man who wrote "Tortilla Flat"'
John Steinbeck
200
'This Motown group's many '60s hits include "Stop! In the Name of Love"'
the Supremes
400
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew demonstrates) It's the method I'm using to type a memo...I was never very good'
hunt-and-peck
400
'With Taft & Teddy Roosevelt splitting the Republican vote, this Democrat easily won the 1912 election'
Woodrow Wilson
400
'Diedrich Knickerbocker'
Washington Irving
400
'Elder is a species of tree; eider is a species of this'
duck
400
'Giant of the '70s airwaves seen here'
John Denver
600
'It's another name for a filbert'
hazelnut
600
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Cincinnati) Before ascending to the presidency, the only job Taft was voted into was as one of these in Ohio'
Superior Court judge
600
'Elron'
L. Ron Hubbard
600
'Dengue fever is a mosquito-borne infection; this was the '80s TV show hosted by Deney Terrio'
Dance Fever
600
'A bestselling album of 1945 was from this bandleader who'd died the previous year'
Glenn Miller
800
'Despite a clubfoot, Lord Byron played cricket for this London school in its rivalry match against Eton'
Harrow
800
'Taft set up this bureau in the Interior Dept. to reduce underground explosions, that sort of thing'
Bureau of Mines
800
'O. Henry'
William Sydney Porter
800
'Baskin-Robbins creates fancy ice cream treats; he created the ballet "Fancy Free"'
Jerome Robbins
800
'"Shake It" is the last song on his 1983 album "Let's Dance"'
David Bowie
1000
'Largely through the efforts of Clive Cussler, this Confederate sub that sank with its crew in 1864 has been recovered'
C.S.S. Hunley
1000
'Alliterative term for Taft's foreign policy, which emphasized monetary investment'
"Dollar Diplomacy"
1000
'A.A. Fair'
Erle Stanley Gardner
1000
'Topaz is a yellow stone; this is the U.S. national park with the highest waterfall'
Yosemite
1000
'In 1959 she had a hit with the following
[What A Difference A Day Makes]'
Dinah Washington