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AMERICAN LITERATURE

200

'This Mark Twain character's father "Pap" briefly held him prisoner in a cabin on the Illinois side of the Mississippi'

Huckleberry Finn

400

'In this Hemingway WWI novel, ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with British nurse Catherine Barkley'

"A Farewell to Arms"

600

'In this Steinbeck novel, a few buddies get drunk & make a shambles of the Western Biological Lab in Monterey'

"Cannery Row"

800

'It's the nickname of William Lonigan, the 15-year-old hero of a 1930s trilogy written by James T. Farrell'

"Studs"

1000

'This captain of the Ghost rescues literary critic Humphrey Van Weyden & poet Maude Brewster from a shipwreck'

Wolf Larsen

EDUCATION JARGON

200

'65 out of 100 students did the same as or worse than you if your grade is in the 65th of these'

percentile

400

'IDEA is the Individuals with these Education Act, formerly the Education For All Handicapped Children Act'

Disabilities

600

'It's the rhyming term for the technique of teaching with only a blackboard to help you'

chalk talk/chalk and talk

800

'From the Latin for "to heal", it's the type of education that brings deficient students up to standard levels'

remedial

1000

'These 2 words, denoting socioeconomically challenged, followed "A Nation" in a 1983 report's title'

At Risk

STATE GOVERNMENT

200

'Maine's only publicly elected executive officer; if he dies the state senate president succeeds him'

governor

400

'In the Mississippi House of Representatives, this official calls members to order & signs acts'

speaker of the house

600

'In this post, Jim Ryan is Illinois' chief law enforcement & consumer protection official'

attorney general

800

'The counties of Iowa & Arizona are headed by boards of these'

supervisors

1000

'Many states have these for state lawmakers, but in 1995 the Supreme Court ruled them unconstitutional for Congress'

term limits

HERE'S LUCY

200

'Before playing Xena, she co-hosted the travel show "Air New Zealand Holiday"'

Lucy Lawless

400

'In 2000 she became the first Asian-American woman to host "Saturday Night Live"'

Lucy Liu

600

'Lucy Hobbs Taylor must have aced her orals because in 1866 she became the first woman to receive a degree in this'

dentistry

800

'Lucy Simon, the sister of this pop singer, wrote the music for Broadway's "The Secret Garden"'

Carly Simon

1000

'She was the first wife of a president to be called first lady on a regular basis'

"Lemonade Lucy" Hayes

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT

200

'Site of a 1977 6.5 earthquake:
Bucharest'

Romania

400

'Co-capitals:
La Paz & Sucre'

Bolivia

600

'In southern Asia:
Dhaka'

Bangladesh

800

'How peachy:
Tbilisi'

Georgia

1000

'In west Africa:
Luanda'

Angola