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ITALIAN GEOGRAPHY

200

'405 miles but only 2 letters long, this Italian river flows past Turin, Cremona & Ferrara'

Po

400

'The east coast Italian cities of Rimini & Bari are found on this sea, an arm of the Mediterranean'

Adriatic

600

'A 7-mile tunnel through this mountain peak connects Italy to Chamonix, France'

Mont Blanc

800

'The play "Much Ado About Nothing" takes place in the port city of Messina on this Italian island'

Sicily

1000

'In 1861 this 9,300-square-mile island just south of Corsica became a part of the kingdom of Italy'

Sardinia

MEXICAN COOKING

200

'The poblano type of these is popular when making them rellenos, or stuffed'

chilies

400

'Author Diana Kennedy says, "Always serve a wedge of" this dessert "with plenty of the extra syrup"'

flan

600

'You can make the traditional ties for these from strands of their corn husk wrappings'

tamales

800

'Cochinita pibil, a classic Yucatan dish, is one of these cooked in a pib, or pit'

pig

1000

'The name of this chopped fruit relish means "rooster's beak"'

pico de gallo

EGYPTIAN WILDLIFE

200

'This Egyptian canine spends his day around Lake Nasser'

jackal

400

'In Aug., thousands of these birds stop in Egypt on their migration to South Africa; that's a lot of baby deliveries!'

storks

600

'A close relative of the wild goat, this Egyptian mammal's name would be great for an "Ends in X" category'

ibex

800

'The fennec, Vulpes zerda, is also called the "desert" type of this'

fox

1000

'These fish-eating falcons populate Egyptian coastal areas like the Gulf of Aqaba'

ospreys

INDIAN CINEMA

200

'The theme of Raj Kapoor's "Ram Teri Ganga Maili" is the pollution of this river'

Ganges

400

'"Rajah Harishandra", India's first full-length story film, premiered in 1913 in this city, a future film center'

Bombay (now Mumbai)

600

'India's 1st talkie, 1931's "Alam Ara", began a pattern of stopping the action for an often irrelevant one of these'

song

800

'Before he teamed up with Ivory, he directed the Oscar-nominated Indian short "The Creation of a Woman"'

Ismail Merchant

1000

'This 2001 film is about the chaos surrounding an arranged marriage in the Verma family'

Monsoon Wedding

ENGLISH "T"

200

'The London Underground is also called this'

the Tube

400

'This show that originated on the BBC features Tinky Winky & Laa-Laa'

Teletubbies

600

'E.H. Baily's 17-foot-tall statue of Lord Nelson is in this London plaza'

Trafalgar Square

800

'It rises in Gloucestershire, near Cheltenham'

the Thames River

1000

'4 museums in England that house national collections bear the name of this sugar magnate'

Sir Henry Tate