j-archive-4254-J-2003-02-13

FAMOUS AMERICANS

200

'In February 1865, 2 months before surrendering, he became general in chief of all the Confederate armies'

Robert E. Lee

400

'It was the famous nickname of frontiersman & scout Christopher Carson'

Kit

600

'Dismissed from West Point for "deficiency in chemistry", he went on to paint a famous portrait of his mother'

James Whistler

800

'Her appointment to the Supreme Court in 1981 to replace Potter Stewart was history-making'

Sandra Day O\'Connor

1000

'In one of its reading rooms, you can read up on Mary Baker Eddy, the founder of this religion'

Christian Science

FEMALE ATHLETES

200

'This soccer player whose real first name is Mariel is one of 4 women to have scored over 100 goals in international play'

Mia Hamm

400

'This track star was nicknamed "Flo-Jo"'

Florence Griffith-Joyner

600

'A student at Great Neck North High School, she's the golden girl of the ice seen here'

Sarah Hughes

800

'This tennis player won women's singles titles at Wimbledon in 2000 & 2001, but lost to her little sister in 2002'

Venus Williams

1000

'This basketball star whose name rhymes with hoops named her son Jordan, after Michael Jordan'

Sheryl Swoopes

WEBSITES

200

'An official website for this state is www.state.nm.us'

New Mexico

400

'Instead of .com, Amnesty International's website is www.amnesty. this'

.org

600

'At whitehouse.gov you can learn all about Air Force One as well as this Maryland presidential retreat'

Camp David

800

'Seen here, Arfie fetches results at this metasearch engine'

Dogpile

1000

'"Sari Says" is an advice column in the online version of this teen magazine'

Teen People

___ OG

200

'Hey, "don't just sit there like a bump on" one of these'

a log

400

'"Pea Soup" describes a dense one'

fog

600

'One of the teeth in a gear'

cog

800

'Something can do this to your bad memory; it's also a wheel on a Sony Clie'

jog

1000

'A fad in the '90s was this game from Hawaii that used bottle stoppers'

pogs

ENDLESS SUMER

200

'The Sumerian name for the Mesopotamian plain may have given us this name of a Biblical garden'

Eden

400

'Utu, who judged the dead at the end of each day, was the Sumerian god of this celestial body'

sun

600

'The ancient Sumerian civilization flourished in the "Fertile Crescent" region between these 2 rivers'

Tigris & Euphrates

800

'Dating from around 3000 B.C., the Sumerians used this writing system seen here'

cuneiform

1000

'The Sumerian kingdom ended when this enemy king famous for his code conquered the city of Larsa'

Hammurabi