j-archive-4322-D-2003-05-20

QUOTABLE MOVIES

200

'1977:
"May the force be with you"'

Star Wars

400

'2001:
"A wizard is never late...he arrives precisely when he means to"'

Lord of the Rings

600

'2002:
"I'm placing you under arrest for the future murder of Sarah Marks"'

Minority Report

800

'2002:
"You do too much. You're not Superman, you know"'

Spider-Man

1000

'2001 (last line):
"Open your eyes"'

Vanilla Sky

ON THE GO

200

'Ground was broken for this waterway on July 4, 1817 at Rome, New York'

Erie Canal

400

'Introduced in 1936, this company's DC-3 commercial airliner was so well built that some are still in service'

Douglas

600

'This city's rubber-tired Metro subway provided access to Expo 67 in the middle of the St. Lawrence River'

Montreal

800

'In 1881 this railroad line was completed from Kansas City to Deming, New Mexico'

Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe

1000

'This 60-something California tycoon became the first space tourist when he went into orbit on April 28, 2001'

Dennis Tito

SECONDARY MEANINGS

200

'It can mean a royal family line as well as a dwelling structure'

house

400

'A person doing it might be making tsimmes; a group doing it is really playing music well'

cooking

600

'As an adjective, it means below average; as a verb, to moo like a cow'

low

800

'One of your faculties, or your good judgment & intelligence'

sense

1000

'This word that has long meant "to stumble" now also means "to feel or express surprise"'

trip

AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARIES

200

'On his way to Concord on the night of April 18-19, 1775, he was captured & had to return to Lexington on foot'

Paul Revere

400

'The Pennsylvania assembly sent him to London as its agent twice: 1757-1762 & 1764-1775'

Benjamin Franklin

600

'In December 1775 he became first lieutenant on the Alfred, the first ship purchased by Congress for the Continental Navy'

John Paul Jones

800

'In 1765 this Boston brewer helped organize the Sons of Liberty to protest the Stamp Act'

Samuel Adams

1000

'On March 23, 1775 this orator told the VA. Provincial Convention, "The war is inevitable -- and let it come!"'

Patrick Henry

COMPUTER GENIUSES

200

'In 1967 Richard Greenblatt's program Mac Hack 6 became an hon. member of the U.S. Federation for this game'

chess

400

'A real mensch, William D. Mensch, designed the processors in Wozniak & Jobs' early computers from this company'

Apple

600

'Working in Texas Instruments' semiconductor building, Jack Kilby hit on the idea of this, the IC for short'

integrated circuit

800

'Mitch Kapor, founder of this company that gave us 1-2-3 & Notes, previously taught transcendental meditation'

Lotus

1000

'Ed Roberts built the first true personal computer & named it this model 8800, after a star'

Altair