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EPHEN STEPHEN

200

'With his "Company" & "Follies", he can stand side-by-side with the best of Broadway's composers'

Stephen Sondheim

400

'With Steven Jobs he created a new Apple for your teacher'

Steve Wozniak

600

'The state university in Nacogdoches, Texas is named for him'

Stephen (F.) Austin

800

'One of the commodores seen here'

Stephen Decatur

1000

'He was such a great poet that his unfinished "Western Star" won him a Pulitzer (his second) in 1944'

Stephen Vincent Benet

THE EUROPEAN DIRECTOR'S CHAIR

200

'"Two Men and a Wardrobe",
"Death and the Maiden",
"The Pianist"'

Roman Polanski

400

'"Amarcord",
"La Strada",
"La Dolce Vita"'

Federico Fellini

600

'"Fahrenheit 451",
"Jules and Jim",
"The 400 Blows"'

Francois Truffaut

800

'"Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!",
"High Heels",
"Talk to Her"'

Pedro Almodovar

1000

'"Mona Lisa",
"The Crying Game",
"Interview with the Vampire"'

Neil Jordan

ARCHITECTURE

200

'A small campanile, hopefully batless'

belfry

400

'This 12th century style was revived in Europe in the 19th century & used for churches into the 20th century'

Gothic

600

'Wallace K. Harrison met with success designing this theater for Lincoln Center'

the Metropolitan Opera House

800

'(Sarah of the Clue Crew) This railing system often seen on balconies includes a top rail, balusters, and sometimes a bottom rail'

balustrade

1000

'This early 20th century school designed with horizontal lines like the flatness of the land in the Midwest'

the Prairie School

WORD & PHRASE ORIGINS

200

'Used to express a ratio, it's from the Latin for "by the hundred"'

percent

400

'Now a final resting place for great people, it was originally a great banquet hall for Norse gods'

Valhalla

600

'Latin for "cross", it's the critical point or feature of an argument'

crux

800

'From the Hungarian for "shepherd", it came to mean shepherds' food, a stew of meat & vegetables'

goulash

1000

'Some say "Great Scott!" began as a tribute to the exploits of this Mexican War hero'

Winfield Scott

"NEW"S

200

'It's put out by the Washington Post Company's magazine publishing division'

Newsweek

400

'"Space Aliens Are Here for our Toothpaste!" is a typical headline of this American media publication'

the Weekly World News

600

'Jay McInerney worked as a fact-checker at this magazine & portrayed it in "Bright Lights, Big City"'

The New Yorker

800

'Journalist/novelist Pete Hamill has been editor-in-chief of the New York Post & this paper'

the (New York) Daily News

1000

'The 2003 movie "Shattered Glass" is set at this political magazine'

The New Republic