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THE GREAT AMERICAN SONGBOOK
LITERATURE
JEOPORTMANTEAU!
MUSEUMS
THE WOMEN OF CONGRESS
200
'His first published song was 1909's "Marie from Sunny Italy"; later ones include "Cheek to Cheek" & "Easter Parade"'
Irving Berlin
200
'Her career as a novelist dawned with "Dawn O'Hara"; "Show Boat" showed up later'
Edna Ferber
200
'Meatpacking "Jungle" city plus burrowing rodent'
Chicagopher
200
'A museum dedicated to this literary character is located, where else, but at "221B" Baker Street in London'
Sherlock Holmes
200
'"An Invitation to the White House" is a bestseller by this current senator'
(Hillary) Clinton
400
'This song complains, "Since my gal and I ain't together keeps raining all the time"'
"Stormy Weather"
400
'Gom Gut & Plick et Plock were pseudonyms of this Inspector Maigret creator'
Georges Simenon
400
'Thane of Cawdor plus birthplace of Jesus'
Macbethlehem
400
'For nearly 4 centuries, what is now the Topkapi Palace Museum was the residence of this empire's sultans'
the Ottoman Empire
400
'Judy Biggert represents this state's 13th District, which includes parts of DuPage, Will & Cook counties'
Illinois
600
'Dorothy Fields, the most successful female theater lyricist of the 20th century, wrote the words to this classic'
"A Fine Romance"
600
'Hmm... he dedicated his 1820 poem "The Witch of Atlas" to his wife Mary'
(Percy Bysshe) Shelley
600
'"Book"ish nickname of fictional young detective Leroy Brown plus the doctor he might see for a check-up'
Encyclopediatrician
600
'Appropriately, this vast Russian art museum houses the icon of St. Nicholas seen here'
the Hermitage
600
'In 2003 Republican Lisa Murkowski took the oath of office as this state's sixth U.S. Senator since statehood'
Alaska
800
'The last song George Gershwin composed, its title is followed by the line "not for a year, but ever and a day"'
"Our Love Is Here To Stay"
800
'Lloyd Brown, once an inmate of this city's Alleghany County jail, based his novel "Iron City" on life there'
Pittsburgh
800
'17-year migratory insect plus creamy egg-based dessert'
Locustard
800
'The Vasamuseet in Stockholm houses one of the oldest complete examples of these, the Vasa'
a ship
800
'Republican Barbara Cubin represents this state in the House all by herself'
Wyoming
1000
'In "You're The Top", this American wrote, "But if this ditty is not so pretty, at least it'll tell you how great you are"'
Cole Porter
1000
'"I shouldn't mind being a bride... if I could be one without having a husband", says Bathsheba in this Hardy novel'
Far From the Madding Crowd
1000
'Kubla Khan's stately pleasure dome site plus a quilt'
Xanaduvet
1000
'There are museums devoted to this writer in Nairobi, Kenya & in Rungstedlund, Denmark'
Isak Dinesen (aka Karen Blixen, author of Out of Africa)
1000
'It's the last name of California Reps. Loretta & Linda, the first sisters in Congress'
Sanchez