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THE OLYMPICS

200

'At the 1912 Stockholm Games Gustav V told this U.S. athlete, "Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world"'

Jim Thorpe

400

'Bjorn Daehlie of this country has won a record 12 Winter Olympic medals, all for cross-country skiing'

Norway

600

'For men in the Olympics, this is 115 centimeters high & has a couple of handles on top'

the pommel horse

800

'One difference between this hyphenated sport & freestyle is that opponents can't grasp or use the legs in a fall'

Greco-Roman wrestling

1000

'The youngest competitor at the 1992 Barcelona games was an 11-year-old who did this job in a shell'

coxswain

"LONG" JUMP

200

'In "Treasure Island", he's originally hired as a cook'

Long John Silver

400

'The Great Gatsby lived there'

Long Island

600

'His namesake bridge spans the Mississippi in Jefferson Parish, Louisiana'

Huey Long

800

'Its greatest use as a military weapon was during the Hundred Years' War; just ask the French at Crecy'

the longbow

1000

'A sextant is used to determine yours'

longitude

CYCLING

200

'Parts of its cycle are full, new & quarter phases'

the moon

400

'It's the botanical term for a plant whose life cycle transpires within one year'

an annual

600

'Back in force since 2004, it has the longest developmental cycle of any insect, 17 years'

a cicada

800

'Observed for centuries, they seem to have about an 11-year cycle & possess powerful solar magnetic fields'

sunspots

1000

'Three key stages in this cycle are evaporation, precipitation & runoff'

the water cycle

POLL VAULT

200

'A 1951 survey of the U.S. Armed Forces found this milk & grain concoction their least favorite dessert'

rice pudding

400

'In a 1945 poll this advertising symbol ranked as the best-known woman in America after Eleanor Roosevelt'

Betty Crocker

600

'Voted the ugliest Las Vegas building in one poll, this tower resembles a diamond in a really tall setting'

the Stratosphere

800

'A 2003 online poll by SmartTravel rated this Russian airline the world's worst'

Aeroflot

1000

'A U.S. News & World Report survey of the nation's best hospitals lists this Baltimore facility No. 1'

Johns Hopkins

TRACK & FIELD

200

'This West Coast city's Market Street once featured 4 sets of streetcar tracks'

San Francisco

400

'In 1989 this country removed Imre Nagy's remains from a potter's field & reburied them with honors'

Hungary

600

'The Trans-Alaska Pipeline runs 800 miles from the oil fields near Prudhoe Bay to this now-famous port city'

Valdez

800

'When Yeager broke the sound barrier there, this California Air Force Base was known as Muroc Field'

Edwards

1000

'Last name of brothers John & Henry, who leased out land to build the Kentucky Derby race track in the 1870s'

Churchill