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A PERFECT "TEN"

200

'A rundown, low-rent, urban apartment building'

a tenement

400

'You could call this European the world's first typographer'

Gutenberg

600

'Post-preschool level'

kindergarten

800

'.exe & .doc are 2 of them'

file extensions

1000

'Political partner of Serbia'

Montenegro

AMERICAN LIT

200

'George & his simple-minded friend Lennie are this book's main characters'

Of Mice and Men

400

'Mark Twain wrote "There are 19 rules governing literary art... some say 22. In 'Deerslayer'" he "violated 18"'

(James Fenimore) Cooper

600

'"'Dead,' was all he answered" is the last line of this Robert Frost poem'

"The Death of the Hired Man"

800

'He wrote an introduction called "How 'Bigger' was Born" for his novel "Native Son"'

Richard Wright

1000

'A Hemingway story is called "The Short Happy Life of" him'

Francis Macomber

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ARCHITECTURE

200

'The Jet Age Building seen here is the hub for this transportation complex'

LAX

400

'This architect's Ennis-Brown House, seen here, was inspired by Mayan art, but has his signature art-glass windows'

(Frank Lloyd) Wright

600

'Yes, L.A. has a downtown, & it has the tallest building west of the Mississippi designed by this Asian-American'

I.M. Pei

800

'Philip Johnson designed this church, home to televangelist Robert Schuller'

the Crystal Cathedral

1000

'The Aerospace Museum seen here was designed by this most famous L.A. architect'

Frank Gehry

HOT BABES

200

'After President Nixon resigned in 1974, this daughter of his reacted with the line "Now I can wear hot pants"'

Julie Nixon

400

'This alcoholic beverage that'll warm you up was also the nickname of 1930s actress Thelma Todd'

Hot Toddy

600

'A woman who studies Pelee & Pinatubo would have this specific occupation'

a volcanologist

800

'This club founded for girls in 1910 first admitted boys in 1975'

the Camp Fire Girls

1000

'In an 1876 work her death by fire is soon followed by the burning of Valhalla'

Brunhilde

1963

200

'Sir Edward Mutesa, King of Buganda, was sworn in as this country's first president October 9, 1963'

Uganda

400

'In a joint letter to the U.N. in January 1963, these 2 countries declared the Cuban crisis (mainly) closed'

the U.S. & the U.S.S.R.

600

'Declared a security risk back in 1954, this physicist won the Atomic Energy Commission's Fermi Award in 1963'

Oppenheimer

800

'E. William Henry succeeded Newton N. Minow as chairman of this'

the FCC

1000

'In June he admitted he'd lied to the House of Commons about improprieties with Christine Keeler'

(John) Profumo