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U.S. CITIES

200

'President Taft wasn't a Communist, but he was from this city that's home to Reds'

Cincinnati

400

'The Sternwheel Regatta, a 10-day river festival, is held each summer in this West Virginia capital'

Charleston

600

'Billy Joel could tell you this "town" near Bethlehem, Penn. has the oldest municipal band in the U.S.'

Allentown

800

'Once the starting point for Florida's Celestial Railroad, this community has a park named for Burt Reynolds'

Jupiter

1000

'This "town" on Martha's Vineyard was named in 1671 for a son of the Duke of York'

Edgartown

PICK THE OSCAR WINNER

200

'"American Beauty":
Kevin Spacey,
Annette Bening,
Chris Cooper'

Kevin Spacey

400

'"Jerry Maguire":
Cuba Gooding, Jr.,
Tom Cruise,
Renee Zellweger'

Cuba Gooding, Jr.

600

'"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre":
Humphrey Bogart,
Tim Holt,
Walter Huston'

Walter Huston

800

'"Shampoo":
Warren Beatty,
Goldie Hawn,
Lee Grant'

Lee Grant

1000

'"A Beautiful Mind":
Russell Crowe,
Jennifer Connelly,
Ed Harris'

Jennifer Connelly

FIRST-PERSON NARRATORS

200

'"...Conversing with the Houyhnhnms, and looking upon them with delight, I fell to imitate their gait and gesture"'

Gulliver

400

'"It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on..."'

Nick Carraway

600

'"But though I was so terrified by the idea of the seafaring man with one leg, I was far less afraid... than anybody else"'

Jim Hawkins

800

'"I am now faced with the distasteful task of recording a definite drop in Lolita's morals"'

Humbert Humbert

1000

'"I'm immortal, more or less. The light of the sun, the sustained heat of an intense fire--these things might destroy me"'

Lestat

BLAME IT ON THE REIGN

200

'...of Clovis I, who made this city the Frankish capital in the 6th century'

Paris

400

'...of this French monarch, who granted the American colonies cash before losing his head in 1793'

Louis XVI

600

'...of this man, who in 1703 founded what is now Russia's largest port on a Swedish fort site on the Gulf of Finland'

Peter the Great

800

'...of this English monarch, who made a truce with Saladin, ceding him Jerusalem'

Richard I (Richard the Lionhearted)

1000

'...of this Mongol of Xanadu fame, who founded his capital on the site of modern-day Beijing'

Kublai Khan

ALL ABOUT THE BOOK

200

'A book's preface, or presenting one person to another for the first time'

an introduction

400

'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents an image of a page of a book.) A "gloss" is a marginal translation or explanation of a difficult term; the same root gives us this word for a list of such terms'

a glossary

600

'It can also mean a local branch of an organization, such as the American Red Cross'

a chapter

800

'Often several pages, this customary section of appreciation may name editors, grant agencies, librarians & wives'

the acknowledgements

1000

'Any randomly chosen book is likely to include this institution's cataloging-in-publication data'

the Library of Congress