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23

200

'It begins, "The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want"'

Psalm 23

400

'23 different pilgrims tell their stories in this late-14th century classic'

the Canterbury Tales

600

'Legend says in 490 B.C., Pheidippides ran about 23 miles from this plain to Athens to announce a victory'

Marathon

800

'The classical form of this language used only 23 letters; J, U & W were added at a later date'

Latin

1000

'This important parallel of latitude is located at 23 degrees, 27 minutes north of the equator'

the Tropic of Cancer

NAME THE NFL COACHING LEGEND

200

'Nicknamed "Papa Bear", he not only coached the Chicago Bears for 40 seasons, he played baseball for the Yankees'

George Halas

400

'He was the first coach to win an NCAA football championship & a Super Bowl'

Jimmy Johnson

600

'He & son Dave are the only father & son coaches to coach against each other as head coaches in the NFL'

Don Shula

800

'The son of this pro football Hall of Famer is a U.S. senator'

George Allen

1000

'He won 3 Super Bowls & now owns a NASCAR racing team'

Joe Gibbs

YEARS

200

'Wall Street laid an egg in October of this Roaring '20s year when the stock market crashed'

\'29

400

'Following his resignation in this year, we didn't have Richard Nixon to kick around anymore'

1974

600

'The U.S. officially entered World War I in April of this year'

1917

800

'The first Summer Olympics broadcast in color were held in Mexico City in this year'

1968

1000

'In this year Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan & Red China established the People's Republic'

1949

____ & ____ BRANDS

200

'You can be a Chunk Spelunker for this ice cream'

Ben & Jerry\'s

400

'The logo of this brand is seen here'

Arm & Hammer

600

'It calls itself "pure cane sugar from Hawaii"'

C&H

800

'This Scottish Whisky traces its roots to Italian distiller Giacomo Justerini'

J&B

1000

'Ray-Ban glasses, developed by this company, were so named because they reduce UV & infrared rays'

Bausch & Lomb

WEATHER WORDS

200

'Traditionally, a dense one of these is compared to "pea soup"'

fog

400

'This 6-letter word for a tornado's shape is also a kitchen utensil'

funnel

600

'In the loose sense, it's any weather vane, but specifically it's one with a rooster on it'

a weathercock

800

'(Jeff Probst reports from Palau.) Luckily, Palau is outside the zone of these storms, whose name comes from a Chinese word that means "great wind"'

typhoon

1000

'The name of this job comes from the Greek for "discussion of celestial phenomena" (stay tuned)'

meteorologist