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GEOLOGY

200

'A placer is a deposit of sand containing metals such as this, which brought an influx to Placer County, California'

gold

400

'A cauldron subsidence is when a mass of solid rock sinks into a pool of this subterranean molten rock'

magma

600

'In geology, BYO isn't on a faculty party invitation; it stands for this, in Canada's Acasta Gneiss, about 4 BYO'

billion years old

800

'In the mountain type of this, rock projects above the frozen stuff'

a glacier

1000

'William Smith's 1815 map "of New England and Wales" showed these rock layers in different colors'

strata

BASEBALL MOVIE HAIKU

200

'"Ease his pain", it said/ a voice that whispered through corn/ Doc Graham got to play'

Field of Dreams

400

'Jimmy once a pro/ alas, war calls men away/ nine gals beats no gals...'

A League of Their Own

600

'Ciotte, Waver, Joe/ The Black Sox accept their fate/ Gambling mars the game'

Eight Men Out

800

'Lupus & Tanner/ Skilled not inside the diamond/ Buttermaker drinks'

The Bad News Bears

1000

'Pop Fisher gambles/ Hobbs spurs on the New York Knights/ Wonderboy--kaput'

The Natural

"M"USIC

200

'It's a 2-word alternate name for the harmonica'

the mouth organ (or mouth harp)

400

'Stravinsky wrote a "Symphony in Three" of these instead of the traditional four'

movements

600

'The popular piece heard here is in the style of this dance'

a minuet

800

'A type of Medieval or Renaissance musician; Nanki-poo sang, "A Wandering" one "I, a thing of shreds & patches"'

a minstrel

1000

'Italian for "very", it may appear before "allegro" to tell players to really pick up the pace'

molto

NAME THE JAMES

200

'...who first met Samuel Johnson May 16, 1763'

James Boswell

400

'...who is credited with inventing basketball'

Naismith

600

'...who warned that the Americas are "not to be considered as subjects for future colonization"'

(James) Monroe

800

'...who established a cooking school in New York in 1955'

James Beard

1000

'...who was President Reagan's Secretary of the Treasury & George H.W. Bush's Secretary of State'

(James) Baker

A CAPITAL IDEA

200

'The American University of this Lebanese capital opened in 1866'

Beirut

400

'Its metropolitan area straddles the Ontario-Quebec border'

Ottawa

600

'Of Wellington, Canberra or Jakarta, the national capital that is the northernmost'

Jakarta

800

'In May 1936 this capital fell to Italian forces & Haile Selassie fled into exile for the next 5 years'

Addis Ababa

1000

'Maputo is the capital of this former Portuguese colony, now a nation of Southeast Africa'

Mozambique