j-archive-5161-D-2007-02-05

TEENS IN HISTORY

200

'By the time he was 13, Louis XV had already been king of this country for 8 years'

France

400

'When teen king Ptolemy XIV died in 44 B.C., it was rumored that this queen, his sister, had had him poisoned'

Cleopatra

600

'Augustus Caesar was just 18 when he learned he'd been named the heir to this Roman leader'

Julius Caesar

800

'In the 1460s this teen, the future husband of Queen Isabella, fought in the Catalonian Wars'

King Ferdinand

1000

'By age 16, Nijinsky was already known as the "eighth wonder of the world" as one of these performers'

ballet dancer

OIL IN THEM THAR STATES

200

'Oil flows through the Black Hills of Custer County in this state'

South Dakota

400

'Known for tobacco farming & horse breeding, this Bluegrass State also has oil in the Cumberland Plateau'

Kentucky

600

'Champaign toasted the oil discovered in this state; now it's second in production for states east of the Mississippi'

Illinois

800

'In the 1850s a prairie wheat state was known as "Bleeding" this; today, oil might make it "Gushing" this'

Kansas

1000

'One of the oldest producing wells is Burning Springs, which was once destroyed by Confederates in this 35th state'

West Virginia

LANDMARKS

200

'A line drawn from the Lincoln Memorial to the U.S. Capitol would pass through this 555' tower'

the Washington Monument

400

'Legend says if you're looking for someone, wait under Nelson's statue in this London square'

Trafalgar

600

'This city's Point State Park at the tip of the Golden Triangle contains Fort Pitt Blockhouse, built in 1764'

Pittsburgh

800

'The Central Park statue by Georg Lober donated by this European country features an ugly duckling'

Denmark

1000

'The Selimiye Mosque, which was formerly the Cathedral of Saint Sophia, is in Nicosia on this island'

Cyprus

ALSO A PRO SPORTS TEAM

200

'Proverbially, "it's not" this, "it's the humidity"--but don't tell that to Shaq'

The Heat

400

'It's the common bond of Catherine of Siena, Francis of Assisi & Thomas Aquinas'

Saints

600

'The annual running of these in Spain got international notice with Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises"'

Bulls

800

'Job title of Susan Collins, Carl Levin & Barack Obama'

senators

1000

'Melancholy, or a type of music with lyrics like, "I missed the last clue, my woman left me, I got the 'Jeopardy!'..."'

Blues

ADJECTIVES

200

'This adjective that means "immediate" can precede "coffee" or "pudding"'

instant

400

'This adjective can mean "relating to fingers" or "relating to numbers"'

digital

600

'Marvelous, like Sam's hair care franchises or 4 certain comic book superheroes'

fantastic

800

'Both pontifical and this 5-letter adjective mean "relating to the Pope"'

papal

1000

'This directional adjective comes from a word meaning "sun"'

southern (or south)