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'70s ALBUM COVERS

200

'David Alexander photographed the Beverly Hills Hotel before a pretty sunset for this 1976 album'

Hotel California

400

'The frontman, guitar in hand, leans on Clarence Clemons in this "mobile" 1975 work'

Born to Run

600

'The children on this venerated Led Zeppelin album seen here are posing on a rock formation in Northern Ireland'

Houses of the Holy

800

'Andy Warhol suggested putting the zipper on this Rolling Stones album'

Sticky Fingers

1000

'That's Paul Simonon whose bass guitar is about to take a thrashing on this Clash album'

London Calling

NOT A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT

200

'Tympanic membrane'

the eardrum

400

'A Navy FAQ on this area says its generally accepted apexes are Miami, Bermuda & San Juan, Puerto Rico'

the Bermuda Triangle

600

'Thomas Jefferson's home'

Monticello

800

'A tall, narrow champagne glass'

a flute

1000

'Bears executive Ed McCaskey asked Gale Sayers & this man to be the NFL's first interracial roommates'

Brian Piccolo

HISTORICAL LAW & ORDER PLEAS

200

'(Hi, I'm Sam Waterston.) Some say the victim called your name on March 15, 44 B.C. as you & others stabbed him, Governor; 25 to life, no parole'

Brutus

400

'(Hi, I'm Christopher Meloni of Law & Order: SVU.) I've got literally millions of witnesses who saw you kill a man with a single .38 shot on November 24, 1963; it's a slam dunk'

Jack Ruby

600

'(Sam Waterston reads the clue.) After the murder, you shouted "Sic semper tyrannis!"... Ballistics says it's your derringer, we've got Surratt--it's over'

John Wilkes Booth

800

'(Hi, I'm Kathryn Erbe of Law & Order: Criminal Intent.) As you're under age 20, Sarajevo law says you get 20 years max for killing Archduke Ferdinand; I strongly urge you to take it'

Gavrilo Princip

1000

'(Sam Waterston gives the clue.) You shot the victim in Washington, D.C. on July 2, 1881, said "I am a Stalwart" & then gave yourself up; not many options on the table here'

Charles Guiteau

A WORK OF PHILOSOPHY

200

'The title of this Plato work refers to Socrates' defense of his actions, not to being sorry'

Apologia

400

'John Locke influenced future democracies with "Two Treatises of" this'

Government

600

'Fury at religion led Nietzsche to title a book this, the enemy of the savior'

The Antichrist

800

'It's sensible to bet that God exists, says the Pascal work "Pensees", whose title means these'

thoughts

1000

'Karl Marx was heavily influenced by this German's "Phenomenology of Mind"'

Hegel

TOUGH SCIENCE

200

'Astronomers classify these clusters of stars as elliptical, lenticular, irregular or spiral'

galaxies

400

'This element, symbol Mg, occurs naturally in such minerals as dolomite & brucite'

magnesium

600

'This virus, named for an African geographical feature, came to the U.S. in 1999'

the West Nile Virus

800

'The first director of the radiation lab at Berkeley, his name will live forevermore on an element'

(Ernest Orlando) Lawrence

1000

'Most weather occurs in this lowest level of the atmosphere, which extends to an altitude of 6 to 10 miles'

the troposphere