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MONEY TALK

200

'The name of this currency made out of shells comes from the Algonquin for "white"'

wampum

400

'In 1848 the Philadelphia mint turned out 1,389 $2.50 pieces marked to show the gold came from this state'

California

600

'This 2-word French phrase refers to the folks who've recently acquired their wealth'

noveau riche

800

'1996 presidential candidate last name that's also an allotment of money given to those in need'

Dole

1000

'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports while pointing out numbers on a video chart.) A $1000 investment made at 5% interest would have quite different returns after twenty years, based on these two different types of interest'

simple and compound interest

19th CENTURY AMERICANS

200

'In 1839 he published "Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque"'

Poe

400

'Ann Eliza Web was one of this 19th century Utah group that's sometimes counted at 27 women'

the wives of Brigham Young

600

'In 1838 congressman Jonathan Cilley engaged in this--& not a rhetorical one--with Rep. William Graves'

a duel

800

'Later to dominate rail transport, this "commodore" was on the first train ever to have a passenger fatality'

Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt

1000

'Tthis Illinois girl died in 1835; in 1890, she was reburied in Petersburg, Ill. to drum up tourism there'

Ann Rutledge

WRITING IN FICTION

200

'In this novel, Celie wrote to her sister about her bad marriage only to find her husband kept the return letters'

The Color Purple

400

'In the novel, Jonathan Harker was the first character to write about & encounter this title character'

Dracula

600

'A frustrated office drudge becomes a megalomaniac in this Russian novelist's "Diary of a Madman"'

Nikolay Gogol

800

'The Broadway show "Charly" was based on the journals in this Daniel Keyes novel'

Flowers for Algernon

1000

'Sue Townsend depicted adolescence in "The Secret Diary of" him "Aged 13 3/4" & its sequels'

Adrian Mole

THE THEATRE

200

'Arthur Miller's "The Crucible" is set in 1692 in this town'

Salem (Massachusets)

400

'Valentine is the last name of this "sweet" title hostess at the Fandango ballroom'

Charity

600

'This murderous barber has a chair that can suddenly drop a victim via trap door into a cellar'

Sweeney Todd

800

'In a Moss Hart-George S. Kaufman comedy, Sheridan Whiteside was "The Man Who" did this'

came to dinner

1000

'He's deaf-mute Belinda McDonald's out-of-wedlock baby boy'

Johnny Belinda

3-LETTER WORDS

200

'It often comes before "and miss"'

hit

400

'Ocular term for a new shoot on a potato'

eye

600

'To place wet hair in position by use of rollers & clips'

set

800

'A section of growing grass & roots cut from the ground'

sod

1000

'Animal used to represent the first sign of the zodiac'

ram