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QUOTH THE RAVIN'

200

'This character has gone "Psycho" long before he says, "She might have fooled me, but she didn't fool my mother"'

Norman Bates

400

'Kathleen Quinlan finds comfort talking to shrink Bibi Andersson in "I Never Promised You" this'

"A Rose Garden"

600

'As John Nash in this movie, Russell Crowe does quite a bit of talking to people who don't exist'

A Beautiful Mind

800

'In "Quills", this author muses, "My glorious prose filtered through the minds of the insane...They might improve it"'

Marquis de Sade

1000

'This Johnny Depp character tells his psychiatrist, "Don Octavio, you are a great lover like myself''

Don Juan de Marco

BUSINESS & INDUSTRY

200

'In Forbes magazine's 2007 list of billionaires, this Omahan was again ranked No. 2, behind Bill Gates'

Warren Buffett

400

'In 1990 United Brands changed its name to this to take advantage of its name recognition as a banana producer'

Chiquita

600

'Legend has it that the design of this company's Monsieur Bibendum logo was inspired by a pile of rubber tires'

Michelin

800

'Her red spoon logo was introduced in 1954 & now appears on more than 200 products'

Betty Crocker

1000

'In 1978 he was fired as the president of Ford, only to become the new president of Chrysler'

Lee Iacocca

FROM THE LATIN

200

'This type of sphere with a map of the Earth depicted on it has a name from the Latin for "sphere"'

globe

400

'This kind of book is quite handy; it's name comes from the Latin for "hand"'

manual

600

'If "You've Got" this flexible armor, you know its name comes from macula, a Latin word for "mesh of a net"'

mail

800

'The name of this fin on a shark's back comes from the Latin for "back"'

dorsal

1000

'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Texas A&M University.) Texas A&M's Coastal Engineering Lab studies the coastal type of this, from Latin for "to gnaw"'

erosion

EDGAR ALLAN POE

200

'According to an 1833 description, Poe dressed entirely in this color'

black

400

'Poe's "MS. Found in" one of these won a short story contest in 1833'

a bottle

600

'In 1842 Poe reviewed this author's "Barnaby Rudge", which features (hmmm) a human-like raven'

Charles Dickens

800

'Poe's wife, who passed away at age 24, had this name, like the state at whose university Poe studied'

Virginia

1000

'The first obituary of Poe, which spoke of the frailties of genius, appeared in this newspaper'

The Baltimore Sun

19th CENTURY MEDICINE

200

'In 1885 the first successful vaccine for this was tested on a boy who had been bitten by a dog'

rabies

400

'In 1852 George Cammann gave physicians a version of this instrument that they could listen to with both ears'

a stethoscope

600

'The invention of the ophthalmoscope in 1851 by Hermann von Helmholtz aided inspection of this body part'

the eye

800

'In 1865 Joseph Lister began using carbolic acid as this, from the Latin for "against putrefaction"'

an antiseptic

1000

'This German's discovery of x-rays in 1895 had visible effects in diagnosing medical problems'

Roentgen