j-archive-5402-D-2008-02-19

HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES

200

'It's celebrated the evening before All Saints' Day'

All Hallow\'s Eve (Halloween)

400

'It makes sense that this is Irish-American heritage month'

March

600

'If May Day falls on a Sunday, this holiday is the very next Sunday'

Mother\'s Day

800

'Also the title of a Shakespeare comedy, it's when the Magi arrived to adore the baby Jesus'

Twelfth Night

1000

'The Girl Scouts' World Thinking Day, Feb. 22, coincides with the birthday of this Boy Scouts founder'

(Lord) Baden-Powell

I'M GIDDY FOR GADGETS

200

'The Cybershot G1 camera can transfer pictures to your TV or computer using this cable-free technology'

Wi-Fi

400

'Your iPod can sync with this brand of shoe & give you music, your pace, & calories burned while running'

Nike

600

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sony headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) To make it easier to read text, the Sony Reader uses a screen that displays tones between white & black, known as this scale'

gray scale

800

'This company went after the music player market "Zune" after turning "360" into gaming'

Microsoft

1000

'(Alex reports from Sony headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) Here's a sneak preview of Sony's newest Walkman that can turn on, flip between menus & play instantly because it uses this type of memory that's basically a mini hard drive'

flash memory

NOT ONE, NOT 2, BUT 3 Os

200

'It pulls a train or individual railroad cars'

a locomotive

400

'A citation or comment at the bottom of a page'

a footnote

600

'Staying up too late studying for "Jeopardy!" can give you these reddened eyes'

bloodshot

800

'It's the equality of ratios; "don't blow things out of" it'

proportion

1000

'In humans, any of the threadlike bodies that carry the genes in a linear order'

a chromosome

REALLY OLD MOVIES

200

'"Gleaming the Cube" is an ancient Christian Slater movie featuring this still-popular street sport'

skateboarding

400

'Have some Reese's and enjoy this golden oldie from Steven Spielberg about aliens in America'

E.T.

600

'If Sam Gamgee looked familiar, you probably saw him in this 1985 film about a pirate treasure map'

The Goonies

800

'After playing a video game in his trailer park in this cosmic 1984 flick, Lance Guest became "The Last" this'

Starfighter

1000

'Sean Penn & Tom Cruise were both cadets in this 1981 film whose title references a sad bugle's song'

Taps

CLASSICAL MUSIC

200

'Chopin's funeral march is in B flat this, a group of keys used to depict sadness'

minor

400

'The toccata is a form of solo composition written by Bach primarily for this instrument'

organ

600

'Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words" were once the most popular pieces for this instrument'

piano

800

'His symphonies include "Eroica", "Pastoral", & "Chorale"'

Beethoven

1000

'His last work, "Don Quichotte a Dulcinée", has the same Spanish flavor as his more famous "Bolero"'

Ravel