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ASIAN CAPITALS
AUTO HAIKU
LITERARY MOMMAS
CALIFORNIA ROLE
MADE TO MEASURE
200
'This Philippine capital was so devastated during WWII that Quezon City served as interim capital from 1948 to 1976'
Manila
200
'6-speed transmission /
There's no bull in its Taurus /
Dearborn Rock City'
Ford
200
'After arriving in California from Dust Bowl Oklahoma, she tells her son Tom, "They ain't gonna wipe us out"'
Mother Joad
200
'He made a "sudden impact" as San Francisco police inspector Harry Callahan'
Clint Eastwood
200
'Use a gou in Asia if you want to measure a cup of this for an electric cooker'
rice
400
'Many canals called khlongs crisscross this Thai capital'
Bangkok
400
'Its Passat sedan /
Fine German engineering /
Ah, leatherette seats'
Volkswagen
400
'Jing-mei Woo takes the place of her deceased mother Suyuan at the weekly mah-jongg games in this 1989 novel'
The Joy Luck Club
400
'In a classic 1959 film, writer Joe Gillis moves into Norma Desmond's mansion on this title L.A. street'
Sunset Boulevard
400
'Of about 30, 50 or 100 inches a year, the Earth's average annual amount of precipitation'
30
600
'It was captured from the Rashid clan by Ibn Saud in January 1902; it became a capital 30 years later'
Riyadh
600
'Gas up its Prius /
MPG is 55 /
Time to hit the road'
Toyota
600
'In this 1868 novel Marmee takes care of her 4 girls while her husband is away serving as an army chaplain in the Civil War'
Little Women
600
'A beer-swilling pool cleaner coaches a misfit Little League team in sunny So. Cal. in this 1976 comedy'
The Bad News Bears
600
'Take a nibble if you want 4 of these binary digits of computer code'
a bit
800
'This island capital city's main gov't offices are located in the Greek sector, not the Turkish sector'
Nicosia
800
'It's their H3X /
Mid-sized (for them) SUV /
38 grand? Ouch!'
Hummer
800
'This Dickens character returns home to find that his mother Clara has married the heartless Mr. Murdstone'
David Copperfield
800
'He played Ben Braddock, who returned to his parents' Beverly Hills home after graduating from college'
Dustin Hoffman
800
'This unit equals 4 inches when measuring an Equus caballus'
a hand
1000
'Its monuments include an Arch of Triumph higher than the one in Paris & a statue of Kim Il Sung 66 feet high'
Pyongyang
1000
'Its Titan pickup /
37-gallon tank /
4-hour fill-up'
Nissan
1000
'After Beowulf kills this monster, the monster's mother ravages Heorot before she is also killed by Beowulf'
Grendel
1000
'L.A. P.I.
J.J. Gittes investigates the city's water management & other mysteries in this 1974 film'
Chinatown
1000
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, NV.) Nellis Air Force Base has the U.S.A.'s largest solar power system: 70,000 panels produce 15 of these units, supplying the base with 25% of its power in the summer'
a megawatt