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PLAYS & PLAYWRIGHTS
THE SONGS OF PAUL SIMON
ANIMAL NAMES
FASHION
PRESIDENTS AT REST
200
'He penned the lines, "They looked nervous as cats... nervous as a couple of cats on a hot tin roof"'
Tennessee Williams
200
'It begins, "Hello darkness, my old friend, I've come to talk with you again"'
"The Sounds Of Silence"
200
'You'll get 3 As for effort for knowing the name of this mammal comes from Afrikaans for "earth pig"'
aardvark
200
'This Western-type tie made with a cord & a sliding clasp is also called a shoelace tie'
a bolo
200
'In the family plot at Monticello'
Jefferson
400
'Thornton Wilder, on more than one occasion, played the stage manager in this play of his'
Our Town
400
'In "Mrs. Robinson" Simon wrote, "A nation turns its lonely eyes to" this man'
Joe DiMaggio
400
'Its name comes from Greek words meaning "nose-horned"'
a rhinoceros
400
'In 1966 this Algerian-born designer opened a series of boutiques called Rive Gauche'
Yves Saint Laurent
400
'At his national historic site in West Branch, Iowa'
Hoover
600
'His autobiographical play "Chapter Two" dealt with the death of his first wife, Joan'
Neil Simon
600
'"Goodbye to Rosie the queen of Corona, see you, me and" him "down by the school yard"'
Julio
600
'This large partly white sea bird derives its name in part from the Latin word for "white"'
the albatross
600
'These pants for women came down to just below the knee & were named for their common use in bicycling'
pedal-pushers
600
'At the Notch Cemetery in Plymouth, Vermont'
Coolidge
800
'It's the Samuel Beckett play in which "Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful!"'
Waiting for Godot
800
'Simon's 1973 song about this color transparency film said "Give us those nice bright colors"'
Kodachrome
800
'The name ofthis red-haired denizen of Borneo's rain forests is Malay for "forest man"'
orangutan
800
'Several years before his topless bathing suits were the rage in 1964, women were buying his tube dresses'
Rudi Gernreich
800
'At the Old North Cemetery in Concord, New Hampshire'
(Franklin) Pierce
1000
'In this Wendy Wasserstein play, 3 Jewish sisters from Brooklyn meet up in London to celebrate a birthday'
The Sisters Rosensweig
1000
'In "Bridge Over Troubled Water", Simon told her to "Sail on... sail on by, your time has come to shine"'
Silvergirl
1000
'This just in... noted for its strength, this breed of horse seen
here
was named for a schoolteacher'
Morgan
1000
'This Spaniard opened his house in 1915 & counted the Duchess of Windsor & Princess Grace among his clients'
Cristobal Balenciaga
1000
'On the Capitol grounds in Nashville'
James K. Polk