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BIRD-BRAINED TELEVISION

200

'A little bird told me that Susan Dey played Laurie on this '70s series'

The Partridge Family

400

'This 1989 CBS Western was the highest-rated miniseries in 5 years'

Lonesome Dove

600

'Gina Lollobrigida showed up as Jane Wyman's half-sister on this series about a winery'

Falcon Crest

800

'Edward Everett Horton played a medicine man named Roaring Chicken on this goofy cavalry sitcom'

F-Troop

1000

'Morgan Fairchild was tickled "pink" to star in this '80s TV series based on a Joan Crawford film'

Flamingo Road

WORLD RELIGION

200

'It's the shortest name a pope has chosen, & we're not lion'

Leo

400

'The largest Protestant cathedral in Dublin is named for this saint'

Patrick

600

'Rifai Dervishes are colloquially known for "howling"; Mawlawi Dervishes are known for doing this'

whirling

800

'Traditionally, it is read aloud in its entirety in the synagogue over the course of a year'

the Torah

1000

'From 1934 to his death in 1975, he led the Nation of Islam'

Elijah Muhammad

BACON

200

'In 1613 Francis Bacon got this office; he'd have trouble with the U.S. Senate today, as he approved of torture'

Attorney General

400

'Years after this country's revolution, it reshowed its Francis Bacon triptych... in a London museum'

Iran

600

'Bacon admired this Italian author for writng about "what men do, and not what they ought to do"'

Machiavelli

800

'The title of "Novum Organum" meant the work was to supersede the "organon" of this Greek logic-meister'

Aristotle

1000

'From the Latin for "to lead", this method that goes from specific to general was the basis of Bacon's scientific method'

induction

"EGO" MANIAC

200

'China & Greece didn't adopt this calendar until the 1900s'

the Gregorian calendar

400

'It was first joined with Bosnia in 1482'

Herzegovina

600

'Jamaica's second-largest city & main tourist center, it shares its name with the body of water it overlooks'

Montego Bay

800

'A Spanish city, or Spanish guitarist Andres'

Segovia

1000

'Completes the title of the Eugene O'Neill play "A Moon for the..."'

Misbegotten

EGGS

200

'Adding pepper sauce & cayenne pepper to stuffed eggs makes them this wicked dish'

deviled eggs

400

'Have a hangtown fry, traditionally, eggs, bacon & these shellfish--a pearl of a dish!'

oysters

600

'You don't have to travel to Edinburgh for this appetizer, a hard-boiled egg that's coated with sausage & fried'

a Scotch egg

800

'The name of this egg dish, sort of a flat omelet, is from the Italian for "fried"'

frittata

1000

'For Passover, this Jewish dish is sort of like French toast but uses unleavened bread dipped in beaten egg'

matzo brei