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POTPOURRI AROUND THE WORLD

200

'The Ninety-Nines, an organization of women pilots, bestows memorial scholarships named for this woman'

(Amelia) Earhart

400

'On Feb. 19 2008 this longtime leader announced he'd give up his presidency'

(Fidel) Castro

600

'The Virgin Islands celebrate Thanksgiving in October to give thanks to the end of this weather "season"'

hurricane season

800

'Many Indian foods are accompanied by these popular relishes of spices & fruits often made from mangoes'

chutneys

1000

'Many of this country's postage stamps reproduce paintings in Prince Hans-Adam's art collection'

Liechtenstein

ROMANCE & HISTORY

200

'Her marriage to Napoleon was almost nipped in the bud when she dallied with a dapper captain in the 1790s'

Josephine (de Beauharnais)

400

'This future president's romance with Ann Rutledge is now believed to be a myth'

Lincoln

600

'Lord Byron's lover Marianna Segati was married to a "Merchant of" this city who was Byron's landlord'

Venice

800

'Dorothea Jordan, who found fame in this profession, found time to have 10 children with the future King Wm. IV'

an actress

1000

'Mme. de Maintenon was governess to this king's out-of-wedlock children before she became his mistress c. 1670'

Louis XIV

CHEMISTRY

200

'2007 Nobel laureate Gerhard Ertl has studied the conversion of this monoxide to this dioxide, as in cars'

carbon

400

'Molecules of these 2 elements are the major constituents of air'

nitrogen & oxygen

600

'Alnico magnets are so named because they're alloys of aluminum, nickel & this'

cobalt

800

'It's the most abundant protein in the human body; the animal kind is boiled to make gelatin'

collagen

1000

'A chemical in its Scotchgards persisted in the environment, so this company pulled the products'

3M

IN THE DICTIONARY

200

'By definition, a number that's infinitesimal is close to, but greater than, this'

zero

400

'Meaning "having imagined while asleep", it's one of the few English words that end with "mt"'

dreamt

600

'Reniform means shaped like this bodily organ; you might have a reniform pool'

the kidney

800

'Arabic for "peace", it's a salutation in the East, as well as a low bow'

salaam

1000

'It's a synonym for "ashen" or a term for a region within an imposed boundary; don't go "beyond" it'

the pale

CLASSICAL MUSIC

200

'Vivaldi & Hummel wrote concertos for this pear-shaped guitarlike instrument'

a mandolin

400

'Tchaikovsky simultaneously composed early sketches for the "Pathetique" symphony & this lively ballet suite'

the Nutcracker

600

'Giuseppe Gazzaniga & this composer based their "Don Giovanni" operas on the same libretto'

Mozart

800

'Joseph Joachim, a friend of this German composer, lived to make a 1903 recording of his works'

Johannes Brahms

1000

'His first mature orchestral work, 1894's "Prelude To The Afternoon Of A Faun", was based on a poem by Stephane Mallarme'

Debussy