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AMERICAN HISTORY

200

'This state's been "on my mind" since it entered the Union 3 times, in 1788, 1868 & 1870'

Georgia

400

'In 1913 the 16th Amendment was passed allowing Congress to collect taxes on this'

income

600

'Fleeing the capital on August 24, 1814, she took a Gilbert Stuart portrait of Washington with her'

Dolley Madison

800

'Guerrilla leader Francis Marion earned this nickname for his daring raids from the South Carolina marshes'

the Swamp Fox

1000

'Name that completed an 1856 Republican slogan, "Free soil, free speech, free men and..."'

Fremont

QUOTATIONS

200

'According to the proverb, this "loves company"'

misery

400

'Henry Kissinger said this "is the ultimate aphrodisiac"'

power

600

'In the King James Version of John 3:16, "God so loved the world, that he gave" this'

his only begotten son

800

'In an old saying, this Roman person "must be above suspicion"'

Caesar\'s wife

1000

'C.S. Lewis wrote that this, from the Latin for "pure", "is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues"'

chastity

ART-PODGE

200

'In 1889 he completed his "Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe"'

Van Gogh

400

'The family of this often-depicted U.S. president said sculptor John Rogers created the best likeness of him'

Abraham Lincoln

600

'Christianity & Aztec ritual inspired the thorn necklace worn by this Latina woman in a masochistic 1940 self-portrait'

Frida Kahlo

800

'"Lobster Trap and Fish Tail" is one of this artist's best-known mobiles'

(Alexander) Calder

1000

'Painted in 1895, "Northeaster" is a well-known seascape by this American artist'

(Winslow) Homer

GET A "CL"UE!

200

'This 4-letter word can precede steak, soda & sandwich'

club

400

'Greek cafe music features a lute called a bouzouki & this woodwind heard here'

clarinet

600

'This process of replication is routinely done to human cells, but not yet to whole human beings'

cloning

800

'This hard worker seen here has a lot of pull'

a Clydesdale

1000

'It means conducted with secrecy, like a love affair or a CIA operation'

clandestine

WEIGHTS & MEASURES

200

'Term for 1/36 of a yard'

an inch

400

'This metric unit is equivalent to 1.057 liquid quarts'

a liter

600

'Computer hard drives are usually measured in GBs, which are these'

gigabytes

800

'To the Ancient Greeks, 4 of these made a palm'

fingers

1000

'(Jon of the Clue Crew tunes a piano.) Steinways leave the factory carefully tuned to standard pitch, where A is 440 of these units, but humidity & other factors make regular tunings necessary'

hertz