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"SAG"

200

'Michigan bay that's part of Lake Huron'

Saginaw Bay

400

'It's the ninth astrological sign'

Sagittarius

600

'It's purple in a popular Zane Grey title'

sage (Riders of the Purple Sage)

800

'Giant succulent of the American Southwest'

the saguaro cactus

1000

'Teddy Roosevelt's New York mansion'

Sagamore Hill

I'LL HAVE SECONDS

200

'In 70 A.D. the second temple was destroyed in this city'

Jerusalem

400

'The USSR's first man in space program was Vostok, "east"; its second was Voskhod, or this event in the east'

sunrise

600

'The second & last German emperor of this name took the throne in 1888'

Wilhelm

800

'The Second Amendment guarantees the right to bear arms & mentions "a well regulated" one of these'

a militia

1000

'Hercules' second labor was to slay this snakelike water creature'

the (Lernaean) Hydra

THE SCREEN ACTORS GUILD

200

'He succeeded Robert Montgomery as Guild president in 1947 & later went on to even bigger things'

Ronald Reagan

400

'Of 12,000, 20,000, or 120,000, the one closest to SAG's current U.S. membership'

120,000

600

'In 2008 the SAG Award for a Stunt Ensemble in a Movie went to this Matt Damon Flick'

The Bourne Ultimatum

800

'Nominated for an Oscar in 1998, this "Titanic" co-star was a founding member of the Screen Actors Guild in 1933'

Gloria Stuart

1000

'SAG shares jurisdiction over TV actors with this sister union'

A(merican) F(ederation of) T(elevision and) R(adio) A(rtists)

MAG-NIFICENT

200

'This illustrated mag had a shake start in 1954 with unpopular coverage of snooty events like yacht races'

Sports Illustrated

400

'This news magazine was started in 1923 so that "busy men" could stay informed'

Time

600

'Articles in the first edition of this magazine, in 1936, featured ratings of cereal, soap & stockings'

Consumer Reports

800

'Bell, Edison & Pasteur wrote for this mag, founded in 1872, that also devoted early attention to evolution theory'

Popular Science

1000

'This urbane magazine wrote in its 1925 start that "it is not edited for the old lady in Dubuque"'

The New Yorker

THE LIBERTY BELL

200

'This Pennsylvania city officially owns the bell'

Philadelphia

400

'Appropriately, it's the number of times the Liberty Bell is symbolically tapped each year on July 4'

13

600

'Ironically, the Liberty Bell was rung in February 1761 when this man ascended the throne'

George III

800

'The bell is 25% tin, 70% this metal'

copper

1000

'The bell may have cracked in February 1846 while ringing in his 114th birthday'

George Washington