j-archive-5583-D-2008-12-10

RUSSIAN AROUND

200

'Henry VIII had 6 wives; this "terrible" Russian ruler had 7'

Ivan

400

'A 16-foot, 7-ton statue of this first leader of Soviet Russia is found in Seattle'

Lenin

600

'A pen-pal of Voltaire, she kept him informed of her victories, & he called her "the star of the north"'

Catherine the Great

800

'Leo Tolstoy got a firsthand look at war at Sevastopol during this war'

the Crimean War

1000

'She was really rushin' around when she was launched into orbit by the Russians in 1963 aboard Vostok 6'

Valentina Tereshkova

STORIED HOTELS

200

'I get chills when I read this Stephen King novel that takes place at the Overlook, a spooky hotel in the Rockies'

The Shining

400

'A bustling hotel is the settingfor Chapter XVII of this Salem native's 1852 novel "The Blithedale Romance"'

Nathaniel Hawthorne

600

'In "The Razor's Edge", Elliott throws elegant parties at Claridge's in this European capital'

London

800

'In a 1908 novel, "A Room With a View" is obtained at the Pensione Bertolini in this Italian city'

Florence

1000

'In chap. 1 of this novel, Jonathan Harker spends the night at the Hotel Royale in Klausenburgh but doesn't sleep well'

Dracula

AIRLINE CODES

200

'With a hub in Detroit:
NW'

Northwest

400

'Down under:
NZ'

Air New Zealand

600

'From the Caribbean:
JM'

Air Jamaica

800

'Out of Asia:
KE'

Korean Air

1000

'Demot Manion is CEO:
EI'

Aer Lingus

GERMAN WORDS & PHRASES

200

'This interjection used after someone sneezes means "health" in German'

gesundheit

400

'It's how you say "good morning" in German'

guten morgen

600

'Also a literary style, this 3-word German phrase can mean "turmoil"'

sturm und drang

800

'German term for a novel about the education & coming of age of a young protagonist'

bildungsroman

1000

'In German, what's mine is mein & what's yours is this rhyming word'

dein

OTHER FAULT LINES

200

'This fault line is said to originate under the waters of the Sea of Cortez; it then stretches north for 1,000 miles'

the San Andreas fault

400

'Alaska & this state have more earthquakes than any other state'

California

600

'There's rich mining to be had around this country's Atacama fault'

Chile

800

'The 3 main types of faults are normal, reverse & strike-this'

(strike-)slip

1000

'This type of valley, like the "great" one in Africa, is bounded by parallel faults'

a rift