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WHO'S ON FIRST?

200

'In many cities "Jeopardy!" leads into this sister show'

Wheel of Fortune

400

'I pity the fool who doesn't know that this show led into "Remington Steele" on NBC's 1983-84 schedule'

The A-Team

600

'Sundays from 1984 to 1995, "60 Minutes" led into this CBS crime drama--guess Jessica finally got tired of writing'

Murder, She Wrote

800

'On Mondays in 1970, something called "The Silent Force" led into this longer-running ABC program'

Monday Night Football

1000

'For the 2000-2001 season, "The Simpsons" led into this show that led into "The X-Files"--you might say it was...'

Malcolm In The Middle

NORSE MYTHOLOGY

200

'The Norns are counterparts of the Fates: Urd represents the past; Verdandi & Skuld, these 2 things'

the present & the future

400

'Hymir was really hammered by the hammer of this god'

Thor

600

'The name Midgard, the world of humans, can be translated as this, a place familiar to Tolkien'

Middle Earth

800

'Laerad is the great tree around which this hall of the slain was built'

Valhalla

1000

'This mischief-maker was up to his old tricks when he stole Freya's necklace'

Loki

GIVE THE BUCHAREST

200

'Times change: in 1990 a statue of this Russian was removed from a Bucharest square after 3 decades there'

Lenin

400

'1913's treaty of Bucharest ended the second of these peninsular wars'

the Balkan Wars

600

'In 1977 one of these phenomena devastated Bucharest, killing about 1,500 people'

an earthquake

800

'This star of 1937's "The Last Gangster" was born Emanuel Goldenberg in Bucharest, Romania'

Edward G. Robinson

1000

'In 1659 Bucharest became the capital of this principality'

Wallachia

IT'S ALL ABOUT ME

200

'Excessive self-contemplation is called this anatomical gazing'

navel

400

'Self, launched in 1979, is one of these'

a (women\'s) magazine

600

'Albrecht Durer's first known drawing, done at the age of 13, was one of these artistic efforts'

a self-portrait

800

'Self-referential prefix before -didact, -suggestion & -biography'

auto

1000

'Per the "American Psychiatric Glossary", this mania is "pathological preoccupation with self"'

egomania

BARD BITS

200

'Mark Antony called him "the noblest Roman of them all"'

Brutus

400

'In the first line of "Twelfth Night", this is described as the "food of love"'

music

600

'In "Henry VIII" this cardinal bids "a long farewell to all my greatness"'

Cardinal Wolsey

800

'Much of the action takes place in the court of the Duke of Milan in this play with another Italian locale in its title'

Two Gentlemen of Verona

1000

'Comparing "thee to a summer's day" in sonnet 18, the bard realizes that "Thou art more lovely and more" this'

temperate