j-archive-5721-D-2009-06-22

IMPRISONED IN THE TOWER OF LONDON

200

'Henry Laurens, the only American imprisoned in the Tower, was exchanged for this Yorktown loser in 1781'

Cornwallis

400

'At his July 6, 1535 beheading at the Tower, he said, "The King's good servant, but God's first"'

Thomas More

600

'On Nov. 4, 1605 he was caught trying to blow up Parliament; 3 days later he signed a confession in the Tower'

Guy Fawkes

800

'In 1305 this Scottish patriot was captured & imprisoned in the Tower; he was savagely executed a few days later'

William Wallace

1000

'These two cousins, both of whom married Henry VIII, were imprisoned & executed at the Tower of London'

Anne Boleyn & Catherine Howard

NAME THAT BOOK

200

'"It was pleasant to wake up in Florence, to open the eyes upon a bright bare room"'

A Room with a View

400

'"If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have to; if he didn't want to he was sane and had to"'

Catch-22

600

'"They roared their terrible roars and gnashed their terrible teeth and rolled their terrible eyes"'

Where the Wild Things Are

800

'"I met with a gentleman so soon as I had got over the slough of despond"'

Pilgrim\'s Progress

1000

'"I was in no position to criticize the Emperor Augustus, who was my maternal grand-uncle"'

I, Claudius

CZECH MATE

200

'This former Czech president's "Letters to Olga" is a volume of correspondence he wrote to his wife while in jail'

Vaclav Havel

400

'This writer's dad, Hermann, married Julie Lowy in 1882 & named their son after the Austro-Hungarian emperor'

Franz Kafka

600

'This Czech director & wife Martina named their twin sons Andy & Jim for Andy Kaufman & Jim Carrey'

Milos Forman

800

'This composer wrote "Cypress Trees" for Josefina Cermakova, yet later married her sister'

Dvorak

1000

'In 1975 this "Unbearable Lightness of Being" author & his wife Vera left oppression in Czechoslovakia'

Milan Kundera

"S" WONDERFUL

200

'It's the ultimate high spiked heel'

a stiletto

400

'A principal religion of Japan, it has no official sacred scriptures'

Shinto

600

'This instrument of the lute family is popular in northern India'

the sitar

800

'A fungus & an alga in lichen is a classic example of this type of mutualism'

symbiosis

1000

'eBay owns this VoIP provider that's based in Luxembourg'

Skype

FROM THE GERMAN

200

'Teens are sometimes susceptible to this, a feeling of dread or anguish'

angst

400

'From the German for "double walker" comes this term for a ghostly counterpart'

doppelganger

600

'This 6-letter word refers to a replacement or substitute that is inferior'

ersatz

800

'Atomic number 27, this silvery metallic element is named for a cave-goblin'

cobalt

1000

'Wagner is often associated with this 9-letter type of dominant & recurring theme'

leitmotif