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20th CENTURY ARTISTS

200

'In 1936 he showed up for a Surrealist exhibition dressed in a diving suit'

(Salvador) Dali

400

'In 2006 "Roots", a 1943 painting by her, sold for $5.6 million, then the record for a Latin American work'

Frida Kahlo

600

'This Belgian's "Mysteries Of The Horizon" shows 3 men in bowler hats; a sliver of moon hangs above each of them'

Magritte

800

'In 1958 he tripled up on his patriotic painting of "Three Flags"'

(Jasper) Johns

1000

'"Sky Blue", "Blue Mountain" & "The Blue Rider" are all paintings by this Russian abstract artist'

Kandinsky

RED SOX IT TO ME

200

'On April 20, 1912 the first game at this new venue went 11 innings & ended with a Red Sox win'

Fenway Park

400

'With 44 homers, 121 RBIs & a .326 average, Carl Yastrzemski is the last baseball player to win this'

the Triple Crown

600

'Tim Wakefield has more starts than any pitcher in Red Sox history, mostly due to his success with this low-velocity pitch'

the knuckleball

800

'In 1918 he extended his streak of scoreless World Series innings pitched to 29.2 & tied for the most HRs in the league'

Babe Ruth

1000

'In 2001 this Osaka-born pitcher tossed Boston's first no-hitter since 1965'

(Hideo) Nomo

BEYOND .COM

200

'It indicates a website about employment, not about a founder of Apple'

.jobs

400

'It's the perfect 2 letters for video-heavy sites such as Geekbrief'

TV

600

'If disseminating facts, knowledge, the 411, try this 4-letter domain, used by New York State's MTA'

info

800

'It follows dot in a domain for companies & "That's show" in a familiar phrase'

.biz

1000

'As of 2010, you can invent your own domain, according to the folks who regulate the Net; they're at www.icann.this'

.org (.net accepted)

PICK A PLANET

200

'Its "day" is 24 hours & 39 minutes'

Mars

400

'It's the third largest in our solar system'

Neptune (Uranus also accepted)

600

'It's never observable when the sky is fully dark'

Mercury

800

'It was the first to be discovered with the aid of the telescope'

Uranus

1000

'Leda is its 13th moon'

Jupiter

THE ASSASSINATION OF LINCOLN

200

'One of the other 3 people in the presidential box with Lincoln & Booth at the time of the attack'

Mary Todd Lincoln

400

'In the aftermath this owner of the theater/crime scene was thrown in jail as a possible conspirator'

(John T.) Ford

600

'Dirty Harry could tell you it's also the caliber of the Derringer used by John Wilkes Booth to shoot Lincoln'

.44

800

'The 3-word Latin phrase yelled out by John Wilkes Booth while making his escape'

sic semper tyrannis

1000

'Attempts on the lives of VP Andrew Johnson & this Secretary of State were also part of the plot'

Seward