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THAT'S "EASY"

200

'N'awlins nickname, y'all'

the Big Easy

400

'This household product "makes oven cleaning easier"'

Easy-Off

600

'In Spanish this proverb translates to "faciles venida, faciles van"'

easy come, easy go

800

'Rodney Dangerfield has to quit smoking & drinking to inherit a $10 million fortune in this 1983 comedy'

Easy Money

1000

'Ezekiel is the real first name of this African-American private detective created by author Walter Mosley'

Easy Rawlins

WHO'S THAT MAN?

200

'"Rain Man"'

Dustin Hoffman

400

'"The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (the real shooter)'

John Wayne

600

'"The Man with One Red Shoe"'

Tom Hanks

800

'"The Man Who Would Be King"'

Sean Connery

1000

'"The Man Who Knew Too Much"'

Jimmy Stewart

ARCHITECTURE

200

'These overlapping pieces of material on roofs lent their name to a 19th century style of building'

shingles

400

'This Washington, D.C. landmark was designed by Henry Bacon as a Greek temple with 36 Doric columns'

the Lincoln Memorial

600

'Known for his geodesic dome, he once designed a dome to cover all of Midtown Manhattan'

Buckminster Fuller

800

'An obelisk is a type of this, from the Greek for "one stone"'

a monolith

1000

'Owre House in Minneapolis is in this style that fits in with the flat plains landscape'

Prairie style

BRITISH AUTHORS

200

'This "Treasure Island" author's "Silverado Squatters" was based on the journal he kept on his honeymoon'

Robert Louis Stevenson

400

'"Just So Stories", his 1902 collection for children, was the only book he also illustrated'

Rudyard Kipling

600

'Due to negative public reaction to "Jude the Obscure", he abandoned writing novels for the last 33 years of his life'

Thomas Hardy

800

'A former spy himself, he described his spy George Smiley as "short, fat, and of a quiet disposition"'

John le Carré

1000

'She always kept rabbits on her farm, Hill Top, so children wouldn't be disappointed if they stopped for a visit'

Beatrix Potter

WAR STUFF

200

'Around 1250 B.C., with Moses dead, the Israelites, led by this man, conquered the land of Canaan'

Joshua

400

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Lafitte Nat'l Historical Park in New Orleans, LA.) Jean Lafitte changed from pirate to patriot when he and his men sailed out of these bayous in the national historical park named for him to aid the U.S. during this war'

the War of 1812

600

'This King Henry's marriage to Elizabeth of York in 1486 helped bring the Wars of the Roses to an end'

Henry VII

800

'Most of the "French" troops besieged in this doomed Asian city in spring 1954 were foreign Legionnaires'

Dien Bien Phu

1000

'Led by Robert the Bruce, on June 24, 1314 the Scots won their greatest victory over the English in this battle'

the Battle of Bannockburn