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LANDMARKS

200

'World's largest office building, named for its geometric shape'

The Pentagon

400

'De"faced" by sand & invading armies, it crouches near the Great Pyramids'

the Sphinx

600

'His statue is atop Philadelphia's City Hall'

William Penn

800

'France's Unknown Soldier lies beneath this Champs-Elysses landmark'

the Arc de Triomphe

1000

'The date on the tablet held by the Statue of Liberty'

July 4, 1776

COMEDIANS

200

'Comic whose "Trial by Fire" fueled his comedy routines'

Richard Pryor

400

'Master of the pause followed by "Now cut that out!"'

Jack Benny

600

'Pat Paulsen ran for president on their controversial "Comedy Hour"'

the Smothers Brothers

800

'After playing the nightclub circuit, he broke into movies with "What's New, Pussycat?"'

Woody Allen

1000

'Though originally a comic, he was 1st black regular on a U.S. dramatic TV series'

Bill Cosby

ANIMALS

200

'"Sly" creature sought by sportsmen riding to hounds'

a fox

400

'The "ship of the desert"'

a camel

600

'The children are poults, the mothers, hens & the fathers,toms'

turkeys

800

'Name of the sport of hunting birds with other birds'

falconry

1000

'Floating sea creature named by sailors for the Iberian fighting ship it resembles'

the Portuguese man-of-war

AWARDS

200

'British decoration named for former queen'

Victoria Cross

400

'Since '32 the U.S. Badge of Military Merit has had this colorful name'

the Purple Heart

600

'This prize did not have an economics category until '69'

the Nobel Prize

800

'26 years after writing it for the stage, he won Oscar for the screenplay "Pygmalion"'

George Bernard Shaw

1000

'He may disagree with Gene Siskel, but he won '75 Pulitzer Prize for Film Criticism'

Roger Ebert

MOVIE TRIVIA

200

'What Paul Newman's "Hustler" hustled'

pool

400

'Subtitled "How I Learned to Stop Worrying & Love the Bomb"'

Dr. Strangelove

600

'1949's Best Picture, its title came from "Humpty Dumpty"'

All the King\'s Men

800

'He sang his way to an Oscar in "Cabaret":'

Joel Grey

1000

'Ironically, he spoke the only word in Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie"'

Marcel Marceau