j-archive-966-J-1988-11-14

MOVIES

200

'This "Road Warrior" became a "Lethal Weapon" in 1987'

Mel Gibson

400

'In "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea", James Mason played this slightly screwy sub skipper'

Captain Nemo

600

'Richard Burton had a devil of a time directing himself in the film version of this Marlowe tragedy'

"Dr. Faustus"

800

'As TV reporter Kimberly Wells, she gave glowing reports in "The China Syndrome"'

Jane Fonda

1000

'In "Father Goose" he played a beachcomber who secretly spotted enemy planes during WWII'

Cary Grant

BRITISH ROYALTY

200

'One historian claimed this queen secretly married one of her servants after Albert died'

Queen Victoria

400

'She wore a Norman Hartnell gown inspired by a Botticelli painting when she married a lieutenant in 1947'

Elizabeth II

600

'The estate outside Paris where he lived with his duchess is now a private museum'

Edward VIII/Duke of Windsor

800

'Argentinian polo player Hector Barrantes is her stepfather'

Sarah Ferguson/Duchess of York

1000

'Henry VIII was her third husband, and she married again after he died'

Catherine Parr

TECHNOLOGY

200

'Term for a moving stairway, it was originally a trademark of the Otis Elevator Co.'

Escalator

400

'At the touch of a button on July 1, 1939, this Clay Puett invention made its horse-racing debut'

Electric Starting Gate

600

'A 1947 book trumpeted the fact that this new invention could be used to locate thunderstorms'

Radar

800

'Charles Goodyear vulcanized rubber, and this Charles used rubber to waterproof cloth'

Macintosh

1000

'The reason the transistor was invented was to make this piece of equipment work better'

Telephone (switcher)

WYOMINGITES

200

'Nickname of frontierswoman Martha Jane Cannary, who was born in Missouri, lived in Wyoming, and died in South Dakota'

"Calamity Jane"

400

'In 1925 Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to hold this office in the U.S.'

Governor

600

'He spent time in Wyoming, though his most famous novel is "The Virginian"'

Owen Wister

800

'This Wyoming-born abstract expressionist painted with his canvas on the floor'

Jackson Pollock

1000

'A Wyoming national forest is named for this mountain man who helped map the Oregon Trail'

Jim Bridger

THE PIANO

200

'The keys at both ends of the standard piano keyboard are this color'

White/Ivory

400

'Two different TV movies about this pianist and piano collector played on consecutive Sundays in October'

Liberace

600

'This 135-year-old company keeps a constant bank of about 600 concert grands around the world'

Steinway & Sons

800

'The three main kinds of upright pianos are the studio, the console, and this'

Spinet

1000

'The Oscar-winning short "The Music Box" featured this pair moving a piano up a steep hill'

Laurel and Hardy