Shakespeare
The Senator of Attention
Colorful Expressions
Taipei Personality
See For Yourself
200
Puck says, "Lord, what fools these mortals be!" in this comedy
A Midsummer Night's Dream
200
He was elected as a Missouri senator in 1934; 10 years later, he got a promotion
Harry S. Truman
200
To be so angry that your chromatic vision is affected
To be seeing red
200
Following China's defeat in an 1895 war, Taiwan was ceded to this nation that redesigned Taipei as a modern city
Japan
200
1968:
Steve McQueen fires on all cylinders as a San Francisco cop in search of a killer mobster
Bullitt
400
Some friend--he's the last to stab Julius Caesar & it's his idea that the conspirators wash their hands in Caesar's blood
Brutus
400
He's seen here with his dad, the admiral, after returning from his Vietnam ordeal
John McCain
400
Semper fi--it's the common term for the uniform worn here
Dress Blues
400
Before directing hits like "Brokeback Mountain", he studied theater at Taipei's Academy of Arts
Ang Lee
400
1991:
Ice Cube co-starred in this saga about a group of friends chillin' out in an L.A. ghetto
Boyn N the Hood
600
This title guy: "A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm"
Hamlet
600
He served almost 48 years in the Senate before dying in 2003
Storm Thurmond
600
It's a wooden tool for manicurists
Orange Stick
600
Fans in Taiwan know that the Brother Elephants & the Macoto Cobras are both Taipei-based teams in this sport
BaseballTM
600
1986:
Creepy thriller in which Dennis Hopper swears by "Pabst Blue Ribbon!!!"
Blue Velvet
800
Comedy in which Benedick says Beatrice exceeds Hero "in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December"
Much Ado About Nothing
800
The last words of this 19th c. Massachusetts senator & noted orator were "I still live"
Daniel Webster
800
Hercule Poirot doesn't muck around after footprints & such; he solves crimes with these little cranial items
the little gray cells
800
DAILY DOUBLE
A large, popular temple in Taipei is dedicated to this Chinese philosopher of the 5th century B.C.
Confucius
800
1972:
Bitten by a vampire centuries before, a bloodthirsty African prince feeds on a modern city
Blacula
1000
Quite an eyeful, he's the guy Juliet dumps for Romeo
Paris
1000
This Gouverneur was a N.Y. senator from 1800 to 1803
Gouverneur Morris
1000
We're in St. Petersburg, Russia in June--the time when a lack of total darkness gives evenings this name
White Nights
1000
He was driven into exile in Taiwan in 1949; today his name is on the international airport in Taipei
Chiang Kai-shek
1000
1948:
In a classic of Italian Neorealism, a father & son search for a stolen vehicle
The Bicycle Theif