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The Man, The Myth, The Legend
All the Single Ladies
The Not-So-Single Ladies
Gentlemen and scholars
The Name of the Game
100
This is Sam's favorite holiday
4th of July
100
Who did Turtle marry?
Theo Theodorakis
100
Who was the bomber?
Angela Wexler
100
What is Otis Amber's profession?
Private Investigator
100
Name three of the "rules" of the Westing game.
16 heirs paired together Each pair got $10,000 Both players had to play or they forfeited Had to be present to get clues Had to solve who took Sam Westing's life Object: To win
200
What happened to Sam's daughter?
drowned on the eve of her wedding/suicide
200
Who was the "mistake"?
Sydelle Pulaski
200
Who was the burglar? Why were they stealing?
Madame Sun Lin Hoo; she wanted to get money to go back to China
200
What happened to Doug Hoo by the end of the book?
became an Olympic track star
200

What happened to Violet Westing?

She drowned herself to avoid marrying a bad man who she did not love. 

300
What was the game Sam Westing loved to play and what was his favorite move to defeat his opponent?
Chess; Queen's sacrifice
300
What happened to J.J. Ford after the game was over (at the end of the book)?
She was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court
300

Who owned a succesful chain of Hoo's On...restaurants by the end of the book?

Grace Wexler

300
Who was the bookie?
Jake Wexler
300
Who won the Westing Game and what were that person's rewards?
Turtle; she inherited all of Westing's stocks, his $200 million estate, became Chairman of the Board of Westing Paper Products; became Sam's friend
400
List all four characters that Windy Windkloppel plays.
Barney Northrup, Sam Westing, Sandy McSouthers, Julian Eastman
400
How was Judge Ford connected to Sam Westing?
She used to live in the mansion because her parents were servants; she used to play chess with him; he paid for her boarding school and college education
400
Who was Sam Westing's ex-wife? Who did she marry at the end of the book?
Berthe Erica Crow Otis Amber
400
Who was the birdwatcher?
Chris Theodorakis
400
Why is Crow the queen, and how is she "sacrificed"?
She was Sam Westing's wife, and she is sacrificed because the clues led them to believe it was her who killed Sam.
500

What did it mean when the will said, "It's not what you have, it's what you don't have that counts"?

the clues from America the Beautiful spelled out the name of Berthe Erica Crow; the heirs needed to concentrate on what was missing from their clues more than what they were given

500

What happened to Turtle at the VERY end of the book? 

She married Theo

She took over Westing Paper Company 

500
Why does Angela break off her engagement to Denton Deere?
She wanted to go to college and be on her own; she wasn't listening to her mother anymore; she had to decide how she wanted to live her life
500
Who was Theo playing chess with?
Sandy McSouthers aka Sam Westing
500
Why does Sam Westing create the Westing Game?
*to help people learn from each other *to find a worthy heir *to make people happy *to help people to learn from his mistakes *to bring people together who wouldn't normally be together and make them get along