Magic Money Man -- Quiz Quilt 207 Puzzle

Category Questions:

History & Government	Who was William Henry Harrison's Vice President, who became President when he died early in his first term?
Literature & Arts	What English author wrote the tetralogy The Once and Future King from 1938 to 1958?
Math & Science	What British scientist's book Principles of Geology became the basis of modern day geology?
Entertainment & Food	What European plant of the carrot family has pungent, aromatic leaves and seeds that are used for pickling?
Geography & Nature	What is the calm part in the center of a hurricane?
Sports & Games	Who is the only player besides Michael Jordan and Larry Bird to retire from the NBA after averaging over 20 points in his final season?

Stress MSGing -- Quiz Quilt 206 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	MARCEAU	Marcel Marceau's character sported a dented, silk hat and a red flower.
Sports & Games	DICICCO	Tony DiCicco, Anson Dorrance's successor, quietly stepped down to spend time with his family after the team won the 1999 World Championship.
Math & Science	CERVICAL	The Latin cervic means "neck".
History & Government	STANLEY	David Livingstone's response to Henry Stanley was, "You have brought me new life", as he was running out of supplies near Lake Tanganyika. The New York Times financed Stanley's trip.
Literature & Arts	BATSON	C.C. Beck and Bill Parker created Billy Batson in 1940. There have been several other superheroes called Captain Marvel, not surprisingly including some from Marvel Comics.
Geography & Nature	JAKARTA	Jakarta, Indonesia's name had been Jayakarta from 1527 until 1619 and was renamed Jakarta by the Japanese when they occupied it during World War II.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ACCENT (Sixth letters)

Accent is a brand of food seasoning whose main ingredient is monosodium glutamate, and an accent on a syllable is a stress.

Stress MSGing -- Quiz Quilt 206 Puzzle

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Entertainment & Food	What French mime was known for his sad-faced clown character Bip?
Sports & Games	Who was the U.S. women's soccer head coach who resigned on November 3, 1999?
Math & Science	What medical adjective describes the vertebrae located highest on the spine?
History & Government	What explorer was famous for his line, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume"?
Literature & Arts	What is the secret identity of comic strip and movie character Captain Marvel?
Geography & Nature	What is the current name of the city formerly known as Batavia?

Various Gold Spinners -- Quiz Quilt 205 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	BEST	The group dismissed Pete Best on August 16, 1962 for musical reasons.
Literature & Arts	BYRON	Lord Byron penned "She Walks in Beauty" in 1814, after seeing his cousin, Lady Anne Wilmot Horton, in her mourning dress.
Math & Science	AMERICIUM	The alpha radiation from the radioactive americium-241 passes through an ionization chamber where the presence of smoke would interrupt its flow.
Sports & Games	IRVIN	Former University of Miami star Michael Irvin had set school receiving records for career catches, yards, and touchdowns and contributed to a national title in 1987.
History & Government	THINK	Thomas Watson had first issued the directive when he was working for NCR three years earlier.
Geography & Nature	MIDWAY	Since the last Navy personnel left in 1997, the islands have served mostly as a National Wildlife Refuge.

Quiz Quilt Answer: DIVERS (Third letters going up)

"Divers" is an alternate spelling of "diverse", and Olympic divers hope to spin their way to gold medals.

Various Gold Spinners -- Quiz Quilt 205 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	Who was the original drummer for the Beatles that Ringo Starr replaced?
Literature & Arts	What poet wrote, "She walks in beauty, like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies"?
Math & Science	What chemical element is usually used in ionization smoke detectors?
Sports & Games	What Dallas Cowboys wide receiver was suspended for five games in 1996 for a felony cocaine conviction?
History & Government	What has been IBM's one-word motto since 1914?
Geography & Nature	What is the two-square-mile atoll, located in the Hawaiian group of islands, that is part of the U.S. but not incorporated into Hawaii?

Charge Center -- Quiz Quilt 204 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	DNA	Vega's company bought the originally unauthorized song and made a video for it.
Literature & Arts	POE	Edgar Allan Poe's short stories have terrified readers since the 1840s.
History & Government	UTAH	The Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads joined their tracks in the town of Promontory.
Geography & Nature	ROMANIA	The historic region is now a province in central and western Romania.
Math & Science	ERNST	The Austrian physicist established the principles of supersonics and devised the Mach number in 1887.
Sports & Games	SPITZ	Californian Mark Spitz only came home with two but would go on to greater glory in 1972, taking home a then-record seven gold medals.

Quiz Quilt Answer: PROTON (Second letters going up)

The nucleus of an atom contains charge-neutral neutrons and positive protons.

Charge Center -- Quiz Quilt 204 Puzzle

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Entertainment & Food	What British duo remixed Suzanne Vega's original a capella version of "Tom's Diner" and hit the charts in 1990?
Literature & Arts	What author mastered the art of suspense in "The Pit and the Pendulum" and "The Tell-Tale Heart"?
History & Government	In which future state was the last spike driven in to complete the U.S. Transcontinental Railroad on May 10, 1869?
Geography & Nature	In what country is Transylvania located?
Math & Science	What is the first name of the physicist for whom Mach speed is named?
Sports & Games	What American swimmer predicted he would win six gold medals during the 1968 Olympics?

Gourd Game -- Quiz Quilt 203 Solution

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Literature & Arts	MATISSE	Over 100,000 visitors had viewed Henri Matisse's inverted paper-cut boat and its reflection. The Frenchman had taken up art while recovering from an appendicitis operation.
History & Government	ACTIQ	Cephalon verbosely calls its product a "medicated, mild berry-flavored lozenge that is attached to a handle".
Math & Science	KURU	Some scientists believe the disease was often transmitted when cannibals ate infected human brain tissue.
Entertainment & Food	CHARLES	"The Fix-Up" episode in 1992 earned Larry Charles his first Emmy, shared with Elaine Pope.
Sports & Games	ASHLEY	Players from the continent of Africa had become grandmasters before Maurice Ashley, but none of them were black.
Geography & Nature	HOUSTON	The code is short for Intercontinental Airport of Houston, which was renamed George Bush International Airport in 1997.

Quiz Quilt Answer: SQUASH (Diagonally from the top to the bottom left)

Squash is both a fruit related to the gourd and a racket sport played in a walled room.

Gourd Game -- Quiz Quilt 203 Puzzle

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Literature & Arts	What artist's Le Bateau hung upside down in the New York Museum of Modern Art for 47 days in 1961?
History & Government	What prescription pain killer was approved for cancer patients in 1998 and is dispensed as raspberry flavored lollipops?
Math & Science	What fatal disease of the central nervous system is commonly known as Laughing Sickness?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the two-time, Emmy-winning Seinfeld writer who became executive producer of Mad About You?
Sports & Games	What U.S. chess player became the world's first black grandmaster on March 15, 1999?
Geography & Nature	What U.S. city's three-letter airport code is IAH?

Sluggish Slab -- Quiz Quilt 202 Solution

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Math & Science	LUNG	The infection attacks the alveoli.
Literature & Arts	URIS	Leon Uris's three-part novel, whose name is short for the Queen's Bench Number 7 courtroom, was a bestseller in 1970.
Geography & Nature	MECCA	They genuflect toward the Kaaba ("House of God") in Saudi Arabia five times a day.
Entertainment & Food	BLIZZARD	Over 175 million of the frozen treats were sold in its debut year in 1985.
Sports & Games	ELEPHANTS	The World Elephant Polo Association has run the tournament since 1982.
History & Government	RENO	President Clinton appointed Janet Reno in 1993.

Quiz Quilt Answer: LUMBER (First lettters)

"Lumber" can mean to "move slowly and heavily" as a verb and "a plank or block of wood cut from a tree" as a noun.

Sluggish Slab -- Quiz Quilt 202 Puzzle

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Math & Science	What major part of the body does pneumonia affect?
Literature & Arts	Who was the author of QB VII?
Geography & Nature	What is the holiest city in Islam toward which Moslems must pray?
Entertainment & Food	What Dairy Queen offering spawned the McDonald's McFlurry and the Friendly's Cyclone?
Sports & Games	What type of animals are used in the annual polo tournament held each December on the Meghauli airstrip in Nepal?
History & Government	Who was the first female U.S. Attorney General?

NFL Norseman -- Quiz Quilt 201 Solution

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History & Government	CALVIN	Born as Jean Chauvin on July 10, 1509, John Calvin studied law and humanities at the University of Paris.
Entertainment & Food	ORKIN	At least two people needed their televisions repaired after throwing objects at the bugs.
Literature & Arts	JACKSON	The San Francisco native Shirley Jackson called the book "a disrespectful memoir of my children".
Math & Science	APHIDS	The agricultural pests can be combated naturally with ladybugs and other predators.
Geography & Nature	FRANKFORT	Frankfort, Kentucky is home to the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed Zeigler-Brockman House and Daniel Boone's grave.
Sports & Games	KNIGHT	Bobby Knight, "The General", won championships in 1976, 1981, and 1987 and individual awards in 1975, 1976, and 1989.

Quiz Quilt Answer: VIKING (Fourth letters)

The Minnesota Vikings joined the National Football League in 1961.

NFL Norseman -- Quiz Quilt 201 Puzzle

Category Questions:

History & Government	What French scholar and theologian believed in predestination and wrote Institutes of the Christian Religion?
Entertainment & Food	What pest control company's ads in 2000 fooled many viewers into believing that a live cockroach was crawling up their televisions?
Literature & Arts	Who was the author of the autobiography Life Among the Savages in 1953?
Math & Science	What tiny, usually green, pear-shaped insects suck the juices of plants?
Geography & Nature	What is the only U.S. state capital whose name begins with the letter 'F'?
Sports & Games	What Indiana Hoosiers basketball coach won three NCAA titles and three Coach of the Year awards?

Baby Convention -- Quiz Quilt 200 Solution

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Literature & Arts	LUTHER	Besides its religious significance, Augustinian monk Martin Luther's work also helped standardize the German language.
Entertainment & Food	GABLE	The latter was the last film Clark Gable and Marilyn Monroe completed as they had both passed away by the next year.
Sports & Games	BARBER	Walter Lanier "Red" Barber broadcast for the Cincinnati Reds, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Yankees from 1934 to 1966.
Geography & Nature	KURDS	They account for about 20% of the population, while Arabs make up all but 5% of the rest.
Math & Science	PETA	"Mega-" is 10 to the 6th (one million), "giga-" 9th (one billion), and "tera-" 12th (one trillion). One petabyte equals one quadrillion bytes.
History & Government	GRANT	Ulysses Simpson Grant's capture of Fort Henry on February 6, 1862 was the Union's first major victory in the war.

Quiz Quilt Answer: GERBER (Diagonally from the bottom left corner)

Gerber is a baby products company and a bridge card game convention for requesting an ace count from your partner.

Baby Convention -- Quiz Quilt 200 Puzzle

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Literature & Arts	What Protestant Reformation leader translated the New Testament into German?
Entertainment & Food	What American actor starred in Gone With the Wind in 1939 and The Misfits in 1961?
Sports & Games	Who was the other initial broadcaster inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame alongside Mel Allen in 1978?
Geography & Nature	What is the second most populous ethnic group in Iraq?
Math & Science	What prefix means 10 raised to the 15th power in the International System of Units?
History & Government	Who was the commander in chief of the Union army in the U.S. Civil War who later became President of the U.S.?

Mapmaking Myth -- Quiz Quilt 199 Solution

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History & Government	ARNOLD	Brigadier general Benedict Arnold turned traitor after the U.S. allied itself with France, a move that he disagreed with in principle.
Sports & Games	GOODEN	Sheffield's mother Betty is Dwight Gooden's older sister.
Math & Science	ORANGE	The FAA requires both flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders to survive at 2,000° Fahrenheit for half an hour and endure extreme pressures for 6½ milliseconds.
Literature & Arts	IRVING	Washington Irving; Both tales appeared in The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon in 1819.
Geography & Nature	SEATTLE	Seattle, Washington, nicknamed the Emerald City, had just over 600,000 people in 2009.
Entertainment & Food	JEWEL	Its singles include "You Were Meant for Me", "Who Will Save Your Soul", and "Foolish Games".

Quiz Quilt Answer: LEGEND (Last letters going up)

A legend can be an unsubstantiated story or a section on a map that explains its symbols.

Mapmaking Myth -- Quiz Quilt 199 Puzzle

Category Questions:

History & Government	What American army officer arranged the surrender of West Point to the British during the Revolutionary War?
Sports & Games	What former Major League Baseball pitcher is Gary Sheffield's uncle?
Math & Science	What is the usual color of the black box flight recorder used in airplanes?
Literature & Arts	What American author wrote the short stories "Rip Van Winkle" and "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"?
Geography & Nature	What is the most populous city on the Puget Sound?
Entertainment & Food	What Alaska-born singer's album Pieces of You has sold over twelve million copies?

Hit or Miss -- Quiz Quilt 198 Solution

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History & Government	DIAS	King John II of Portugal had sent explorer Bartholomew Dias to find a trade route to Asia. Dias dubbed the southern tip the Cape of Storms, but the king preferred the positive Cape of Good Hope.
Sports & Games	PAYTON	Gary Payton, the second pick of the 1990 draft, became the 1995-96 NBA Defensive Player of the Year for the Seattle SuperSonics.
Literature & Arts	CLARKE	The phrase appeared in The Lost Worlds of 2001, Arthur C. Clarke's 1972 book of Space Odyssey excisions and filming notes.
Geography & Nature	SYRIA	The Syrian Arab Republic broke away from a Germany-controlled France during World War II.
Entertainment & Food	DRAKE	His fame as Noah Drake led to the #1 hit single "Jessie's Girl" in 1981.
Math & Science	LIVER	The organ can weigh anywhere from two to six pounds in adult humans.

Quiz Quilt Answer: STRIKE (Fourth letters)

A strike is a perfect hit in bowling, while a strike can be a swing and a miss in baseball.

Hit or Miss -- Quiz Quilt 198 Puzzle

Category Questions:

History & Government	Who was the first known European to sail to the southern tip of Africa, in 1488?
Sports & Games	What former NBA player is known as the Glove?
Literature & Arts	What author observed, "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"?
Geography & Nature	Which Middle Eastern country's capital is Damascus?
Entertainment & Food	What character did singer Rick Springfield play on General Hospital from 1981 to 1983 and 2007 to 2008?
Math & Science	What gland's functions include the storage of vitamins, the cleansing of blood, and the deactivation of hormones?

Sandwich State -- Quiz Quilt 197 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	DIETRICH	Marlene Dietrich's 1936 movie is playing on a television in the family room.
Math & Science	COLUMBIA	John Young landed the shuttle on California's Edwards Air Force Base's Runway 23 on April 14, 1981 after orbiting the Earth 36 times.
History & Government	EISENHOWER	Dwight Eisenhower trounced Adlai Stevenson, losing just 89 electoral votes in the Southeast during the 1952 election.
Sports & Games	SORENSTAM	Annika Sorenstam, the tour's all-time money leader, captured the 1995 U.S. Women's Open, the first of her nine career majors.
Literature & Arts	BALDACCI	David Baldacci's novel debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list the previous year.
Geography & Nature	LITHUANIA	With almost 600,000 people, the city is also the nation's most populous.

Quiz Quilt Answer: HAWAII (Eighth letters)

The Hawaiian Islands were named the Sandwich Islands by James Cook when he spotted them in 1778. Both the islands and the bread-around-meat meal honor John Montagu, the 4th Earl of Sandwich.

Sandwich State -- Quiz Quilt 197 Puzzle

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Entertainment & Food	What actress, from one of the first color films The Garden of Allah, can be seen in Cyndi Lauper's "Time After Time" video?
Math & Science	What was the first manned U.S. spacecraft to touch down on land?
History & Government	Which U.S. presidential candidate campaigned with the slogan "I Like Ike"?
Sports & Games	What Swedish golfer was the LPGA Rookie of the Year in 1994 and the Player of the Year in 1995?
Literature & Arts	What author's Absolute Power became a movie directed by Clint Eastwood in 1997?
Geography & Nature	What country's capital is Vilnius?

Relationship Guru -- Quiz Quilt 196 Solution

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Geography & Nature	BELIZE	Belize City is the country's most populous city, but Belmopan has been the capital since 1970.
Literature & Arts	BENCHLEY	Robert Benchley wrote for the Harvard Lampoon in college and for New Yorker Magazine later.
Sports & Games	BRAASCH	During the Australian Open, the sisters claimed they could beat any man ranked #200 or lower. Karsten Braasch (#203) rose to the challenge by defeating Serena 6-1 and Venus 6-2.
History & Government	HOFFMAN	Youth International Party cofounder Abbie Hoffman said of his 1970 Steal This Book, "It's embarrassing when you try to overthrow the government and you wind up on the bestseller's list." [Jack Weinberg, Jerry Rubin, Mario Savio, and Mark Rudd have also been credited.]
Entertainment & Food	LAUPER	In 1984, Cyndi Lauper's She's So Unusual included "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (peaked at #2), "Time After Time" (#1), "She Bop" (#3), and "All Through the Night" (#5).
Math & Science	WISHBONE	It is the point at which the two clavicles meet.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ORACLE (Sixth letters going up)

California-based Oracle Corporation was founded in 1977 as Software Development Laboratories to produce relational database products based on Edgar Codd's theories.

Relationship Guru -- Quiz Quilt 196 Puzzle

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Geography & Nature	What country has Belmopan as its capital and shares borders with Mexico and Guatemala?
Literature & Arts	What author confessed, "It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing, but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous"?
Sports & Games	What male German tennis player, ranked below #200 in the world, beat Venus and Serena Williams in a pair of exhibition matches in 1998?
History & Government	What radical American advised, "Never trust anyone over thirty"?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the first female singer to have four top 10 singles on her debut album?
Math & Science	What is the common name for a turkey's furcula?

Alfalfa, Buckwheat, or Farina -- Quiz Quilt 195 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	ELGAR	Sir Edward William Elgar's March No. 1 has frequently been played at graduation ceremonies ever since Yale University bestowed an honorary Doctor of Music degree on the Englishman in 1905.
Geography & Nature	INDIA	They anticipate that 1.6 billion people, about one sixth of the world's population and 200 million more than China, will live there.
History & Government	HEARST	Newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst was only 23 years old when he took over the San Francisco Examiner for his father, and eight years later he purchased the New York Morning Journal.
Sports & Games	CONACHER	Lionel Conacher, a.k.a., The Big Train, was elected to Parliament from 1949 to 1954.
Math & Science	CYCLAMATES	University of Illinois graduate student Michael Sveda discovered their sweetness in 1937 when he accidentally put his cigarette down on some.
Literature & Arts	SEWELL	Because of a leg injury, Anna Sewell had used horses for transportation most of her life. She honored the equines with her only book, completed after outliving her doctor's fatal prognosis.

Quiz Quilt Answer: RASCAL (Fifth letters)

Farina was a character played by Allen Hoskins, Buckwheat by Billie Thomas, and Alfalfa by Carl Switzer in "Our Gang", later known as "The Little Rascals".

Alfalfa, Buckwheat, or Farina -- Quiz Quilt 195 Puzzle

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Entertainment & Food	Who composed "Pomp and Circumstance" in 1901?
Geography & Nature	In 2001, what country did the United Nations estimate would be the most populous in the world by 2050?
History & Government	What publisher's castle in San Simeon, California is a state museum?
Sports & Games	Who was voted Canada's Greatest Male Athlete of the Half-Century in 1950, having starred in hockey, football, baseball, soccer, lacrosse, track, and boxing?
Math & Science	What class of artificial sweeteners did the U.S. government ban in 1969 because they caused cancer in rats?
Literature & Arts	What English author wrote Black Beauty: The Autobiography of a Horse in 1877?

Bare Born '23, Buried '07 -- Quiz Quilt 194 Solution

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Sports & Games	BROCK	Lou Brock's 938 stolen bases were the all-time record until Rickey Henderson ran by him.
History & Government	JEB	John Ellis Bush is known by his monogram.
Entertainment & Food	FLYNN	Swashbuckler Errol Flynn played the surgeon-turned-pirate Peter Blood.
Literature & Arts	CIRCA	The word first appeared in English dictionaries circa 1861.
Geography & Nature	BART	The Bay Area Rapid Transit system, including the historic transbay tunnel, was proposed in 1946, begun in 1964, and opened to the public on September 11, 1972.
Math & Science	AMBER	Although it is not a mineral, amber is generally considered to be a gemstone.

Quiz Quilt Answer: MAILER (Second letters going up)

American author Norman Mailer (1923-2007) drew upon his experiences in the Philippines in World War II for his first novel, "The Naked and the Dead", published in 1948.

Bare Born '23, Buried '07 -- Quiz Quilt 194 Puzzle

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Sports & Games	Who was the Major League Baseball career steals leader until May 1, 1991?
History & Government	What is the nickname, used as his first name, of President George Bush's son who was elected governor of Florida in November 1998?
Entertainment & Food	What actor gained fame for the movie Captain Blood in 1935?
Literature & Arts	What Latin word meaning "about" is used in English especially regarding dates?
Geography & Nature	What is the acronym of San Francisco's subway system?
Math & Science	What hard, yellowish to brownish, translucent fossil resin is used chiefly in making ornamental objects such as beads?

For Plow Not Cow -- Quiz Quilt 193 Solution

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History & Government	EDSEL	About 110,000 of the eponymous cars were sold in three years, well below expectations, and production ended with the 1960 model.
Entertainment & Food	SEAL	The vocalist was born as Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel on February 19, 1963.
Sports & Games	KORBUT	Olga Korbut, the first gymnast to perform a backward somersault on the balance beam, also earned a silver medal in the uneven parallel bars, and her country took the team gold.
Geography & Nature	CANADA	The Iroquois still live in Ontario and Quebec.
Literature & Arts	BARRIE	Scottish novelist James M. Barrie donated the book's copyright to London's Great Ormond Street Hospital in his will.
Math & Science	HEXAGON	Its size is six times that of an equilateral triangle with the same side length.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ARABLE (Fourth letters going up)

Arable land is suitable for growing and sowing crops.

For Plow Not Cow -- Quiz Quilt 193 Puzzle

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History & Government	What was the infamous first name of Henry Ford's son?
Entertainment & Food	What soul singer, born in Paddington, England, has facial markings from a bout of lupus at age 23?
Sports & Games	What Russian gymnast won the 1972 Olympic floor exercises and balance beam competitions?
Geography & Nature	What country's name comes from an Indian word meaning "Big Village"?
Literature & Arts	Who introduced Peter Pan in 1906?
Math & Science	What regular geometric figure's area is equal to just under 2.6 times the length of one side squared?

Picture, Pinball, or Poker Problem -- Quiz Quilt 192 Solution

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Sports & Games	BANNISTER	Neurologist Roger Bannister beat the once-unfathomable barrier by six tenths of a second on May 6, 1954.
Geography & Nature	PORCUPINE	The rodent can be armored with up to 30,000 quills.
Literature & Arts	MITCHELL	Margaret Mitchell's book was originally titled Pansy before the character's name was changed to Scarlett.
Entertainment & Food	DOMINATION	The game was contested on a map of the world like Risk, but battles over territory inflicted actual pain on the opponent.
History & Government	PINOCHET	Dictator General Augusto Pinochet was returned to Chile in March 2000 after being declared unfit to stand trial in Europe.
Math & Science	PERSEIDS	The light show occurs each August.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TILTED (Seventh letters)

A tilted picture on a wall needs to be straightened, a tilted pinball machine causes the player to lose the current ball, and a tilted poker player needs to calm down emotionally after losing to a bluff or a bad beat.

Picture, Pinball, or Poker Problem -- Quiz Quilt 192 Puzzle

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Sports & Games	Who was the first person to officially run a mile in under four minutes?
Geography & Nature	What animal's name comes from the Latin for "spiny pig"?
Literature & Arts	Whose 1936 novel Gone With the Wind became an extraordinarily successful movie three years later?
Entertainment & Food	What pain-inducing video game did Bond and Largo play in Never Say Never Again?
History & Government	What Chilean leader was arrested in London in 1998 for human rights abuses?
Math & Science	What meteor shower does Comet Swift-Tuttle cause?

Canine Capture -- Quiz Quilt 191 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	UECKER	Former catcher Bob Uecker played Harry Doyle in 1989, 1994, and 1998.
Math & Science	NEON	Neodymium's name comes from the Greek words for "new twin", while niobium is named for Tantalus's daughter Niobe from Greek mythology.
Literature & Arts	MALICE	The thriller was a top ten bestseller in 1996.
History & Government	TYLER	On March 3, 1845, John Tyler's wishes on a bill regarding naval vessels were disregarded.
Geography & Nature	BRANSON	As of the 2000 U.S. census, the town had only 6,000 residents.
Sports & Games	BIRD	Former forward Larry Bird led the Indiana Pacers to a 58-24 record, a nineteen-game improvement over the previous season.

Quiz Quilt Answer: COLLAR (Third letters)

If the police have collared a criminal, that means they have apprehended him or her.

Canine Capture -- Quiz Quilt 191 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What Milwaukee Brewers announcer appeared as himself in the movie Major League and its sequels?
Math & Science	What chemical element's name means "new"?
Literature & Arts	What Danielle Steel novel is about Grace Adams and attorney Charles Mackenzie?
History & Government	Who was the first U.S. President to have Congress override his veto?
Geography & Nature	What Missouri town calls itself the "Live Music Show Capital of the World"?
Sports & Games	What Hall of Fame player was the NBA Coach of the Year for the 1997-98 season in his first year as a coach?

Beer Bowler -- Quiz Quilt 190 Solution

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Sports & Games	RAFTER	Serve-and-volleyer Patrick Rafter defeated Greg Rusedski in the 1997 final and Mark Philippoussis in 1998. Margaret Smith Court beat countrywoman Yvonne Goolagong in the 1973 final.
Geography & Nature	KENYA	The country's most populous city had an estimated three million residents in 2008.
History & Government	LILY	Lilium longiflorum is known as both the Easter Lily and the November Lily.
Math & Science	JUNG	Until his Symbols of Transformations in 1912, Carl Jung had been Sigmund Freud's student and follower.
Literature & Arts	JUGHEAD	The teenagers first appeared in "Pep Comics 22" in 1941.
Entertainment & Food	SPACEK	Oscar-winner Sissy Spacek, whose given first name is Mary, also had an uncredited appearance as a girl at a bar in Trash in 1970.

Quiz Quilt Answer: KEGLER (Diagonally from the bottom to the top left)

Ten-pin bowlers are also known as keglers, from the German "kegel", meaning bowling pin, and not the Old Norse "kaggi", which gave us "keg" and has referred to barrels of beer since 1945.

Beer Bowler -- Quiz Quilt 190 Puzzle

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Sports & Games	Who was the only Australian tennis player to win the U.S. Open twice since 1973?
Geography & Nature	Which Eastern African republic's capital is Nairobi?
History & Government	What flower has been displayed on the Easter Seals logo since 1952?
Math & Science	What Swiss psychologist formulated the concept of introvert and extrovert types?
Literature & Arts	By what nickname is Forsythe Pendleton Jones known in the Archie comics?
Entertainment & Food	What actress debuted in Prime Cut in 1972 and appeared in Katherine, Carrie, and Marie?

Bomb, Bond, or Box -- Quiz Quilt 189 Solution

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Literature & Arts	WALKER	"The Devil and Tom Walker" was included in the 1824 short story collection Tales of a Traveller.
Math & Science	BRONZE	The metal was first manufactured around 3300 B.C.
Entertainment & Food	VARIETY	The worldwide entertainment news weekly is considered to be the industry bible.
History & Government	PAKISTAN	The region had been a territory of the U.K. before then.
Geography & Nature	HANOVER	Reverend Eleazar Wheelock could not find a location in Connecticut and founded the college in 1769 on land granted by New Hampshire's governor.
Sports & Games	MAXWELL	Guard Vernon Maxwell averaged about 13 points a game from 1988 to 2001 and helped the Houston Rockets to two championships.

Quiz Quilt Answer: LETTER (Sixth letters going up)

A letter bomb is an explosive sent through the mail, a letter bond is a type of unregistered bond, and a letter box is a mailbox (letterbox without the space is also a movie term for blacking out the top and bottom of the screen to preserve the aspect ratio).

Bomb, Bond, or Box -- Quiz Quilt 189 Puzzle

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Literature & Arts	What Washington Irving character made a deal with the Devil to get rid of his wife?
Math & Science	What alloy is made from copper and tin and sometimes phosphorus, zinc, and small amounts of other elements?
Entertainment & Food	What show business magazine debuted on December 16, 1905?
History & Government	What was the other country formed by the independence and partitioning of India in 1947?
Geography & Nature	In what town is Dartmouth College located?
Sports & Games	What NBA player was known as Mad Max?

Eeyore Store -- Quiz Quilt 188 Solution

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Sports & Games	CAMEROON	The African nation followed in the footsteps of its neighbor and 1996 champion Nigeria by defeating Spain in the finals.
History & Government	TRUDEAU	Pierre Trudeau, the country's first leader born in the 20th century, ruled the nation from 1968 to 1984 except for nine months when Joe Clark was in power before falling to a vote of no confidence.
Literature & Arts	MONET	Claude Monet's Bassin aux nympheas et sentier au bord de l'eau sold for $33 million at a 1998 auction.
Geography & Nature	BURMA	The city is now spelled Yangon, and the country became Myanmar.
Math & Science	PISTIL	It was named for the similarly shaped grinding tool called a pestle.
Entertainment & Food	DEPALMA	Thirteen years passed from Brian DePalma's directorial debut with Icarus in 1960 until his first real success with Sisters.

Quiz Quilt Answer: RETAIL (Fifth letters)

Eeyore is a Winnie-the-Pooh character whose tail has fallen off and has been reattached with a nail by Christopher Robin after Owl had been using it as part of a doorbell.

Eeyore Store -- Quiz Quilt 188 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Sports & Games	What country surprisingly won the 2000 Olympic men's soccer gold medal?
History & Government	Which Canadian prime minister signed the Constitution Act of 1982, finalizing independence from the United Kingdom?
Literature & Arts	What artist became wealthy by winning the French state lottery in 1891?
Geography & Nature	For what country's capital was the dish Crab Rangoon named?
Math & Science	What is the female part of a flower, consisting of the stigma, style, and ovary?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the director of Carrie, Dressed to Kill, and Scarface?

Knuckle Head -- Quiz Quilt 187 Solution

Category Answers:

Geography & Nature	BELGRADE	The city was founded in 878 and became the country capital in 1403. It is now the capital of Serbia.
Sports & Games	LITHUANIA	The players dressed in tie-dye shirts to receive their bronze medals.
Entertainment & Food	SWEATHOGS	They starred as underprivileged high school students on Welcome Back, Kotter from 1975 to 1979.
Literature & Arts	STEVENSON	The disease afflicted novelist and poet Robert Louis Stevenson during childhood but did not contribute to his death by brain hemorrhage at age 44.
History & Government	JEFFERSON	He was born as William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas on August 19, 1946.
Math & Science	HYDROGEN	The zeppelin burst into flames while trying to land on May 6, 1937. Hydrogen was used primarily because other countries refused to make the safer helium available to Germany.

Quiz Quilt Answer: NOOGIE (Eighth letters going up)

The term "noogie", meaning to "put in a headlock and rub a knuckle into the head" was coined in 1972, around the same time as the equally annoying "wedgie".

Knuckle Head -- Quiz Quilt 187 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Geography & Nature	What was the capital and most populous city in Yugoslavia?
Sports & Games	What country's Olympic men's basketball team did the Grateful Dead sponsor in 1992?
Entertainment & Food	What collective term refers to the TV characters played by Ron Palillo, John Travolta, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, and Robert Hegyes?
Literature & Arts	What Scottish author, who suffered from tuberculosis, wrote The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde in 1886?
History & Government	What is President Clinton's middle name?
Math & Science	What gas was the Hindenburg filled with?

Devilish Domitian Designation -- Quiz Quilt 186 Solution

Category Answers:

History & Government	KIDD	Legendary sailor Captain Kidd terrorized ships near the end of the 17th century until being arrested and hanged for piracy and murder.
Geography & Nature	ALCATRAZ	Originally used for a military fort, the island served as a prison from 1934 until 1963.
Sports & Games	OILERS	The Edmonton Oilers won five championships, one more than the New York Islanders.
Entertainment & Food	FOX	David Duchovny played the FBI agent on television from 1993 to 2002 and in the 1998 movie.
Literature & Arts	DAVIS	Jim Davis's lasagna-loving, orange cat debuted on June 19, 1978 and has spawned over forty books, a television series, a dozen TV specials, and a 2004 movie.
Math & Science	CHINA	The rocket, named Shenzhou ("Vessel of the Gods"), carried an astronaut into orbit four years later.

Quiz Quilt Answer: DCLXVI (Third letters)

English author Robert Graves pointed out that DCLXVI (the Roman numerals for 666, the Number of the Beast) could stand for "Domitianus Caesar Legatos Xti Violenter Interfecit", meaning "The Emperor Domitian violently killed the envoys of Christ".

Devilish Domitian Designation -- Quiz Quilt 186 Puzzle

Category Questions:

History & Government	What Scottish-born English pirate was made famous in songs and novels such as The Water Witch?
Geography & Nature	What former prison, known as the Rock, is now part of Golden Gate National Recreational Area?
Sports & Games	Which NHL team won the most Stanley Cups from 1980 to 1990?
Entertainment & Food	What was Mulder's first name on The X-Files?
Literature & Arts	What artist draws the comic strip Garfield?
Math & Science	What country launched its first unmanned spacecraft on November 20, 1999?

Wizard's Warm Wife -- Quiz Quilt 185 Solution

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	JUMBO	The French Sudanese pachyderm had been on display at the Zoo Jardin des Plantes and the London Zoo. His name, from the Swahili jambo meaning "hello", now means "very large".
Geography & Nature	CHILE	The coastal country covers 2,880 miles north-to-south and only 265 east-to-west.
History & Government	MCCARTY	Criminal Henry McCarty, who lived from November 23, 1860 to July 14, 1881, often used the alias William Henry Bonney.
Literature & Arts	MILNE	The line is from "Cottleston Pie", a poem in A.A. Milne's "Winnie-the-Pooh".
Sports & Games	BLACK	Rookie Joe Black posted a complete game victory for the Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 1 in 1952.
Math & Science	KOCH	Physician Robert Koch discovered the tuberculosis bacteria in 1882 and the cholera bacteria the following year.

Quiz Quilt Answer: BLANCH (Fourth letters)

The title character's wife in the comic strip "The Wizard of Id" is named Blanch, which is a cooking term that can mean "to heat briefly" (this wizard's wife is a very bad cook).

Wizard's Warm Wife -- Quiz Quilt 185 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What soon-to-be-famous elephant did P.T. Barnum purchase on February 3, 1882?
Geography & Nature	Which South American country is over ten times as long as it is wide?
History & Government	What was Billy the Kid's real name?
Literature & Arts	What author observed in his most famous story, "A fly can't bird, but a bird can fly"?
Sports & Games	Who was the first black pitcher to win a World Series game?
Math & Science	What German scientist proved that tuberculosis was an infectious disease caused by bacteria rather than heredity?

Gloveless Catcher -- Quiz Quilt 184 Solution

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	HESTON	Movie Moses Charlton Heston served two terms but stepped down in April 2003 because of Alzheimer's disease.
History & Government	ROMANOV	Mikhail Feodorovich Romanov was only 16 years old when the national assembly elected him tsar on February 21, 1613.
Math & Science	KILN	The first kilns date at least as far back as the 6th century B.C.
Literature & Arts	HARDY	Thomas Hardy's story follows Clym Yeobright as he marries Eustacia Vye and goes blind.
Geography & Nature	SYDNEY	Sydney, Australia's main airport was renamed in 1953 for Charles Kingsford Smith, an Australian aviating pioneer who was the first to cross the Pacific Ocean from Australia to the U.S.
Sports & Games	MADDEN	John Madden's tenure included winning Super Bowl XI in 1976. The aviophobe has avoided airplanes since 1960, when he missed a team flight that crashed fatally in Ohio.

Quiz Quilt Answer: HOLDEN (Diagonal)

Holden Caulfield is the protagonist of J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye.

Gloveless Catcher -- Quiz Quilt 184 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What actor was voted president of the National Rifle Association on June 8, 1998?
History & Government	What was the ruling dynasty of Russia from 1613 to 1917?
Math & Science	What is the name for the oven used for firing pottery and enamels and for making brick, charcoal, lime, and cement?
Literature & Arts	What author wrote the 1878 novel The Return of the Native?
Geography & Nature	What city does Kingsford Smith International Airport service?
Sports & Games	What future announcer coached the Oakland Raiders from 1969 to 1978?

Beach Boys Bar -- Quiz Quilt 183 Solution

Category Answers:

Math & Science	BOSONS	The particles honor Indian mathematician and physicist Satyendra Nath Bose, who translated Albert Einstein's theory of General Relativity from German into English.
Literature & Arts	AMBROSIA	The sustenance may have been some form of honey.
Sports & Games	SOSA	Outfielder Sammy Sosa batted .308 with 158 RBIs and thrilled fans with his historic home run duel against Mark McGwire, finishing four back with 66 dingers.
Entertainment & Food	SKUNK	The black and white, French romantic debuted in "Odor-able Kitty" in 1945.
History & Government	COLORADO	The Democrat, born in 1936 as Gary Hartpence, was their senator from 1975 to 1987 and ran for President in both 1984 and 1988.
Geography & Nature	UKRAINE	The country has many fertile plains to support agriculture.

Quiz Quilt Answer: KOKOMO (Second letters going up)

"Kokomo" was a #1 song by the Beach Boys from the 1988 Tom Cruise movie "Cocktail".

Beach Boys Bar -- Quiz Quilt 183 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Math & Science	What is the scientific term for the group of elementary particles that have integral spin?
Literature & Arts	What was the food of the mythological Greek gods?
Sports & Games	What Chicago Cub was the 1998 National League MVP?
Entertainment & Food	What type of animal is cartoon character Pepe Le Pew?
History & Government	For which state was Bethany Nazarene College graduate Gary Hart a senator?
Geography & Nature	Which Southeast European country was once known as the Breadbasket of the Soviet Union?

Loopy Lines -- Quiz Quilt 182 Solution

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Literature & Arts	ASIMOV	The book covered Isaac Asimov's works from 1920 to 1954 and was concluded the following year with In Joy Still Felt.
Math & Science	MCAULIFFE	New Hampshire social studies instructor Christa McAuliffe had been selected out of 11,000 applicants to be the first teacher to give lessons from space.
History & Government	TRUMAN	Missourian Harry Truman also admonished, "If you can't stand the heat, get out of the kitchen" and "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em."
Geography & Nature	MINK	An average-length fur coat requires fifty minks, and fifty million of the mustelids are killed for their fur each year.
Entertainment & Food	SPACEBALLS	The film's tagline was "May the schwartz be with you."
Sports & Games	STANT	Arizona bounty hunter Shane Stant was in cahoots with Kerrigan's rival Tonya Harding.

Quiz Quilt Answer: SCRIPT (Second letters)

Cursive script is a manner of writing in which the letters in a word are connected.

Loopy Lines -- Quiz Quilt 182 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What author called the 1979 half of his autobiography In Memory Yet Green?
Math & Science	What teacher was on the ill-fated Challenger shuttle on January 28, 1986?
History & Government	Which U.S. President's motto was "The buck stops here"?
Geography & Nature	What semiaquatic, carnivorous mammal is related to the weasel and prized for its fur?
Entertainment & Food	What 1987 Star Wars movie spoof starred Mel Brooks and John Candy?
Sports & Games	Who clubbed figure skater Nancy Kerrigan on her right knee with a metal baton on January 6, 1994?

Agoraphobia Angst -- Quiz Quilt 181 Solution

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	WELCH	Raquel Welch, born in Chicago as Jo Raquel Tajeda, also had a bit part as a call girl in A House Is Not a Home in 1964.
Geography & Nature	SICILY	The autonomous Italian region is just under 10,000 square miles.
History & Government	WALLENBERG	Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg used his job to issue effective, if not technically official, "protective passports".
Literature & Arts	GIBBON	Edward Gibbon, one of the first modern historians, was known for his objectivity and accuracy.
Math & Science	LANUGO	The covering is usually shed during the final month in the womb.
Sports & Games	COOPER	Guard and small forward Michael Cooper was the 1986-87 NBA Defensive Player of the Year with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Quiz Quilt Answer: PUBLIC (Fourth letters going up)

Agoraphobia is the irrational fear of open spaces (from the Greek meaning "fear of the marketplace").

Agoraphobia Angst -- Quiz Quilt 181 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What actress debuted on the big screen in Roustabout in 1964, followed by A Swingin' Summer and Fantastic Voyage?
Geography & Nature	What is the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea?
History & Government	What Swedish diplomat was made an honorary U.S. citizen for saving 20,000 Jews from the Nazis?
Literature & Arts	What author released The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in six volumes from 1776 to 1788?
Math & Science	What is the medical term for the fine hair that may cover a newborn's head before disappearing in the first few weeks?
Sports & Games	What former NBA player became the head coach of the Los Angeles Sparks in November 1999 and led them to two titles?

Polish Promise -- Quiz Quilt 180 Solution

Category Answers:

History & Government	SABRE	American Airlines and IBM created the system on mainframe computers in the 1950s.
Entertainment & Food	WANG	Chinese-American Wayne Wang was born in Hong Kong but studied at the College of Arts and Crafts in California.
Geography & Nature	VOLGOGRAD	The name was changed after 36 years in 1961 as Nikita Khrushchev worked to remove all vestiges of Stalin's influences from the country.
Literature & Arts	BLAKE	Kevin Costner directed the film version of Michael Blake's book and starred as Lieutenant John Dunbar.
Sports & Games	BASEBALL	The IOC posthumously restored his medals in 1982.
Math & Science	STIRRUP	The ear bone, also called the stapes, transmits sound vibrations from the incus to the fenestra ovalis.

Quiz Quilt Answer: PLEDGE (Last letters going up)

"Pledge" is the name of a furniture polish manufactured by S. C. Johnson & Son, Inc.

Polish Promise -- Quiz Quilt 180 Puzzle

Category Questions:

History & Government	What airline reservation system did AMR spin off in 1999?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the director of Chan Is Missing, Dim Sum: A Little Bit of Heart, and The Joy Luck Club?
Geography & Nature	What is the current name of the city formerly known as Stalingrad?
Literature & Arts	What author wrote the novel Dances With Wolves and the script of its movie adaptation?
Sports & Games	What sport did Jim Thorpe earn money for playing, causing the International Olympic Commission to void his 1912 decathlon and pentathlon gold medals?
Math & Science	What is the common name for the smallest bone in the human body?

Round Reverend Anagram -- Quiz Quilt 179 Solution

Category Answers:

Geography & Nature	CORSICA	The city-state Genoa owned the island until 1768 when it was turned over to France to pay a debt.
Sports & Games	BONALY	The 5-foot tall Surya Bonaly ended her amateur career at the 1998 Winter Olympics, performing an illegal back flip to the judges' dismay and the fans' delight.
Entertainment & Food	RIVERA	Brooklyn Law School graduate Geraldo Rivera snuck into the school for the developmentally disabled to expose the horrible conditions there.
Literature & Arts	FORD	Novelist Ford Madox Ford was born as Ford Hermann Hueffer on December 12, 1873 and took his new name in honor of his grandfather Ford Madox Brown, an artist.
Math & Science	ZINC	The coating helps prevent corrosion.
History & Government	COUSTEAU	Jacques-Yves Cousteau and his co-inventor were French spies during World War II at the time.

Quiz Quilt Answer: CLERIC (Diagonally from top right to bottom left corner)

The letters in "cleric" can be rearranged to spell "circle".

Round Reverend Anagram -- Quiz Quilt 179 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Geography & Nature	What is the 3,367-square-mile French island in the Mediterranean Sea?
Sports & Games	What French female figure skater won the European Championships each year from 1991 to 1995?
Entertainment & Food	What talk show host first gained fame for his documentary Willowbrook: The Last Disgrace in the early 1970s?
Literature & Arts	What English author of Parade's End changed his last name to match his first name?
Math & Science	What chemical element is usually used to galvanize steel?
History & Government	Who invented the aqualung with Emile Gagnan in 1943?

Winter Warning -- Quiz Quilt 178 Solution

Category Answers:

Literature & Arts	SAFIRE	Language maven William Safire also had a twice-weekly political column in the New York Times for over a quarter century.
History & Government	IACOCCA	Businessman Lee Iacocca obtained loan guarantees from the U.S. government in 1979 and introduced the successful K-car the following year.
Sports & Games	LEWIS	Frederick Carlton "Carl" Lewis took first in the 100-meter and 200-meter dashes, the long jump, and the 4x100-meter relay.
Entertainment & Food	HITCHCOCK	Alfred Hitchcock's fifth movie followed the unfinished Number 13, the uncredited Always Tell Your Wife, The Pleasure Garden, and The Mountain Eagle.
Geography & Nature	TOGO	Germany owned the colony until forced to give it up in 1918 after losing World War I.
Math & Science	NOSE	The plastic surgery is usually performed to improve the appearance of the nose but can also be done for functional reasons.

Quiz Quilt Answer: NOTICE (Diagonally from the bottom left corner)

A pond might bear a "notice" stating that the water is "not ice" so nobody tries to skate on it.

Winter Warning -- Quiz Quilt 178 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What former speechwriter for President Nixon penned the weekly column "On Language" in the New York Times Magazine?
History & Government	What president of the Ford Motor Company became better known as the savior of the Chrysler Corporation?
Sports & Games	What American sprinter and long jumper won four gold medals in the 1984 Olympics?
Entertainment & Food	What director made his first cameo appearance in The Lodger in 1927?
Geography & Nature	Which West African country, whose capital and largest city is Lome, was administered by France until 1960?
Math & Science	What part of the body does rhinoplasty affect?

Brain Breach -- Quiz Quilt 177 Solution

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	ASIA	Geoff Downes, Steve Howe, and John Wetton invaded the Top 40 with "Heat of the Moment", "Sole Survivor", and "Only Time Will Tell".
Sports & Games	STEWART	The tam o'shanter wearing American, Payne Stewart, had won his second U.S. Open in June.
Literature & Arts	WRIGHT	Frank Lloyd Wright's museum opened on October 21, 1959. Frank Gehry created the Guggenheim Museum that opened in Bilbao, Spain in 1997.
History & Government	JONES	John Paul Jones's ship, the Bonhomme Richard, was on fire and sinking, but the captain used it to ram the British Serapis and capture her.
Geography & Nature	SKYLON	The observation tower, which houses a revolving restaurant, has a visibility range of eighty miles on a clear day.
Math & Science	NEPTUNE	Craters on both the moon and Mars are named in Galle's honor, but Urbain Le Verrier and John Couch Adams are also credited as discoverers.

Quiz Quilt Answer: STROKE (Second letters)

A stroke is a breach of the brain as in the "failure to perform" and may be caused by a bursting aneurysm caused by the breach of a blood vessel wall.

Brain Breach -- Quiz Quilt 177 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What supergroup's self-titled debut album was the Billboard 1982 Album of the Year in the U.S.?
Sports & Games	What 42-year-old golfer perished in a plane crash in October 1999, just four months after winning his last major?
Literature & Arts	What architect designed New York's Guggenheim art museum?
History & Government	What naval hero replied, "Sir, I have not yet begun to fight", when asked to surrender during the American Revolution?
Geography & Nature	What 520-foot tall tower overlooks Niagara Falls from the Canadian side?
Math & Science	Which planet did German astronomer Johann Gottfried Galle discover on September 23, 1846?

Acelarator -- Quiz Quilt 176 Solution

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Literature & Arts	DICKENS	The early mystery was published posthumously in 1879, nine years after Charles Dickens's death.
Geography & Nature	NICARAGUA	The triangular nation covers just over 50,000 square miles, slightly smaller than Louisiana and larger than Mississippi.
Entertainment & Food	HAIR	The song topped the Billboard Hot 100 for six weeks, and the Cowsills reached #2 with their rendition of "Hair".
History & Government	GETTY	J. Paul Getty, the founder of Getty Oil, was one of the world's first billionaires and considered to be the wealthiest person in the world when he died.
Sports & Games	GIAMATTI	Former Yale University president A. Bartlett Giamatti ousted the belatedly apologetic hitter for life on August 24, 1989.
Math & Science	RADAR	British physicist Sir Robert Watson-Watt constructed the first practical radar in 1935, although the name wasn't coined until 1941.

Quiz Quilt Answer: AMTRAK (Fourth letters going up)

The Acela Express is a high-speed Amtrak train that runs from Washington, D.C. to Boston, Massachusetts.

Acelarator -- Quiz Quilt 176 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Literature & Arts	What author's final novel was The Mystery of Edwin Drood?
Geography & Nature	What is the largest Central American country?
Entertainment & Food	What musical inspired the Fifth Dimension's medley "Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In", which won the Grammy for Record of the Year in 1970?
History & Government	What oil baron observed, "I've noticed that people who don't respect money don't have any"?
Sports & Games	What Major League Baseball commissioner banned Pete Rose for gambling?
Math & Science	What instrument detects the position, motion, and nature of a remote object by reflecting radio waves off its surface?

Dickie's Dandies -- Quiz Quilt 175 Solution

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Sports & Games	KARIYA	Left winger Paul Kariya had 24 goals and 69 assists in the regular season and added a goal and 6 assists in the postseason.
History & Government	SHERMAN	William Tecumseh Sherman's campaign began on November 15, 1864 and lasted 24 days. He bragged, "We have devoured the land... . To realize what war is, one should follow our tracks."
Entertainment & Food	CAPRA	Italian immigrant Frank Capra was nominated for Best Director Oscar awards for the 1937 and 1939 movies but did not win.
Geography & Nature	DRAKE	Upon Francis Drake's return, he gave Queen Elizabeth enough money to pay off England's foreign debts.
Math & Science	GRISSOM	The capsule had sunk after Gus Grissom's fifteen-minute sub-orbital flight on July 21, 1961.
Literature & Arts	DADA	The proponents of the movement, which began as a response to World War I, considered their work "anti-art".

Quiz Quilt Answer: DIAPER (Third letters)

Sportscaster and former Detroit Pistons coach Dick Vitale refers to college freshmen basketball players as "diaper dandies".

Dickie's Dandies -- Quiz Quilt 175 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Sports & Games	What University of Maine hockey player won the Hobey Baker award while his team won the Frozen Four championship in 1992-93?
History & Government	What general led the March to the Sea during the U.S. Civil War?
Entertainment & Food	Who directed Lost Horizon and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington?
Geography & Nature	What Englishman sailed around the world from 1577 to 1580, partly to escape Spanish ships from which he stole gold?
Math & Science	What astronaut was originally in the Mercury spaceship's Liberty Bell 7, recovered from the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean on July 20, 1999?
Literature & Arts	What art and literature movement, begun in Zurich, was based on deliberate irrationality and the negation of traditional and artistic values?

Wolfman Jack -- Quiz Quilt 174 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	RAVEL	John Derek tried to cash in on the fame of Maurice Ravel's one-movement orchestral piece by casting Bo Derek in a 1984 movie called Bolero.
History & Government	FULTON	Engineer Robert Fulton had designed the first practical submarine for Napoleon seven years earlier.
Sports & Games	GREEN	American roulette wheels also have a green double-zero to increase the house's advantage further.
Math & Science	FARADAY	Michael Faraday, the son of a blacksmith, also studied the opposite effect, electromagnetism, but was criticized for failing to credit his predecessors in his publications.
Geography & Nature	ARIZONA	The 342-square-mile desert area contains many colorful, rock-hard logs formed from the mineralization of wood by the silica in volcanic ash.
Literature & Arts	DIXON	The Franklin W. Dixon series was the brainchild of Edward Stratemeyer, who also used the name Carolyn Keene and several ghostwriters to create the Nancy Drew mysteries.

Quiz Quilt Answer: LONDON (Fifth letters)

Author Jack London wrote "The Son of the Wolf", published in 1900, the complementary novels "Call of the Wild" and "White Fang" about wild dogs and wolves, and "The Sea-Wolf", whose antagonist is a sea captain named Wolf Larsen.

Wolfman Jack -- Quiz Quilt 174 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Entertainment & Food	What French composer wrote "Bolero", which gained notoriety in the 1979 movie 10?
History & Government	What American inventor created the first commercially successful steamboat in 1807?
Sports & Games	What color is the zero slot on a roulette wheel?
Math & Science	What English physicist and chemist first produced electricity by moving a magnet through a coil of copper wire?
Geography & Nature	In which U.S. state is the Petrified Forest National Park located?
Literature & Arts	What pseudonym was used to pen The Hardy Boys?

Math Middle -- Quiz Quilt 173 Solution

Category Answers:

Math & Science	MUSHROOM	Poisonous mushrooms are called toadstools.
Literature & Arts	GARDNER	The movie A View to a Kill is based on John Gardner's License Renewed. He wrote License to Kill and Goldeneye based on their respective movies.
History & Government	MUSSOLINI	In a 1925 speech, Italian dictator Benito Mussolini outlined the party's philosophy as "Everything in the State, nothing outside the State, nothing against the State."
Entertainment & Food	COOLIDGE	Leon Russell's tune about Rita Coolidge reached #1 in the U.K. in 1969 and was a Top 40 hit in the U.S.
Geography & Nature	TANZANIA	The peak is 19,340 feet high.
Sports & Games	SIMPSON	Buffalo Bills running back O.J. Simpson totaled 2,003 yards on the ground in only 14 games in 1973, just over two decades before his infamous run from the law.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ORIGIN (Seventh letters)

The middle of the Cartesian coordinate system is known as the origin, "0, 0" in two dimensions or "0, 0, 0" in three.

Math Middle -- Quiz Quilt 173 Puzzle

Category Questions:

Math & Science	What is the common name for the enlarged, complex, aerial, fleshy, fruiting body of a fungus, especially one that is edible?
Literature & Arts	What author continued the James Bond tradition after Ian Fleming's death, writing fourteen novels from 1981 to 1996?
History & Government	Who founded the Fascist Party in 1921?
Entertainment & Food	What singer was Joe Cocker's 1969 song "Delta Lady" about?
Geography & Nature	In what country is Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa, located?
Sports & Games	Who was the first NFL player to rush for 2,000 yards in a season?

Drug Druthers - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) Nifedipine. The dihydropyridine calcium channel blocker is approved for treatment of hypertension and angina pectoris.
• A2) Ibuprofen. The pain killer has been approved for use by the U.S. FDA since 1984.
• A3) Citalopram. The antidepressant is used to treat depression and social anxiety disorder. Its successor is escitalopram, which is sold as Lexapro.
• A4) Tadalafil. The 36-hour PDE5 inhibitor was the third ED drug approved by the FDA in December 2003.
• A5) Meperidine (also called pethidine). The opioid analgesic was created by German Otto Schaumann in 1932 as a safer alternative to morphine.
• A6) Furosemide (also called frusemide). [name comes from "LAsts SIX" hours] -- used to treat hypertension and other ailments in humans but infamous for being used to keep horses from bleeding during races.
• A7) Vardenafil. Levitra is Bayer's name in the U.S., and Vivanza is GSK's name in Europe for the same PDE5 inhibitor.
• A8) Paroxetine. The antidepressant is less frequently used because withdrawal symptoms can be severe.
• A9) Fluoxetine. The selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), like paroxetine, was created by Eli Lilly in 1970.
• A10) Acetaminophen (paracetamol outside of North America). The popular pain reliever and fever reducer was first marketed in the U.S. in 1953 as an aspirin substitute.
• A11) Sildenafil citrate. The first ED drug was approved by the FDA in March 1998, leading to over a billion dollars in annual sales.
• A12) Sertraline. The SSRI, the most widely prescribed antidepressant in the U.S. in 2007, was developed at Pfizer beginning in the early 1970s but did not come to market for two decades.

Note: this is the final random trivia quiz that will be posted to the Trivia Why's blog. The Quiz Quilt puzzles will continue to be posted each Friday (questions) and Saturday (answers) night.

Drug Druthers - Random Trivia Questions

Given your druthers, what generic drugs would you rather purchase to save the expense of these higher-priced brand names?

Drug Druthers Questions

• Q1) Adalat, Nifedical, and Procardia
• Q2) Advil and Motrin
• Q3) Celexa
• Q4) Cialis
• Q5) Demerol
• Q6) Lasix
• Q7) Levitra and Vivanza
• Q8) Paxil
• Q9) Prozac
• Q10) Tylenol
• Q11) Viagra
• Q12) Zoloft

An American in Puerto Vallarta -- Quiz Quilt 172 Solution

Category Answers:

Entertainment & Food	DEVITO	The title of Danny DeVito's directorial debut comes from a 1956 Patti Page song written by Irving Gordon.
Geography & Nature	MICHIGAN	The Great Lakes State could fit Indiana in its almost 40,000 square miles of water.
Literature & Arts	ATALANTA	Hippomenes, also known as Melanion, won her hand in marriage by following Aphrodite's wise advice.
History & Government	GEORGIA	The southeastern state was readmitted on July 15, 1870, almost five years after the war ended.
Math & Science	HILBERT	David Hilbert was born in 1862 in Konigsberg, Germany, which is now Kaliningrad, Russia.
Sports & Games	CHINAGLIA	Striker Giorgio Chinaglia finished as the NASL's all-time top goal scorer with 193 and led the league in scoring five times from 1976 to 1982, including his 1981 MVP season.

Quiz Quilt Answer: GRINGO (Sixth letters going up)

"Gringo" is a derogatory Latin American term for Americans.

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Entertainment & Food	What star of the 1987 movie Throw Momma from the Train also directed it?
Geography & Nature	After Alaska, which U.S. state has the most area that is covered by water?
Literature & Arts	In Greek mythology, what woman did Hippomenes defeat in a race when she stopped to pick up three golden apples that he intentionally dropped to slow her down?
History & Government	What was the last Confederate state to rejoin the Union after the Civil War?
Math & Science	What mathematician created the Basis Theorem in 1888?
Sports & Games	What Italian soccer star helped the New York Cosmos win the Soccer Bowl in 1977, 1978, 1980, and 1982?

Double Sports - Random Trivia Answers

• A1) L.C. Greenwood. The 6'6" defensive end, whose initials apparently don't stand for anything (he wrote his full name as L.C. Henderson Greenwood) liked to joke about becoming an actor but ended up running an electrical and plumbing supply company after retiring from football.
• A2) J.D. Drew. David Jonathan Drew was known by his middle name Jon, so "J.D. Drew" effectively expands to the redundant "Jon Drew Drew".
• A3) M.L. Carr. Michael Leon Carr guided the Celtics to a 15-67 record in 1996-97 and a franchise-worst .293 (48-116) over two seasons before being kicked upstairs to become Director of Corporate Development.
• A4) B.J. Ryan. Robert Victor Ryan, Jr. (from "Bobby Junior") had saved 36 games and sported a 2.43 ERA with the Baltimore Orioles in 2005 before the Toronto Blue Jays offered the huge free agent bucks.
• A5) C.C. Sabathia. Lefty Carsten Charles Sabathia inked the deal with the New York Yankees, after winning the 2007 American League Cy Young Award and helping the Milwaukee Brewers win the 2008 National League Wild Card.
• A6) O.J. Simpson. Orenthal James Simpson notched a then-record 2,003 yards rushing in 1973, for a 14-game average of 143.1 yards. The four other 2,000-yard rushers each needed a 16-game season to reach the milestone.
• A7) Y.A. Tittle. Hall-of-Famer Yelberton Abraham Tittle was named MVP in both 1961 and 1963 with the New York Giants but retired after a disappointing 1964 season that included a concussion and a broken sternum.
• A8) C.J. Hunter. Cottrell James Hunter, III was married to Marion Jones at the time, and she was stripped of her three golds and two bronzes from those Olympics for taking performance-enhancing drugs.
• A9) A.J. Burnett. Allan James Burnett debuted with the Florida Marlins in 1999 and overcame 2003 Tommy John surgery.
• A10) A.C. Green. The power forward, whose initials don't stand for anything (he's actually A.C. Green, Jr.), played every regular season game from November 19, 1986 to April 18, 2001, a span of 1,192 consecutive games, and missed only three of 1,281 games in his career, which ended after a three-and-out in the 2000-01 postseason.
• A11) P.J. Carlesimo. Peter Joseph Carlesimo was head coach of the Golden State Warriors when the temperamental guard and forward lost his cool, eventually getting suspended for 68 games and getting traded to the New York Knicks.
• A12) A.J. Foyt. Anthony Joseph Foyt, Jr. took the checkered flag at the Indianapolis 500 in 1961, 1964, 1967, and 1977, the Daytona 500 in 1972, Le Mans in 1967 (with Dan Gurney), and the 24 Hours of Daytona in 1983 (with Preston Henn, Bob Wollek, and Claude Ballot-Lena) and 1985 (with Wollek, Al Unser Sr., and Thierry Boutsen). The Texan is also the only driver to win Indy and Le Mans in the same year.