Saturday, May 8, 2010

Math Middle -- Quiz Quilt 173 Solution

Category Answers:
Math
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Science
MUSHROOMPoisonous mushrooms are called toadstools.
Literature
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Arts
GARDNERThe 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
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Government
MUSSOLINIIn 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
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Food
COOLIDGELeon 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
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Nature
TANZANIAThe peak is 19,340 feet high.
Sports
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Games
SIMPSONBuffalo 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.

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