| 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.
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