Saturday, September 4, 2010

Beer Bowler -- Quiz Quilt 190 Solution

Category Answers:
Sports
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Games
RAFTERServe-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
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Nature
KENYAThe country's most populous city had an estimated three million residents in 2008.
History
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Government
LILYLilium longiflorum is known as both the Easter Lily and the November Lily.
Math
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Science
JUNGUntil his Symbols of Transformations in 1912, Carl Jung had been Sigmund Freud's student and follower.
Literature
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Arts
JUGHEADThe teenagers first appeared in "Pep Comics 22" in 1941.
Entertainment
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Food
SPACEKOscar-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.

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