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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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?