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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