Saturday, December 18, 2010

Various Gold Spinners -- Quiz Quilt 205 Solution

Category Answers:
Entertainment
&
Food
BESTThe group dismissed Pete Best on August 16, 1962 for musical reasons.
Literature
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Arts
BYRONLord Byron penned "She Walks in Beauty" in 1814, after seeing his cousin, Lady Anne Wilmot Horton, in her mourning dress.
Math
&
Science
AMERICIUMThe alpha radiation from the radioactive americium-241 passes through an ionization chamber where the presence of smoke would interrupt its flow.
Sports
&
Games
IRVINFormer University of Miami star Michael Irvin had set school receiving records for career catches, yards, and touchdowns and contributed to a national title in 1987.
History
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Government
THINKThomas Watson had first issued the directive when he was working for NCR three years earlier.
Geography
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Nature
MIDWAYSince the last Navy personnel left in 1997, the islands have served mostly as a National Wildlife Refuge.

Quiz Quilt Answer: DIVERS (Third letters going up)

"Divers" is an alternate spelling of "diverse", and Olympic divers hope to spin their way to gold medals.

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