Spay Cat, Mutt -- Quiz Quilt 211 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	UNLEDDED	The lead guitarist and singer of the British rock band Led Zeppelin followed up the MTV show with the album "No Quarter: Jimmy Page and Robert Plant Unledded".
Geography & Nature	LEMMING	The 1958 Walt Disney movie White Wilderness helped popularize this myth. In reality, the rodents simply spread out to ease overpopulation occasionally.
History & Government	BUSH	The line was part of George Bush's presidential campaign in 1988.
Literature & Arts	STORM	Johnny Storm is a member of the Fantastic Four. The first incarnation of the Human Torch was an android created by Professor Phineas T. Horton.
Math & Science	LEAD	Lead was added to paint to make it stick better and last longer. The metal has not been allowed in paint in the U.S. since 1978.
Sports & Games	ORR	Bobby Orr led the Bruins to their first Stanley Cup championship in almost three decades in 1970, scoring the winning sudden-death overtime goal then flying horizontally.

Quiz Quilt Answer: NEUTER (Second letters)

Although the terms spay and neuter are usually used to refer to the removal of organs necessary for sexual reproduction in female and male animals respectively, the words can be used for either gender.

Spay Cat, Mutt -- Quiz Quilt 211 Puzzle

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Entertainment & Food	What was Jimmy Page and Robert Plant's 1994 acoustic reunion special called?
Geography & Nature	What animal, which lives in Arctic areas including Norway and Sweden, supposedly periodically marches to the sea and drowns?
History & Government	Which U.S. President promised, "Read my lips. No new taxes"?
Literature & Arts	What is the modern Human Torch's secret identity?
Math & Science	What chemical element causes painter's colic?
Sports & Games	What three-time NHL MVP defenseman played with the Boston Bruins and Chicago Blackhawks from 1967 to 1979?

Canadian Queen -- Quiz Quilt 210 Solution

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History & Government	MARSHALL	Carpenter James Marshall had been building the sawmill in Coloma, California for half a year when he made the discovery.
Sports & Games	PITINO	University of Massachusetts Amherst graduate Rick Pitino then joined the Boston Celtics, a regrettable move that lasted four years before he returned to the state of Kentucky, albeit at rival Louisville.
Math & Science	INDIANA	The bill was so poorly worded that it also set pi at four other incorrect values and misstated the square root of two. Fortunately, the bill did not pass.
Entertainment & Food	IAGO	The episode was part of The Philco Television Playhouse series, which ran from 1948 to 1955.
Geography & Nature	NEVADA	Its Southwest neighbor Arizona ranked second in most years and took over the top spot in 2006.
Literature & Arts	ROSTAND	Edmond Rostand's title character was a real 17th-century French soldier and dramatist, but the story is fictitious.

Quiz Quilt Answer: REGINA (Diagonally from the bottom left)

Regina, the capital of Saskatchewan, was named for Queen Victoria, also known as Victoria Regina using the Latin and Italian word for "queen".

Canadian Queen -- Quiz Quilt 210 Puzzle

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History & Government	On January 24, 1848, who found the first gold in California at Sutter's Mill?
Sports & Games	What New York Knicks basketball coach wrote Born to Coach before leaving for the University of Kentucky?
Math & Science	Which U.S. state's General Assembly declared the value of pi to be 4 in Bill Number 246 in 1897?
Entertainment & Food	What Othello villain did Walter Matthau play in a 1953 TV production?
Geography & Nature	Which U.S. state's population grew the most in percentage terms every year from 1987 to 2005?
Literature & Arts	What author's 1898 play Cyrano de Bergerac involves an unconventional love triangle?

Christmas, Mistletoe, or Teddy Bear -- Quiz Quilt 209 Solution

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Sports & Games	KEDS	U.S. Rubber first mass-marketed the canvas-topped sneakers in 1917, having selected the name Ked after discovering that Ped was already taken.
Geography & Nature	OAHU	The 608-square-mile island is only the third largest of the Hawaiian Islands but holds four-fifths of the state's population.
Entertainment & Food	WALTERS	Boston native Barbara Walters co-anchored her first ABC News broadcast on October 4, 1976.
Literature & Arts	LINCOLN	In addition to writing about Abraham Lincoln, the Swedish-American also won two Pulitzers for poetry.
History & Government	SEWARD	At a total cost of $7.2 million, the transaction was denigrated as Seward's Folly at the time, but history has vindicated Secretary of State William Seward.
Math & Science	ZINC	The one-cent piece has been made of 97.5% zinc and 2.5% copper since 1982, nearly reversing the proportions used in the prior two decades.

Quiz Quilt Answer: CACTUS (Fourth letters going up)

The Christmas cactus has bright pink flowers, the Mistletoe cactus has fruit resembling mistletoe, and the Teddy Bear cactus has a brown trunk that can look amazingly like the stuffed animal (just don't hug it).

Christmas, Mistletoe, or Teddy Bear -- Quiz Quilt 209 Puzzle

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Sports & Games	What was the first brand of sneakers?
Geography & Nature	What is the main island of Hawaii where Honolulu, Pearl Harbor, and Waikiki are located?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the first female co-anchor on a U.S. network television newscast?
Literature & Arts	For which U.S. President's biography, subtitled "The War Years", did Carl Sandburg win the 1940 Pulitzer Prize for History?
History & Government	What American statesman was responsible for the purchase of Alaska from Russia in 1867?
Math & Science	What is the main chemical element in current U.S. pennies?

What Goes Down Must Come Up -- Quiz Quilt 208 Solution

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Literature & Arts	GHOTI	The author claimed the pronunciations "gh" as in "laugh", "o" as in "women", and "ti" as in "nation".
Sports & Games	MONOPOLY	Charles Darrow copyrighted the game in 1933, three decades after Lizzie J. Magie's similarly laid out Landlord's Game.
History & Government	KEYNES	Englishman John Maynard Keynes first gained fame with the publication of The Economic Consequences of the Peace in 1919.
Math & Science	PLANCK	[Max] Planck's constant, denoted by the letter 'h', is still used to measure the quanta.
Entertainment & Food	CONGA	"It's the rhythm of the island, and like sugarcane so sweet / If you want to do the conga, you've got to listen to the beat."
Geography & Nature	SIROCCO	The winds begin in the Sahara Desert and other dry regions and can blow up to sixty miles per hour in March and November.

Quiz Quilt Answer: IPECAC (Fifth letters)

Syrup of ipecac was formerly recommended for inducing vomiting in patients who had ingested poison, but because of concerns over ineffectiveness and overdosing, the American Academy of Pediatrics suggests disposing of any bottles in your medicine cabinet.

What Goes Down Must Come Up -- Quiz Quilt 208 Puzzle

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Literature & Arts	How did George Bernard Shaw spell the word "fish" to demonstrate the irregularity of English spelling?
Sports & Games	What famous board game is based on the streets of Atlantic City, New Jersey?
History & Government	Who was the first baron of Tilton and the originator of the New Economics?
Math & Science	What German physicist stated that energy was transmitted in quanta and received a Nobel Prize in 1918?
Entertainment & Food	What 1985 Miami Sound Machine hit song was named after a Latin dance?
Geography & Nature	What term refers specifically to the desert winds in Algeria and generally to any windstorm that lifts up clouds of dust or sand?

Magic Money Man -- Quiz Quilt 207 Solution

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History & Government	TYLER	Virginian John Tyler became the first person to inherit the presidency in 1841.
Literature & Arts	WHITE	T.H. White's The Sword in the Stone, The Queen of Air and Darkness, The Ill-Made Knight, and The Candle in the Wind tell the story of King Arthur.
Math & Science	LYELL	Charles Lyell's three volumes, subtitled "An Attempt to Explain the Former Changes of the Earth's Surface by Reference to Causes Now in Operation", were released from 1830 to 1833.
Entertainment & Food	DILL	The Talmud mentions the use of the annual herb to pay tithes. [Caraway is also a good answer.]
Geography & Nature	EYE	At lower speeds, when the storm is categorized as a tropical storm, the eye usually does not exist yet.
Sports & Games	WEST	"Mr. Clutch" Jerry West averaged 20.3 points per game for the 1973-74 Los Angeles Lakers before hanging up his sneakers.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TELLER (Last letters going up)

A teller is a bank employee, and magician Penn Jillette's silent partner is Raymond Joseph Teller, who goes by just his last name.