Accented Aggravation -- Quiz Quilt 224 Solution

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Geography & Nature	BAHAMAS	The archipelago is about forty miles closer than Cuba is.
Entertainment & Food	DETROIT	Berry Gordy, Jr. created the Motor City company in Detroit, Michigan on December 14, 1959.
Literature & Arts	BABAR	The royal pachyderm first appeared in The Story of Babar, the Little Elephant in 1931.
Sports & Games	NASTASE	Temperamental righty Ilie Nastase conquered the U.S. Open in 1972 and the French Open in 1973.
History & Government	MARCOS	Corazon Aquino and the army supporting her chased Ferdinand Marcos out of the country.
Math & Science	GAUSS	Johann Carl Friedrich Gauss's "Remarkable Theorem" states that the curvature of a surface can be measured from the surface itself, such as by making calculations from distances and angles.

Quiz Quilt Answer: STRESS (Last letters)

Stress can cause aggravation and a stress is an accent.

Accented Aggravation -- Quiz Quilt 224 Puzzle

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Geography & Nature	What foreign country is closest to Florida?
Entertainment & Food	In what city was the Motown record label founded?
Literature & Arts	What elephant did Jean de Brunhoff make famous?
Sports & Games	What Romanian tennis player was ranked #1 in the world in 1972 and 1973?
History & Government	Which president and prime minister of the Philippines was forced out for fraud in the 1986 election?
Math & Science	What mathematician, born in Brunswick, Germany in 1777, wrote the theorema egregium?

Bat, Bunny, or Beluga -- Quiz Quilt 223 Solution

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Sports & Games	MILLER	Sophomore guards Kelly and Coco Miller led the University of Georgia to the Women's Final Four.
Geography & Nature	KAZAKHSTAN	The nation is less than a sixth the size of Russia.
Entertainment & Food	SIMON	All four Neil Simon screenplays were nominated for Oscars, but none of them won.
Literature & Arts	THOMAS	This led to the phrase "doubting Thomas".
Math & Science	ZARYA	The name is Russian for "sunrise".
History & Government	RANDOLPH	Peyton Randolph led the Congress from September 5 to October 21, 1774 and also led the Third Congress in May 1775.

Quiz Quilt Answer: MAMMAL (Diagonally)

Bats, bunnies, and beluga whales are all categorized as mammals in the traditional biological classification scheme.

Bat, Bunny, or Beluga -- Quiz Quilt 223 Puzzle

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Sports & Games	What basketball-playing twins shared the 1999 Sullivan Award as the nation's top amateur athletes?
Geography & Nature	What was the second largest country formed by the breakup of the Soviet Union?
Entertainment & Food	Who wrote the scripts for the movies The Odd Couple, The Sunshine Boys, The Goodbye Girl, and California Suite?
Literature & Arts	After the Resurrection, what apostle was invited to touch Jesus's wounds to prove they were real?
Math & Science	What was the first module of the $63 billion international space station launched in November 1998?
History & Government	What Massachusetts town was named after the President of the First Continental Congress?

Earlier Bingo or Battleship Call -- Quiz Quilt 222 Solution

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Math & Science	RIDE	Californian Sally Ride orbited the Earth on the Challenger space shuttle from June 18 to June 24, 1983.
Literature & Arts	CONRAD	The post-colonial work was Joseph Conrad's first major novel in 1900.
Sports & Games	LENO	Although New York-born comedian Jay Leno does not race cars, he collects and restores antique cars and motorcycles.
History & Government	JEFFERSON	The first American $2 bill in 1862 featured Alexander Hamilton. Though rarely seen in circulation, the currency is still being issued with Thomas Jefferson's face, with the most recent printing in 2006.
Geography & Nature	ROME	Encircled by Rome, Italy, Vatican City is the smallest independent state in the world at only 109 acres and the least populous with under 1,000 residents.
Entertainment & Food	BALBOA	Sylvester Stallone played the heavyweight boxer in the six-movie series that ran steadily until 1990 before a sixteen year gap before the last installment.

Quiz Quilt Answer: BEFORE (Fourth letters going up)

In both games, "B4" is a legal call (Bingo has columns 'B', 'I', 'N', 'G', and 'O', with each column including 15 possible numbers; Battleship has ten lettered columns and ten numbered rows).

Earlier Bingo or Battleship Call -- Quiz Quilt 222 Puzzle

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Math & Science	Who was the first American woman in space?
Literature & Arts	What Polish-English novelist, born with the last name Korzeniowski, wrote Lord Jim?
Sports & Games	What talk show host turned pace car driver for the 1999 Indianapolis 500?
History & Government	Whose portrait has been on the U.S. $2 bill since 1869?
Geography & Nature	What city surrounds Vatican City?
Entertainment & Food	What is the title character's last name in the 1976 movie Rocky?

William Claude's Clearings -- Quiz Quilt 221 Solution

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Math & Science	TEFLON	Roy Plunkett formulated the nonstick coating, the slipperiest known solid for over half a century, for DuPont in 1938.
Literature & Arts	WHITMAN	"Song of Myself", "Song of the Open Road", and "I Sing the Body Electric" all graced Walt Whitman's pages in 1855 and were joined in later editions by "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd".
Geography & Nature	GREYHOUND	They were first raced on a track in 1876, but the sport developed in the U.S. during the 1920s.
Sports & Games	BELLE	Cleveland Indians outfielder Albert Belle paced the American League with 52 doubles and 50 homers in 1995, becoming the first to reach 50 in both categories in a season.
Entertainment & Food	JUDD	The other daughter Ashley starred in the 2001 movie Someone Like You while Naomi played a makeup artist and Wynonna composed the soundtrack.
History & Government	BASTILLE	Bastille Day is celebrated on July 14, the date in 1789 recognized as the end of the monarchy and the beginning of the modern republic.

Quiz Quilt Answer: FIELDS (Third letters)

W.C. Fields, born with the last name Dukenfield, was a turn-of-the-20th-century comedian and actor, famous for portraying a drunk.

William Claude's Clearings -- Quiz Quilt 221 Puzzle

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Math & Science	By what trade name is tetrafluoroethylene better known?
Literature & Arts	What American poet worked as a printer, teacher, and carpenter, and wrote the collection Leaves of Grass?
Geography & Nature	What breed of dog can run the fastest?
Sports & Games	Who was the last Major League Baseball Player to lead a league in both doubles and home runs in the same season?
Entertainment & Food	What is the last name of the mother and daughter country singers Wynonna and Naomi?
History & Government	What is the fortress and prison in Paris for which the French named their national holiday?

Short or Long, Sprayer or Displayer -- Quiz Quilt 220 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	POITIER	Sidney Poitier's directorial debut was Buck and the Preacher, where he also starred opposite Harry Belafonte in 1972.
Math & Science	SALMONELLA	Veterinarian Daniel E. Salmon discovered the first illness-inducing strain in 1885.
Literature & Arts	SPARROW	The easily excitable bird shot an arrow at the Cuckoo but missed.
Geography & Nature	STOCKHOLM	Except for the initial awards in 1901, the king of Sweden has presented the Nobel Prizes each year.
History & Government	MCCARTHY	Joseph McCarthy helped fuel the red scare until 1954, was finally discredited, and died partly from alcoholism three years later.
Sports & Games	SANDERS	Later in the year Stanford graduate Summer Sanders began a second career on television as a co-host of NBA Inside Stuff and later became the host of The Sports List.

Quiz Quilt Answer: SHOWER (Seventh letters going up)

With a short vowel, a shower sprays water from a nozzle; with a long vowel, a shower exhibits something for you to see.

Short or Long, Sprayer or Displayer -- Quiz Quilt 220 Puzzle

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Entertainment & Food	What A Raisin in the Sun actor directed Stir Crazy in 1980 and Ghost Dad in 1990?
Math & Science	What bacteria causes the most food poisoning in humans?
Literature & Arts	According to Mother Goose, who killed Cock Robin?
Geography & Nature	In what city are the Nobel Prizes in every category except Peace awarded?
History & Government	What U.S. senator claimed to have a list of 205 Communists in a speech in Wheeling, West Virginia in 1950?
Sports & Games	What gold medal swimmer married another gold medal swimmer, Mark Henderson, on July 4, 1997 at Lake Tahoe?