Famous Furniture Furnisher -- Quiz Quilt 232 Solution

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Geography & Nature	GREENWICH	England's Royal Greenwich Observatory, built for King Charles II in 1675, serves as the official marker.
Entertainment & Food	SHANIA	Shania Twain's first name is Ojibwa Indian for "I'm on my way".
History & Government	ACTON	John Emerich Edward Dalberg-Acton was a 19th-century English historian.
Math & Science	MUMPS	The viral disease, which causes inflammation of the parotid glands, was a common childhood malady before
Literature & Arts	ABRAHAM	The 100-year-old chuckled when told that his wife Sarah would give birth to a son, so the child was named "he will laugh".
Sports & Games	DEUCE	The French call the second and later deuces "egalite", while they just refer to the first deuce as "quarante a" ("forty-all").

Quiz Quilt Answer: CAPONE (Fourth letters going up)

Legendary American gangster Al Capone masqueraded as a "Used Furniture Dealer" on his business cards.

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Geography & Nature	What city serves as ground zero for longitude calculations?
Entertainment & Food	By what first name is country singer Eileen Regina Edwards better known?
History & Government	What Lord asserted, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely"?
Math & Science	What is the common name of epidemic parotitis, a disease against which vaccination is regularly used?
Literature & Arts	In the Bible, who was Isaac's father?
Sports & Games	What tennis term refers to a tie score at which each side has won three points and can win the game by winning the next two points?

Foreign Floozy -- Quiz Quilt 231 Solution

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History & Government	NORIEGA	Manuel Noriega was sentenced to forty years in prison and remains a prisoner of war despite an early release on September 9, 2007.
Literature & Arts	EXCALIBUR	The Lady of the Lake gave the "steel cutter" to him.
Geography & Nature	CANBERRA	The location of the new city had been selected in 1908 to replace Melbourne.
Math & Science	ANGSTROM	The unit was named for Swedish physicist Anders Jonas Angstrom, a pioneer in spectroscopy.
Sports & Games	JAMAICA	Other famous Jamaicans include sprinters Linford Christie and Ben Johnson, singer Bob Marley, and supermodel Naomi Campbell.
Entertainment & Food	REYNOLDS	Former Florida State halfback Burt Reynolds played J.J. McLure in the first two Cannonball Run movies but did not appear in Speed Zone!, the second sequel.

Quiz Quilt Answer: ABROAD (Seventh letters going down)

"Floozy" means prostitute, which was one of the original meanings of "broad" when referring to females.

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History & Government	What Panamanian general ousted the civilian president in 1985 and was convicted of drug trafficking by the U.S. in 1992?
Literature & Arts	What was the name of King Arthur's sword?
Geography & Nature	What has been the capital of Australia since 1927?
Math & Science	What unit of length is equal to one tenth of a nanometer?
Sports & Games	What country are basketball player Patrick Ewing and baseball players Chili Davis and Devon White from?
Entertainment & Food	What Cannonball Run actor debuted on the big screen in Angel Baby in 1961?

Short, Stout Subject -- Quiz Quilt 230 Solution

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History & Government	TRUMAN	On January 31, 1950, Harry Truman asserted that the U.S. had to "defend itself against any possible aggressor" and ordered the creation of a superbomb.
Math & Science	POPE	Ariel, Umbriel, and Belinda appear in Alexander Pope's 1712 poem "The Rape of the Lock".
Literature & Arts	KIPLING	Rudyard Kipling's "The Ballad of East and West", about the theft of a horse bridging cultural differences, was published in 1889, a year before his first novel, The Light That Failed.
Geography & Nature	KARAKORAM	The peak, also known as Mount Godwin Austen, Dapsang, and Chogo Ri, is the second highest in the world at 28,250 feet.
Entertainment & Food	HUNTER	Robin Williams's character, based on the real-life doctor, earned his nickname by repairing a coffee cup.
Sports & Games	ROSSET	Marc Rosset defeated the equally unheralded Spaniard Jordi Arresse in the five-set final.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TEAPOT (Diagonally from the bottom to the top left)

George Harry Sanders and Clarence Kelley's "The Teapot Song" describes its title object as short and stout. Most children no longer no what stout is (heck, even most adults might think of ale first now), but apparently it was still a common adjective back in 1939.

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History & Government	Which U.S. President instructed the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission to develop a hydrogen bomb?
Math & Science	Besides William Shakespeare, for what author's characters are the moons of Uranus named?
Literature & Arts	What author philosophized, "Oh, East is East, and West is West, And never the twain shall meet"?
Geography & Nature	In what mountain range is K2 located?
Entertainment & Food	In the 1998 movie Patch Adams, what was the title character's given first name?
Sports & Games	What Swiss tennis player won an Olympic gold medal in 1992?

Respected Roman & Great Greek God -- Quiz Quilt 229 Solution

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Geography & Nature	BURMA	The nation gained its independence from the U.K. in 1948 as the Union of Burma.
History & Government	CHAMPLAIN	Lake Champlain in Quebec province, New York, and Vermont was named for Samuel de Champlain.
Math & Science	PLUTO	The dwarf planet's diameter is only about double its satellite Charon's.
Entertainment & Food	FOOTLOOSE	The single was one of six Top 40 hits from the 1984 soundtrack.
Sports & Games	HAMILL	Dorothy Hamill won her Olympic figure skating gold medal in 1976. Yamaguchi won the U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championship in 1988 and teamed with Rudy Galindo for pairs titles in 1986, 1989, and 1990.
Literature & Arts	CARSON	Rachel Carson's research and investigations led directly to the banning of DDT in 1972. The zoologist was posthumously awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1980.

Quiz Quilt Answer: APOLLO (Fifth letters)

Apollo was the only major god who had the same name in both Roman and Greek mythology.

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Geography & Nature	Which Southeast Asian country is officially known as the Union of Myanmar?
History & Government	What Frenchman founded the first permanent French colony in North America in Quebec in 1608?
Math & Science	Which planet or dwarf planet in the solar system has a moon closest in size to it?
Entertainment & Food	What movie was Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out for a Hero" from?
Sports & Games	What figure skater did Kristi Yamaguchi idolize and have a doll of at age 4?
Literature & Arts	What American marine biologist's 1962 book Silent Spring detailed the dangers of insecticides?