Air Australia -- Quiz Quilt 241 Solution

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Sports & Games	SELES	On April 30, a fanatical Steffi Graf fan named Guenter Parche stabbed Monica Seles just below the shoulder blade during a changeover.
Literature & Arts	ALIBI	'A' Is for Alibi began the alphabetical sequence in 1982, and 'U' Is for Undertow was book number twenty-one in 2007.
Math & Science	THOMSON	English physicist Joseph John Thomson won the 1906 Nobel Prize for his work.
History & Government	NIXON	Tricky Dick, Richard Nixon, served in the South Pacific, rising to the rank of Lieutenant Commander and mastering the game of poker to the tune of nearly $10,000 in winnings along the way.
Entertainment & Food	ADAMS	Bryan Adams's single reached the top on June 3, 1995 and stayed there a month.
Geography & Nature	QC	PQ had been official until 1994 but also refers to a local political party.

Quiz Quilt Answer: QANTAS (First letters going up)

Qantas Airways Limited, whose name original stood for Queensland And Northern Territory Aerial Services, is the national airline of Australia.

Air Australia -- Quiz Quilt 241 Puzzle

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Sports & Games	What top-ranked female tennis player was stabbed in the back during a match in Hamburg, Germany in 1993?
Literature & Arts	What does the letter 'A' stand for in the first novel in Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone detective series?
Math & Science	What scientist discovered the electron in 1897?
History & Government	Which U.S. President had been an operations officer of a Navy air transport unit in World War II?
Entertainment & Food	What singer asked, "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" and was answered by a #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts?
Geography & Nature	What is the postal abbreviation for the Canadian province of Quebec?

Laundry Limiter -- Quiz Quilt 240 Solution

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History & Government	CARVER	Booker T. Washington, who fifteen years earlier had opened the school now known as Tuskegee University, invited George Washington Carver to accept the post.
Math & Science	ENDOCRINE	Glands that secrete via a duct are exocrine.
Geography & Nature	SHRIMP	Harold von Braunhut began selling his Ocean View tanks for observing the brine shrimp creatures, scientifically known as Artemia salina, in 1957.
Entertainment & Food	SPAM	The canned meat contains pork, ham, salt, water, sugar, and sodium nitrite.
Sports & Games	SHULA	Former defensive back Don Shula amassed a career record of 347-173-6 and collected two Super Bowl rings.
Literature & Arts	PLUTARCH	The latter examined the lives of 23 pairs of similar Romans and Greeks plus four unmatched biographies.

Quiz Quilt Answer: HAMPER (Last letters going up)

A hamper is a container for dirty laundry, and to hamper something means to restrict it in some way.

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History & Government	Who became the director of Agriculture at the Tuskegee Institute in 1896?
Math & Science	What term refers to the major ductless human glands?
Geography & Nature	What type of animal is a sea monkey?
Entertainment & Food	What American food has been used for sculptures, honored by haiku, and made into sushi called kimpap by South Koreans?
Sports & Games	What Baltimore Colts and Miami Dolphins coach won more games than any other coach in NFL history?
Literature & Arts	What Greek biographer wrote Moralia and Parallel Lives?

One A-Whey from Steeds -- Quiz Quilt 239 Solution

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Entertainment & Food	CATS	Andrew Lloyd Webber composed the tunes for the 1982 play.
Sports & Games	LOUIS	Joe Louis, the son of a cotton picker, fought for the championship 27 times, including a record 25 successful title defenses.
Literature & Arts	DEFOE	English novelist Daniel Defoe was born as Daniel Foe in 1660.
History & Government	ALFRED	Alfred the Great was the only British monarch dubbed "the Great" for his successful defense against Viking invaders.
Geography & Nature	STEAMBOAT	The hot spring in Yellowstone National Park can shoot scalding water 400 feet into the air.
Math & Science	GATES	Bill Gates denies the quote, but in 1995 he definitely claimed, "There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."

Quiz Quilt Answer: TUFFET (Third letters)

Advancing each of the letters of "steeds" in the alphabet by one position ("one away"), gets you "tuffet", where Little Miss Muffet sat eating her curds and whey.

One A-Whey from Steeds -- Quiz Quilt 239 Puzzle

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Entertainment & Food	What musical does the song "Memory" come from?
Sports & Games	What heavyweight boxer had the most career title fights?
Literature & Arts	What author coined the term "man Friday"?
History & Government	Who was the ruler of England from A.D. 871 to 899 who had his scholars begin writing The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle?
Geography & Nature	What is the tallest active geyser in the world?
Math & Science	What computer company owner supposedly asserted, "640K ought to be enough for anybody"?

Lens Liquid -- Quiz Quilt 238 Solution

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Geography & Nature	MUSSELS	They create them about a third as frequently as oysters do.
History & Government	BOLIN	Williams College alumna Jane Matilda Bolin had been the first black woman to graduate from Yale Law School eight years before.
Entertainment & Food	FELLINI	Italian Federico Fellini also wrote the scripts of all three movies.
Literature & Arts	SINCLAIR	Upton Sinclair's story about the meat packing district in Chicago unleashed a storm of public indignation in 1906 and spurred Congress to pass the Pure Food and Drug Act later in the year.
Math & Science	AORTA	The vessel leading from the left ventricle of the heart is about one inch in diameter in adults.
Sports & Games	KINGS	The Sacramento Kings went 27-23 in the lockout-shortened season before losing a first-round playoff series to the Utah Jazz.

Quiz Quilt Answer: SALINE (Fifth letters going up)

Saline, a diluted solution of approximately nine grams of sodium chloride per liter of water, is commonly used to clean, lubricate, and store contact lenses.

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Geography & Nature	What shellfish besides oysters produces pearls the most often?
History & Government	Who became the first black female judge in the U.S. when Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia appointed her judge of the Domestic Relations Court in 1939?
Entertainment & Food	Who was the director of And the Ship Sails On, La Dolce Vita, and 8½?
Literature & Arts	What novelist described dangerous, unsanitary, meat-packing operations in The Jungle in 1906?
Math & Science	What is the widest artery in the human body?
Sports & Games	In 1998-99, which NBA team had its first winning season in sixteen years?