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  1. b e e t h o v e n

  2. b r a h m s

  3. t c h a i k o v s k y

  4. c h o p i n

  5. s c h u b e r t

  6. c o p l a n d

  7. l i s z t

  8. p r o k o f i e v

  9. h a y d n

  10. b a c h

  Memory Box #7

  Uncle who? And which cousin is it that walks tightropes? Feeling like a filial failure at family reunions? Get the familiar back into family with this fun visual memory puzzle.

  Take a close look at the images on this page. Give yourself a minute. Then, turn the page and see how many questions you can answer.

  answers on page 375

  1. How many female relatives were pictured?

  2. Who was next to Uncle Ned?

  3. What animal was with Grandpa Keith?

  4. Was Kolya above the giraffe or beside it?

  5. What was Myrtle?

  6. Were Maura and Ted below Cindy or Amy?

  7. Who had curly hair?

  8. Who wore an eye patch?

  9. Who was wearing a hat?

  10. What was Mama Lena doing?

  CHAPTER ONE

  WHAT WAS THAT WORD AGAIN?

  WORDS—DEFINITIONS ANSWERS

  pages 19–28

  1-B

  2-A

  3-C

  4-C

  5-B

  6-A

  7-B

  8-C

  9-A

  10-B

  11-A

  12-C

  13-B

  14-C

  15-A

  16-A

  17-B

  18-A

  19-B

  20-C

  21-A

  22-B

  23-C

  24-B

  25-A

  HINK-PINK ANSWERS

  pages 29–37

  1. Drab crab

  2. Lobster mobster

  3. Wiccan chicken

  4. Poi boy

  5. Shade maid

  6. Merino bambino

  7. Cough-off

  8. Roach coach

  9. Fertile turtle

  10. Glam cam

  11. Balmy mommy

  12. Poster roaster

  13. Canned band

  14. Green sheen

  15. Muzzle nuzzle

  16. Phone tone

  17. Glad dad

  18. Groomer rumor

  19. Sleepy tipi

  20. Shady lady

  21. Butter cutter

  22. Smart art

  23. Stick trick

  24. Loose goose

  25. Singer zinger

  HOMOPHONES ANSWERS

  pages 38–45

  1. ad/add

  2. ail/ale

  3. flour/flower

  4. friar/fryer

  5. pore/pour

  6. pi/pie

  7. peace/piece

  8. all/awl

  9. wrap/rap

  10. beau/bow

  11. role/roll

  12. nit/knit

  13. blew/blue

  14. hail/hale

  15. hear/here

  16. some/sum

  17. higher/hire

  18. sleigh/slay

  19. beet/beat

  20. ring/wring

  21. knows/nose

  22. bazaar/bizarre

  23. in/inn

  24. made/maid

  25. moan/mown

  MEMORY BOX #1 ANSWERS

  pages 46–49

  1. three; 2. October 9; 3. male; 4. six; 5. four; 6. half-full; 7. Seattle; 8. no (it’s off the hook); 9. April; 10. two

  CHAPTER TWO

  WHO WAS THAT?

  pages 53–60

  1. “50 Ways to Leave Your Lover,” Paul Simon

  2. The desert; “A Horse with No Name,” America

  3. “Last Train to Clarksville,” The Monkees

  4. “The Sound of Silence,” Simon and Garfunkel

  5. “Rock Lobster,” “Private Idaho,” and “Love Shack,” B-52’s

  6. “The Circle Game,” Joni Mitchell

  7. “Burning Down the House” and “Take Me to the River,” Talking Heads

  8. “Don’t Stop,” Fleetwood Mac

  9. “Shock the Monkey,” Peter Gabriel

  10. “Up on the Roof,” “Walking Man,” and “Steamroller,” James Taylor

  11. “Blue Hawaii” and “Blue Suede Shoes,” Elvis Presley

  12. “Paint It Black,” The Rolling Stones

  13. Bachman-Turner Overdrive and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet”

  14. “Bennie and the Jets,” Elton John

  15. “Stairway to Heaven,” Led Zeppelin

  16. “Sweet Home Alabama,” Lynyrd Skynyrd

  17. “What’s New, Pussycat?,” Tom Jones

  18. Bobby “Boris” Pickett and the Crypt-Kickers

  19. “Son of a Preacher Man,” Dusty Springfield

  20. Gordon Sumner (Sting), Andy Summers, and Stewart Copeland. “Roxanne” (April 1978) was their text hit.

  21. “Video Killed the Radio Star,” The Buggles

  22. Mick Jagger

  23. The band members’ first names: Agnetha, Benny, Bjorn, and Anni-Frid

  24. “Summer Breeze”

  25. Steely Dan

  I THINK I SAW THIS ONE ALREADY ANSWERS

  pages 61–75

  1. “One thing I can’t stand . . . ” is a line from another Humphrey Bogart movie, Key Largo.

  2. JERRY LEWIS was not.

  3. THEY’VE ALL DIRECTED FILMS IN WHICH THEY HAVE ALSO PERFORMED. Allen and Annie Hall (1977); Beatty and Reds (1981); Clooney and Good Night, and Good Luck. (2005); Eastwood and Million Dollar Baby (2004); Gibson and Braveheart (1995); Kelly and Singin’ in the Rain (1952).

  4. 1-E, 2-B, 3-A, 4-F, 5-C, 6-D

  5. ALFRED HITCHCOCK. Hitchcock made it a game for film audiences to spot him, usually as a passerby in the background of a scene. For example, in Lifeboat, set in a small boat adrift at sea, he showed up in before-and-after photos in a newspaper diet ad.

  6. SEAN PENN has not yet done Shakespeare in the movies, but all the other actors have: Gibson in Hamlet; Kline in A Midsummer Night’s Dream; Pacino in The Merchant of Venice; Washington in Much Ado About Nothing; Welles in Macbeth and The Tragedy of Othello.

  7. JOEY BISHOP sat in for Carson a total of 177 times; JOAN RIVERS came in second at 93 times.

  8. 1-E, 2-A, 3-F, 4-D, 5-G, 6-B, 7-C

  9. CARY GRANT and KEVIN KLINE

  10. Burghoff played the company clerk, CPL. WALTER “RADAR” O’REILLY.

  11. KATHARINE HEPBURN won four Oscars for Morning Glory (1933); Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967); The Lion in Winter (1968); and On Golden Pond (1981). The others on the list won fewer Oscars.

  12. HUGH GRANT

  13. JOHN, WALTER, and ANJELICA HUSTON

  14. TITANIC earned a record 14 nominations and picked up 11 Academy Awards.

  15. MEG RYAN, who starred with Cage in City of Angels (1998); Crowe in Proof of Life (2000); Crystal in When Harry Met Sally (1989); Hanks in Sleepless in Seattle (1993) (and other films); Kline in French Kiss (1995); and Jackman in Kate and Leopold (2001).

  16. They all won Academy Awards for Best Picture. Only four other musicals qualified for that honor: The Broadway Melody (1929); An American in Paris (1951); Gigi (1958); and Chicago (2002).

/>   17. RON HOWARD, who starred as Opie Taylor on The Andy Griffith Show in the 1960s and as Richie Cunningham on Happy Days in the 1970s and 1980s. His movie directorial talent has covered both comedy and drama, ranging from Splash (1984) to The Da Vinci Code (2006).

  18. They were all members of the cast of TV’s Saturday Night Live.

  19. RYAN and TATUM O’NEAL in Paper Moon (1973); HENRY and JANE FONDA in On Golden Pond (1981); MARTIN and CHARLIE SHEEN in Wall Street (1987); KIRK and MICHAEL DOUGLAS in It Runs in the Family (2003); WILL and JADEN SMITH in The Pursuit of Happyness (2006); and JERRY and BEN STILLER in The Heartbreak Kid (2007).

  20. EBENEZER SCROOGE

  21. A HARD DAY’S NIGHT

  22. They all portrayed the comic-book hero BATMAN in the movies: West in 1966; Keaton in 1989 and 1992; Kilmer in 1995; Clooney in 1997; and Bale in 2005 and 2008.

  23. STEPHEN KING

  24. 1-F, 2-D, 3-B, 4-A, 5-C, 6-E

  25. BOB HOPE hosted the Oscars a record 18 times. His nearest competitor was Billy Crystal with 8 times. Nobody else has come close.

  BOOK WORM ANSWERS:

  pages 76–92

  1. 1-B, 2-C, 3-E, 4-A, 5-D

  2. 1-C, 2-A, 3-E, 4-B, 5-D

  3. JOHN F. KENNEDY was awarded a Pulitzer in 1957 for Profiles in Courage.

  4. STEPHEN KING. Without even counting sequels or films derived from short stories, upwards of two dozen King novels have found their way onto the silver screen.

  5. DOROTHY PARKER. The essayist and poet stuck to witty verse, acerbic reviews, and caustic commentary on her times, especially the 1920s and 1930s.

  6. Each was derived from lines in Shakespearean plays.

  7. GERTRUDE STEIN. Toklas was her longtime secretary and live-in companion.

  8. 1-B, 2-D, 3-E, 4-C, 5-A

  9. PHYLLIS WHEATLEY—The one-time slave’s book, Poems on Various Subjects, was published in 1773, three years before the U.S. Declaration of Independence. The others are twentieth-century writers.

  10. WILLIAM STYRON, who wrote The Confessions of Nat Turner, a fictional account of an actual slave revolt, was himself a descendant of Southern slave owners.

  11. J. K. ROWLING, whose decade-long run of bestsellers ended following the seventh and supposedly final book in the Harry Potter series.

  12. 1-“E. L.” for Edgar Lawrence

  2-“F.” for Francis

  3-“H. L.” for Henry Louis

  4-“J.R.R.” for John Ronald Reuel

  5-“E. B.” for Elwyn Brooks

  13. THE HOLY BIBLE. In its various forms, the Bible has sold more than six billion copies worldwide since it was first published in the fifteenth century.

  14. ULYSSES was No.1 and A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN was No. 3. (These books were separated by Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby in the No. 2 spot.)

  15. 1-MOBY-DICK (Herman Melville)

  2-1984 (George Orwell)

  3-DON QUIXOTE (Miguel de Cervantes)

  4-FAHRENHEIT 451 (Ray Bradbury)

  5-THE CATCHER IN THE RYE (J. D. Salinger)

  16. BILLY BUDD, by Herman Melville (published posthumously in 1924)

  17. 1-E, 2-F, 3-C, 4-B, 5-A, 6-D

  18. TARZAN (He was introduced in the 1914 novel Tarzan of the Apes by Edgar Rice Burroughs, who went on to write twenty-three sequels. The character first appeared in comic-strip form in 1929.)

  19. 1-D, 2-F, 3-E, 4-B, 5-A, 6-C

  20. HERCULE POIROT, the Belgian detective invented in 1920 by British author Agatha Christie, who died five months after the Times noted the passing of her famous fictional creation.

  21. PHILIP MARLOWE was played by Bogart in The Big Sleep, Gould in The Long Goodbye, Mitchum in Farewell and My Lovely, Montgomery in Lady in the Lake, and Powell in Murder, My Sweet.

  22. 1-C, 2-E, 3-A, 4-B, 5-F, 6-D

  23. HOLMES himself was the first-person narrator of “The Adventure of the Blanched Soldier” and “The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane” in The Case Book of Sherlock Holmes.

  24. They were PIGS, dominated by the evil Napoleon, a Berkshire boar.

  25. 1-C, 2-D, 3-E, 4-B, 5-A

  HISTORY TRIVIA ANSWERS

  pages 93–103

  1. EIGHTY-SEVEN (a score is twenty)

  2. EACH NAME WAS SHARED BY TWO PRESIDENTS (John and John Quincy Adams; Andrew and Lyndon Johnson; William and Benjamin Harrison; Theodore and Franklin Roosevelt; George H. W. and George W. Bush)

  3. GERALD R. FORD (confirmed by Congress as Republican vice president when Spiro Agnew resigned in 1973, he succeeded to the presidency a year later when Richard Nixon resigned. Ford ran for President on his own in 1976 but lost to Democrat Jimmy Carter)

  4. MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE (where he had gone to support a strike by public sanitation workers)

  5. “WE THE PEOPLE . . .”

  6. SANDRA DAY O’CONNOR

  7. ALASKA (January 3, 1959) and HAWAII (August 21, 1959)

  8. GEN. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER

  9. ALAN SHEPARD (who piloted Freedom 7 on a fifteen-minute suborbital flight on May 5, 1961)

  10. JEFFERSON DAVIS (former member of Congress and U.S. secretary of war)

  11. IRAN, IRAQ, NORTH KOREA

  12. LOUIS XIV of France, and ELIZABETH I of England (the “Virgin Queen”)

  13. 1-C, 2-D, 3-A, 4-F, 5-B, 6-E

  14. KATRINA

  15. WOODROW WILSON, CALVIN COOLIDGE, HERBERT HOOVER, RONALD REAGAN

  16. THE SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS

  17. OHIO

  18. FRANKLIN ROOSEVELT (who was subsequently elected to a fourth term but died shortly after his inauguration)

  19. LEAGUE OF NATIONS (Headquartered in Geneva, the league was weakened at the outset because Germany and Russia were barred from joining and the United States refused to join)

  20. BILL OF RIGHTS

  21. 1-F, 2-J, 3-E, 4-H, 5-A, 6-C, 7-B, 8-I, 9-G, 10-D

  22. KITTY HAWK, NORTH CAROLINA

  23. ANDREW JOHNSON in 1868; BILL CLINTON in 1999 (Impeachment proceedings were begun against Richard Nixon in 1974, but he resigned before they could be completed)

  24. WORLD TRADE CENTER in New York City and THE PENTAGON outside Washington, D.C.

  25. NEW HAMPSHIRE

  MASSACHUSETTS

  CONNECTICUT

  RHODE ISLAND

  NEW YORK

  NEW JERSEY

  PENNSYLVANIA

  DELAWARE

  MARYLAND

  VIRGINIA

  NORTH CAROLINA

  SOUTH CAROLINA

  GEORGIA

  MEMORY BOX #2 ANSWERS

  pages 104–107

  1. left; 2. one; 3. one (the other is a snorkeler); 4. clam; 5. thirteen; 6. afternoon; 7. west; 8. one; 9. dark; 10. hammerhead

  CHAPTER THREE

  WHAT WAS THAT, AGAIN?

  IN OTHER WORDS ANSWERS

  pages 111–121

  1. A penny for your thoughts.

  2. His bark is worse than his bite.

  3. The ball is in your court.

  4. Let’s cross that bridge when we come to it. Don’t burn your bridges.

  5. A man’s home is his castle.

  6. Counting your chickens before they hatch.

  7. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Birds of a feather flock together.

  8. Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.

  9. Keep your fingers crossed.

  Don’t cut off your nose to spite your face.

  10. It is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

  11. It takes two to tango.

  12. Love is blind.

  13. Rain, rain go away. Come again some other day.

  14. Silence is golden.

  15. The walls have ears.

  16. Fight fire with fire.

  17. There’s a light at the end of the tunnel. The lights are on but nobody’s home.

  18. No pain, no gain.

  If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

  19. Once in a blue mo
on.

  ’Til the cows come home.

  20. If you can’t stand the heat, then get out of the kitchen.

  21. Time flies.

  22. Money talks.

  23. Skeleton in the closet.

  24. Blood is thicker than water.

  25. What do you do with a drunken sailor?

  Dead men tell no tales.

  SCRAMBLERS ANSWERS

  pages 122–131

  1. “Brevity is the soul of lingerie.” DOROTHY PARKER

  2. “She got her good looks from her father. He’s a plastic surgeon.” GROUCHO MARX

  3. “Virtue has never been as respectable as money.” MARK TWAIN

  4. “She developed a persistent troubled frown which gave her the expression of someone who is trying to repair a watch with his gloves on.” JAMES THURBER

  5. “It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.” WOODY ALLEN

  6. “Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns. He should be drawn and quoted.” FRED ALLEN

  7. “The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about.” OSCAR WILDE

  8. “I grew up to have my father’s looks, my father’s speech patterns, my father’s posture, my father’s walk, my father’s opinions and my mother’s contempt for my father.” JULES FEIFFER

  9. “We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW

  10. “I like children. If they’re properly cooked.” W. C. FIELDS

  11. “Yesterday I was a dog. Today I’m a dog. Tomorrow I’ll probably still be a dog. Sigh! There’s so little hope for advancement.” SNOOPY (CHARLES SCHULZ)

  12. “It is easy to be brave from a safe distance.” AESOP

  13. “Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.” BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

  14. “I think we agree, the past is over.” GEORGE W. BUSH

  15. “Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.” CHARLES DICKENS

  16. “By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart.” CONFUCIUS

  17. “Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.” MARK TWAIN

  18. “Assume a virtue, if you have it not.” WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

  19. “A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.” GEORGE BERNARD SHAW