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    DOC HOLLYWOOD
    1.
Hoop Dreams
    2. Martin Scorsese
    3. Seven
    4.
Spellbound
    5.
Apocalypse Now
’s

    HEIST HEIST BABY
    1. England’s Great Train Robbery
    2. The
Mona Lisa
    3. The trophy for soccer’s World Cup
    4. Intercourse, Pennsylvania
    5. The Artful Dodger’s

    JANUARY 18
             
    BY HOOK OR BY CROOK
    1. Mashed potatoes
    2. She shot J.R. (
Dallas
)
    3. Alsatians
    4. Jessica Lange
    5. The valley of the shadow of death
    6. Martha Stewart
    7. Sir Walter Raleigh
    8. Jim Lovell
    9. Robert De Niro
    10. Planetary rings

    THE GREATEST THING SINCE…
    1. Ralph Hinkley’s name was changed when John Hinckley, Jr., shot Ronald Reagan
    2. Louisville, Kentucky (the “Louisville Lip”)
    3. Limp Bizkit
    4. Bond foe Ernst Stavro Blofeld
    5.
The Fantastic Four
    TRIO BRAVO
    Easy
    1. Palmer
    2. Aramis
    3. Judicial
    4. Ollie
    5. Theodore
    Harder
    1. Shiva
    2. Fraternité
    3. Yellow
    4. Nod
    5. Belthasar
    Yeah, Good Luck
    1. Atropos (the Fates)
    2. José Carreras
    3. Country (the West Point motto)
    4. Cretaceous
    5.
The Bad News Bears Go to Japan
    JANUARY 19
             
    A BRIEF QUIZ
    1. “Old Time Rock & Roll”
    2. Curly Howard
    3. “Mostly briefs”
    4. Underoos
    5. Times Square

    PETAL PUSHERS
    1. Jeff Daniels (star of
The Purple Rose of Cairo
)
    2. 1942 (after Pearl Harbor)
    3.
Chinese Democracy
    4. Jorge Luis Borges
    5. The Plantagenets
    6. The hips
    7. Trista Rehn
    8.
American Beauty
    9. “Norma Jean”
    10. The winner of the Kentucky Derby

    SNOW WONDER
    1. Six
    2. He tested positive for marijuana
    3. The evacuation of Saigon
    4. Dairy Queen
    5. Donner Pass

    JANUARY 20
             
    MURDER MOST FOUL
    Easy
    1. Hamlet
    2. Severus Snape
    3. Moby-Dick
    4. Beowulf
    5. The White Witch (Jadis)

    Harder
    1. The Sparrow
    2. Humbert Humbert (
Lolita
)
    3. Simon Legree (and his overseers)
    4. Oedipus
    5. Richard Cory (himself)

    Yeah, Good Luck
    1. George Wilson
    2. Smerdyakov
    3. George Milton (
Of Mice and Men
)
    4. Frankenstein’s monster
    5. Eugene Onegin

    WATER COLORS
    1. C
    2. B
    3. E
    4. A
    5. G
    6. F
    7. D

    DO THE BATUSI
    1. The
Weekly World News
    2. Romania
    3. Its tongue
    4. Louisville (at the Louisville Slugger headquarters)
    5. The Buffalo Sabres

    JANUARY 21
             
    IN THE BEGINNING
    Easy
    1.
The Three Musketeers
    2.
Jurassic Park
    3.
A Christmas Carol
    4.
The Maltese Falcon
    5.
Lord of the Flies
    Harder
    1.
Flowers for Algernon
    2.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
    3.
Dracula
    4.
The House of Seven Gables
    5.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
    Yeah, Good Luck
    1.
A Room with a View
    2.
The Poisonwood Bible
    3.
In Cold Blood
    4.
Waiting to Exhale
    5.
The Name of the Rose

    YOU’VE COME A LONG WAY, BABY!
    1. Tammy Faye Bakker
    2. Lillian Hellman
    3.
Night Court
    4. Gypsy Rose Lee’s
    5. Nancy Marchand (
The Sopranos
)

    A COLONEL OF TRUTH
    1. Robert Gould Shaw
    2. Randy Quaid
    3. Muammar Qaddafi
    4. “Padre”
    5.
The Bridge on the River Kwai
    JANUARY 22
             
    ARE YOU GOING TO SCARBOROUGH FAIR?
    1. V8 juice
    2. H. L. Mencken
    3. George Clooney
    4. Gerald Ford

    ACTS TO GRIND
    1. D
    2. E
    3. B
    4. J
    5. C
    6. A
    7. I
    8. H
    9. F
    10. G

    FILL ’ER UP
    1. Pegasus
    2. Colonel Harland Sanders
    3. Benito Mussolini
    4. The St. Louis Cardinals
    5. Howard Hughes’s
    6. Charles Starkweather’s
    7. Gomer Pyle
    8. Oregon or New Jersey
    9. “By choice, man!”
    10. Hugo Chávez

    JANUARY 23
             
    WRIST-Y BUSINESS
    1. Roger Bannister
    2. Her hair
    3. Omega
    4. Silicon and oxygen
    5.
Somewhere in Time
    AN OUTSIDE CHANCE
    1. The ear
    2. Theodore Roosevelt
    3. Solipsism
    4. The Chrysler Building’s
    5. The crust and the mantle
    6. Black
    7. A clergyman
    8. Fig Newtons
    9. Cape Hatteras
    10. A turtle or tortoise

    STAIR MASTERY
    1. Rome
    2. Montgomery, Alabama’s
    3. Rocky Balboa
    4. Utah
    5. The food pyramid

    JANUARY 24
             
    A SCOUT IS…
    1. Muhammad
    2. Tupac Shakur’s
    3. Heloise
    4. Wendy
    5. Portland, Oregon
    6. Mashed