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What actor founded the Purple Rose Theater Company in his native Michigan?
    2. What year’s Rose Bowl was moved from Pasadena to Durham, North Carolina?
    3. What mythical Guns N’ Roses album has been repeatedly delayed since 2002?
    4. What real-life blind librarian was the basis for Jorge of Burgos, the blind librarian in Umberto Eco’s
The Name of the Rose
?
    5. What English dynasty collapsed into the Wars of the Roses?
    6. The fruit of the rose plant shares its name with what part of the body?
    7. After being eliminated in the last rose ceremony of ABC’s first season of
The Bachelor,
who was brought back as the first
Bachelorette
?
    8. What Oscar-winning Best Picture is named for a type of rose?
    9. What two words appear in the original recording of “Candle in the Wind” where “England’s rose” appear in the 1997 version?
    10. Who receives 554 red roses on the first Saturday of every May?

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    1977 S NOW FALLS IN M IAMI, for the first and only time in the city’s recorded history.
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    SNOW WONDER

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    1. How many “dendrites,” or arms, does a typical snowflake have?
    2. Why was Ross Rebagliati temporarily stripped of his snowboarding gold at the 1998 Olympics?
    3. “White Christmas” playing on Armed Forces Radio was the secret signal for what April 30, 1975, event?
    4. What chain introduced “the Blizzard” in 1985?
    5. What mountain pass is today named for the Illinois farmer whose family was trapped there in an 1846 snowstorm?

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JANUARY 20
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    1945 L ITERARY CRITIC E DMUND W ILSON demolishes the Agatha Christie genre in his now-classic
New Yorker
essay “Who Cares Who Killed Roger Ackroyd?”
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    MURDER MOST FOUL
    Do you care who killed these literary characters?
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    Easy
    1. Polonius
    2. Albus Dumbledore
    3. Captain Ahab
    4. Grendel
    5. Aslan

    Harder
    1. Cock Robin
    2. Clare Quilty
    3. Uncle Tom
    4. Laius
    5. Richard Cory

    Yeah, Good Luck
    1. Jay Gatsby
    2. Fyodor Karamazov
    3. Lennie Small
    4. Elizabeth Lavenza
    5. Vladimir Lensky

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    1964 B ABETTE M ARCH, giggling in the Cozumel surf in a demure white two-piece, becomes the first-ever
Sports Illustrated
swimsuit issue cover girl.
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    WATER COLORS
    What color were the iconic swimsuits worn by…
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1. Halle Berry, in
Die Another Day
    2. Borat
    3. Phoebe Cates, in
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
    4. The Coppertone girl, in the original ad
    5. Bo Derek, in
10
    6. Betty Grable, in her World War II pinup
    7. Cheryl Tiegs, in the ubiquitous 1978 poster
A. Blue
    B. Green
    C. Orange
    D. Pink
    E. Red
    F. White
    G. Yellow
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    1982 T HINKING THAT A FAN has thrown a rubber toy bat onto the stage at a Des Moines concert, Ozzy Osbourne gamely bites off its head. Unfortunately it is (er, was) a
real
bat, and Ozzy is rushed to the hospital for rabies shots.
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    DO THE BATUSI

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    1. What publication introduced Bat Boy in June 1992?
    2. Most of Transylvania is now part of what modern-day country?
    3.
Anoura fistulata,
a bat recently discovered in Ecuador, is the only mammal to have what body part measuring almost twice the animal’s total length?
    4. What city is home to the Big Bat, a 120-foot-tall steel replica of Babe Ruth’s baseball bat?
    5. The Whalers, the Sabres, or the Nordiques—what team’s Jim Lorentz killed a bat with his hockey stick during the infamous “Fog Game” of the 1975 Stanley Cup finals?
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JANUARY 21
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    1814 J ANE AUSTEN BEGINS WORK on the first chapter of
Emma,
the last novel she’ll see published during her lifetime. And no wonder it ended her career—it’s, like, a
total
rip-off of
Clueless.
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    IN THE BEGINNING
    What novels begin with
these
first chapters?
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    Easy
    1. “The Three Presents of D’Artagnan the Elder”
    2. “The Bite of the Raptor”
    3. “Marley’s Ghost”
    4. “Spade & Archer”
    5. “The Sound of the Shell”

    Harder
    1. “progris report 1 martch 5, 1965”
    2. “The Master of the Universe”
    3. “Jonathan Harker’s Journal”
    4. “The Old Pyncheon