Arresting Moments


Illustration by Jack DesRocher

Test your knowledge of greater and lesser arcana against SALON's Listress, Amy Wallace. The first person to e-mail us with the correct answers will win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.


1. Match the following people with what they were doing when arrested:

1. Menahem Begin
2. Patricia Hearst
3. Marquis de Sade
4. Alexander Dubcek
5. James Earl Ray
6. Julius Rosenberg
7. Oscar Wilde

a. drinking a cocktail
b. consulting with a publisher
c. running from the police
d. standing in the kitchen of a San Francisco apartment
e. playing chess
f. listening to the radio
g. reaching for the phone

2. Which one of the following people did not have a child out of wedlock?

1. Marlon Brando
2. Ingrid Bergman [Verbivore: Politicians' Twisted Words]
3. George Harrison
4. Adolf Hitler
5. Sarah Bernhardt
6. Norman Mailer
7. Rene Descartes
8. Catherine Deneuve
9. Ivan Turgenev
10. Benjamin Franklin

3. What do the following men have in common?


1. Peter Ustinov
2. Alexander Pushkin
3. John James Audubon
4. Alexander Dumas

1. They all had a book rejected by four or more publishers
2. They all suffered from arthritis
3. They were all partly black
4. They all had affairs with two or more married women
5. They were all alcoholics

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