Short people got no reason to live


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 these shortish people with their height:

1. Pablo Picasso
2. Olga Korbut
3. Napoleon Bonaparte
4. Dolly Parton
5. Margaret Mead
6. Aristotle Onassis
7. Debbie Reynolds
8. Marquis de Sade

a. 5'2"
b. 4'11"
c. 5'5"
d. 5'1"
e. 5'
f. 5'4"
g. 5'3"
h. 5'6"

2. What do the following men have in common? [Verbivore: Suppository questions]

1. e.e. cummings
2. Walt Disney
3. Dashiell Hammett
4. Ernest Hemingway
5. W. Somerset Maugham

1. They all had a child out of wedlock
2. They were all wartime ambulance drivers
3. They all sued their publishers
4. They all ran away from home
5. They all worked as insurance salesmen
6. They all wrote or worked standing up

Answer:

3. Match these actors with the horror movies they appeared in:

1. Humphrey Bogart
2. Charles Bronson
3. Jack Nicholson
4. Steve McQueen
5. Robert Vaughn
6. Donald Sutherland
7. Michael Landon
8. James Arness

a. The Raven
b. Teenage Caveman
c. I Was A Teenage Werewolf
d. The Return of Dr. X
e. The Thing
f. Castle of the Living Dead
g. The Blob
h. House of Wax

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