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[The Unbearable Lightness of Being]



BY AMY WALLACE

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.


Match the following things with what they weigh:

1. A bar of gold at Fort Knox
2. Fred Astaire
3. The average human male brain
4. A chihuahua dog

A. 140 lbs.
B. 5 lbs.
C. 3.1 lbs.
D. 27.45 lbs.


What do the following people have in common?

1. Al Jolson
2. "Wild Bill" Hickock
3. Buster Keaton

A. They all suffered from chronic impotence
B. They all died playing cards
C. They were all arrested for tax evasion


Which of the following men did not have his penis preserved after his
death?

1. Napoleon Bonaparte
2. John Dillinger
3. Leonardo da Vinci
4. Grigori Rasputin

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The winner of the last Listress was Jeff Newman, who answered the following questions:

Which of the following people was not a lawyer?

1. Otto Preminger
2. Gandhi
3. Howard Cosell
4. Lou Reed
5. Fidel Castro

Answer: 4

What do the following movie stars have in common?

1. Kirk Douglas
2. Malcolm McDowell
3. Rudolph Valentino
4. Dustin Hoffman

A. They were all waiters
B. They all married and divorced one of their leading ladies
C. They all wrote a novel

Answer: A

What do the following people have in common?

1. Danny DeVito
2. Lauren Hutton
3. Tom Seaver

A. They were all arrested for public drunkenness
B. They were all born on the same day of the same month of the same year
C. They all consult psychics regularly

Answer: B



Amy Wallace is the co-author of many books, including "The People's Almanac," and the author of "The Prodigy," a biography, and "Desire," a novel. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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