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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.









1. Which of the following persons did not work as a telephone operator?


 1. Aristotle Onassis


 2. Jackie Kennedy


 3. Doris Lessing


 4.  Patricia Nixon




2. What do these famous people have in common?


1.Pablo Picasso


2.Albert Einstein


3.Winston Churchill


4.Henry Ford


 A.  They were all in love with their wive's sisters.


 B.  They all got miserable report cards in school.


 C.  They all had malaria.




3.  Which of the following men did Marilyn Monroe not sleep with?


 1. Milton Berle


 2. Joe DiMaggio


 3. Howard Hughes


 4. John Wayne


 5. Arthur Miller


 6. Yves Montand


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The winner of the last Listress was B.V. Fallon, who answered the following questions:



1)  Match the following things and 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.


Answer: 1) D 2) A 3) C 4) B
                      
                      

2.  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


Answer: B



3.  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


Answer: 3












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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