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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.  Match the following items with the prices they went for at auction:


1. Judy Garland's false eyelashes

2.  The shrunken head of a South American Jivaro tribesman

3. George Washington's laundry bill


A.  $125


B.  $1100


C.  $9,350

 

2.  What do the following bestselling books have in common?


1.  Dune by Frank Herbert

2.  Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach

3.  Lust For Life by Irving Stone

4.  Kon-Tiki by Thor Hyerdahl


A.  They were all written under the influence of alcohol


B.  They were all banned in at least one state


C.  They were all originally rejected by 13 or more publishers


3.  Match these obsolete words with their meanings:


1.  Keak (17th to 19th century)

2.  Lip-Clap (17th century)

3.  Bellibone (16th century)

4.  Mubblefubbles (16th & 17th century)


 A.  A kiss


 B.  Depression of the spirits for an unapparent reason, melancholy


 C.  To cackle


 D.  A lovely maiden, a pretty lass

    
    
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The winner of the last Listress was Bernard Fallon, who answered the following questions:




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


Answer: 2


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.


Answer: B


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


Answer: 4










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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