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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. Only one of the following actors and actresses has
won an Oscar - which one?


 Richard Burton


 Greta Garbo 


 Jane Fonda


 Cary Grant




2. Match these famous people with their original
names:


1.  John Denver

2.  Pat Benatar

3.  Sting

4.  Anne Landers 

5.  Nicolas Cage

6.  Albert Brooks
 

a. Nicolas Coppola

b. Albert Einstein

c. Ester Pauline Friedman

d. Gordon Sumner

e. Patricia Andrejewski

f. Henry John Deutchendorf




3.  What did the following people have in
common?


1.  Danny de Vito

2. Lauren Hutton

3. Tom Seaver


a. They all went bankrupt

b. They all worked in a bakery

c. They all have the same birthday










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Answers to the last Listress:



1. Which of the following celebrities did not serve time in jail?


1. Sophia Loren

2. Chuck Berry

3. Mike Tyson

4. Mae West

5. Sean Penn

6. Otis Redding


Answer: 6


2. What do the following people have in common?


 Cher

 Lee Harvey Oswald

 Greg Louganis

 Richard Chamberlain

 General George S. Patton

 Tom Cruise


a. They are all Geminis

b. They are all dyslexics

c. They were all arrested for income tax evasion


Answer: b



3. Match the following words with the phobia they describe:


1. Ailurophobia

2. Triskadekaphobia

3. Orinthophobia

4. Tonsuphobia


a. Fear of cats

b. Fear of birds

c. Fear of haircuts

d. Fear of the number 13


Answers: 1.a 2.d 3.b 4.c










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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