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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. Match the following people with their lovers:
1. Marlene Dietrich
2. Barbara Walters
3. Gloria Steinem
4. Aimee Semple McPherson
a. Milton Berle
b. General George S. Patton
c. Jim Brown
d. Roy Cohn
2. Who made the following observations about marriage?
1. "I've only slept with men I've been married to. How many women can make that claim?"
2. "My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met."
3. "Getting married's a lot like getting in a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot."
4. "Married men live longer than single men. But married men are a lot more willing to die."
5. "If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married."
a. Katherine Hepburn
b. Elizabeth Taylor
c. Rodney Dangerfield
d. Minnie Pearl
e. Johnny Carson
3. Match the following people with the movies they've appeared in:
1. Jerzy Kozinski
2. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
3. Rex Reed
4. Pablo Picasso
5. Patricia Nixon
a. Airplane
b. The Testament of Orpheus
c. Reds
d. Myra Breckinridge
e. Becky Sharp
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The winner of the last Listress was Warren Kellogg, who correctly guessed the following answers:
Only one of the following actors or actresses has won an Oscar - which one?
1. Richard Burton
2. Greta Garbo
3. Jane Fonda
4. Cary Grant
Answer: 3
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
Answers: 1) f 2) e 3) d 4) c 5) a 6) b
What do the following people have in common?
1. Danny DeVito
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
Answer: 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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