1. The Great Compromiser
a) Xaviera Hollander
b) Joseph Stalin
c) Henry Clay
d) Daniel Webster
2. Queen of the Nile
a) Boat skippered by Humphrey Bogart
b) Nefertiti
c) Anwar Sadat's yacht
d) Cleopatra
3. The Battle of Hastings
a) Hurriedly fought confrontation between Harvard
and Yale drama clubs
b) William the Conqueror's great victory over
the English in 1066
c) Legal suit fought by two pudding companies
over plagiarism of a recipe
d) Revolutionary War engagement on the
Hudson River
4. Old Hickory
a) Euell Gibbons
b) Andrew Jackson
c) Jack Daniels' horse
d) Babe Ruth's favorite bat
5. Monticello
a) Thomas Jefferson's home
b) Mountain climbed by Pablo Casals
in 1933
c) Garibaldi's Prime Minister
d) Largest member of the violin family
6. Honest Abe
a) Mayor Abe Beame
b) Abraham Lincoln
c) Abraham Jones (used car salesman)
d) Abraham Zapruder
7. Stonewall
a) Thomas Jonathan Jackson, great
general of
the Confederacy
b) Dick Butkus
c) Richard Nixon
d) Truman Capote
8. The Glorious Revolution
a) Farrah Fawcett-Majors' departure from
"Charlie's Angels"
b) Invention of roll-on deodorant
c) Oliver Cromwell's overthrow of the
monarchy
of seventeenth-century
England
d) Refusal by California bathers to obey
swim wear regulations
9. The Great Depression
a) Sigmund Freud's famous headache
b) Economic disaster of 1929
c) Kate Smith's navel
d) The San Andreas Fault
10. The Franco-Prussian War
a) Highly-publicized dispute at Swiss
border
between German and Italian noodle farmers
b) War between France and Prussia, 1870-71
c) Franco's 1893 skirmish with Germany
d) Conflict between Charlemagne and the Huns
11. Tippecanoe
a) William Henry Harrison
b) Hiawatha's secret nickname for his
overweight mother
c) John Tyler
d) Craft in which Washington crossed
the Delaware
12. The Monitor
a) Giant Dow-Jones ticker-tape screen
b) U.S. Navy ship that sank the Virginia
c) J. Edgar Hoover
d) A mirror that detects bad breath
13. Old Ironsides
a) Raymond Burr's father
b) Indian nickname for the first railroad engine
c) Prince Otto von Bismarck
d) The U.S.S. Constitution
14. Bull Run
a) The aftermath of Watergate
b) A Civil War battle site
c) A school for matadors
d) Entrance to relief pitchers' bull pen
15. Traveller
a) Center for the Harlem Globetrotters
b) Robert Vesco
c) Robert E. Lee's horse
d) Marco Polo
16. The Great Gold Rush
a) Mass emigration to California goldfields in 1849
b) Mass emigration to California for suntans in 1966
c) Federal raid on Colombian vessel smuggling
marijuana
d) Silent film starring Charlie Chaplin
17. Poor Richard's Almanac
a) RN:Memoirs
b) Richard Burton's divorce file
c) Book by Benjamin Franklin
d) Richard Roe's desk calendar
18. Old Rough and Ready
a) President Zachary Taylor
b) Mayor Richard Daley
c) A coin-operated mechanical bull, popular in
Texas bars and discotheques
d) President Theodore Roosevelt
19. The Little Corporal
a) Shirley Temple movie
b) Napoleon Bonaparte
c) Child's portion of Kentucky Fried Chicken
d) William Calley
20. Broadway Joe
a) The autobiography of Joe E. Lewis
b) One of Lily Tomlin's characters
c) Hero of a Harold Robbins novel
d) Joe Namath