Statue of Liberty Insider -- Quiz Quilt 213 Solution
Robert Jen
[ Entertainment & Food ]
> What Englishman topped the charts with "You Make Me Feel Like
> Dancing" and "When I Need You" within a five-month span in 1977?
SAYER -- The songs from Leo Sayer's "Endless Flight" album peaked in
January and May respectively.
[ Literature & Arts ]
> What Japanese word meaning "divine wind" describes a type of pilot?
KAMIKAZE -- The word originally described a typhoon that saved the
country from a Mongol naval invasion in 1281.
[ History & Government ]
> What English colonist introduced tobacco cultivation to Jamestown and
> married Pocahontas?
ROLFE -- John Rolfe's Algonquian Indian wife died of smallpox three
years later, after he had returned to England with her to seek
investors.
[ Geography & Nature ]
> What is the flower of genus helianthus whose seeds are one of
> Romania's main agricultural products?
SUNFLOWERS -- The large flowers turn themselves to face the Sun,
which they also resemble somewhat.
[ Math & Science ]
> What businessman put up $11.5 million on August 1, 2000 to fund a new
> telescope array as part of the SETI project?
ALLEN -- Entrepreneur Paul Allen, who began supporting the astronomy
quest after the U.S. government ended its funding in the mid-1990s,
has donated over $900 million for the search.
[ Sports & Games ]
> What Detroit Tigers outfielder was recruited from prison and was the
> subject of the 1978 TV movie "One in a Million"?
LEFLORE -- Speedster Ron LeFlore had not played baseball in high
school or college but stole 455 bases during a nine-year career.
QUIZ QUILT ANSWER: EIFFEL (Fourth letters)
Alexandre Gustave Eiffel is more famous for building the Eiffel
Tower, but he also designed the armature, the interior framework,
of the Statue of Liberty.
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