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wandering along a Mexican railroad track.
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    CHEAP NOVEL TEASE
    Who was the real-life model for these thinly veiled literary characters?
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    1. Doris Mann in
Postcards from the Edge
    2. Jack Stanton in
Primary Colors
    3. Dill in
To Kill a Mockingbird
    4. Abe Ravelstein in
Ravelstein
    5. Matthew Harrison Brady in
Inherit the Wind
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    1991 T HE B ASEBALL H ALL OF F AME votes to ban Pete Rose for gambling. Rose is shocked—he had $200 on the ruling going the other way!
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    I’M WITH THE BANNED
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    1. Chicago banned the sale of what gourmet food staple in 2006?
    2. Kirk Douglas helped end the Hollywood blacklist by getting writer Dalton Trumbo screen credit on what film?
    3. Who was banned from
Saturday Night Live
by viewer phone vote in 1982?
    4. What Asian country bans the importation and sale of chewing gum?
    5. What wasn’t banned in the U.S. until 1972, a full decade after Rachel Carson wrote
Silent Spring
?
    6. The 2007 rule banning suspended NFL players from signing with the CFL was named for what player?
    7. What appeared on the cover of the Jane’s Addiction album
Ritual de lo Habitual
after retailers banned the original art?
    8. Laytonville, California, parents tried to ban what Dr. Seuss book from schools for “criminaliz[ing] the forest industry”?
    9. What Nicole Kidman film is banned in Zimbabwe, which resembles the movie’s fictional “Republic of Matobo” a bit too much?
    10. In 2005, Bhutan became the first country to entirely ban what?

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FEBRUARY 5
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    1869 T WO C ORNISH MINERS digging near Moliagul, Australia, discover a huge nugget of gold just below the surface of the soil, so big it breaks their pick when they try to unearth it. The 158-pound “Welcome Stranger” is still the largest gold nugget ever discovered.
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    KISS MY AUROUS
    There’s gold in them there questions!
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    1. What country was called the Gold Coast prior to its 1957 independence?
    2. What Ray Charles song was the basis for Kanye West’s “Gold Digger”?
    3. Who gave the “Cross of Gold” speech at the 1896 Democratic National Convention?
    4. In what two California cities did Neil Young say he looked for a “Heart of Gold”?
    5. At the 1996 Olympics, what American tied Mark Spitz’s lifetime record of nine golds?
    6. What 1980s sitcoms featured sisters Missy and Tracey Gold, respectively?
    7. What are Quivira and Cíbola?
    8. After a 2005 visit to Katrina-ravaged New Orleans, who announced he would “never wear [his] gold again—it’s an insult to God”?
    9. What title character of an 1876 novel earns $12,000 when he finds the Murrel Gang’s gold in McDougal’s Cave?
    10. As with all heavy metals, all the gold in the universe was formed by what kind of astronomical event?

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    1897 T HE I NDIANA H OUSE OF R EPRESENTATIVES unanimously passes a measure that would square the circle and redefine pi, both mathematical impossibilities. An aghast math professor who happens to be visiting the legislature persuades the Senate to kill the bill.
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    GOING IN CIRCLES
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    1. In what city would you find the fashionable Dupont Circle neighborhood?
    2. What Manhattan intersection, at the southwest corner of Central Park, was America’s first traffic circle?
    3. What country’s founder, Father Miguel Hidalgo, is buried under the Columna de la Independencia in the middle of a busy traffic roundabout?
    4. The world’s first aluminum statue was the statue of Eros placed in the middle of what famed London roundabout?
    5. The Place de l’Étoile is the traffic circle that surrounds what landmark?

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    1919 F OUR OF H OLLYWOOD’S biggest draws—Charlie Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., D. W. Griffith, and Mary Pickford—form their own studio, which they dub United Artists.
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    UNITED ARTISTS
    Can you match up these once-married couples from the art world?
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1. Peggy Guggenheim
    2. Frida Kahlo
    3. Lee Krasner
    4. Georgia O’Keeffe
    5. Susan Weil
A. Max Ernst
    B. Jackson Pollock
    C. Robert