[Last Word] Completely Mad - Answers - Winter 2006
Spring 2007
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Worders are nothing if not fastidious. Thus many contestants
scrupulously supplied full names for the mad emperors of clue 2 – i.e.
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Caligula), and Nero
Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (aka Nero). A few even named
Caligula’s equine senator, the noble Incitatus. (But then modern-day
Trojans are hardly indifferent to a great war horse.) Of the 63 entries
received for this puzzle, 32 were deemed without flaw. Five Borders
gift certificates go to randomly selected winners John S. Jensen ’75,
Andrea Weigel ’95, Johanna Michael ’07, Shannon Stromberg ’94 and
Leslee Zillmer ’89.
Answers ›› 1. Alice in Wonderland 2. Caligula & Nero 3. Ludwig II of Bavaria 4. George III 5. Bertha Mason (Jane Eyre) & Antoinette Conway (Wide Sargasso Sea) 6. Bethlem Royal Hospital (Tom O’Bedlam) 7. Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway, Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wallpaper” & Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar 8. Dan White, the “Twinkie Defense” 9. Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson & David Berkowitz (“Son of Sam”) 10. Lizzy Borden & Andrea Yates 11. Robert Schumann & Vincent van Gogh 12. John Forbes Nash & Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind). |
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