Marshall Field’s announced Friday that for the first time since 1922, this product no longer will be made on State Street:
A. Beanie Babies
B. Deep-dish pizza
C. 23 Bulls jerseys
D. Frango mints (Perspective section, page 1)
1. Which music figure said this last week? “I hope to be known for my music and not for my injuries.”
A. Courtney Love
B. Gloria Estefan
C. Ozzie Osborne
D. Rachel Barton
2. A University of Massachusetts study found that children of women who work outside the home:
A. Suffer permanent harm because of their mother’s absence
B. Suffer no permanent harm because of their mother’s absence
C. Cause permanent harm to the carpeting
D. Consume greater amounts of peanut butter
3. Huntington Beach, Calif., has entered into an unusual marketing agreement by making:
A. Coca-Cola its official drink
B. Sports Illustrated’s swimsuit issue its official magazine
C. Peanut butter its official food
D. Courtney Love sing the town anthem
4. She never shook off the feeling of being an “awful fat, ugly middle-class kid.”
A. Monica Lewinsky
B. Barbara Walters
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C. Dusty Springfield
D. Courtney Love
E. Roseanne
5. Italian farmer Pietro Tavazzani (pictured above) pulls his cow, Ercolina (blessed in 1997 by Pope John Paul II), across a street near the Arc de Triomphe. Why are they in Paris?
A. France’s 3rd annual bovine beauty contest
B. To appear in an “I Can’t Believe It’s Not Beurre” ad
C. Took a wrong turn on the way to Pamplona
D. To protest new European Union milk regulations
6. Tribune movie critic Michael Wilmington gave the following movie a three-star rating:
A. “Message in a Bottle”
B. “Analyze This”
C. “Payback”
D. “200 Cigarettes”
7. Thanks to a $10.1 million museum refurbishing, this will be on public display starting in May at the Oriental Institute:
A. Dishes that were used at King Tut’s funeral
B. The mysterious mummy of a 5-year-old boy
C. A mummified ibis
D. Embalming salts and knives
Who said it?
8. “All told, it is fair to say that in our relationship this is neither the best of times nor the worst of times.”
9. “It’s time for a healing song.”
10. “I’m really baffled by this ruling. With that kind of massacre with so many casualties, it is a duty to ensure that justice is done.”
11. “Then I get there and break it. But the biggest pressure I felt all season was keeping it.”
12. “It’s no longer acceptable to say that the abuse and mistreatment of women is cultural. It should be called what it is: criminal.”
13. “If she can live through that and get along, she’s like superwoman. That’s a lot of stress.”
14. “There is no reason to wear ugly underwear.”
What is it?
15. “Only now have we discovered the original features of the faces. The position of the eyes had been altered; mouths that were partially open had been closed; beards . . . added; hands . . . elongated and flattened, and the actual dimensions of the heads had been changed.”
The answers:
From Page 1: Field’s is shifting production of the minty treats to a Pennsylvania candy company.
1. Violinist Rachel Barton, awarded $29.6 million in a personal injury lawsuit. 2. Suffer no permanent harm. 3. Coke is paying $300,000 a year for 10 years, plus other goodies, to become its official soft drink. 4. Soon-to-be Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Dusty Springfield, who died last week at age 59. 5. To protest EU milk laws. 6. “Analyze This” 7. All of the above. 8. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright after clashing with China over human rights. 9. Radio jock Garry Meier, mocking acrimonious talks on getting back together with Steve Dahl. 10. Italian Prime Minister Massimo D’Alema, reacting to the acquittal of Marine Capt. Richard Ashby in the cable-car deaths of 20 skiers in northern Italy. 11. St. Louis Cardinals slugger Mark McGwire, talking about breaking Roger Maris’ home run record. 12. Hillary Rodham Clinton, referring to Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers. 13. New York City 9th-grader Christopher Williams, 13, referring to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s handling of the Monica Lewinsky scandal. 14. Sydney Biddle Barrows, ex-Mayflower Madam, during her seminar on what turns men on–and off. 15. Leonardo da Vinci’s 1497 painting Last Supper, which restorers say suffered layer upon layer of creative touch-ups.
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