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Test your knowledge of greater and lesser arcana against SALON's Listress, Amy Wallace. The first person to e-mail us with the correct answers will win a $25 gift certificate from Borders Books & Music.

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1. Match the following people with how they died:

1. Marie Curie
2. "Doc" Holliday
3. Edgar Allan Poe
4. Guy de Maupassant
5. George Gershwin

a. syphilis
b. alcoholism
c. brain tumor
d. leukemia
e. tuberculosis

2. Which of the following movie stars did not work as a waitress?

1. Raquel Welch
2. Lily Tomlin
3. Faye Dunaway
4. Brigitte Bardot
5. Bette Davis

3. Which of these men did not marry his secretary?

1. Henry Ford
2. Bertrand Russell
3. T.S. Eliot
4. Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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Answers to the last Listress:

1. Match the average erect penis length with the species:

1. Bull
2. Pig
3. Cat
4. Man
5. Stallion
6. Elephant
7. Gorilla
8. Rhinoceros

a. 3/4 inch
b. 2 ft.
c. 6 inches
d. 5 to 6 ft.
e. 3 ft.
f. 2 inches
g. 2 ft. 6 inches
h. 18 to 20 inches

Answers: 1.e 2.h 3.a 4.c 5.g 6.d 7.f 8.b

2. What do the following people have in common?

Bing Crosby
Zane Grey
Theodore Roethke
Nico

1. They all died while exercising
2. They all suffered from drug addiction
3. They were all dyslexic

Answer: 1

3. Only one of these people was not expelled or suspended from school. Which one?:

1. Leon Trotsky
2. Humphrey Bogart
3. Lucille Ball
4. Sarah Bernhardt
5. Edward Kennedy
6. Salvador Dali

Answer: 3

Amy Wallace is the co-author of many books, including "The People's Almanac," and the author of "The Prodigy," a biography, and "Desire," a novel. She lives in Berkeley, California.

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