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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.


1. Match the following performers with their original names:

1. Peter Lorre
2. Joan Crawford
3. Elton John
4. Muddy Waters
5. Axl Rose
6. Conway Twitty

a. McKinley Morganfield
b. Laszlo Loewenstein
c. Reginald Dwight
d. Lucille le Sueur
e. Harold Jenkins
f. William Bailey

2. What did the following people have in common?

1. Charles de Gaulle
2. Henry Miller
3. Marie Antoinette
4. Ian Fleming
5. J.P. Morgan
6. Theodore Roosevelt

a. They all suffered from gout
b. They all wrote poetry
c. They all believed in astrology

3. Match the following people with their former roommates:

1. Shelley Winters
2. Marlon Brando
3. Dennis Wilson
4. David Niven
5. Cary Grant

a. William F. Buckley, Jr.
b. Charles Manson
c. Marilyn Monroe
d. Randolph Scott
e. Wally Cox

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The winner of the last Listress Challenge was Bill Tom who correctly matched the answers in Death and Some Maidens.




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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