Answers: The Year in Questions By THE NEW YORK TIMES

December 31, 2008
Answers: The Year in Questions By THE NEW YORK TIMES

UTTERANCES: 1: E. 2: I. 3: G. 4: B. 5: D. 6: A. 7: H. 8: C. 9: F.

SENTENCE QUESTIONS:
10: The Large Hadron Collider.
11: Rice.
12: They were designated protest zones.
13: Hillary Clinton supporters who refused to back Barack Obama.
14: The Joker, played by Heath Ledger, in "The Dark Knight."
15: The Beijing 2008 Olympic torch relay.
16: Kristi Yamaguchi.
17: Seoul, South Korea.
18: Bernard L. Madoff's.
19: Oprah Winfrey's.
20: His 81st.
21: The "glass ceiling" preventing the promotion of women.
22: Jenna Bush.
23: Israel.
24: Spain.
25: Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt.
26: The Campaign For Nuclear Disarmament logo, aka the "peace sign."
27: Fidel Castro.
28: A car.
29: Bake bread.
30: The 2008 Super Bowl.
31: Sodium Pentothal, pancuronium bromide and potassium chloride - used in Kentucky for lethal injections.
32: Kate Hudson.
33: Victoria "Posh Spice" Beckham.
34: Jon Stewart, host of the Academy Awards.
35: Two.
36: Miss America.
37: They were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
38: North Korea.
39: Vladimir Nabokov.
40: Ethanol or ethyl alcohol.

A K A:
41: Radovan Karadzic.
42: Prime Minister Wen Jiabao of China.
43: Eliot Spitzer.
44: Madelyn Dunham, Barack Obama's maternal grandmother.
45: Michael Phelps.
46: Joe the Plumber.
47: Deborah Jeane Palfrey.
48: Joe Biden.
49: Prince Harry (his code name as battlefield air controller in Afghanistan).
50: Britney Spears.
51: Vladimir Putin.
52: Malia and Sasha Obama (Secret Service code names).
53: Richard Fuld.
54: Usain Bolt.
55: Nicolas Sarkozy.
56: Jesse Helms.
57: Barack Obama.
58: Sarah Palin.
59: Gordon Brown.
60: Ben Bernanke.
61: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed.
62: Angela Merkel.

LEADERS/COUNTRIES:
63: Haiti.
64: Iran.
65: Iraq.
66: Ireland.
67: Belgium.
68: Vietnam.
69: Myanmar.
70: Iceland.
71: Georgia.

LEADERS/COMPANIES:
72: Time Warner.
73: Hewlett-Packard.
74: Coca-Cola.
75: Nike.
76: Sony.
77: I.B.M.
78: General Electric.
79: Wal-Mart.
80: General Motors.

SENTENCE QUESTIONS:
81: America's poet laureate.
82: (The wax museum figure of) Adolf Hitler.
83: Leave Earth.
84: A planet; one of the first planets photographed outside our solar system.
85: Spam (unsolicited, unwanted e-mail messages).
86: Tokyo, Japan (because of the number of Michelin starred restaurants).
87: Beagle.
88: Rafael Nadal beat Roger Federer, at the mens' singles final at Wimbledon 2008.
89: Salman Rushdie.
90: Ireland.
91: Misty May-Treanor.
92: The White House.
93: Barack Obama; sexual activity that leads to unintended pregnancy.
94: Seeds and plant specimens.
95: The Zimbabwean dollar.
96: Carlos Sastre ("Mr. Clean") won the Tour de France.
97: "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull."
98: The cooling tower of a nuclear reactor.
99: Ben & Jerry's (ice cream).
100: The Nobel Prize for Literature.
101: George W. Bush's final State of the Union address.
102: George Carlin.
103: Google (said by Eric E. Schmidt).
104: Myanmar.
105: The Mumbai terror attacks.
106: Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah."
107: The hajj (the pilgrimage to Mecca).
108: Taiwan (giant pandas from China).
109: Governor Rod Blagojevich.
110: His shoes, at President Bush.
111: Waterboarding.
112: $6.55.
113: A tool bag, in space.

FEVER CHART
114: Chart B.
115: Chart C.
116: Chart E.
117: Chart A.
118: Chart D.

ON RED STATE/BLUE STATE
Ala. — Rep. — 9
Alaska — Rep. — 3
Ariz. — Rep. — 10
Ak. — Rep. — 6
Calif. — Dem. — 55
Colo. — Dem. — 9
Conn. — Dem. — 7
D.C. — Dem. — 3
Del. — Dem — 3
Fla. — Dem. — 27
Ga. — Rep. — 15
Hawaii — Dem. — 4
Idaho — Rep. — 4
Ill. — Dem. — 21
Ind. — Dem. — 11
Iowa — Dem. — 7
Kan. — Rep. — 6
Ky. — Rep. — 8
La. — Rep. — 9
Me. — Dem. — 4
Md. — Dem. — 10
Mass. — Dem. — 12
Mich. — Dem. — 17
Minn. — Dem. — 10
Miss. — Rep. — 6
Mo. — Rep. — 11
Mont. — Rep. — 3
Neb. — Rep. — 5
Nev. — Dem. — 5
N.H. — Dem. — 4
N.J. — Dem. — 15
N.M. — Dem. — 5
N.Y. — Dem. — 31
N.C. — Dem. — 15
N.D. — Rep. — 3
Ohio — Dem. — 20
Okla. — Rep. — 7
Ore. — Dem. — 7
Pa. — Dem. — 21
R.I. — Dem. — 4
S.C. — Rep. — 8
S.D. — Rep. — 3
Tenn. — Rep. — 11
Tex. — Rep. — 34
Utah — Rep. — 5
Vt. — Dem. — 3
Va. — Dem. — 13
Wash. — Dem. — 11
W.Va. — Rep. — 5
Wis. — Dem. — 10
Wyo. — Rep. — 3

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