Sunday, February 18, 2007

Successions

Fill in the missing individual/entity (indicated by a ?) in the sequences shown below:

1. Rocard, Cresson, ? , Balladur
2. Ortoli, Jenkins, Thorn, ?
3. de Valera, Griffiths, Cosgrave, ?
4. Sharett, Ben -Gurion, Eshkol, ?
5. Jefferson, Burr, ?, Gerry, Tompkins
6. Tilden, Hansock, ?, Blaine, ? , Harrison
7. Johnson, Mansfield, Byrd, ? , Daschle
8. Lewis, Irons, ?, Pacino, Hanks
9. Masefield, Lewis, Betjeman, ?
10. Byatt, ? , Unsworth, Ondaatjie, Doyle
11. Giyatso, Gorbachev, ?, Menchú
12. Costner, Demme, ?, Spielberg
13. Lange, Russell, Moore, ?
14. ?, Rosebery, Salisbury, Balfour
15. Oklahoma, ?, Arizona, Alaska, Hawaii

Answers to Successions
1. Pierre Bérégovoy - (French Prime Ministers).
2. Jacques Delors - (EU Commision Presidents).
3. Éamon de Valera - (Irish Prime Ministers).
4. Golda Meir - (Israeli Prime Ministers).
5. George Clinton - (U.S. Vice-Presidents).
6. Grover Cleveland - (losing Presidential candidates).
7. George Mitchell - (Democratic Senate leaders).
8. Anthony Hopkins - (Best Actor Oscar Winners).
9. Ted Hughes - (Poets Laureate).
10. Ben Okri - (Brooker Prize Winners).
11. Aung San Suu Kyi - (Nobel Peace Prize Winners).
12. Clint Eastwood - (Best Director Oscar Winners).
13. Jim Bolger - (New Zealand Prime Ministers).
14. William Gladstone - (British Prime Ministers)
15. New Mexico - (order in which states gained entry into the Union).

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