The 2000 TIME Current Events Quiz

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FACES IN THE NEWS Match each numbered description to the photograph of the newsmaker who fits it best.

1 First black president of an Ivy League institution

2 Scientist accused of stealing the "crown jewels" of America's nuclear arsenal

3 Harvard-educated citrus heir, chicken dancer, Florida secretary of state

4 Her literary offspring owns the best-seller lists

5 George W. Bush described this person as a "major-league a__hole"

6 Olympic gold-medal winner and symbol of her people's pride

7 Missouri widow who inherited her late husband's Senate seat

8 M.C. of history's largest heads-of-state meeting

9 Most downloaded woman on the Internet (on a cost-free basis)

10 Jumbo Wyoming farm boy who beat a three-time champion to win Olympic gold in wrestling

11 In the eyes of many, the person responsible for touching off the Holy Land's latest crisis

12 Grammy winner as Best New Artist of the Year

13 DNA testing confirmed this person's death in prison

14 Fellow castaways called him a snake, but he can live with the title and $1 million

15 Opponent of lengthy engagements--and marriages

16 Former colonel of the Syrian army and follower in his father's footsteps

17 First woman to command a U.S. warship; mother of two adopted Russian children

18 Winner of this year's Nobel Peace Prize for promoting northern exposure

19 Consumer crusader or election spoiler?

20 Maybe he's glad he's out of Florida?

THE YEAR IN ARTS Match the excerpt from TIME to the photo of the artist or work.

1 "It howls like a werewolf. It kills with the brutal indifference of Dracula. Like a rabid dog, it rages and spits. Like Diane Sawyer, it never sleeps."

2 "Acrobatic tap dancer who with his older brother helped break the color barrier in Hollywood musicals... Mikhail Baryshnikov called them 'the most amazing dancers I've ever seen in my life--ever.'"

3 "By painting what he knew, neither more nor less, he became the standard-bearer of visual truth to a generation of French intellectuals."

4 "More than any other British actor of his stature, [he] had a miniaturist style that was made for movies. He knew the camera would find him. But not find him out."

5 "It's a solemn album, and although not religious, its soulful vocals and reggae-inflected grooves have the quiet power of prayer... Just as prayers are ultimately about love, this CD is suffused with that emotion as well."

6 "No conveniently arranged sheets, no angst, no kisses shot from the back: in 10 hot minutes [this work] opens the closet of gay...sexuality and chucks in a neon stick of dynamite."

7 "[This film] simply narrates what happens when the goofus comes home to sponge some money from the doofus and incidentally, almost accidentally, stirs an emotional frenzy. It is also, just possibly, the best American movie of this fast-dwindling year."

8 "Males have not, as a rule, joined [this writer's] fan clubs, and this novel suggests a reason: they are seldom the central figures in the author's world."