Category Answers:
Sports & Games
| HINGIS
| Swiss Miss Martina Hingis was 16 years old when she won the Australian Open, Wimbledon, and the U.S. Open in 1997.
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Entertainment & Food
| CRISTOFORI
| Italian Bartolomeo Cristofori had previously constructed harpsichords and spinets, but became famous for the instrument that could play both loud and soft.
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History & Government
| VESPUCCI
| Martin Waldseemuller gave the name America to the future South America on a 1507 map, shortly after the Italian Amerigo Vespucci had made several journeys there.
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Literature & Arts
| SENDAK
| Maurice Sendak's illustrated story won a Caldecott Medal.
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Math & Science
| AMPERE
| Andre-Marie Ampere was a French physicist who helped develop the science of electrodynamics, now called electromagnetism.
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Geography & Nature
| MAURITIUS
| The island is part of the Mascarene Islands in the Indian Ocean.
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Quiz Quilt Answer: SOCKET (Sixth letters)
A light bulb plugs into a light socket.