Category Answers:

Geography & Nature	GERMAN	French and Italian rank second and third.
Literature & Arts	STERN	The book was shock jockey Howard Stern's follow-up to Private Parts in 1993.
Math & Science	SABIN	Polish-American researcher Albert Sabin developed the "live" virus vaccine, which supplanted Jonas Salk's less effective "dead" virus version.
Sports & Games	ZAMBONI	Frank Zamboni's Zamboni drastically reduced the work needed to resurface the ice rink from three men and ninety minutes to one man and ten minutes.
Entertainment & Food	BRINKLEY	Malibu blonde Christie Brinkley had previously been married to Jean-Francois Allaux, Billy Joel, and Richard Taubman.
History & Government	NATION	Six-foot-tall vigilante Carrie Nation was strongly opposed to drinking because her first husband was an alcoholic.

Quiz Quilt Answer: TIMBER (Third letters going up)

Lumberjacks yell "Timber!" as the tree they are chopping begins to fall down.

a) Billie Jean King

Martina Navratilova is the only other player to reach the mark.

Which female tennis player below did not win over 800 WTA singles matches in her career?

a) Billie Jean King
b) Chris Evert
c) Steffi Graf
d) Virginia Wade

c) Makepeace

His most famous work was the 1848 satire Vanity Fair, a story revolving around the young ladies Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley.

What was English novelist William Thackeray's middle name?

a) Dogood
b) Givelove
c) Makepeace
d) Takechance