Answers to last week's Secret Themes

Ray's:

The theme was America's National Parks. Names of related parks follow each answer.

1) What 1987 U2 album, which went Diamond in sales in the US (10 million+ copies sold), also generated 3 Top 40 singles? The Joshua Tree /Joshua Tree

2) What 1973 film starred Martin Sheen as Kit Carruthers and Sissy Spacek as Holly Surgis? Badlands / Badlands

3) What anti-Semetic forgery was likely written by Matvei Golovinski in the 1890s? "The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" / Zion

4) What 1973 pop-folk song, which went Top 10 in the US that year, was officially adopted as a co-state song of Colorado earlier this year? "Rocky Mountain High" /Rocky Mountain

5) Which US president is said to have coined the "Good to the last drop" ad slogan for Maxwell House coffee via an off-hand remark? Teddy Roosevelt / Roosevelt, who was also the founder of the national parks

6) Who is Juan Diego Cuauhtlalatoatzin famous for having supposedly met in December of 1531? The Virgin of Guadalupe / Guadalupe Mountains

7) What's the Spanish word for "turtle"? tortuga / Dry Tortugas

8) What was founded by Pierre de Fredy, Baron de Coubertin in 1894? The modern Olympic Games / Olympic

9) Mike Oldfield's 1973 album Tubular Bells was the first album released on this prog-rock label in 1973, owned by British billionaire Richard Branson. Name the label. Virgin / Virgin Islands

10) What American record label, with an architecturally distinct HQ in Los Angeles, was founded by songwriter Johnny Mercer in 1942? Capitol / Capitol Reef

Frank's:

The theme was Scientology. Link to the Operation Clambake site, which seeks to expose the cult.

1) What's the 8th letter of the Greek alphabet, situated between eta and iota? Theta / "Body Thetans"

2) What San Francisco-based pop combo had 5 Top 40 singles in the period 1977-1981, including their biggest hits "Love Will Find a Way" and "Don't Want to Live Without It"? Pablo Cruise / Tom Cruise

3) Where do the Philadelphia Phillies hold spring training? Clearwater, Florida, which is the HQ of Scientology. Scientology appears to have a strange and disturbing hold on the local government.

4) In Euclidian geometry, what do you call a segment of the perimeter of a circle? An arc; the "ARC Triangle" is a Scientology belief

5) What sit-com actress was married to former teen heartthrob Parker Stevenson 1983-1997? Kirstie Alley

6) Who played sadistic bully Billy Nolan in the 1976 film Carrie? John Travolta

7) What singer, songwriter and producer won his third Grammy for his classic 1971 album Black Moses? Isaac Hayes

8) What nursery rhyme is said to be a disguised retelling of the refusal of Cardinal Wolsey to grant Henry VIII a divorce from Catherine of Aragon? Old Mother Hubbard

9) What prog-rock band did Steve Howe join in 1971? Yes

Here's the problem with Question #9: I misrembered L. Ron Hubbard as the author of Starship Troopers; it was actually Robert Heinlein. The connection I was aiming for is that the song "Starship Troopers" appears on Yes' 1971 album The Yes Album.

10) What 1994 film stars Harrison Ford as CIA agent Jack Ryan? Clear and Present Danger; infamously Scientologists get "audited" to become "clear."