Links to Source Material
Scroll down to see the source material used for the Quotes in Pop Culture Acrostic Puzzles Volume 1. Warning: Spoilers!
Puzzle #1 Bruce Springsteen, Born To Run [memoir]
Puzzle #2 Harrison Ford, Empire Magazine and NBC Today Show
Puzzle #3 Norman Maclean, A River Runs Through It
Puzzle #4 Mikaela Shiffrin, CNN and NPR
Puzzle #5 Alan Alda, “The Final [TV] Episode of MAS*H “, (Television Academy
Foundation, The Interviews)
Puzzle #6 Maurine Dallas Watkins, Chicago Trib. (from one of the original
Chicago Tribune articles that led to the musical Chicago )
Puzzle #7 Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the (Human Future in Space)
Puzzle #8 Carrie Underwood, interviews with Rolling Stone and CMT
Puzzle #9 Ginger Rogers, My Story Autobiography
Puzzle #10 Peyton Manning, Pro Football Hall of Fame Enshrinement Speech
Puzzle #11 Neil Simon, As Time Flies By, Intro (to The Collected Plays of Neil
Simon, Volume 2)
Puzzle #12 Gordon Matthew Sumner, Lyrics By Sting
Puzzle #13 Cary Elwes, As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making of The
Princess Bride
Puzzle #14 Oprah Winfrey, Reasons to feel good (about the future, O Magazine)
Puzzle #15 Jack Kerouac, On The Road The Original Scroll
Puzzle #16 Billy Joel, “We Didn’t Start the Fire” (Passage taken from the book,
In Their Own Words by Bill DeMain where he interviewed Joel
about his thoughts on the song.)
Puzzle #17 Steve Pateman, Boss in Boots: The True Story Behind Kinky
Boots: (From Barton to Broadway)
Puzzle #18 Denzel Washington, A Hand Guide To Me
Puzzle #19 Dan Brown, The Da Vinci Code, Interview (on CNN Sunday
Morning)
Puzzle #20 Keith Richards, Life
Puzzle #21 Matthew Perry, Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing
Puzzle #22 Frank Pritchard, (as quoted in) Pickleball is Life by Erin McHugh
Puzzle #23 Delia Owens, Where the Crawdads Sing
Puzzle #24 Bono, Surrender: Forty Songs, One Story
Puzzle #25 Chat GPT, Give me a funny answer to “Will AI take over the world like in Terminator?”
Puzzle #26 Muhammad Ali, Pre-fight interview with David Frost
Puzzle #27 Prince Harry The Duke of Sussex, Spare
Puzzle #28 Wendt, Drinking With George
Puzzle #29 Alfred Hitchcock, Milestone Awards (speech)
Puzzle #31 Ted Anthony, “House of the Rising Sun: An old song with a long
story”
Puzzle #32 Joseph Heller, Catch-22
Puzzle #33 Tom Hanks on Becoming Forrest Gump, The Graham Norton Show
Puzzle #34 Brock W. Yates, NASCAR Off the Record
Puzzle #35 Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
Puzzle #36 Beyoncé Knowles, GQ (Magazine), “Miss Millennium”
Puzzle #37 Kate Winslet, Happy Sad Confused Podcast (with Josh Horowitz)
Puzzle #38 Kevin Costner, “The Origins of Yellowstone”
Puzzle #39 Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
Puzzle #41 Andrew Lloyd Webber, Unmasked: A Memoir
Puzzle #42 John Lennon, The Playboy Interviews, David Sheff
Puzzle #43 Stephen Edwin King’s Danse Macabre
Puzzle #44 Russell Crowe, Inside The Actors Studio
Puzzle #45 Ronda Rousey, My Fight / Your Fight
Puzzle #46 Bob Dylan, Rolling Stone Interview by Jonathan Cott
Puzzle #47 Yuval Noah Harari, Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Puzzle #49 Don DeLillo. White Noise
Puzzle #50 R. Gladstein, “Cinema Tarantino: The Making of Pulp Fiction”, Vanity Fair
