The Westing Game

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The Westing Game East and has no towers, but it has 5 empty
What direction does Sunset Towers floors
face?

The Westing Game Lake Michigan

Which Great Lake does Sunset Towers
face?

The Westing Game Fourth of July

On what day did a boy deliver letters
signed by Barney Northrup?

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How old was the delivery boy?

The Westing Game 6

How many letters were delivered?

The Westing Game Barney Northrup

Who led the tours of the building?

The Westing Game The Wexler’s

Who had the first appointment of the
day?

The Westing Game The Wexler’s

Who are Jake and Grace?

The Westing Game A lake view

What kind of view did Sydelle Pulaski
want?

The Westing Game In one day he had rented all of the

What was the proof that Barney Northrup apartments in the Sunset Towers.
was a good salesman?

The Westing Game mothers, fathers and children. A

Who were the people who lived in Sunset dressmaker, a secretary, an inventor, a
Towers? doctor, a judge. One was a bookie, one
was a burglar and one was a bomber.
One was a mistake

The Westing Game Everyone moved in

What happened on September 1?

The Westing Game No Trespassing--Property of the Westing

What did the sign say that was on a wire Estate
fence on the north side of the building?
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The Westing Game September 2

What day did Shin Hoo’s Restaurant
open?

The Westing Game 3

How many people came to the grand
opening?

The Westing Game People in the building ordering breakfast,

How did the coffee shop that was on the lunch and dinner “up” and the workers
paring lot keep busy? from nearby Westingtown.

The Westing Game

Who was Sandy McSouthers? the doorman and Sam Westing

The Westing Game The 62-year old delivery boy and the
Who was Otis Amber? private investigator

The Westing Game In a braid that flies behind her

How does Turtle Wexler wear her hair?

The Westing Game She will kick them in the shins

What happens to someone who touches
Turtle’s braid?

The Westing Game Stay in the Wexler house where there is

What does Turtle plan to do for a $2 a suppose to be a dead body
minute?

The Westing Game Theo’s brother who lives in 2D

Who was Chris Theodorakis?

The Westing Game Dr. Sydney Sikes

Who was the limper?

The Westing Game The Wexlers

Who lives in 3D?

The Westing Game The dressmaker who daughter is Rosalie

Who is Flora Baumbach? and is retarded

The Westing Game Turtle’s older sister

Who is Angela Wexler?

The Westing Game Dr. Deere

Who is Angela Wexler marrying?

What type of a costume is Turtle going to A witch costume

wear?
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The Westing Game A podiatrist

What type of a doctor is Dr. Wexler?

The Westing Game The cleaning woman and Sam Westing’s

Who is Crow? ex-wife

The Westing Game Mr. Westing’s corpse is rotting on the

What does everything think is going on at oriental rug
the Westing House?

The Westing Game the Fifth Floor

What floor is Mr. Hoo’s restaurant on?

The Westing Game The judge

Who is J. J. Ford?

The Westing Game She is the first black woman to be elected

Why is J. J. Ford important? to a judgeship in the state

The Westing Game She could sell the car, take out a bank
What does J. J. Ford think she will do if loan and pay him back in cash. He paid
Sam Wexler is alive? for her education.

The Westing Game He was a cripple in an wheelchair

What was wrong with Chris
Theodorakis?

The Westing Game She had wide hips and she limped
What did Sydelle Pulaski look like?

The Westing Game So she could meet important people

Why did Sydelle Pulaski move to the
Sunset Towers?

The Westing Game 6 cans of paint, paint thinner, brushes and

What does Sydelle Pulaski unpack from four crutches
her bag?

The Westing Game Buy a subscription to the Wall Street

Turtle thinks she can stay in the house all Journal
night. What is she going to do with the
money she earns?

The Westing Game Doug Hoo

Who does Turtle go to the house with?

The Westing Game The corpse in a bed on the second floor.

What had Turtle seen in the house? She had heard some one say Purple or
maybe Turtle
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The Westing Game $2 times 12 minutes = $24

How much money did Turtle earn?

The Westing Game What did the Sam Westing Found Dead
headline in the morning newspaper say
the morning after Turtle found Mr.
Wexler?

The Westing Game Two million dollars

How much was his estate worth?

The Westing Game Clean living, hard work and fair play
To what did Mr. Wexler contribute for his
success?

The Westing Game She drowned on the eve of her wedding

What happened to Mr. Wexler’s daughter
Violet?

The Westing Game over the rights to disposable diapers

Why was Mr. Wexler sued?

The Westing Game Dr. Sidney Sikes

Who was with him in the car on their way
to court when they had an accident?

The Westing Game an island in the South Seas

For where was it rumored that Mr
Westing controlled the Westing Paper
Products Corporation?

The Westing Game What did the writing If I am found dead in bed
say on the envelop Turtle saw beside Mr.
Wexler’s bed?

The Westing Game Doug Hoo, Theo Theodorakis, Otis

What four people knew she had been in Amber, and Sandy. They owed her $24
the Westing house?

The Westing Game They were named as beneficiaries to the

What did the 16 letters say that Otis will of Sam Westing and they had to meet
Amber delivered? in the south library of the Westing house
the next day at 4 p.m.

The Westing Game birdwatcher

What did Christos Theodorakis say was
his occupation?

What was Otis Amber’s occupation? deliverer

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The Westing Game because he was Jewish

Why couldn’t Jake Wexler be related to
Sam Westing?

The Westing Game like Uncle Sam

How was Sam Wexler dressed as he lay
in the casket in the corner of the room of
the library where everyone was to meet?

The Westing Game The lawyer who meets with the 16 people
Who was E. J. Plum?

The Westing Game Josie-Jo

What does J. J. stand for in J. J. Ford’s
name?

The Westing Game purple waves

Sydelle Pulaski comes into the library
last with painted crutches and making
thumping sounds. What color and
pattern is on her dress?

The Westing Game Edgar Jennings Plum

E. J. Plum’s full name is what?

The Westing Game Wisconsin

What state is Westing County in?

The Westing Game To see his heir?

Why did Sam Westing return home?

The Westing Game It is said they are his 16 nieces and

How are the people in the library related nephews
to Sam Wexler?

The Westing Game That he was murdered

What else does Sam Wexler declare in
his will?

The Westing Game It is said Sam Wexler is already embalmed

Why can’t an autopsy be performed?
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The Westing Game • 8 pair of people,

What are the rules of the Westing • each pair will receive $10,000 and one
Game? set of clues.
• If any player drops out the partner must
leave the game and the pair must return
the money.
• Players receive two days notice of the
next meeting;
• Object of the game is to win

The Westing Game • Madame Sun Lin Hoo and Jake Wexler
Who are the pairs • Turtle, the witch and Flora, the
dressmaker
• Chris the birdwatcher and Dr. Deere the
intern
• Alexander McSouthers, doorman and J.
J. Ford
• Grace Wexler and Grace Shin Hoo
• Berthe Erica Crow, Good Salvation Soup
Kitchen and Otis Amber, deliverer
• Theo Theodorakis, brother and Doug
Hoo, first in all-state high-school mile run
• Sydelle Pulaski, secretary to the
president and Angela Walker none

The Westing Game It must be signed by both partners

What must happen for the check to be
cashed?

The Westing Game Listen to see if they can figure out what
Since each pair had a different set of clues the others have
clues, what are Sydelle Pulaski and
Anglea Wexler going to do?

The Westing Game She chewed and swallowed them

How did Turtle get rid of her clues?

The Westing Game At the end of the year so no one can see
When will the the will be filed with the what it says
court?

The Westing Game Turtle

There is a snow storm the next day and
the Weston house loses electricity. Who
peddles candles?

The Westing Game They tell time. Each stripe burns exactly
How are the candles special? one half hour. Twelve stripes, six hours
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The Westing Game $5

How much do the candles cost?

The Westing Game Sydelle Pulaski

Who took notes of the meeting in the
library?

The Westing Game For Plain Grain Shed

What are the clues Chris has?

The Westing Game Turtle because it says “Take Stock in

Who thinks the clues tells how the money America”
is to be spent?

The Westing Game SEA MOUNTAIN AM O

What are Turtle’s clues?

The Westing Game Put it in the stock market

What are Turtle and her partner going to
do with the $10,000?

The Westing Game Shakespeare or the Bible

Where does Turtle think all clues come
from?

The Westing Game Fruited Purple Waves for Sea

What are the clues Grace and Mr. Hoo
have?

The Westing Game HIS N ON TO THEE FOR

What are the clues Doug Hoo and Theo
have?

The Westing Game SKIES AM SHINING BROTHER

What are the clues that J. J. Ford and the
doorman have?

The Westing Game The newspaper

Who does Judge J. J. Ford call to find
out about the heirs?

The Westing Game GOOD GRAE FROM HOOD SPACIOUS

What clue does Sydelle and Angela
have?

The Westing Game GOOD HOOD FROM SPACIOUS GRACE

What clues do Angela and Sydelle KING QUEEN PURPLE WAVES ON (NO)
discover from other participants? GRAINS MOUNTAIN (EMPTY)
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The Westing Game The shorthand notebook with the notes

When Sydelle and Angela get back to from the reading of the will
Sydelle apartment, what had someone
stolen?

The Westing Game James Hoo

Who brought the law suit against Mr.
Weston claiming he had stolen the idea
for a disposable diaper?

The Westing Game 1

How many bedrooms does J. J. Ford’s
apartment have?

The Westing Game James Hoo

Who is the inventor?

The Westing Game Alice

What does Turtle say her real name is?

The Westing Game $25

How much of a reward to Judge Ford
offer for her father’s watch that he
received for working 30 years on the
railroad?

The Westing Game Her apartment 4D

Judge Ford’s name is the same as what?

The Westing Game Polish

What language did Sydelle write her
shorthand notes in?

The Westing Game Tabitha-Ruth

What is Turtle’s real name?

The Westing Game A typewriter

What machine does Sydelle Pulaski use
to transcribe her shorthand to Polish and
then to English?

The Westing Game Her braid

What does Angela think is Turtle’s
crutch?

The Westing Game George Theodorakis

Who was Violet Westing’s escort 20
years ago at a Westingtown party?
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The Westing Game Judge Ford

Who know that the following have
Westing connections: James Hoo, the
inventor, George Theodorakis, Sandy
McSouthers, the doorman who had been
fired from the Westing Paper Mill?

The Westing Game The bomber used one of Turtle’s candles

How did the bomb explode in the and lit it so that it would burn down to the
restaurant? fuse at 6:30 and the tomato cans would
explode.

The Westing Game Grace Wexler

Who is going to be the hostess in Mr.
Hoo’s restaurant?

The Westing Game A doctor

Angela went to college for one year.
What did she want to be?

The Westing Game A writer

What did Theo want to be?

The Westing Game Violet Westing

Mrs. Baumbach has always made
wedding gowns. What young girl did she
make a wedding gown for?

The Westing Game Dr. Wexler

Who is the bookie?

The Westing Game Otis Amber

Who comes in right before the bomb
goes off to announce the roads are
clear?

The Westing Game Sydelle Pulaski

Who is hurt in the bomb blast?

The Westing Game for trying to form a union

Why was Sandy (Alexander)
McSouthers,the doorman, fired from
Westing paper mill?

The Westing Game Judge Ford and Sandy McSouthers

Who is going to figure out who Mr.
Westing was “out to get” from his grave?
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The Westing Game May God thy gold refine

What quotation did the librarian find for
Theo?

The Westing Game She says it gives her a rash

Why doesn’t Angela want to wear her
wedding ring?

The Westing Game A letter that says “Forgive me my

What did Angela find in the bottom of daughter. God bless you, my child. Delight
Sydell’s bag? in your love and the devil take doctor dear.
Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? The
time draws near.

The Westing Game She had thin lips, copper colored hair and
What does Judge Ford remember about no mole.
Mrs. Westing?

The Westing Game Blond with full lips and a mole in the
What does Sandy remember about Mrs. corner of her mouth
Westing?

The Westing Game Angela Wexler

Who does Violet Westing look like?

The Westing Game A senator and it turned out to be a state

Who was Violet Westing supposed to senator who is now serving 5 years in jail
marry?

The Westing Game Angela Wexler looks like his daughter and
What terrible drama does Sandy think Theo looks like his father, who was in love
Westing might be trying to replay? with Violet Westing.

The Westing Game In the Wexler apartment during Angela’s

Where did the second bomb explode? shower. Angela was hurt, burned hands
and a cut on her face.

The Westing Game bullish and bearish

What are the two trading terms Mrs.
Baumbach learned when she and Turtle
were watching their stocks on the stock
market?

The Westing Game Madame Hoo

Who is Jake Wexler’s partner?

The Westing Game Sam Westing’s wife

Who is Sara Westing?
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The Westing Game 50

How old is James Hoo?

The Westing Game 18

How old is Doug Hoo

The Westing Game 28

How old is Madame Hoo (Sun Lin Hoo)

The Westing Game $25,000 and he thinks he was cheated.

How much money did James Hoo get
when he sued Westing paper mill?

The Westing Game NH4N03 Otis

What is the chemical solution Theo
comes up with along with the name?

The Westing Game Crow

Who did Theo pray with and what did she Go to his angel and take her away
say he should do when they were
finished?

The Westing Game The Wall Street Journal

What paper did Turtle read?

The Westing Game WPP (Westing Paper Products)

What stock is Mrs. Baumbach going to
buy on Turtle’s orders?

The Westing Game BaBa

What is Turtle going to call Mrs.
Baumbach now because Baumbach
sounds too much like Bomb?

The Westing Game Rosalie

What was Mrs. Baumbach’s daughter’s
name?

The Westing Game 60

How old is Mrs. Baumbach?

The Westing Game 19

How old was Mrs. Baumbach’sdaughter
when she died of pneumonia.

The Westing Game Ammonium nitrate--an ingredient used in

Theo figured out his clue. What is it? fertilizer, explosives and rocket
propellants.
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The Westing Game follow Otis Amber

What does Theo tell Doug to do after
figuring out the formula?

The Westing Game It starts to go up

What is happening to the WPP stock
after Mrs. Baumbach buys it?

The Westing Game A notice that all heir must meet at the
After following Otis all over, what does Westing house Saturday night.
Otis give Doug Hoo?

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How old is Otis Amber?

The Westing Game He delivers letters from E. J. Plum to the

What is Otis Amber’s connection to heirs
Westing?

The Westing Game 25, graduated from UW Medical School,

How old is Denton Deere? first year intern, plastic surgery.

The Westing Game He is engaged to Angela Wexler who

What is Dr. Denton’s connection to looks like Sam Westing’s daughter, Violet,
Westing? who was also engaged

The Westing Game 50

How old is Sydelle Pulaski?

The Westing Game the president of Schultz Sausages

Who is Sydelle secretary to?

The Westing Game she is faking a muscular ailment

Why does Sydelle not fit in to the group
of heirs?

The Westing Game Turtle and E. J. Plum

Who visited Angela in her hospital room?

The Westing Game 573

Rosalie, Mrs. Baumbach’s daughter,
loved to sit in her mother’s shop and
finger fabric samples. How many
samples did she have in her collection
when she died at age 19 of pneumonia?

The Westing Game Dr. Denton takes Chris to the hospital to

Where does Dr. Denton take his partner see a neurologist who might be able to
Chris and why? give him medicine to make him better.
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How old is Crow?

The Westing Game religion

What did Crow find that caused her to
not have alcoholism anymore?

The Westing Game Willie Windkloppel

What was Crow’s ex-husband's name?

The Westing Game He gave her paper inner soles

Why did Crow change her mind about
James Hoo?

The Westing Game 45

How old is Jake Wexler?

The Westing Game 42

How old is Grace Wexler?

The Westing Game Windkloppel

What was Grace Wexler’s maiden
name?

The Westing Game 20

How old is Angela?

The Westing Game 13

How old is Turtle?

The Westing Game Both Grace and Angela look like Violet
Wexler connection to Westing? Westing

The Westing Game Jakie Wexler

Who is a bookie?

The Westing Game Sandy McSouthers

Who drinks from a flask?

The Westing Game $52 a share

At what price does Turtle sell WPP?

The Westing Game Because he experimented with using the

Why as Theo in the hospital? ammonium nitrate to make a bomb and it
blew up.

The Westing Game They were childhood sweethearts

How were Violet Westing and George
Theodorakis connected?
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The Westing Game Violet’s mother

Who arranged Violet’s marriage to the
politician?

The Westing Game 17

How old is Theo?

The Westing Game 15

How old is Chris Theodorakis?

The Westing Game She killed herself

How did Violet Westing die?

The Westing Game no

Is George Theodorakis a heir?

The Westing Game George Theodorakis

Who owns the coffee shop?

The Westing Game The heir that hurt him the most which was
Which heir did Sam Weston want the person who caused his daughter’s
punished? death

The Westing Game Mrs. Westing

Who forced Violet to marry the politician?

The Westing Game The former wife of Sam Westing, Mrs.

Who do Judge J. J. Ford and Sandy Westing
McSouthers think must be one of the
heirs?

The Westing Game He finds Crow and Otis feeding the poor in
What does Theo find when he is spying the Good Salvation Soup Kitchen
on Otis Amber?

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Sandy McSouthers (full name is
Alexander McSouthers) is how old?

The Westing Game Edinburgh, Scotland

Where was Sandy McSouthers born?

The Westing Game 42

How old is Josie-Jo Ford?

The Westing Game Columbia and Harvard

Where did J. J. Ford go to school?
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The Westing Game Her mother was a servant in the Westing

What was J. J. Ford’s connection to the house and her father was the gardner on
Westing? his days off from his railroad job.

The Westing Game She played chess with him.

What connection did she have to Sam
Westing?

The Westing Game Sam Westing; debt never repaid

Who paid for J. J. Ford’s education?

The Westing Game 5 inches of her braid was singed off

Who was Turtle hurt when the bomb
went off on the ground floor when the
elevator door opened?

The Westing Game Judge Ford’s custody

In whose custody is Turtle placed?

The Westing Game $5

Turtle sells her super color candle to
Sandy for his wife’s birthday for how
much?

The Westing Game Crow because she is tall and thin and
Who does Judge Ford think Mrs. Westing about 60
is now?

The Westing Game When he was in the car accident 15 years

What did Judge Ford conclude about ago, he had severe facial injuries. His
Sam Westing? face was remade by plastic surgery.

The Westing Game A wax dummy of Sam Weston

Who was in the casket in the library the
first time the heirs met?

The Westing Game Barney Northrup

Who stopped by Turtle’s parent’s
apartment to say that they had to pay for
all the damages the bomb had done?

The Westing Game Barney Northrup

Who does J. J. Ford think Sam Westing
is?

The Westing Game Otis Amber

Who does Sandy McSuthers think Sam
Westing is?
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The Westing Game Angela

Turtle was not the real bomber. Who
was?

The Westing Game A turban and a flowing robe

What did J. J. Ford where to the second
meeting at the Westing House?

The Westing Game checks

What was in the envelopes in front of
every partner at the 2nd meeting?

The Westing Game One by one the pairs will call out to give
What will happen at the 2nd meeting at one answer. They will be recorded by the
the Westing house? lawyer, Mr. Plum

The Westing Game boom

What is table 1’s answer?

The Westing Game $11,587.50

What is table 2’s answer?

The Westing Game Mr. Westing is a good man (because he

What is Table 3’s answer? gave everyone a good partner to make
friends.)

The Westing Game They have no answer because Dr. Deere

What is Table 4’s answer? shakes his head letting Judge Ford know
that Otis Amber did not have plastic
surgery on his face.

The Westing Game mother

What is Table 5’s answer?

The Westing Game No answer

What is Table 7’s answer?

The Westing Game Otis Amber

What is Table 8’s answer?

The Westing Game Sydelle Pulaski and Angela Wexler

Who sang the song, “America the
Beautiful”

The Westing Game Go directly to the library and do not pass

Where does Ed Plum tell all the heirs go
they must go after they give their
answers?
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The Westing Game Wrong all of the answers are wrong and
What answer does Ed Plum pull out of no one has a partner any more. They are
the locked desk drawer? all on their own.

The Westing Game It is not what you have the counts, it is

What does the clue remind them? what you don’t have.

The Westing Game Bertha Erica Crow

When the clues are arranged in order,
what are the missing words?

The Westing Game Sandy McSouthers

Who dies next?

The Westing Game Dr. Sidney Sikes, Sam Westing’s friend

Who is the Dr. that pronounces him
dead?

The Westing Game Half to Otis Amber an half to Angela

They all think the murderer is Bertha
Erica Crow. Who does she give her
inheritance to?

The Westing Game She acts like her Uncle Sam

J. J. Ford thinks that Turtle not only looks
like her uncle Sam, but she also does
something else like him. What is it?

The Westing Game Turtle

Who holds her own trial of the heirs to
find out who killed Sandy?

The Westing Game A private investigator who worked for Sam

Otis Amber is not a delivery man? Who is Westing, Barney Northrop and J. J. Ford
he really?

The Westing Game Sam Westing. He worked for him for 20

Who hired Otis Amber 20 years ago to years and received his last check the
find Crow? week before.

The Westing Game to investigate six people: J. J. Ford;

Why did Barney Northrop hire Otis George Theodorakis, James Hoo, Gracie
Amber? Windkloppel, Flora Baubach and Sybil
Pulaski (whom he mistook for Sydelle
Pulaski)

The Westing Game Crow

Who was the Queen of the game? Go to his angel and take her away
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The Westing Game Dr. Sidney Sikes

Who was the limping man Chris saw
entering the Westing house on
Halloween?

The Westing Game Madame Hoo, so she could go back to

Who was the thief that stole all the items China
including the Judge’s father’s railroad
watch?

The Westing Game a heart attack, not poisoning

What did Dr. Deere say Sandy died of?

The Westing Game After the answers were read. He locked

When did Sandy, Sam Weston, write the the last part in his desk.
last part of his will?

The Westing Game When his medicine ran out.

When did they say Sandy died?

The Westing Game The fourth identity of Sam Westing--West,

What was the fourth name Sam Westing North, South, East--Julian R. Eastman
took?

The Westing Game To set off fireworks that burned the

What did Sandy use the candle for? Westing house down

The Westing Game Crow and Otis Amber

Who got married at the end?

The Westing Game They all got a piece of the Sunset Towers;
What did the heirs inherit? Crow got $30,000. The checks that were
forfeited by the partners.

The Westing Game Chris

J. J. Ford sold her part of the Sunset
Towers to put who through college?

The Westing Game He sold his paper shoe inserts, Little Foot-
What did James Hoo do with his money? Eze, with Madame Hoo?

The Westing Game She went beac to Schultz Sausages.

What did Sydelle Pulaksi do?

The Westing Game He was appointed consultant to to the

What did Jake Wexler do? governor’s panel for a state lottery.

The Westing Game Grace Wexler

Who ran Hoo’s on First?
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The Westing Game Go to college to become a Dr.

What did Angela do?

The Westing Game Every Saturday in the library

How often to Turtle see Mr. Eastman?

The Westing Game In an apartment above the Good Salvation

Where did Crow and Otis live? Soup kitchen

The Westing Game He was a journalist

What did Theo do for a job?

The Westing Game He won an Olympic gold medal in the

What happened to Doug Hoo in the 1500 meter run
sports world?

The Westing Game Chairman of the state gambling

What government jobs did Jake Wexler? Commission and then the State Crime
Commissioner

The Westing Game Conrad Schultz, chairman of Schultz

Who is Sydelle Pulaksi engaged to? Sausages

The Westing Game She was a judge on the United States

What did Judge Ford do in terms of a Court of Appeals and then she was
job? appointed to the US Supreme Court

The Westing Game Turtle. She becomes a lawyer for the

Who is T. R. Wexler? Westing Paper Products Corporation and
a millionaire

The Westing Game An orthopedic surgeon.

What type of a doctor does Angela
become?

The Westing Game Dr. Deere

Who does Angela marry?

The Westing Game Theo who is an author

Who does Turtle marry?

The Westing Game 4th of July

On what day does Sandy, Sam Westing
or Julian R Eastman die?

The Westing Game no

Did Turtle ever tell her secret?