I love it when you drool, wonky :)

I don't seem to have enough name reco to have a post go hot. This is the next best thing.

this should have been your post, temlakos :)

Name the owners of the Twentieth Century Motor Company, beginning with its founder.

Who told Dagny that the sign of the dollar was the monogram of the United States?

Name the city and State in AS where the Patrick Henry University stands--or at least, stood before the whole society collapsed.

When Robert Stadler, PhD, endorsed the creation of a State Science Institute, John Galt quit his program of graduate study in physics he earlier had embarked upon under Stadler.

1. Where did John Galt go, instead of remaining at the Patrick Henry University?

2. Whom did Stadler accost out in the hallway after his abortive last meeting with John Galt?

3. What did Stadler blurt out/otherwise say to this person?

Describe the circumstances of Henry Rearden and Dagny Taggart's first meeting.

Sebastian d'Anconia

You're awesome! While I'm not the son of a gas station mechanic, I am from a small town in Ohio.

She left Jeff Allen in charge. The conductor said "Who's that?" Dagny said "A bum who was caught stealing a ride."

According to Hugh Akston, Galt was the "son of a gas-station mechanic at some forsaken crossroads in Ohio"

Which geographical location in real life did Ayn Rand herself say came the closest to being *the* valley?

For normal credit, name the town and State.

For extra credit: name the Native American name for the river and the valley, and the tribe that once owned it.

As a bonus: Midas Mulligan tells Dagny he cut off all means of ground access, except a single road, which he carefully camouflaged. If you can tell which real-life formation was most likely to have been the location of Mulligan's Valley, name the road most likely to have been the road Midas left open.

Correct.

Of course, the Wet Nurse missed the irony--right up to the time he had a decision to make.

isn't it iron?

Ken Dannager quits the coal-mining business shortly before he and Rearden are supposed to go before an ALJ court for breaking the Fair Share Law. But when Dagny meets him, he is not prospecting for coal. What mineral is he prospecting for instead?

I think the exact words were "a hamburger sandwich". I always wondered if that was really just a hamburger in the 50's. Her description of it made me drool a bit.

non-absolute. could one be anymore offended if they were called such? :)

Mr. Mowen of the Amalgamated Switch and Signal Company refuses to work with Rearden Metal. We then see him talking to a young men chaining down a cargo bound for another State. Toward the end of the novel, he shares a TV stage with John Galt in the abortive announcement of "The John Galt Plan." The Master of Ceremonies gives his full name.

1. What are his other two names?

2. One of those two names turns out to be misspelled. Which name is misspelled, and how?

mamaemma just did!

Ellis Wyatt declared, when he lit his Torch, he was leaving it as he himself found it. Francisco d'Anconia, on the other hand, said he was leaving it as...who found it?

That, I thought, was priceless. Signed with all his names in full!

I don't believe so.

I believe Robert Stadler knew Delta Alpha Mike November well what became of John Galt, when people started asking, "Who is John Galt?" He might not know the full particulars, but he had an inkling. I know he did.

Simply "The Legislature." Which, as the movie makes clear, was now a unicameral body with 120 seats. Like the Knesset of Israel, if that means anything.