Potpourri Flashcards
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A verbal prompt for an actor
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a cue
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| From the Latin for “tail”, it’s what the Brits stand in to get in to see a movie
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a queue
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The actress seen <a>here</a>, a star in Hong Kong & then on American TV, goes by this 1-letter last name
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Q.
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s a rowing team or all of the personnel serving aboard a ship
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a crew
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Royal Botanical Gardens of southwest London
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the Kew Gardens
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Craig Ferguson is a proud Glaswegian–a native of this city
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Glasgow
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Sheet retailers try to impress you with this number, 300 or 600 or even 1,500
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thread count
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Crooked House seen <a>here</a> was completed in 2003 in Sopot in this country; the <a>language</a> over the door is a big clue
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Poland
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Alfalfa has a long one of these primary roots; on older plants it can go down 50 feet
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a taproot
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s the illustration facing the title page of a book
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the frontispiece
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Though it has 3 initials in its name, this telecom giant gets only one for its stock symbol–“T”
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AT&T
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 2010 it became the first Scandinavian band to be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
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ABBA
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This first permanent English settlement in America was named for a British king
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Jamestown
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In the 1960s flight attendants from this U.S. airline wore Gay ’90s & Russian Cossack costumes
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Alaska Airlines
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Barry Manilow was born in Brooklyn; Michael Dukakis was born in this Massachusetts town
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Brookline
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1993 the FCC required analog TVs sold in the U.S. to display this to help the deaf & the non-English speaking
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closed captions
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| By definition, it’s what you do at an ingress
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enter
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Timbo the elephant lived at Shambala, the retreat of this former Hitchcock movie actress, & liked when she fed him Clorets
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Tippi Hedren
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If Simon LeBon had stomach acid going up his esophagus & causing heartburn, he’d be suffering this
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acid reflux
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 8-letter term for a jug of Pooh’s favorite stuff, or for the wax structure that a queen bee builds to store her nectar
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honeypot
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Dark drinks like scotch have lots, vodka less, of impurities called congeners, a culprit in this nasty condition
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a hangover
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Norris McWhirter, track announcer at the first sub-4-minute mile, began compiling this book the same year
A
the Guinness Book of World Records
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Scary–in 1991 the N.Y. Supreme Court ruled that a home buyer could void the sale as he hadn’t known the house was this
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haunted
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A century-old painting of these animals playing poker was one of a pair that fetched $590,400 at a 2005 auction
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dogs
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Schopenhauer wrote that to do this "is to halve your rights and double your duties"; so he never did
to marry
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Dentist who helped out the Earps at the O.K. Corral
Doc Holliday
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Astrologically, January begins with this sign & ends with Aquarius
Capricorn
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This system was introduced in U.S. autos in 1978 to help keep control when stopping
antilock brakes (ABS)
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This type of horse race began as a contest toward a church tower
the steeplechase
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Operation Barbarossa was the code name for the Nazi invasion of this nation
Russia
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Music from Paul Dukas accompanies a section of this 1940 film, as the powerful wizard summons spirits
Fantasia
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A statue of a gal holding one of these bugs in Enterprise, Ala. praises it for pushing the town to try new crops
a boll weevil
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Eddie Murphy took the cake when this tubular snack looked for the "nuttiest celebrity laugh" in 1999
Ho Hos
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This island nation may have been named for 3 peaks on one island & something smoked by natives on the other
Trinidad & Tobago
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This title guy's pal says, "That... hard-hearted wench, that Rosaline, torments him so, that he will sure run mad"
Romeo
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| While Agnus Dei refers to Christ, it actually means "lamb of" this
God
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Would Cary with this last name have seemed as suave if he'd gained fame as Archibald Leach?
Grant
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's the syllable used for the third tone of any major diatonic scale
Mi
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The moon has a Sea of Tranquility & a Sea of this, a synonym of tranquility
Serenity
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This word that means bravery or valor comes from the Latin for "heart"
courage
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| There are only 12 letters in the alphabet of these American islands
Hawaii
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Kelly of the Clue Crew tries to sell you a cell from Sony Headquarters in Tokyo, Japan.) The W44S multimedia phone combines Sony's multimedia, like digital TV, with the phone technology of Ericsson, based in this country
Sweden
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This dilapidated Hawthorne mansion is home to Pyncheon relatives Hepzibah, Phoebe & Clifford, & a lodger
the House of the Seven Gables
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This developer of the first practical helicopter built & flew the first 4-engine aircraft in 1913
Sikorsky
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Chitin is the main component in this supportive outer covering of lobsters & insects
the exoskeleton
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In the American colonies in the 1770s, the British East India Company had a monopoly on the sale of this beverage
tea
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| "Taste the rainbow" of fruit flavors with this candy brand
Skittles
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Jon of the Clue Crew gives the clue while playing the bass.) In music, it describes a tone lowered a half-step in pitch, like when I go from here to here
flat
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Flaneur is a French term for this kind of lazy person, also a type of shoe
a loafer
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This famous 19th c. clipper ship shares its name with a brand of scotch
Cutty Sark
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A special flower for April, it can be oxeye or shasta
a daisy
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Contrary to its name, this yellow mustard brand introduced in 1904 is American
French's
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Heloise says to remove this from the screen in the clothes dryer & toss it to the birds; they'll use it in their nests
lint
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| She was born Martha Jane Canary in Missouri; the original "calamity" in her life may have been her parents' death
Calamity Jane
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A G.I. Joe introduced in 2000 is supposed to be one of these Native Americans who were code talkers in WWII
Navajo
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1903 the first pack of this brand carried the line "for educational color work"
Crayola
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1899 this pair started their research with a biplane flown like a kite
the Wright Brothers
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Title of the chief of the DOJ
the Attorney General
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Used in martial arts, this hand weapon, 2 sticks joined by a cord or chain, is also called karate sticks
nunchaku (or numchucks)
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Kelly of the Clue Crew indicates a diagram on the monitor.) Instead of running around the curve, save strides & run this straight line that touches the curve, from the Latin for "to touch"
a tangent
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On the way to becoming the name it is today, "Covent Garden" lost this letter
N
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's the large river that runs through Albuquerque & Brownsville
Rio Grande
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Its chemical symbol is Sn
tin (stannous)
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This British archaeologist's last dig (the one they put him in) was at Putney Vale Cemetery in 1939, not in Egypt
Howard Carter
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Hanukkah song "Maoz Tzur" shares its English title with this Christian hymn that "clefts for me"
"Rock Of Ages"
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The name of this language, in the language itself, is "Igpay Atinlay"
Pig Latin
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Kelly of the Clue Crew performs an experiment.) Some clay, a very sharp pencil & a horseshoe magnet will make a simple one of these devices--you don't even need a needle
a compass
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Since 1910, the color that borders the covers of "National Geographic"
yellow
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Cheryl of the Clue Crew indicates a phrase on the monitor.) In proofreading, a mark like the red one here indicates that the writer should do this with the words
switch them (or transpose them)
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 14-letter word for cooperation between 2 partners, leading to smoother political sailing
bipartisanship
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Wahine, a magazine devoted to women in this sport, wiped out in 2001
surfing
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Raul Rodriguez is a famed designer of these, & he's often seen riding on one on January 1st with his pet macaw
float
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This ancient Hebrew measure equal to about 2 quarts sounds like a synonym for "taxi"
cab
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Britain, it's a pullover sweater; in America, it's a sleeveless dress worn over a blouse
jumper
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Toronto's coat of arms boasts an artist's depiction of 3 rivers flowing into this body of water
Lake Ontario
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's the number of cells in your average dinoflagellate
one
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Jeff Probst reports from China.) The Chinese province of Jiangxi has been famous for centuries for this ceramic, whose name is derived from the Latin for "pig"
porcelain
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On an alphabetical list of U.S. states, this 43rd state comes immediately after the 50th state
Idaho
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ponce de Leon's tomb is in this capital city
San Juan
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In a song from Meredith Wilson's "The Music Man", this many trombones "led the big parade"
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Using a 200-year-old technique, a V.A. hospital in Long Beach, Calif. has utilized these fly larvae to treat patients
maggots
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ranking just above a captain, not behind him, it's a U.S. Navy admiral with 1 star
a rear admiral
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1989 Pope John Paul II added these 2 automobile-related acts to the official list of Catholic sins
speeding & drunken driving
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| For one game, minor league baseball's St. Paul Saints used these on top of the dugout to reenact big plays
mimes
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Technically, a carpet is fixed to the floor but one of these lies free
a rug
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Andrassy is the luxury shopping street of this capital of Hungary
Budapest
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's not just Dijon; Meaux also is known for this condiment
mustard
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Jazzman Bucky Pizzarelli uses a 7-string one of these
a guitar
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Royal Tyrrell Museum of this -ology has 35 complete dinosaur skeletons
paleontology
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's the country closest to the wreck of the Titanic
Canada
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The flat-topped table mountain overlooking Cape Town is often under its own cloud cover, aptly called this
Table Cloth
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 2003 Portland coach Maurice Cheeks got an "assist" before the game when a 13-year-old girl forgot these
the words to "The Star-Spangled Banner"
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ronald Reagan was partly deaf in his right ear because this happened to close to it on a movie set
a gunshot
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 1950s Bulgarian leader Vulko Chervenkov, who followed the Soviet model, was known as "Little" this dictator
Stalin
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Shelley & Eliot would be happy to know that April is the national month for this form of writing
poetry
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The cotton gin worked by removing these small, pesky items from the cotton
seeds
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If you stare at a bright red dot & then at a white wall, you'll see an afterimage of the same dot in this color
green
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from UC Santa Cruz.) A membership program here at a UC Santa Cruz aquarium is named for the sea type of this creature--not to be confused with the banana type, the university's mascot
slug
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Disgraced soldiers once left the military with percussion playing--hence this modern idiom
to be drummed out
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| As a winner of this, you may be awakened in Stockholm's Grand Hotel by Swedes in St. Lucia's Day costumes
the Nobel Prize
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These 2 words preceded "England Inne" in the name of a romantic getaway in Stowe, Vermont
Ye Olde
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| First 2 words of Variety's headline about rural audiences rejecting rural movies, preceding "Hick Pix"
Sticks Nix
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This newsman's long career has included driving Marguerite Oswald to see her son in custody on Nov. 22, 1963
Bob Schieffer
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In "Gulliver's Travels", Swift described this type of creature as "the most unteachable of all brutes"
a Yahoo
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A popular kids' book tells "The True Story of" this trio of oinkers--from the wolf's perspective
the Three Little Pigs
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If you're a "Junior" member of this organization, think outside the box to earn your Cookie Biz badge
the Girl Scouts
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These "proud" birds also knwn as peafowl like to fly up into trees at night to roost
peacocks
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| When you read about these warrior women in Greek mythology, notice that they don't have ".com" after their names
the Amazons
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In what could be the first-ever eviction, they got the heave-ho for taking an unauthorized meal break in Genesis 3
Adam & Eve
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Donald Trump's rather unique hairstyle has been called a "pompad-over", a combination of pompadour & this
a comb-over
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In May 1998 the Supreme Court gave 24.2 acres of this island to New Jersey & 3.3 acres of it to New York
Ellis Island
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1946 he won California's 12th district seat, in part by implying Democrat Jerry Voorhis had Communist ties
Richard Nixon
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1984 this food co. had a Vt.-only stock offering at $10.50 per share; Unilever bought the co. in 2000 for $43.60 per share
Ben & Jerry's
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The flag of Chile has just one of these, 49 fewer than the U.S. flag
a star
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Python & Scorpion aren't merely animals, they're 2 of these rides at Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
roller coasters
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of Ketchupseed, Mustardseed or Onionseed, the one who's a fairy in "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Mustardseed
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This apparatus that female gymnasts compete on is just 4 inches wide, so don't lose your equilibrium
the balance beam
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If you have any Na, you've got sodium; if you have any Ne, you've got this gas
neon
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The pitcher looks in for this, he doesn't like what he sees... he's shaking it off...
the sign
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This martial art is said to have been inspired by the slow, sinuous movements of a snake
tai chi
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This type of dance shares its name with something you might serve with chips
salsa
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| U-Haul claims to be the largest installer of these permanent devices that'll keep your trailer attached
hitches
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Lou Jacobs clowned around for this circus for 60 years, 1925 to 1985
Ringling Brothers
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Churchill's saying, "He who is not a liberal at 20 has no heart... He who is not a conservative at 40 has..." this
no head
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Workers using radium to make these glow at an Orange, N.J. factory had resulting health problems
watch faces (or watch dials)
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The extreme right-hand door of St. Peter's is only opened in this type of year, which comes next in 2025
a Holy Year
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Acme Thunderer is one of these used by many sports referees
a whistle
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The potage this Biblical character sold his birthright for was made from lentils
Esau
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| North Dakota's state song is "North Dakota Hymn"; this state uses "The Old North State"
North Carolina
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| His frenzied female devotees were called maenads, or, from his other name, Bacchus, bacchantes
Dionysus
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Located about 8,500 feet up in the Andes is this judicial capital of Bolivia
Sucre
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ahoy! This symbol of a cereal is the commander of the S.S. Guppy
Cap'n Crunch
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Denmark's Gorm dynasty began with Gorm; next was Harald Bluetooth, then Sven Fork-this facial feature
beard
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| When Billy Batson said this word, he got the wisdom of Solomon & the speed of Mercury
Shazam
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Sarah of the Clue Crew walks a dog at Yale University) Handsome Dan is number 15 in the line of Yale mascots, including one who was cared for by this man, later Jimmy Carter's Secretary of State
Cyrus Vance
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1937 Fred Noonan disappeared along with this person
Amelia Earhart
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Some think this Irving Berlin song should replace "The Star-Spangled Banner" as the national anthem -- it's easier to sing
"God Bless America"
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Politicians often complain about having to make appearances on this "unappetizing poultry" circuit
the "rubber chicken" circuit
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| There are Blue & White branches of this African river
the Nile
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| VP Garret Hobart cast the deciding vote against independence for these formerly Spanish Pacific islands
the Philippines
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The website for this Bureau of the Treasury department is www.moneyfactory.com
the Bureau of Printing and Engraving
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 2001 Sweden & the U.S. honored this award's 100th anniversary with a set of postage stamps
the Nobel Prize
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Select Comfort Corporation makes these with adjustable firmness
mattresses
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On an NHL rink, it's the color of the center line
red
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 2003 a nationwide Free Slurpee Day was on this date
11-Jul
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This flower got its name from the belief that bees got a sweet substance out of it
honeysuckle
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A first name for girls, it's also a burger without the bun
Patty
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's our equivalent of a German U-boat
submarine
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Forever, or a fragrance by Calvin Klein
Eternity
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's what the "Z" stands for in zip code
Zone (Zone Improvement Program)
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Without this "effect", the average temperature on Earth would be about 0 degrees
greenhouse effect
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Most candy is made by crystallizing this
sugar
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This drink has been traced back to the Ethiopian province of Keffa or Kaffa (maybe the source of its name, too)
coffee
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Pindar tells of one of these races in which 40 teams were entered and only one finished
a chariot race
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This daily chronicler of the fashion industry launched "W", a bi-weekly, in 1972
Women's Wear Daily
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Western state whose 2-letter postal abbreviation sounds like a deadly sin
Nevada (NV/envy)
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| First name of director Marshall, Garry's sister
Penny
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Edison proposed using sheets of this metal, used with cadmium in a battery, as a substitute for paper in books
nickel
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Things that are commonplace are a this "a dozen"
dime
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This "master" takes care of clothing & providing sustenance for a body of troops
quartermaster
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Founded in L.A. in 1965, this rent-a-car agency was acquired by Chrysler in 1990
Dollar Rent-a-Car
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In computer lingo this punctuation mark is called a bang or pling
exclamation mark
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from a skating rink in New York City) This famed NYC complex is home to NBC, Radio City Music Hall &, of course, the skating rink
Rockefeller Center
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$1200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Perhaps Mel Gibson knows that cereology is the study of these, which seem to make the rounds overnight
crop circles
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$1600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Think about it -- Helianthus is the scientific name of this rather large flower
sunflower
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$2000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a ski slope in Colorado) My snowshoes are keeping me from sinking by distributing this over a wide area
weight
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$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Oxford graduate Hugh Grant played a student at this other British university in the coming-of-age film "Maurice"
Cambridge
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Traditionally, the ballet "Suite en Blanc" is performed without scenery, in costumes of this color
White
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Puerto Ricans eat mofongo, a mashed plantain dish that gets its strong flavor from cloves of this
Garlic
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's the official language of Bahrain
Arabic
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$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This 19th C. Norwegian wrote incidental music for Bjornstjerne Bjornson's play "Sigurd Jorsalfar"
Edvard Grieg
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$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If you have a cat, make sure to clean out this box regularly
litterbox
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Devil's food & angel food are types of this dessert
cake
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Double-dribbling & shooting air balls are undesirable activities in this sport
basketball
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Financially, you want to avoid this color ink -- that means a deficit
red
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$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| From the Latin for "put in place of", it's the kind of teacher who may get a hard time from your class
substitute
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$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A truly terrified person is said to be "shaking in" this footgear
Their boots/shoes
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Cirque du Soleil performs its dazzling "Alegria" show at the Beau Rivage Resort in Biloxi in this state
Mississippi
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Heloise says to remove this from the screen in the clothes dryer & toss it to the birds; they'll use it in their nests
Lint
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Aviatrix is a feminine form of this noun
Aviator
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$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The 1999 Tony for Scenic Design went to "Not About Nightingales" by this late Southern playwright
Tennessee Williams
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's a space for whales to breathe through, either in their heads or in ice above them
Blowhole
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In a term for a genial, sociable person, it follows "Hail Fellow"
"Well Met"
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A decisive victory or change, perhaps made with a "new broom"
Clean sweep
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Situation seen here: if it's black's move, it results in a draw
Stalemate
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A special flower for April, it can be oxeye or shasta
Daisy
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| (Hi, I'm Vanna White at Christian Dior in New York City.) This actress was wearing a Dior gown when she won her first Oscar for "BUtterfield 8"
Elizabeth Taylor
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| If your computer has this kind of "base", you should know it's the plural of "datum"
data
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The original "Calamity" in her life may have been her parents' death while settling Salt Lake City
Calamity Jane
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| His Ninth Symphony includes the "Ode to Joy"; his opera "Fidelio" includes "O Nameless Joy"
Ludwig van Beethoven
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$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 22 Jermyn Street, The Savoy & The Covent Garden are all hotels in this city
London
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Miss Piggy knows this Muppeteer's original last name was Oznowicz
Frank Oz
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| "Common Sense" guy who wrote, "Let the far and the near all unite, with a cheer, in defense of our liberty tree"
Thomas Paine
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Male sea spiders carry the eggs on a special pair of these until they hatch
Legs
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$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These bivalves are the main ingredient in the French dish moules mariniere
Mussels
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The 2 basic types of saddles are English & this type preferred by cowboys
Western
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This chess piece that usually looks like part of a castle is sometimes called a castle
Rook
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Specifically, this 12-letter word describes a person between 90 & 100 years old
Nonagenarian
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Creole concoction of meat & seafood is so good Hank Williams wrote a song about it in 1952
"Jambalaya"
200
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Goto is the surname of the young Osaka-born violinist known by this single name
Midori
201
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The portrait on the U.S. $5 bill is from a photograph taken at this man's studio
Mathew Brady
202
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A device named for this woman drove around Mars
Sojourner Truth
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In this sport a long basket called a cesta is worn on one hand
jai alai
204
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| December 1997 saw the 2 millionth one of these in California: "THINICE"
Vanity/personalized license plate
205
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Washington thought of this general, in him "The spark of daring might flame into rashness"
Mad Anthony Wayne
206
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| To go next to your piece of the Berlin Wall, you can buy a lump of coal from this ship that sank in 1912
Titanic
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In World War I, the women who had this job were known as "Hello Girls"
Telephone operators
208
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Before taking the Russian throne in 1762, she changed her name, her language & her religion
Catherine the Great
209
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Alessandro Alessandroni was the performer who added this to the music in "A Fistful of Dollars"
Whistling
210
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Though he wrote about 40 plays in all, only 11, including "Clouds" & "Frogs", survive intact
Aristophanes
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$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Country in which you'd find the Book of Kells
Ireland
212
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1943 the Supreme Court said that those whose religious beliefs prohibit it don't have to recite this
Pledge of Allegiance
213
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Colorless, flammable hydrocarbon found in gasoline; you should have its number
Octane
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Manly men know it's the main androgen
Testosterone
215
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Deneb is the brightest star in this constellation whose name means swan
Cygnus
216
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Related to the fear of falling, climacophobia is the fear of climbing these
stairs
217
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Givenchy, Armani & Nicole Miller have chic shops on this street synonymous with the ad industry
Madison Avenue
218
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Heloise cleans this bowl by pouring in cola that has gone flat & letting it soak for an hour
toilet bowl
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Spanish for "sauce", this chip dip may be so spicy it'll make you want to dance
salsa
220
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He became clerk of the Pennsylvania assembly in 1736
Ben Franklin
221
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On maps, this rodent's name precedes creek, falls, island, &, of course, dam
Beaver
222
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Belomancy is a form of divination in which these are drawn at random from a quiver or other container
Arrows
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Some foreign X-ray scanners may ruin rolls of this, so keep them in a special lead-lined bag
Film
224
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Kennedy Center's grand foyer is lit with 18 of these crystal items; they each weigh a ton
Chandeliers
225
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Dedicated in 1910, the capitol building in this Kentucky city was designed to resemble the U.S. capitol
Frankfort
226
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Asian country leads the world in the production of rice & pears
China
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A synonym for the British PM, this London street was named for a Secretary of the Treasury commission
Downing Street
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It means to soak meat like beef or chicken to flavor, tenderize or preserve it
Marinate
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On October 10, 1995 he retained his world chess title by defeating India's Viswanathan Anand
Garry Kasparov
230
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This basic ingredient of glass can be derived from sand, flint or quartz
Silica
231
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1219 the Order of the Dannebrog was established; in 1671 this European country revived it
Denmark
232
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Greek god killed Python, the serpent that guarded a shrine on the slopes of Mount Parnassus
Apollo
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Handsome Dan, this Ivy League university's first bulldog mascot, now resides in a glass case, stuffed
Yale
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This monkey named for an arachnid is noted for its long, slender limbs & great agility
Spider monkey
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$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| St. Jerome prepared this Latin version of the Bible at the end of the 4th century
Vulgate Bible
236
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Grown in the northeast U.S., the round white or Katahdin type of this tuber is excellent for boiling
Potato
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This computer maker's NASDAQ symbol is AAPL, not MAC
Apple
238
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Huitzilopochtli was the war & sun god of this civilization
Aztecs
239
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This president's 1961 farewell address warned of the influence of "The Military-Industrial Complex"
Dwight D. Eisenhower
240
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| With a fan that circulates hot air, this type of oven cooks 25% faster than conventional ovens
Convection oven
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ganymede & Callisto are the largest moons of this largest planet
Jupiter
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The dromedary type of this mammal has 1 hump; the Bactrian has 2
Camel
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This airline was founded in 1920 as the Queensland & Northern Territory Aerial Services Ltd.
Qantas
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1783 these brothers demonstrated their hot air balloon to Louis XVI & Marie Antoinette
the Montgolfier brothers
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In mythology Laius & Oedipus both reigned over this Greek city
Thebes
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$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The origins of this company can be traced back to the production of a car called the Dat in 1911
Nissan/Datsun
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Ash Wednesday is a movable feast falling this many days, excluding Sundays, before Easter
40
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1950 this former first lady won the second Four Freedoms Award
Eleanor Roosevelt
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The National Air & Space Museum's planetarium is named for this German-American physicist
Albert Einstein
250
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Snaketown on the Gila River in this state is the best-studied village of the Hohokam culture
Arizona
251
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Arthur Mitchell & Karel Shook co-founded the Dance Theatre of this place
Harlem
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He was 4 1/2 years old when he became Sweden's crown prince in 1950; now he's king of Sweden
Carl Gustav XVI
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$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It was the 1990 date of the last official U.S. census; no fooling
1-Apr-90
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$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| One of these was added to 1992 at 7:59:59 P.M. EDT June 30
Second
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$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The 4-H Clubs are an extension service of this U.S. cabinet department
Agriculture
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The YMCA found his indoor versions of soccer & rugby too violent, so he invented basketball
James Naismith
257
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 1 of the 2 cities whose Bee is among the top 100 U.S. newspapers in circulation
Fresno & Sacramento
258
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Willem Einthoven devised a way to measure & record its electrical current, thus producing the EKG
the heart
259
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1032 this Venetian official gave up most of his authority but remained commander of the army & navy
The Doge
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This is Mississippi's state tree -- its flower is the state flower
Magnolia
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$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A thin sheet of fine wood applied over cheaper material for decoration
Veneer
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Some historians consider this first "Dark Horse" the best president between Jackson & Lincoln
James K. Polk
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$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| At the 1996 burial of Larry LaPrise, this song's author, we guess they put his right foot in, put his right foot out...
the Hokey Pokey
264
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He joined the Boston Symphony as a violinist in 1915 & began conducting in the '20s
Arthur Fiedler
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| New ones of these in 1996 include 847 for Illinois & 330 for Ohio
area codes
266
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Haitian folk belief, it's a soulless corpse reanimated by a voodoo priest or bocor
a zombie
267
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Guinea pigs are used to diagnose this disease because of their low resistance to the tubercle bacillus
tuberculosis
268
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| At the 1996 Summer Olympics, she withdrew from the heptathlon but won a bronze for the long jump
Jackie Joyner-Kersee
269
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He wrote, "As Gregor Samsa awoke... He found himself transformed into a gigantic insect"
(Franz) Kafka
270
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In literature, restoration refers to the period after the return of this king to England's throne in 1660
Charles II
271
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Meaning loathsome, this adjective is used to describe a particular Himalayan "snowman"
abominable
272
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Sculpted by Phidias, this ancient wonder rose 40 feet with skin made of ivory
the statue of Zeus at Olympia
273
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| MRI, which stands for this, cannot be used on patients with pacemakers or artificial metal joints
magnetic resonance imaging
274
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Commonly used title of clergyman Mason Weems, known for his 1800 biography of George Washington
Parson
275
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This country's pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair was designed by Lucio Costa & Oscar Niemeyer
Brazil
276
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| From the Latin for "betrothal", it's a marriage partner, either husband or wife
Spouse
277
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The garden of "Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary" includes these, along with cockleshells & pretty maids
Silver Bells
278
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This British author's 2 middle names are Ronald Reuel
J.R.R. Tolkien
279
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1885 this Nez Perce chief & his people were moved to a reservation in Washington where he died in 1904
Chief Joseph
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$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1976 the U.S. Mint issued a medal commemorating his flight through the sound barrier
Chuck Yeager
281
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Cakes rise in an oven because baking powder or yeast in the batter produces this gas
Carbon Dioxide
282
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Navigational instruments are displayed at the Maritime Museum near Franklin Court in this Penn. city
Philadelphia
283
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On Jan. 16, 1969 Metroliner high-speed train service began between New York City & this city at the other end
Washington, D.C.
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Cumberland Falls in the southeast of this state is called the "Niagara of the South"
Kentucky
285
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Neewollah, a festival for this holiday, is observed each year in Independence, Kansas
Halloween ("Neewollah" backwards)
286
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This branch of the Justice Department administers the National Crime Information Center
FBI
287
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Denver newspaper was given a 1986 Pulitzer Prize for meritorious public service
The Denver Post
288
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Some say that Jesse James was with this man & his gang when they raided Lawrence, Kansas
William Quantrill
289
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This principality & Switzerland are joined in a customs union
Liechtenstein
290
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Chicago's O'Hare International Airport is Illinois' busiest; this airport is second
Chicago Midway
291
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| One of this country's shekels can be broken down into 100 agorot
Israel
292
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In the basic form of this game, each player gets a card with 5 horizontal rows of numbers from 1 to 75
bingo
293
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Peau de soie, a textile with good drapability & body, is woven from this fiber
silk
294
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Lydia & Xenia are women's names derived from this language
Greek
295
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The fad involving this type of radio followed the oil embargo of 1973-74
CB (citizens' band) radio
296
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The seven of these include pride, lust & envy
Seven Deadly Sins
297
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Hull House founder was the first woman to receive an honorary degree from Yale
Jane Addams
298
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A maker of data communications equipment, U.S. Robotics is named for this author's book "I, Robot"
Isaac Asimov
299
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Harvey Penick, a mentor to many of the greatest players in this sport, passed away in 1995
Golf
300
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Arthurian legend, Morgan le Fay is the ruler of this island
Avalon
301
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This U.S. composer was born July 4, 1826 to William Barclay Foster, a Pennsylvania merchant
Stephen Foster
302
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The "peace", introduced in 1945, is one of the most famous hybrid tea varieties of this flower
a rose
303
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Founded in 1862, this government department that deals with farmers was given cabinet status in 1889
The Department of Agriculture
304
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Kleptophobia is the fear of doing this; if you wanted to do it all the time you'd be a kleptomaniac
stealing
305
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1803 this emperor's youngest brother, Jerome, married an American teenager in Baltimore
Napoléon
306
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Discoveryland is Euro Disney's equivalent of this futuristic land found in Disneyland & Disney World
Tomorrowland
307
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The French call this musical instrument la petite flute
the piccolo
308
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| "Museita's Waltz" is a highlight of this composer's 1896 opera "La boheme"
Giacomo Puccini
309
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Charles Schulz said Snoopy didn't become a lead character until he began walking this way
on two feet
310
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's a synonym for a lie as well as the type of tale told by Aesop
Fable
311
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Any Brit can tell you that a Liverpudlian is one of these
Someone from Liverpool
312
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Persil is the French word for this ever-popular garnish
Parsley
313
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The national conference of these two religious groups sponsors Brotherhood-Sisterhood Week
Christians and Jews
314
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Watermelon, pumpkin & sunflower ones can be toasted like nuts & served as hors d'oeuvres
seeds
315
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Chatfield Memorial Garden is one of many lovely gardens in this Garden State
New Jersey
316
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It’s a cookhouse on wheels, or a pet food that probably isn’t made in one
a chuck wagon
317
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These shoes must be roomy, because ads say, “There’s a little kid and his dog inside every pair”
Buster Browns
318
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A pleasure carriage with a raised driver’s seat, or the 19th century British queen for whom it was named
Victoria
319
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The pattern of the fibrous tissue in wood, it's tough to go against it
the grain
320
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Staves are bound to form one of these containers of rather fun monkeys
a barrel
321
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Completes the title of the Strauss waltz "Tales from the..."
the Vienna Woods
322
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The gray wolf can also be found lumbering around under this name
the timberwolf
323
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The object in this Scottish Highland game is to make sure the log leaves your hands & travels straight
the caber toss
324
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| "The Key Reporter" is a newsletter published by this college & university honor society
Phi Beta Kappa
325
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Shorthand teacher Emma Dearborn originated this fast form of shorthand around 1924
speed writing
326
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| When asked if she wore falsies, this '50s sex symbol said, "Those who know me better, know better"
Marilyn Monroe
327
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| These 2 words for conical deposits found in caverns come from the Greek "stalassein", meaning "to drip"
Stalactites & Stalagmites
328
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The stalklike part of a stamen, or the threadlike conductor in a light bulb
Filament
329
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He coined the phrase "Blow your own trumpet" in his operetta "Ruddigore"
William S. Gilbert
330
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Wines from this state include Chesapeake Blanc, Plantation Blush & James River White
Virginia
331
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The first 13 people to win the Nobel Prize for Literature were from this continent
Europe
332
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of mollusks, algae or dinosaurs, the last one to appear on Earth
Dinosaurs
333
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of the 4 sections in a typical orchestra, the 1 that includes the most musicians
String section
334
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| 2 of the 6 U.N. members whose names begin with the letter "L"
Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya & Luxembourg
335
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of the planets in our solar system, this one is last alphabetically
Venus
336
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This rock star not only had the most No. 1 songs by a solo performer, he also had the most No. 2 hits
Elvis Presley
337
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars" is this disk jockey's TV & radio sign-off
Casey Kasem
338
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Students who don't want to dissect a real one of these can order a cloth one named "Ribbit"
Frog
339
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In flowers, the anther is part of the stamen in which this is produced
Pollen
340
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The 12 divisions of a horoscope are known by this "homey" name
Houses
341
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Havana brown cat is so named because its coat resembles the color of these
Cigar
342
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's the largest state entirely east of the Mississippi
Georgia
343
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The number of times a year the snow goose sets off on a migration
2
344
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| MCA Home Video has sold over 15 million copies of this movie, calling it the all-time top-selling video
"E.T."
345
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In November 1988 this former leader of CCR was acquitted of plagiarizing -- himself
John Fogerty
346
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The Energy Dept. picked this state in which to build the estimated $4.4 billion Supercollider
Texas
347
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Serving briefly under Reagan, he didn't sign any dollar bills until Bush appointed him Treasury secretary
Nicholas Brady
348
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The one punctuation mark necessary to every declarative sentence
Period
349
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| You'd find the numbers 7, 8 & 9 written entries in an encyclopedia in this order
Eight, Nine & Seven
350
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The science of matter & energy, it involves optics, acoustics & thermodynamics
Physics
351
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| She won 3 golds in swimming at the '88 Olympics & was chosen homecoming queen of her school
Janet Evans
352
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| She lived her last 45 years in Chicago's Hull House
Jane Addams
353
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Bob Eckhardt won 1 of these contests in 1989 with "Whooeee! Whooo Pig, Whooo Pig, Whooo Pig! Whoeee Whoeee"
Hog-Calling Contest
354
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In names of nuptial magazines, this word follows Southern, Southern Calif., & Modern
Bride
355
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In-Mut-Too-Yah-Lat-Lat was the Indian name of this Nez Perce chief who would "fight no more forever"
Chief Joseph
356
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| James Paxton designed this London "palace" for the 1st World's Fair in 1851
Crystal Palace
357
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The word that completes the title of the musical "A Day in Hollywood A Night in the..."
Ukraine
358
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1988 officials in this country admitted they had printed false maps for years to fool enemies
USSR
359
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Hannibal had 38 of these animals when he began crossing the Alps, but few survived the ice & snow
Elephants
360
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Imported into Brazil from Africa, these "killer" insects escaped the lab & bred with locals
Bees
361
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The U.S. Army awarded 8,612 medals after this 1983 invasion although fewer than 7,000 troops were there
Grenada
362
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Both the father & son of the Frankish leader Charles Martel were named this
Pippin
363
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The leaders of these clubs for young females now wear uniforms designed by Bill Blass
The Girl Scouts
364
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Though its name is French, papier-mache was 1st used on this continent, not Europe
Asia
365
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This 5th Ave. museum sells pins representing its unofficial mascot, William the Hippo
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
366
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It can be a colorful vegetable dish, an herb liqueur or a shade of yellowish-green
chartruese
367
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Seen in religious art, a mandorla is an aureole of light shaped like this nut used in marzipan
almond
368
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Queen Anne's lace is the ancestor of this orange vegetable & has roots resembling it
the carrot
369
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The primary source of this food is the Apis mellifera
honey
370
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| "Jennifer" derives from the Celtic form of this legendary Queen's name
Guinevere
371
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This publication says it's "no more a magazine about NYC than Time is a magazine about wristwatches"
The New Yorker
372
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Luxurious legwear, or a 1957 movie musical starring Fred Astaire, who didn't wear them
silk stockings
373
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| A feminist might tell you it's what the letters in "NOW" stand for
National Organization of Women
374
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| What a Spaniard usually drinks from a "bota"
wine
375
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| There is a small population of blue whales that can be seen in this famous Canadian river
the Saint Lawrence
376
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| The "Pig Bowl" is a California charity football game between people of this occupation
law enforcement
377
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In 1978, Pat Donahue ate almost 2 lbs. of these in 68 seconds without sipping a single Gibson
(pickled) onions
378
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| On July 20, 1987, a prankster changed the Hollywood sign to read "Ollywood", referring to him
Oliver North
379
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Guinness says Jean Chapman set a record in '82 by putting out 6,607 flaming torches in this in 2 hours
her mouth
380
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Arthur D. Little proved you can make a silk purse out of this: his is in the Smithsonian
a sow's ear
381
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Tho this saint was known for curative powers, the "dance" named for him is really the disease chorea
St. Vitus
382
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In October, 1986, the U.S. mint issued the first of these in more than fifty years
Gold Coin
383
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Iva D' Aguino, who in 1977 received a presidential pardon, was better known by this nickname
Tokyo Rose
384
$600 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Guinness says the greatest number of people saved by one man from death were saved by him in 1944-45
Raoul Wallenberg
385
$800 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| He won a lifetime membership in the U.S. Duffers Association after missing the first golf ball he swung at on the moon
Alan Shepard
386
$1000 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Once denied a driver's license, this general secretary of the U.S. Communist party is usually driven to work
Gus Hall
387
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| C.O.D. stamped on a package stands for this
cash (or collect) on delivery
388
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Keeping the "bells" comes from early practice of a sailor having to turn this over every 30 minutes
an hourglass
389
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Number of months that do not have 31 days
5
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$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This expression comes from medieval custom of placing lips on signature after signing a document
sealed with a kiss
391
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Though it's been around since the '20s, many ignore this device that protects sterility when opening a Band-aid
the little red tear string
392
$100 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| This Arlington, Va. office building covers over twice the area as the Great Pyramid of Cheops
the Pentagon
393
$200 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| It's said this cleric, French prime minister under Louis XIII, exercised by jumping over furniture
Cardinal Richelieu
394
$300 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| In Marriott hotels, this religious book is found in drawers along with the Gideon Bible
Book Of Mormon
395
$400 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Instrument for measuring walked distances that works by responding to body motion
a pedometer
396
$500 ||| Category: POTPOURRI ||| Of the female elk, moose or reindeer, the one which has antlers
the reindeer
