Season 36 (1501-2000) Flashcards
THE NONFICTION BOOK’S SUBTITLE: By Sheryl Sandberg: “Women, Work, and the Will to Lead"
Lean In
THE NONFICTION BOOK’S SUBTITLE: Made into a Jennifer Aniston movie, “The No-Excuses Truth to Understanding Guys"
He’s Just Not That Into You
4-WORD EXCHANGE: In a proverb they “flock together"
birds of a feather
4-WORD EXCHANGE: In 2010 Congress passed a law ending the ban on openly gay soldiers serving in the military, repealing this 4-word policy
Dont ask, don’t tell
4-WORD EXCHANGE: This 4-word phrase is the ordinal equivalent of “The early bird gets the worm"
First come, first serve
4-WORD EXCHANGE: At the end of this Shakespeare play, Orlando & Rosalind tie the knot
As You Like It
4-WORD EXCHANGE: 4-word phrase that’s the title of a 2002 book about Ronco & Popeil products like the Veg-O-matic
but wait, there’s more
HISTORIC NAMES: On May 29, 1953 he left a crucifix on the summit of Mount Everest; his companion left a food offering
(Edmund) Hillary
HISTORIC NAMES: Given to 2 continents, the name of this explorer previously belonged to his grandfather
Amerigo Vespucci
HISTORIC NAMES: The Tribune (not a newspaper but a guy named Clodius) got this orator exiled from Rome in 58 B.C.
Cicero
HISTORIC NAMES: The international airport serving Jackson, Mississippi is named for this civil rights leader, assassinated in 1963
(Medgar) Evers
ENFANTS TERRIBLES: If young Jacques fusses in his crib, hang a musical one of these from Moulin Roty to calm him
a mobile
ENFANTS TERRIBLES: Noelle needs juice now–get her favorite, Blédina’s pommes raisins, made from these 2 fruits
apples & grapes
ENFANTS TERRIBLES: French moms use Mitosyl when cranky babies are suffering from this skin irritation named for something they wear
diaper rash
ENFANTS TERRIBLES: Little Antoine can think about his ways, during une mise à l’écart temporaire, what we in the States know as this
a time-out
MAGIC & ILLUSION: Giving a lot of bang for your buck in the 1920s, he presented magic, illusions, escapes & phony mediums exposed
Houdini
MAGIC & ILLUSION: On “The Big Bang Theory”, this notably silent magician played Amy’s dad & actually had a line–“Thank you!"
Teller
MAGIC & ILLUSION: In 1983 an onlooker said, “I have never seen a Statue of Liberty disappear the way this one did”, courtesy of this performer
Copperfield
MAGIC & ILLUSION: On April 5, 1999 this magician was “Buried Alive” in a plexiglass coffin under a 3-ton water tank & stayed for 7 days
(David) Blaine
MAGIC & ILLUSION: He said throwing 2 cards so they stick in the same spot in a watermelon was a “feat so impressive, I am forced to mention it myself"
(Ricky) Jay
TV-POURRI: Season 3 of this streaming show about a blind superhero featured a nearly 11-minute, single-take prison riot scene
Daredevil
TV-POURRI: On TruTv he’s just being truthful, but he “Ruins Everything"
Adam
TV-POURRI: The house that stood in for this home of the Crawleys was remodeled by Sir Charles Barry, who also built the Houses of Parliament
Downton Abbey
TV-POURRI: In 2018 Kaycee Clark was the ultimate head of household, winning $500,000 on this reality show
Big Brother
SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: In 1986, shortly before his death, this pop artist completed 6 “Fright Wig” self-portraits in acrylic & silkscreen ink
(Andy) Warhol
SELF-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST: A grandson of Sigmund, he made a self-portrait with a black eye that sold for over $4 million in 2010
Lucian Freud
"OB”SCURE WORDS: Greek for a pointed pillar gives us this word for a pointed pillar
obelisk
"OB”SCURE WORDS: To confuse or make obscure
obfuscate
"OB”SCURE WORDS: A sycophant is obedient as well as this servile adjective
obsequious
"OB”SCURE WORDS: French phrase for something of aesthetic value
objet d’art
"OB”SCURE WORDS: The abdominal external these muscles are used in a side bend
obliques
PUT THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MISSION: Fred Haise, James Lovell, Jack Swigert handled some problems on this mission
Apollo 13
PUT THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MISSION: Robert Cabana & a crew of 5 made the 1998 first docking here
the International Space Station
PUT THE ASTRONAUTS ON THE MISSION: Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin & Paul Weitz were on the 1973 first visit to this, which burned up 6 years later
Skylab
LANGUAGE ISOLATES: You might think this tongue of the Pyrenees would be related to French or Spanish, but not really
Basque
LANGUAGE ISOLATES: Written in cuneiform in Ur, this oldest written language was an isolate
Sumerian
LANGUAGE ISOLATES: Kutenai is an isolate spoken in the Kootenay region of this Canadian province, near its eastern border with Alberta
British Columbia
LANGUAGE ISOLATES: Japanese has supplanted the isolate spoken by this 4-letter indigenous people of Hokkaido
Ainu
MOVIE SOUNDTRACKS: The soundtrack of this 2018 film has “Material Girl” & “Money (That’s What I Want)” in Chinese & English
Crazy Rich Asians
AROUND THE WORLD: The 3,000-room Royal Palace in this city is the official residence of the Spanish royal family, but they don’t live there
Madrid
AROUND THE WORLD: These 2 colorful rivers join together just north of Khartoum, Sudan
the Blue & White Nile
AROUND THE WORLD: Studying the earth-moving capabilities of earthworms in 1877, Charles Darwin dug holes in Salisbury Plain at this landmark
Stonehenge
ENABLING COOKIES: The Facebook page of this century-old brand of sandwich cookie has more than 42 million “likes"
Oreo
ENABLING COOKIES: A little elf told me that this brand makes E.L. Fudge, but obviously, that elf was slacking & should get back to work
Keebler
ENABLING COOKIES: This Nabisco brand went cage-free on its box covers in 2018
Animal Crackers
ENABLING COOKIES: This Nestle cookie named for a Massachusetts inn dates to the 1930s
a Toll House
ENABLING COOKIES: These Girl Scout cookies are known as the “Cradle of Polynesia"
Samoas
WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: It’s not about hunting–these rights that get NBA teams around the salary cap are named for Larry
Bird rights
WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: 2 ketchup bottles top the scoreboard of “The Big Ketchup Bottle”, this home to the Pittsburgh Steelers
Heinz Field
WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: Bodexpress didn’t win this 2019 race, the second in the Triple Crown, but did finish–not bad for running with no jockey
the Preakness
WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: One letter off from a big web company, it’s a cricket ball thrown with unusual spin
googly
WEIRD SPORTS STUFF: Lionel Messi is diminutive & a pest to those he faces, so he is dubbed “La Pulga”, or this in English
The Flea
CLUE “N” RESPONSE: Joan Jett sang “I love” this
"I Love Rock ‘N’ Roll"
CLUE “N” RESPONSE: With this product you toss your chicken in a bag with bread crumbs before it goes in the oven
Shake ‘n Bake
CLUE “N” RESPONSE: Beginning in 2016, this Axl Rose band’s “Not in This Lifetime” tour played to more than 5 million fans
Guns N’ Roses
CLUE “N” RESPONSE: The name of this Clairol hair color brand emphasizes how simple it is
Nice ‘N Easy
CLUE “N” RESPONSE: This rap duo throws a pajama jammy jam in “House Party 2"
Kid ‘n Play
DOUBLE TALK: It weighed 50 pounds, had small, useless wings & was extinct by the end of the 17th century
the dodo
DOUBLE TALK: Proverbially, hindsight is said to be this designation of normal vision
20/20
DOUBLE TALK: A chocolate candy with a fruit, cream or nut center
bonbon
DOUBLE TALK: Give me the name of Ossining, New York’s correctional facility, ya mug
Sing Sing
LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: Last name of 18th century printer James, who used the pen name “Poor Robin” for some of his almanacs
Franklin
LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: Last name of Louisiana privateer Pierre, who died following a skirmish in 1821; brother Jean outlived him
Lafitte
LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: In a song beloved by 1940s Red Sox fans, this name rhymes with “better than his brother Joe"
DiMaggio
LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: Al Capone’s oldest brother, a lawman who went by “Two-Gun” Hart, was known for pursuing these prohibition violators
bootleggers
LESSER-KNOWN BROTHERS: With the new idea of using steel, Ludvig Nobel built the first modern one of these oil-carrying ships
a tanker
THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: One of many efforts at parodying this play says, “To wed, or not to wed… for in that married life what fights may come…"
Hamlet
THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: The “Batracho-Myomachia”, or “Battle of Frogs & Mice”, is an ancient parody of this epic
The Iliad
THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: We follow not a baby bird but a young woman in “Are You My Boyfriend?”, a twist on this 1960 kids’ book
Are You My Mother?
THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: First published anonymously, this author’s “The Rape of the Lock” from 1712 is a mock-heroic narrative poem
(Alexander) Pope
THIS SIDE OF PARODIES: In this novel about Catherine Morland, Jane Austen parodied Gothic tales of terror
Northanger Abbey
NEWSPAPERS: The latest news about Starbucks can be found in this city’s Post-Intelligencer
Seattle
NEWSPAPERS: In 1982 the Gannett Co. started publishing this national newspaper
USA Today
NEWSPAPERS: Times have changed: a 1924 New York Times opinion column called this word game “a primitive sort of mental exercise"
a crossword
NEWSPAPERS: Now online only, this daily still holds to Mary Baker Eddy’s rule that there be one religious article each weekday
The Christian Science Monitor
NEWSPAPERS: This family with its name on a spelling bee & an oceanographic institution got into publishing with the Cleveland Penny Press
Scripps
THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II: Charles II’s enthronement as king in 1660 was called the Restoration–it restored this royal family
the Stuart
THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II: Smoothing his return, Charles II’s Declaration of Breda granted one of these for crimes against “us or our royal father"
a pardon
THE REIGN OF KING CHARLES II: These 2 “Great” historic afflictions hit London in 1665 & 1666
Great Fire & the Plague
BIOLOGY: 4-letter word for an organism that provides sustenance to one or more parasites
the host
BIOLOGY: Descendants of these cells, progenitor cells have their own medical potential but are more limited in what tissue they can become
stem cells
BIOLOGY: In invertebrates, this outermost layer of the skin is usually only one cell thick
the epidermis
BIOLOGY: In most mollusks a trochophore is the animal at this juvenile stage that looks very different from the adult
the larva stage
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian helped propel this 1935 film to best picture, the first remake to win the Oscar
Mutiny on the Bounty
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: It was Oscar’s kind of town for 2002
Chicago
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Professor, author, critic & PBS host Henry Louis Gates Jr. served as a consultant on this 2013 film
12 Years a Slave
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: This recent winner began as an attempt to remake “The Creature From the Black Lagoon"
The Shape of Water
BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS: Johnny Hooker got the help of “the greatest con artist of them all” as this 1973 pic stole away with the Oscar
The Sting
WORDS IN ICELANDIC: To annul
cancel
WORDS IN ICELANDIC: A tribe of highlanders
clan
WORDS IN ICELANDIC: In the winter of 2010, a 27-foot-long one was seen hanging under a Scottish bridge
icicle
WORDS IN ICELANDIC: Carrying a burden
laden
WORDS IN ICELANDIC: This African antelope is right there in the middle
eland
THE POSTCOLONIAL WORLD: This African nation left the British Commonwealth in 2003 over sanctions on its undemocratic government; in 2018 it applied to rejoin
Zimbabwe
MUSICAL LEGENDS: On Sept. 25, 1970 she recorded “Me And Bobby McGee”; on October 4 she died
(Janis) Joplin
MUSICAL LEGENDS: This country crossover star’s Top 40 hits included “Rhinestone Cowboy” & “Wichita Lineman"
Glen Campbell
STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": It’s a person’s style of handwriting; a doctor’s is stereotypically poor
penmanship
STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": At the 2018 Indy 500 Scott Dixon’s crew won the challenge named for this break for service
pit stop
STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": Ogden Nash called this root vegetable “an anemic beet"
a parsnip
STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": On a Vegas-set reality series, Rick Harrison buys, sells & appraises items of historical value in this kind of establishment
a pawn shop
STARTS & ENDS WITH “P": The main building block of coral is this tiny organism
a polyp
QUOTABLE NOTABLES: Archimedes was referring to this simple machine when he said, “Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth"
a lever
QUOTABLE NOTABLES: F. Scott Fitzgerald warned that using this punctuation mark “is like laughing at your own joke"
an exclamation mark
QUOTABLE NOTABLES: From this place, George Washington wrote his soldiers were unfit for duty because they were “barefoot and otherwise naked"
Valley Forge
QUOTABLE NOTABLES: This French microbiologist said, “Chance favors only the prepared mind"
Pasteur
QUOTABLE NOTABLES: In the 1940s this British novelist said “The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world"
George Orwell
CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: If you’re having trouble remembering these 2 national colors of Canada, think of the flag
red & white
CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: Canada’s motto is “a Mari usque ad Mare”, translated as “from” this “to” this
sea
CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: Whether it’s silver or bigleaf, Canada’s national tree is this
the maple
CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: This rodent became a national symbol in 1975
the beaver
CANADIAN NATIONAL STUFF, EH?: The national anthem “O Canada” was first sung in 1880 here, Canada’s only walled city
Quebec City
OUR HOME: We like the pool, but now it’s time for some bubbly in our J-500 one of these that “defines the hot tub experience"
a Jacuzzi
OUR HOME: We have this directional exposure–it’s great for the solar panels & Architectural Digest says it’s best “for bright light all day"
southern
OUR HOME: We’ve got an extra sink & plenty of storage between the kitchen & dining room in the “pantry” named for this worker
a butler
OUR HOME: This French phrase meaning “following” is used to describe a bathroom that connects to a bedroom
en suite
& NATIVE LAND: Musician Ravi Shankar
India
& NATIVE LAND: President to some, not so much to others Nicolás Maduro
Venezuela
& NATIVE LAND: The whiskey-wanting Greta Garbo
Sweden
& NATIVE LAND: Painter with a pipe dream René Magritte
Belgium
& NATIVE LAND: Nobel Peace Prize winner F.W. de Klerk
South Africa
BAN THAT BOOK!: A book about George, who takes the new name Melissa, earned some bans but also one of these Greek-letter awards AKA the Lammys
the Lambda Award
BAN THAT BOOK!: This Stowe novel was banned in parts of the slave-holding South & in serf-holding Russia
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
BAN THAT BOOK!: Forget the love story–Pasternak’s “Dr. Zhivago” was banned in the USSR until 1987 because of its portrayal of this commie faction
the Bolsheviks
BAN THAT BOOK!: Due to its alleged obscenity, in 1957 U.S. Customs seized 520 copies of this Allen Ginsberg poem printed in England
"Howl"
BAN THAT BOOK!: The 1722 novel “Moll Flanders” by this author has been taken off shelves for lewdness
Daniel Defoe
ACCENTS: A 2019 survey ranked this island nation as having the sexiest accent; nearby Australia ranked fifth
New Zealand
ACCENTS: In Latin America, this word of thanks is pronounced with a soft “C”; in most of Spain, the “C” is said as a “th"
gracias
ACCENTS: Ewan McGregor called the Midwest accent he used for this TV show based on a movie the hardest one he’d ever done
Fargo
ACCENTS: Scouse, the accent for this port city on England’s West Coast, comes from lobscouse, a sailor’s dish
Liverpool
ACCENTS: It’s another word for an Irish accent
a brogue
GAME OF CLONES: Using cloned DNA worked out just super-duper in this 1993 film… well, for its producers, not its characters
Jurassic Park
GAME OF CLONES: This man returned to the “Star Wars” universe in animated form, voicing Mace Windu in “The Clone Wars"
Samuel L. Jackson
GAME OF CLONES: Sarah, Helena & Cosima were but some of the “Clone Club” played by this actress on “Orphan Black"
Tatiana Maslany
GAME OF CLONES: This author was able to revive the character Duncan Idaho when he introduced clones called ghola in “Dune Messiah"
(Frank) Herbert
AMERICAN HISTORY: "Insure domestic tranquility” & “secure the blessings of liberty” are lines from this historic document
the Constitution
AMERICAN HISTORY: In the 1760s these 2 surveyors marked the boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania
Mason and Dixon
AMERICAN HISTORY: Woeful economic conditions helped reduce immigration from 4.2 million the decade before to less than 700,000 in this decade
the 1930s
AMERICAN HISTORY: In 1868 the House of Representatives voted 126 to 47 to impeach this man
(Andrew) Johnson
THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: One suggestion for this chess piece: deputy sovereign
queen
THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: We could call this “parental” computer component a primary circuit board
a motherboard
THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: You can use this 6-letter term rather than Latina or Latino
Latinx
THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: How about “synthetic” or “artificial” instead of this hyphenated adjective
man-made
THE GENDER-FREE OPTION: To describe those who came before us, these “bears” are less patriarchal than these “fathers"
forebears
"T” BIRDS: In 1784 Ben Franklin panned the bald eagle as a U.S. national symbol, preferring this bird instead
the turkey
"T” BIRDS: This small duck shares its name with a bluish-green color
a teal duck
"T” BIRDS: This swan is named for its low-pitched call
a trumpeter swan
"T” BIRDS: Scarlet is one species of this songbird
the scarlet tanager
U.S. CITIES: Named for the ore once mined there, this city at an altitude of 10,152 feet is home to the National Mining Hall of Fame & Museum
Leadville
A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: The Whomping Willow does its whomping on the grounds of this castle
Hogwarts
A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: The party tree that grew in this Middle-Earth land was the location of Bilbo’s farewell speech
the Shire
A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: Shel Silverstein’s “The Giving Tree” gives these fruits & more to a thoughtless boy
an apple
A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: "It was a right motley company that gathered about the noble greenwood tree in Sherwood’s depths” in an 1883 tale of this hero
Robin Hood
A TREE GROWS IN BOOK LAND: After this title character accepts Rochester’s proposal, lightning splits a chestnut tree at Thornfield Hall
Jane Eyre
21st CENTURY TELEVISION: Fans of this show called it “The Jack Bauer Power Hour"
24
21st CENTURY TELEVISION: Casey Webb has taken over for Adam Richman on this travel channel show that pits humanity against digestion
Man v. Food
21st CENTURY TELEVISION: Justin Timberlake & Frankie Muniz were the first 2 victims on this MTV prank show
Punk’d
21st CENTURY TELEVISION: As Sydney Bristow on “Alias”, this actress worked for SD-6 & the CIA
(Jennifer) Garner
21st CENTURY TELEVISION: Amybeth McNulty stars in the series “Anne with an E”, a grittier take on this 1908 Canadian novel
Anne of Green Gables
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: At the gov.uk site in the Past Prime Ministers section, there is only one listed as “Baroness”–this person
Margaret Thatcher
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: Before his PM-ship Robert Peel organized the London police force & his nickname gave the cops this moniker
Bobbies
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: A few months after quitting as prime minister in 2016, this Conservative gave up his seat in the House of Commons
(David) Cameron
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: With the 1938 Munich Agreement, this PM granted most of Hitler’s demands & left Czechoslovakia to its fate
(Neville) Chamberlain
BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS: A giant of 19th century politics as well as a novelist, he was the first man of Jewish ancestry to be prime minister
Disraeli
WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Oenophile: Drink up!
wine
WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Cinephile
movies
WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Ornithophile
birds
WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Theophile
God
WHAT DO YOU LOVE?: Heliophile
the Sun
COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA: The comma as we know it came to be around 1500, not by an author, but rather by one of these putting out Greek classics
a printing press
COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA: On keyboards you’ll find a comma by itself & as part of this other punctuation mark
a semicolon
COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA, COMMA: The comma named for this school often precedes the words “and” & “or"
the Oxford comma
CHAMELEON: "Karma Chameleon” was a No. 1 Hit in 1983 for this alliterative U.K. band fronted by Boy George
Culture Club
CHAMELEON: About half the world’s species of chameleon live on this large African island, with dozens existing nowhere else
Madagascar
CHAMELEON: In the 2011 animated film “Rango”, this swashbuckling actor voices the title chameleon
(Johnny) Depp
CHAMELEON: To catch prey, chameleons can extend this to a distance nearly twice their body length
their tongue
CHAMELEON: Some lizards can lose a tail & not worry much, but chameleons don’t have the ability to regrow body parts via this process
regeneration
BRIDGES GALORE!: In 1971 this bridge went from crossing the Thames to crossing the Colorado
London Bridge
BRIDGES GALORE!: Spanning 6 miles over 5 islands, the Great Seto Bridge connects Shikoku to this main Japanese island
Honshu
BRIDGES GALORE!: Not far from Davos, this nation’s Sunniberg Bridge is thin, so as not to obstruct the view
Switzerland
BRIDGES GALORE!: The Kennedy Bridge in Niamey crosses this river with the same name as the country
Niger
POTPOURRI: Chemists say roasting is the key factor driving bitter taste in this beverage; wake up & smell it!
coffee
POTPOURRI: One who appears on a document transferring the title to realty may be “a friend in” this
deed
POTPOURRI: You can climb the Hangayn Mountains in this country that’s sandwiched between China & Russia
Mongolia
POTPOURRI: This Boston store’s “Basement” was famous for its 1-day wedding gown sale dubbed the “Running of the Brides"
Filene’s
POTPOURRI: This little metal piece at the front of a gun barrel acts as a sight; marksmen “draw” it when they line up a target
a bead
MOVING THE SAINTS: Swiped from the Holy Land, the reputed head of this decapitated saint is on display on a silver plate at Amiens Cathedral
John the Baptist
MOVING THE SAINTS: This saint venerated in December was buried in Asia Minor but stolen & moved to Italy; reputed bits of him have turned up all over
(Saint) Nicholas
MOVING THE SAINTS: In 2004 bones of 2 saints taken from Constantinople to Rome were returned by the pope to this church’s patriarch
Eastern Orthodox
MOVING THE SAINTS: According to tradition, St. Mark’s remains were stolen from Alexandria, taken to this European city, lost & rediscovered
Venice
MOVING THE SAINTS: A Louisville church displays almost half of the skeleton of St. Magnus, said to be a martyred one of these Roman legionary officers
a centurion
ON THE “B”-LIST: Equilibrium
balance
ON THE “B”-LIST: It’s said to be the “soul of wit"
brevity
ON THE “B”-LIST: The late, great Bill Monroe was considered “The Father of” this type of music
Bluegrass
ON THE “B”-LIST: This 5-letter word for the verge of catastrophe also means the edge of a steep drop
brink
ON THE “B”-LIST: This word for troops camping outside comes from a German word for “extra watch"
bivouac
CLASSICAL MUSIC: In 1787 he gave us a little gem called “Eine Kleine Nachtmusik"
Mozart
CLASSICAL MUSIC: This piece by Tchaikovsky depicts Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow
the 1812 Overture
CLASSICAL MUSIC: Joseph Haydn helped create this orchestral form & wrote more than 100 of them, many with nicknames like “The Hen"
symphonies
CLASSICAL MUSIC: In this piece, the oboe & bassoon help depict a celebration on the treeless mount Triglav
"A Night On Bald Mountain"
GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: Jack Skellington from Halloween Town tries to take over a holiday that’s later in the year
Christmas
GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: During WWII 2 sisters join the first professional baseball league for women
Own
GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: From 1936, it warned how one puff of marijuana could lead to insanity & death
Madness
GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: Professor Henry Jones is called back into action to uncover the secret of ancient craniums
Skull
GIVING AWAY THE MOVIE’S ENDING: Brad Pitt plays Jesse James at what turns out to be the end of his life
Ford
FEMALE MUSIC SUPERSTARS: With more than 30 Top 10 albums since 1963, this singer-actress ranks No. 1 among the Billboard 200’s Greatest Women Artists of All Time
Barbra Streisand
GOVERNMENT ABCs: Its headquarters & many of its labs are in Atlanta: CDC
Centers for Disease Control
GOVERNMENT ABCs: In 2017 Alexander Acosta became its new head: DOL
the Department of Labor
GOVERNMENT ABCs: It’s issued by the president: EO
an executive order
GOVERNMENT ABCs: It was established in 1934, 5 years after the big stock market crash: SEC
the Securities and Exchange Commission
GOVERNMENT ABCs: Much of the acreage controlled by this agency is in Alaska & the western states: BLM
the Bureau of Land Management
SPORTS ALL IN THE FAMILY: It’s the last name of golfing sisters Annika & Charlotta
Sorenstam
SPORTS ALL IN THE FAMILY: This racing dynasty includes Mario, son Michael & grandson Marco
the Andrettis
E BEFORE I: Mark 12:31 instructs, “Thou shalt love” this person
your neighbor
E BEFORE I: To pretend to an emotion; it’s often found before “indifference"
feign
E BEFORE I: A prized family memento passed down from one generation to another
an heirloom
E BEFORE I: This main protein in milk & cheese was widely used in glues & plastics
casein
E BEFORE I: Numbering more than 1,000, these stellar sisters are found in Taurus
the Pleiades
I BLESS THE RAINS: Between a primary & secondary one of these in the sky is a region called Alexander’s dark band
a rainbow
I BLESS THE RAINS: Chac was the Mayan god of rain; Tlaloc, whose name means “he who makes things sprout”, was rain god for these people
the Aztec
I BLESS THE RAINS: In 2018 this Rivers Cuomo band had Toto recall with a hit cover, singing, “I bless the rains down in Africa"
Weezer
I BLESS THE RAINS: Rainfall in this area covering 2 million square miles & 9 countries has topped 120 inches some years
the Amazon (rainforest)
I BLESS THE RAINS: Though this weather system can cause terrible flooding, as in Gujarat in 2005, people depend on its rain for their water
the monsoons
DOWN IN AFRICA: This capital of Kenya lies at an elevation of 5,500 feet, making it a natural sister city to Denver
Nairobi
DOWN IN AFRICA: Species that need protection include this animal–Africa has fewer of them than their shorter pal the elephant
the giraffe
DOWN IN AFRICA: This north African country belonged to France for about 130 years, until 1962
Algeria
DOWN IN AFRICA: The San, formerly called Bushmen, mainly in this desert, are the oldest population group of southern Africa
the Kalahari
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: The march was held in 1963 & one of the speeches mentioned the 100th anniversary of this document
the Emancipation Proclamation
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: The organizers intended the march to bring attention to this bill, eventually signed by LBJ
the Civil Rights Act
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: 10 times Martin Luther King spoke these 3 words that end the first verse of “My Country, ‘Tis Of Thee"
Let freedom ring
THE MARCH ON WASHINGTON: One of the few female speakers at the event was this woman famous for her performances at the Folies-Bergere
Josephine Baker
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: In 2019 this letter-perfect Dutch airline celebrates its centenary
KLM
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: This Swiss food & chocolate company owns brands like Purina & Gerber baby food
Nestlé
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: In 1900 this Japanese company began producing upright pianos; motorcycles came along more than half a century later
Yamaha
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: Originally founded as a grocery store, today this London icon boasts more than 100 departments & about 20 restaurants
Harrods
INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS: State-owned & known by this 5-letter name for short, Mexico’s largest company is this oil concern
Pemex
ODD WORDS: A tittle is that little dot you place over these 2 lowercase letters
"I” & “J"
ODD WORDS: Equitation is the art of riding this
a horse
ODD WORDS: Drupe, the term for a fleshy fruit with a single pit, like a cherry, comes from Latin for this small, oily Mediterranean fruit
an olive
ODD WORDS: It sounds like a geometric figure, but this 7-letter word means resembling the walking dead
zomboid
A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: "Hail to thee, monarch of African mountains”, begins Bayard Taylor’s verse about this peak
Kilimanjaro
A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: Bessie Rayner Parkes described this Scottish region as “hills that were born of ages… like monuments to mighty gods"
the Highlands
A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: Longfellow’s line “On the shores of Gitche Gumee” from “The Song of Hiawatha” refers to this Great Lake
Lake Superior
A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: Switzerland’s “Lake Leman woos me with its crystal face”, mused this poet in “Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage"
Byron
A POETIC GEOGRAPHY LESSON: George Prentice’s poem “Lookout Mountain” recounts the 1863 battle for this Tennessee city
Chattanooga
BOTANISTS: Luther Burbank developed what is known as the Burbank or Idaho type of this
a potato
BOTANISTS: This former slave & botany whiz turned down offers to work for Thomas Edison & Joseph Stalin
George Washington Carver
BOTANISTS: 1970 Nobel Peace Prize winner Norman Borlaug developed a dwarf type of this grain that greatly reduced famine
wheat
BOTANISTS: Knott’s Berry Farm got its signature berries from this horticulturist; the berry is named for him
(Rudolph) Boysen
TV SHOW “ME": Time magazine’s November 23, 1970 cover called this show still popular today “TV’s gift to children"
Sesame Street
TV SHOW “ME": Ben Savage was the title “Boy” of this ’90s sitcom
Boy Meets World
TV SHOW “ME": Patricia Arquette won an Emmy as the title crime solver on this show
Medium
TV SHOW “ME": We found out the Almighty is on Facebook on this Brandon Micheal Hall show on CBS
God Friended Me
TV SHOW “ME": This 1997-2003 sitcom starring David Spade & Laura San Giacomo was set at a fashion magazine
Just Shoot Me!
1930s NOVEL CHARACTERS: Prior to a murder in a 1934 book, he says he hasn’t been a detective since 1927 & that his wife inherited a lumber mill
Nick Charles
WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: 11 Wall Street, New York, New York
the New York Stock Exchange
WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: It rises above the Champ de Mars, 5 Avenue Anatole France, Paris
the Eiffel Tower
WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: His presidential library, museum & boyhood home: 200 SE 4th Street, Abilene, Kansas
Eisenhower
WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: All 12 columns of it are found at Pariser Platz, 10117 Berlin
the Brandenburg Gate
WHAT’S YOUR ADDRESS?: A famous estate: 1 Lodge Street, Asheville, North Carolina
the Biltmore house
VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: There’s a kind of plane in this word for traveling to exotic places & living a luxury lifestyle
jet-setting
VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: Bump & rob (a driver rear-ends you, you stop & get out…) is a technique in this form of auto theft
carjacking
VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: Nautical idiom meaning to complain when people wish you’d keep quiet & not make waves
not rock the boat (Don’t rock the boat)
VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: Trying to supervise every aspect of your kid’s life is this sky vehicle “parenting"
helicopter parenting
VEHICULAR ACTIVITY: Trying to remove every obstacle from your kid’s path is this winter vehicle “parenting"
snowplow
20th CENTURY NAMES: In June 1914 he was assassinated in Bosnia by Gavrilo Princip
(Franz) Ferdinand
20th CENTURY NAMES: Michael Collins, a hero of the Irish struggle for independence, fought in the 1916 rebellion named for this holiday
Easter
20th CENTURY NAMES: Reading the book “The Rocket Into Interplanetary Space” changed the life of this German who went on to be a rocket scientist
(Wernher) von Braun
CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: This pop singer whose last name is a Starbucks drink size helped create Starbucks’ cloud macchiato
Ariana Grande
CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: LeBron James helped develop a special mix of this lemon-lime soda, adding cherry & orange flavors
Sprite
CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: Blake’s Smokehouse BBQ pizza from Pizza Hut was inspired by this country music star
(Blake) Shelton
CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: Vitaminwater created the Formula 50 flavor for this rapper
50 Cent
CELEBRITY-INSPIRED PRODUCTS: In 2018 this colorful candy brand beloved by NFL great Marshawn Lynch put his face on its packaging
Skittles
DANCE AT THE WEDDING: Heading to a wedding in Epirus? Better practice the 12 steps of the kalamatianos, this country’s national dance
Greece
DANCE AT THE WEDDING: Beginning as a Hasidic melody, “Hava Nagila” has become a tune for this best-known Israeli folk dance
the hora
DANCE AT THE WEDDING: For their first dance as man & wife, Prince Harry & Meghan Markle reportedly chose this fitting 1987 Whitney Houston hit
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody"
DANCE AT THE WEDDING: At Mexican weddings, single women dance near the bride during the lanzar el ramo, or throw of this
the bouquet
HAVE AN AGUILA!: "Águila” is Spanish for one of these birds
an eagle
HAVE AN AGUILA!: Mr. Águila is a famed luchador, one of these entertaining athletes
a wrestler
HAVE AN AGUILA!: In both 1915 & 1941 British passenger ships named SS Aguila were sunk by these vessels
submarines
HAVE AN AGUILA!: Atlético Nacional & Independiente Medellín compete in Liga Águila, this country’s top soccer league
Colombia
HAVE AN AGUILA!: Population 798, Aguila, Arizona lies just northwest of Phoenix in this most-populous Arizona county
Maricopa
SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: "First, Marcus Brutus, will I shake with you; next, Caius Cassius, do I take your hand”, says Antony in this play
Julius Caesar
SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: "I hold it fit that we shake hands and part”, says Hamlet to this faithful buddy in act I
Horatio
SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: In the play about this title guy, Helicanus, a lord of Tyre, says, “Then you love us, we you, and we’ll clasp hands"
Pericles
SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: "Take me by the hand, and say ‘Harry of England, I am thine’” is how this title king proposes to Katherine
Henry V
SHAKE HANDS WITH SHAKESPEARE: "Time is like a fashionable host that slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand”, says Ulysses in this Troy-set play
Troilus and Cressida
YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS: This video-sharing service premiered in 2005 & was sold to Google a year later for $1.6 billion
YouTube
YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS: This pro sport introduced wild card teams into its playoff system in 1995
baseball (Major League Baseball)
YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS: Rumbacise was the original name of this exercise program introduced in the 1990s by Colombian dancer Beto Pérez
Zumba
YOUNGER THAN THE SIMPSONS: Robert James Waller got the idea for this bestselling book when he was taking pictures in Iowa in the early 1990s
The Bridges of Madison County
BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE: This Broadway musical’s title refers to the fabulous new footwear at the Price & Sons factory in Northampton
Kinky Boots
BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE: A sham Vietnamese beauty contest gives us the title of this musical that debuted on Broadway in 1991
Miss Saigon
BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE: "Professor” Harold Hill is the title character of this 1957 show
The Music Man
BEHIND THE MUSICAL TITLE: This title of a musical set in Newfoundland beginning on 9/11 is a local slang term for a person not from the Maritimes
Come From Away
WHERE DO YOU STAN?: Reflecting its recent history, the 2 official languages of Kyrgyzstan are Kyrgyz & this one
Russian
WHERE DO YOU STAN?: Kazakhstan has 1,200 miles of coastline along this large inland body of water
the Caspian Sea
WHERE DO YOU STAN?: Mohammad Daud Khan took power in this country in a 1973 coup & lost it in a 1978 one; then the Soviets came
Afghanistan
WHERE DO YOU STAN?: Home to more than 14 million, this city on the Arabian Sea was once Pakistan’s capital city
Karachi
GODS INSIDE YOU: This colored part of your eye bears the name of the Greek personification of the rainbow
the iris
GODS INSIDE YOU: Named for the blacksmith god, hephaestin is a protein that’s important for metabolizing this metal in the body
iron
GODS INSIDE YOU: The upper lip outline with 2 peaks is known as this love god’s bow
Cupid
GODS INSIDE YOU: Holding up your head, the Atlas is the first of this type of vertebra
cervical
GODS INSIDE YOU: It’s where on the body you would find the Girdle of Venus line
the palm (of your hand)
SAVE “IT” FOR LATER: It’s Britspeak for “cookie"
a biscuit
SAVE “IT” FOR LATER: A sworn written statement
an affidavit
SAVE “IT” FOR LATER: A follower of St. Ignatius
Jesuit
SAVE “IT” FOR LATER: Illuminated by tapers
candlelit
THE HISTORY OF FRANCE: This modern regime that lasted 4 years changed the national motto to “Travail, Famille, Patrie”–“Work, Family, Fatherland"
Vichy France
SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRE: Smokey was named for Smokey Joe Martin, a member of this famed urban force for 46 years & a hero of the “Greenwich Volcano” blaze
the New York Fire Department
SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRE: Prior to Smokey Bear’s debut in 1944, the U.S. Forest Service used this Disney deer in ads
Bambi
SMOKEY BEAR: 75TH YEAR PREVENTING WILDFIRE: In 1950 Smokey got a living symbol: a bear cub that survived a forest fire in this state; his burns were treated in Santa Fe
New Mexico
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: In the original Italian, this coffee drink with steamed milk has “caffé” before it
latte
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: The name of this craft is Japanese for “folding paper"
origami
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: Oy, you’re so clumsy–in fact, you’re this Yiddish word for a clumsy person, from a word meaning “wooden beam"
a klutz
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: The name of this mythical sea monster was released from the Norwegian language
the Kraken
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES: A pair of Mandarin ducks in your home are great for love luck in this harmonious Chinese living space practice
feng shui
LET’S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB: Now on public display in Ohio, an aircraft popularly known by this name was used by JFK starting in 1962
Air Force One
LET’S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB: As 100,000 waited in Paris on May 21, 1927, he saw “danger of killing people with my propeller and I quickly came to a stop"
Lindbergh
LET’S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB: The U.S. Army’s Sikorsky UH-60 is called this; 2 of them were at the center of a notorious incident in Mogadishu in 1993
Black Hawks
LET’S TALK ABOUT FLIGHT CLUB: On Nov. 2, 1947 Howard Hughes took this plane on its only flight, cruising about one mile at 70 feet for one minute
the Spruce Goose
DAM THAT RIVER!: Aswan High Dam
the Nile
DAM THAT RIVER!: Lake Winnibigoshish Reservoir Dam in Minnesota & Melvin Price Locks & Dam in Illinois
the Mississippi
DAM THAT RIVER!: Three Gorges Dam
the Yangtze
DAM THAT RIVER!: Gorky Dam at Nizhny Novgorod
the Volga
DAM THAT RIVER!: The Kariba Dam at the border of Zambia & Zimbabwe
the Zambezi
'90s NEWSMAKERS: In 1996 the fairy tale was over as Buckingham Palace announced an agreement in the divorce of this couple
Prince Charles & Princes Diana
'90s NEWSMAKERS: This Georgian published “To Renew America” & also became Speaker of the House
Newt Gingrich
'90s NEWSMAKERS: Nearly 6 months after the attack on Nancy Kerrigan, this skater was stripped of her national title & banned from the sport for life
Tonya Harding
'90s NEWSMAKERS: U.S. Diplomat Richard Holbrooke is best remembered for brokering the Balkan Peace Accords named for this Ohio city
the Dayton Accords
THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: In 1963 Jim Brown led the Eastern Conference to a 30-20 victory in this NFL all-star game
the Pro Bowl
THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: In 2001 this 76ers guard became the shortest NBA MVP in history & was the All-Star Game MVP in an Eastern Conference victory
Allen Iverson
THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: Georgetown & Villanova compete in this NCAA conference
the Big East
THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: The Impact, Revolution & 2 teams called United compete in the Eastern Conference of this league
the MLS (Major League Soccer)
THE EASTERN CONFERENCE: His move to the NBA’s Eastern Conference paid off as he led Toronto to the 2019 title & was named Finals MVP
Leonard
KIDD STUFF: The USS Kidd in Baton Rouge, this lethal-sounding type of ship, is named for the first U.S. Navy flag officer killed in WWII
a destroyer
KIDD STUFF: In 1934 journalist Ronald Kidd founded the NCCL, the British equivalent of this U.S. group that protects people’s CLs
the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union)
ANCIENT ROME FICTION: Thornton Wilder’s novel about the time of Julius Caesar in Rome has this title, like an unlucky date for Julius
The Ides of March
ANCIENT ROME FICTION: "The Gladiator” & “Rebellion” are the subtitles of Ben Kane’s books about this man who led a slave army against Rome
Spartacus
ANCIENT ROME FICTION: When the death of a popular politician threatens to destroy the Roman Republic, Gordianus the Finder must solve “A Murder on” this famous road
the Appian Way
ANCIENT ROME FICTION: In “The Eagle of the Ninth”, a soldier seeks to discover what became of a legion that went missing in this faraway island
Britain
ANCIENT ROME FICTION: This novel by Robert Graves is written as the memoir of a reluctant 1st century Roman emperor
I, Claudius
ONCE UPON A TIME…: Robert Carlyle played Mr. Gold, AKA this spinner of straw, in ABC’s “Once Upon a Time"
Rumpelstiltskin
ONCE UPON A TIME…: Leonardo DiCaprio plays “Bounty Law” actor Rick Dalton in this director’s “Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood"
Quentin Tarantino
ONCE UPON A TIME…: This Spanish-born star played El Mariachi for the last time in “Once Upon a Time in Mexico"
Antonio Banderas
ONCE UPON A TIME…: This Italian director gave us “Once Upon a Time in the West” & “Once Upon a Time in America"
Sergio Leone
FROM B TO A: These single-celled organisms, some causing disease, are some of the smallest life forms
bacteria
FROM B TO A: It’s not just any old Catholic church–it’s one with special status from the Vatican
a basilica
FROM B TO A: This Hindu creator god is often depicted seated on a lotus throne
Brahma
ANIMAL COMMUNITY: To make this home for the birth of their young, foxes enlarge burrows of other animals
a den
ANIMAL COMMUNITY: Shoaling fish move in the same direction but each does its own thing; fish doing this similar word use coordinated moves
schooling fish
ANIMAL COMMUNITY: Konrad Lorenz found that newly hatched ducklings followed him due to this “I” process, as if he were their parent
imprinting
ANIMAL COMMUNITY: Mud baths remove bugs from the Cape buffalo, & if that doesn’t get them all, the cattle type of this white wading bird helps
the egret
THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: Attended by 46 delegations, the San Francisco Conference of 1945 gave birth to this international organization
the United Nations
THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: At the 1822 Guayaquil Conference, José Francisco de San Martín met this other South American liberator in western Ecuador
(Simón) Bolivar
THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: South by Southwest is an annual festival in this Texas city
Austin, Texas
THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: The 1920 Conference of San Remo along Italy’s western Riviera decided the fate of this empire’s former territories
the Ottoman Empire
THE WESTERN CONFERENCE: The 2018 emerging Cascadia Innovation Corridor Conference featured this Washington gov. who’s trying to stop climate change
(Jay) Inslee
BRITISH HISTORY: In 2018 Parliament Square got its first statue of a woman, Millicent Fawcett, a founding member of the London Society for Women’s this
Suffrage
THE 2019 TIME 100: "When our country needed someone to untangle Russian election interference, he served again"
Mueller
THE 2019 TIME 100: This actress “is primed to be one of Marvel’s next big leaders at a time when women are breaking ceilings in all spaces"
Brie Larson
THE 2019 TIME 100: Mitch McConnell wrote of the “impartial jurisprudence” of this successor to Anthony Kennedy
Kavanaugh
THE 2019 TIME 100: Robert Downey Jr. called this Egyptian-American actor a “testament to hardworking immigrants raising their kids right"
Rami Malek
THE 2019 TIME 100: The chimpanzee research she began at age 26 in Tanzania “ended up changing behavioral science forever"
Jane Goodall
DELIVER THE LETTER: A 2.0 GPA
a C
DELIVER THE LETTER: Have a grand time with this Roman numeral for 1,000
M
DELIVER THE LETTER: Friends of the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll sometimes called him by this single letter
E
DELIVER THE LETTER: The setting of an adjustable lens aperture is a this-stop
f-stop
DELIVER THE LETTER: It comes before “-value” to indicate the strength of evidence in some experiments, or before “-hacking” if data are manipulated
P
POP & ROCK MUSIC: This “Hotel California” band first came together to back Linda Ronstadt at a concert at Disneyland
the Eagles
POP & ROCK MUSIC: Oddly, female rapper Megan Pete calls herself “Megan Thee” this word for a male horse
Stallion
POP & ROCK MUSIC: In 2019 this 5-letter rap & R&B artist had the “Juice” to be nominated for Best New Artist at the VMAs
Lizzo
POP & ROCK MUSIC: In 2019 Madonna performed at but did not compete in this international song competition
Eurovision
POP & ROCK MUSIC: This Jackson Browne album about life on the road was recorded onstage, backstage, in hotel rooms & on a tour bus
Running On Empty
"C”IENCE: Both the cerebrum & this, with a name meaning “little brain”, are composed of 2 hemispheres
the cerebellum
"C”IENCE: This term is also used to describe the tiniest lymph & bile vessels
capillaries
"C”IENCE: This connective tissue is largely made from collagen
cartilage
"C”IENCE: Larger than a pebble, this rock type used in roads tops out at 256 mm in particle size
cobble
HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: A Celtic tradition of using hollowed-out turnips with candles inside led to these distinctive & larger Halloween gourds
jack-o-lanterns
HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: It’s said these 2 colors trace back to the festival of Samhain, one representing death & the other the autumn harvest
orange & black
HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: The first time the White House was decorated for Halloween was in 1958, when she, Ike’s better half, hung owls & goblins
Mamie Eisenhower
HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: This no-hands Halloween game may be related to the Roman celebration of the goddess Pomona
bobbing for apples
HALLOWEEN TRADITIONS: This 20th century performer’s museum in Scranton, Penn. features an online seance every Halloween
Houdini
JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: This candy “melts in your mouth, not in your hand"
M&M’s
JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: "Nobody better lay a finger on” this crispety, crunchety candy bar I’ve been saving
Butterfinger
JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: These “Everlasting” jawbreakers sold under the Wonka label change colors & flavors as you eat them
Gobstoppers
JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: "At work, rest or play, you get three great tastes in” this galactic goody
Milky Way
JUST GIVE US THE CANDY!: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don’t”; better get one of each of these just to be sure
Mounds & Almond Joy
HISTORY ON FILM: Watergate security guard Frank Wills played himself at the beginning of this 1976 film
All the President’s Men
HISTORY ON FILM: In “American Made” it’s the 1980s & Tom Cruise is flying guns to these Nicaraguans battling the Sandinistas
the Contras
HISTORY ON FILM: Among this 1995 Oscar-winning film’s less historically accurate moments–the Battle of Stirling Bridge is fought in a field
Braveheart
HISTORY ON FILM: Luc Besson’s “The Messenger” set during the Hundred Years’ War, is subtitled, “The Story of” her
Joan of Arc
GREEK ISLES: Today mostly an archaeological site, Delos is the legendary birthplace of this Greek god of the sun & music
Apollo
GREEK ISLES: For 200 years the Knights Hospitaler ruled this island that was formerly occupied by an over 100-foot-tall colossal statue
Rhodes
GREEK ISLES: Skorpios was once owned by this Greek shipping magnate & it’s where he & Jackie married in 1968
Onassis
GREEK ISLES: The famous “Winged Victory” statue of this island was discovered in 1863
Samothrace
THE 20th CENTURY: This president submitted his draft of the covenant for the League of Nations on February 14, 1919
Wilson
THE 20th CENTURY: After Bobby Thomson’s 1951 “Shot Heard ‘Round the World”, this team won the pennant! This team won the pennant!
the Giants
THE 20th CENTURY: Made when she was 23, Meret Oppenheim’s 1936 furry teacup is a landmark of this art movement
Surrealism
THE 20th CENTURY: Kenya’s first president, Jomo Kenyatta, carried a fly whisk, a symbol of wealth, indicating you kept your horses safe from these flies
tsetse flies
THE 20th CENTURY: He became king of Spain in 1975 & helped the country transition to democracy after Franco’s dictatorship
Juan Carlos
PEN NAMES: In England the gravestone for Charles Lutwidge Dodgson mentions this pen name in parentheses
Lewis Carroll
PEN NAMES: A perfect spy could tell you it’s the pen name of the British novelist born David John Moore Cornwell
John le Carré
PEN NAMES: Erika Leonard wrote “Twilight” fan fiction under the name Snowqueens Icedragon & the “Fifty Shades” books under this name
(E.L.) James
PEN NAMES: She’s from Antigua, but longtime New Yorker writer Elaine Potter Richardson uses the pen name this island Kincaid
Jamaica
PEN NAMES: Since 1930, titles credited to this Nancy Drew author have included “The Bungalow Mystery” & more recently “Crime at the Chat Cafe"
Carolyn Keene
EXERCISE: Many consider cast iron to be the original type of this gym weight that has an attached handle; now “ring” in!
a kettlebell
EXERCISE: Contrology is the former name of this exercise discipline created by & named for German gymnast Joseph
Pilates
EXERCISE: This Chinese martial art has been called “meditation in motion”; balance is important in its series of fluid movements
tai chi
EXERCISE: At a CrossFit gym, AMRAP stands for this, & the higher the number, the better
as many reps as possible
EXERCISE: This alphanumeric fitness regimen uses “the advanced science of muscle confusion"
P90X
CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": Seinfeldian term for “etc.” (4-4-4)
yada-yada-yada
CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": Avian slang for a convict (8)
a yardbird
CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": Adjective for workmanlike service (6)
yeoman
CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": A real busybody (5)
a yenta
CROSSWORD CLUES “Y": Mighty ash tree at the center of Norse creation myths (9)
Yggdrasil
19th CENTURY AMERICA: Before its official opening on May 24, 1883 Emily Roebling became the first person to cross it in a carriage
Brooklyn Bridge
A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: They provide a “red glare” to the battle scene
rockets
A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: Verse 4 says, “Then conquer we must, when our cause it is just, And this be our motto–‘In God is our’” this
trust
A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: The “towering steep” in verse 2 is this edifice that was under attack by the British
Fort McHenry
A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: In a kids’ book this phrase leads Ramona Quimby to think a lamp is called a dawnzer
dawn’s early light
A STAR-SPANGLED BANNER LYRICAL QUIZ: This phrase about liberty in all 4 verses provides the title of a song by The Killers where it has a more ironic meaning
the land of the free
GARGOYLES: On rooftops grotesque statues aren’t gargoyles unless they serve as one of these for rain
a downspout (waterspout)
GARGOYLES: The singing gargoyles in this 1996 Disney cartoon are named Victor, Hugo & Laverne
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
GARGOYLES: Some of the earliest known gargoyles are these animals on the Temple of Zeus; maybe they’re the Nemean type
lions
GARGOYLES: Paisley Abbey in Scotland added a new gargoyle likely inspired by this 1979 horror film
Alien
GARGOYLES: The gargoyles on this Manhattan building named for an auto executive are less earthbound–they’re eagles
the Chrysler Building
BOOK NUMBERS: By Bret Easton Ellis: “Less Than ____"
Zero
BOOK NUMBERS: "The ____ Habits of Highly Effective People"
7
BOOK NUMBERS: An international bestseller: “The ____ -Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared"
100
BOOK NUMBERS: From “The Charge of the Light Brigade”: “All in the valley of Death rode the ___"
600
BOOK NUMBERS: A Temperance Brennan novel: “___ Bones” (referring to the number of bones in the body)
206
TONS OF FUN: It’s estimated that some of these, literally “terrible lizards”, stood about 50 feet tall & weighed as much as 85 tons
dinosaurs
TONS OF FUN: Mostly copper & weighing just over a ton, it was cast for the Pennsylvania Statehouse in the 1750s
the Liberty Bell
TONS OF FUN: Buoys may be anchored in place with these that weigh 9 tons, a bit heavier than the same-named weight on a fishing line
a sinker
TONS OF FUN: 3,500 years old & weighing 220 tons, one of NYC’s oldest artifacts is the Central Park Obelisk known as her Needle
Cleopatra
COASTLINES: This South American country has about 4,600 miles of Atlantic coastline
Brazil
COASTLINES: Cities along this U.S. state’s ocean coast include Astoria & Brookings
Oregon
COASTLINES: This nation’s 2,100-mile coastline extends from the Gulf of Thailand to the Gulf of Tonkin
Vietnam
COASTLINES: This nation takes its name from the Latin are erythraeum, meaning “Red Sea”, the body of water the nation borders
Eritrea
COASTLINES: It’s the only Central American country without a coastline on the Pacific Ocean
Belize
IDIOMS DELIGHT: If you’re a little crazy or foolish, you’re “off your” this piece of furniture
rocker
IDIOMS DELIGHT: To view something with skepticism is to “take it with” this bit of sodium chloride
a grain of salt
IDIOMS DELIGHT: To cause trouble or a ruckus is to “raise” this biblical person
Cain
ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: Indium is named for this deep blue color
indigo
ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: Palladium honors one of these space objects that’s named for Pallas Athena
an asteroid
ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: Swedish chemist Jöns Jacob Berzelius named this element for a thunder god
thorium
ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: This noble gas is named for an element discovered by the Curies
radon
ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGY: Symbol Ga, this element is named from the Latin for France & maybe also the Latin for rooster (it was named by M. Lecoq)
gallium
TV: This former “Daily Show” correspondent hosts his own news satire, “Last Week Tonight"
John Oliver
TV: Omar Little on this Baltimore-set series was a big fan of Honey Nut Cheerios
The Wire
TV: On a ’90s nighttime soap, Heather Locklear was a resident of the apartment complex at 4616 this title street
Melrose Place
TV: Sanchez & Smith are the last names of the title duo of this adult swim show
Rick and Morty
TAKE “TEN": An apartment dweller
a tenant
TAKE “TEN": In the U.S., it’s the most popular form of bowling
ten pin
TAKE “TEN": It’s an adjective meaning pertaining to the most popular British poet of the Victorian era
Tennysonian
TAKE “TEN": In a state of anxiety? You’re “on” these 11-letter items
tenterhooks
TAKE “TEN": The khayyam in Omar Khayyam means this profession
tent maker
GRANT: Ulysses S. Grant said the story that this general had offered his sword & Grant had returned it was “the purest romance"
Lee
GRANT: When fellow West Point cadets saw the name U.S. Grant, they mockingly called him this, after a national symbol
Uncle Sam
GRANT: As a young man, Grant’s dad lived with this militant abolitionist & thought he was a man of high morals but a fanatic
John Brown
GRANT: As president, Grant tried to annex this Caribbean “Republic”, but the Senate rejected his treaty
the Dominican
GRANT: Grant said, “I do not think there was ever a more wicked war than” this one, the first in which he fought
the Mexican-American War
WOOD: 1.5 by 3.5 inches is the usual size of this piece of lumber; its name comes from its unprocessed dimensions
a 2x4
WOOD: For easy woodcutting, strike up this 4-letter power saw that uses a continuously looping blade
a band saw
WOOD: A froe is a woodworking tool; coopers used curved froes to cut these pieces to form the sides of barrels
staves
WOOD: Visit Mandalay in Burma & you may come home with a table of this wood from which the city’s U Bein Bridge is built
teak
AMERICAN GOTHIC: In 1798’s “Wieland”, the 1st Amer. Gothic novel, a character seems to die from this: “In a moment, the whole was reduced to ashes"
spontaneous combustion
AMERICAN GOTHIC: The style Collegiate Gothic began with Pembroke Hall & other buildings at this women’s college outside Philadelphia
Bryn Mawr
AMERICAN GOTHIC: This southern Gothic O’author wrote her novel “Wise Blood” about a preacher in the church without Christ
Flannery O’Connor
1950s CINEMA: Objects of attention in this suspenseful film include a digging dog, a scantily clad dancer & a possible murderer
Rear Window
COLLEGE TOWNS: It’s the L-V in UNLV
Las Vegas
COLLEGE TOWNS: This city that’s home to the oldest University of California campus often ranks as the “most liberal city in America"
Berkeley
COLLEGE TOWNS: This city that’s home to Brigham Young University was originally known as Fort Utah
Provo
COLLEGE TOWNS: Ulysses would fit right in in this city at the south end of Cayuga Lake
Ithaca
COLLEGE TOWNS: The main campus for the University of Arkansas is located in this city nicknamed the “Athens of the Ozarks"
Fayetteville
SPORTS TALK: Lepidopterans excel at this third stroke in the medley relay
the butterfly stroke
SPORTS TALK: A tennis player who serves & scores the first point after deuce has this edge
advantage (ad-in)
SPORTS TALK: Boxers “bob &” this to avoid getting punched in the face
weave
SPORTS TALK: It’s sports talk for a scheme in which players defend an area of the court, not a particular opponent
zone
A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: European explorers, is it worth your toes & maybe your lives to go 500 mi. north of the Arctic Circle to find this path to the Pacific?
the Northwest Passage
A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: Hey you, not-so-law-abiding 1920s guy! Think the feds will indict you on 22 counts of tax evasion? You should!
Capone
A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: Visigoth princes of Spain, are you sure it’s a good idea to invite these people to help you take power? They have their own agenda
the Moors
A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: The foundation’s kinda shaky… is a 180’ tower in this Italian city a good idea? Heck, it’s 1173, we have the technology!
Pisa
A HISTORICAL RHETORICAL: Yo, France… between 1930 & ‘40, will it be worth it to spend billions of francs on this “Line” of defense? (it will not)
the Maginot Line
"IO”-9: Cat killer, or NASA rover
curiosity
"IO”-9: To be verklempt is to be considered very this
emotional
"IO”-9: In sushidom, California rolls often include fish called this type of “crab"
imitation
"IO”-9: A permit to drive a taxi; one in a big city has sold for as much as $1.3 million
a medallion
"IO”-9: Referring to a standard of judgment, this word comes before an important “Collection” of classic movies
Criterion
ADVERTISING: In the 1960s Geoffrey the Giraffe became the mascot & spokesanimal for this store
Toys “R” Us
ADVERTISING: With the introduction of the Model T & more people hitting the road, outdoor advertising on these became more popular
billboards
ADVERTISING: A portmanteau word, this type of paid programming is a TV ad that typically lasts 15 to 30 minutes
an infomercial
ADVERTISING: In a 2019 Super Bowl ad, Sarah Jessica Parker’s & Jeff Bridges’ characters forego their usual drinks for this fancy Belgian beer
Stella Artois
CUBA LIBRO: The Gulf Stream runs close to Cuba & in this Hemingway novel Santiago fishes in it
The Old Man and the Sea
CUBA LIBRO: In a Graham Greene novel, James Wormold is recruited by British Secret Service to be “Our Man in” this city
Havana
CUBA LIBRO: Reinaldo Arenas’ memoir “Before Night Falls” recounts his attempts to flee Communist Cuba, even swimming to this U.S. naval station
Guantánamo Bay
CUBA LIBRO: Oscar Hijuelos wrote a novel about the title “Kings” of this Cuban ballroom dance
mambo
CUBA LIBRO: Joe falls for a Cuban revolutionary in “Live by Night” by this “Shutter Island” author, who normally does Massachusetts
Dennis Lehane
ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD: 2 species of this blood-drinking bat, the white-winged & hairy-legged, feed primarily on birds
a vampire bat
ANIMALS & THEIR FOOD: Birds called kites include one that doesn’t fly very fast; it doesn’t need to as it eats only one species of this gastropod
a snail
