THOSE DARN FRANCISCANS
'90s TV
EARTH SCIENCE
ADD A LETTER
WORLD PLACE NAMES
THEY WROTE IT
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In their efforts to convert local tribes, the Franciscans built 21 of these in California.
What are missions?
400
An estimated 50 million people watched his final "Tonight Show" appearance on May 22, 1992.
Who is Johnny Carson?
400
The comet-shaped magnetosphere that surrounds the Earth is shaped by the stream of plasma known as this.
What is the solar wind?
400
A type of transport flies in a letter to become this huge heavenly body.
What is a planet?
400
Places on the map named for her include a land in Antarctica and a state in Australia.
Who is Victoria?
400
As a 1904 play, Peter Pan.
Who is [J. M.] Barrie?
800
13th c. Italians in Mongol lands included Marco Polo and John of Monte Corvino, first archbishop of this capital.
What is Beijing?
800
One meme about this actor who was Walker, Texas Ranger: "Death once had a near-him experience"
Who is Chuck Norris?
800
This property of seawater is usually 3.5% but in parts of the Baltic Sea, it can be under 1% due to melting ice.
What is salinity?
800
Russian cash adds a letter to become this, demolition remains.
What is rubble?
800
These two islands get their names from their sizes relative to each other.
What are Majorca and Minorca?
800
The 1927 novel Steppenwolf.
Who is [Hermann] Hesse?
1200
Hey, Bobby--from the habits they once wore, a Franciscan order of Britain and Ireland is known as this color friars.
What is grey?
1200
This sitcom aired the office politics and interpersonal relationships at Station WNYX.
What is NewsRadio?
1200
Millennia ago, Eratosthenes calculated this at 252,000 stadia, thought to equal about 25,000 miles.
What is the circumference of the earth?
1200
A metric measure of liquid pours in a letter to do this, to linger aimlessly.
What is loiter?
1200
Under the name Batavia, this world capital was once the capital of the Dutch East Indies.
What is Jakarta?
1200
The diary entry "That big, dark, hunky boy ... came over and was looking hard in my eyes and it was Ted Hughes."
Who is Sylvia Plath?
1600
St. Anthony of Padua eventually got back his book of Psalms, making him the patron saint of these.
What are lost things?
1600
The romance of Dr. Joel Fleischman and local pilot Maggie O'Connell was sometimes hot but often chilly on this show.
What is Northern Exposure?
1600
Lamina is the thinnest layer of strata in this type of rock such as shale.
What is sedimentary?
1600
Insert a letter into a 4-letter synonym for "prevalent" to get this firearm.
What is rifle?
1600
Perhaps from an explorer named Fernandes, this Canadian Atlantic region means "farm worker" in Spanish.
What is Labrador?
1600
Downton Abbey, every episode.
Who is Julian Fellowes?
2000
Like Dominicans, Franciscans are this type of order known for poverty.
What is the mendicant order?
2000
Originally from Northern Ireland, this actress played Monica on Touched by an Angel.
Who is Roma Downey?
2000
The inner of these 2 radiation belts is centered less than 6,000 miles above the Earth; the outer may extend to 36,000 miles.
What are the Van Allen belts?
2000
Add a letter to a device that warms a room and you get this, noted for its small pinkish-purple flowers.
What is heather?
2000
This African capital is said to take its name from the mammal seen here:
What is Kampala?
2000
The German poem "Archaic Torso of Apollo," which ends "You must change your life."
Who is [Rainer Maria] Rilke?