MOVIE JACK POT
"E"-MALE
U.S. CITY HISTORY
A LOST LETTER FROM SHAKESPEARE
VERBS
200
'He was one half of "The Out-Of-Towners" & one half of "The Odd Couple"'
Jack Lemmon
200
'Dan Marino, Brett Favre & this Denver Bronco are the only NFL quarterbacks to pass for more than 50,000 yards'
John Elway
200
'Once known as Lake's Crossing, it's the place where many folks have crossed from marriage to divorce'
Reno
200
'Dear Anne, how art thou? This play doth come along; Mercutio dueleth Tybalt, but the 2 shan't appear in a sequel'
Romeo and Juliet
200
'To mix a salad or flip a coin'
toss
400
'In a 1992 film he tells Tom Cruise, "You can't handle the truth!"'
Jack Nicholson
400
'In 1984 he left Paramount Pictures to become chairman & CEO of Disney; he stayed there 20 years'
Michael Eisner
400
'During WWII, this city was the headquarters of the Alaska Defense Command'
Anchorage
400
'I included a Norwegian guy in this play & dubbed Osric "a fantastic fop"; the ending is a whit of a bummer'
Hamlet
400
'Not spring or fall but this verb can mean either "to spice" or "to make more experienced"'
season
600
'Si, on the big screen he threw his hat into the ring as "Nacho Libre"'
Jack Black
600
'In 1968 this American biologist formed Zero Population Growth urging families to have no more than 2 children'
Paul Ehrlich
600
'This Kentucky city's name dates back to 1775, when settlers on the site heard about the Revolutionary War's 1st battle'
Lexington
600
'I have a line in this 1604 tragedy: "Loved not wisely but too well"... dost thou think it over the top?'
Othello
600
'This type of pad or pillow is also a verb meaning "to absorb shock", as of "the blow"'
cushion
800
'In 1970 James Earl Jones played Jack Jefferson, a thinly veiled version of this real boxer'
Jack Johnson
800
'This Democrat served as a U.S. Senator from North Carolina for one term, 1999-2005'
John Edwards
800
'It was officially declared the capital of a kingdom 109 years before it became a state capital'
Honolulu
800
'Cobweb, Moth, Mustardseed... dost thou revel in the fairies' names in this play? Methinks 'twill play in Peoria!'
A Midsummer Night\'s Dream
800
'Career can mean "rush headlong"; change the last letter to get this, which means the same'
careen
1000
'Ben Affleck's character in 2002's "The Sum Of All Fears"'
Jack Ryan
1000
'His mother's unsolved murder was the subject of this crime author's 1996 nonfiction work, "My Dark Places"'
James Ellroy
1000
'This city on the Columbia River traces its origins to a fur-trading post established by a certain John Jacob's men'
Astoria
1000
'Paduan lawyers, sexual identity wackiness, money & deceit... this play doth have it all! Must runneth, ta for now, Bill'
The Merchant of Venice
1000
'With a short "A", it's the part of a sentence including the verb; with a long "A", a verb meaning "to base upon something"'
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