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GENERAL INFORMATION

200

'This title folk story guy steals a golden egg-laying hen, bags of gold & a golden harp; the "giant-cide" comes later'

Jack

400

'Playing the pass line in craps, it's the winning number on the opening roll other than 7'

11

600

'Found in Southeast Asia, they're the smallest apes'

gibbons

800

'Pick up a GT from this car co. for a tidy $169,000, or maybe start out with a Focus for a more reasonable $13,715'

Ford

1000

'The tuliptree, or "yellow" this, was planted by Washington at Mt. Vernon, & Daniel Boone used its wood in his canoe'

poplar

THE MOVIES

200

'Jack Palance's character is described as "a saddlebag with eyes" in this 1991 comedy'

City Slickers

400

'(Drew Barrymore delivers the clue.) In my film "Music and Lyrics", Hugh Grant plays the "Jeopardy! Think Music" written by this creator of "Jeopardy!"'

Merv Griffin

600

'Irene Bedard, the speaking voice of this heroine in an animated Disney film, played her mother in "The New World"'

Pocahontas

800

'(Hi, I'm Sean Hayes.) In the 2003 film "Pieces of April", I played an offbeat neighbor of this actress who had yet to meet & marry Tom Cruise'

Katie Holmes

1000

'Jane Russell & Marilyn Monroe sang about being "Two Little Girls from Little Rock" in this 1953 movie musical'

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

WEAPONRY

200

'Standard-issue weapons for stormtroopers in "Star Wars" included energy-bolt-firing pistols called these'

blasters

400

'In the 1960s Nelson Mandela led the military group "Umkhonto we Sizwe", or this weapon "of the Nation"'

Spear

600

'The first 2 weapons Hamlet mentions in his "To be or not to be" soliloquy'

slings & arrows

800

'In the missile called a "SAM", it's what the "A" stands for'

air

1000

'The weapons that are "bursting" in line 5 of "The Star-Spangled Banner"'

bombs

MEDICAL TALK

200

'This term refers to the painful inflammation of any of the fibrous structures that connect muscles to bones'

tendinitis

400

'To test for visual acuity, the Snellen chart is designed to be read from this many feet away'

20

600

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew tends to a virtual patient at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Ctr, a Harvard teaching hospital in Boston, MA.) A dilated pupil indicates that a head injury may have led to an acute subdural this, where blood accumulates within the skull'

a hematoma

800

'It begins, "I swear by Apollo physician and Asclepius..."'

the hippocratic oath

1000

'Luteinizing hormone is one of the many produced by this cherry-shaped gland'

the pituitary

FICTIONAL CHARACTERS

200

'What a happy ending: this title orphan of a Dickens novel is adopted by Mr. Brownlow'

Oliver Twist

400

'This character in "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is said to be the ghost of a Hessian trooper'

the Headless Horseman

600

'She is the narrator of "To Kill a Mockingbird"'

Scout

800

'2 names that follow Gerald, who speaks in weird sounds instead of words in a Dr. Seuss story'

McBoing-Boing

1000

'In a story by Rudyard Kipling, this mongoose protects an English family from snakes'

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi