COOKING TECHNIQUES
START WARS
1950s MOVIES
I "OU" ONE
EUROPEAN POP
100

BREIFLY BOILING A VEGTABLE, THEN MOVING IT TO ICE WATER

BLANCHING

100

ALLEGED NAVAL ATTACKS IN THE GULF OF TONKIN

US-VIETNAM WAR

100

A POOR JAPANESE VILLAGE MUST RECRUIT WARRIORS TO DEFEND THEM FROM BANDITS

SEVEN SAMURAI

100

A USUALLY MARSHY OR SLUGGISH BODY OF WATER

BAYOU

100

THIS SWEDISH MEGA-GROUP HAD OVER 72 MILLION CERTIFIED SALES WORLDWIDE

ABBA

200

FROM FRENCH, MEANING TOPPED WITH BREADCRUMBS AND/OR CHEESE THEN BROWNED UNDER A BROILER

AU GRATIN

200

BRITISH INTELLEGENCE INTERCEPTING THE "ZIMMERMANN TELEGRAM" HELPED BRING IN UNITED STATES

WORLD WAR I

200

A SAN FRANCISCO DETECTIVE WITH ACROPHOBIA INVESTIGATES HIS FRIEND'S WIFE's STRANGE BEHAVIOR

VERTIGO

200

THE ACT, PROCESS, OR ART OF CASTING METALS

FOUNDRY OR FOUNDING

200

IN 2001, BJORK'S NEW ALBUM AND HER DRESS TO THAT YEAR'S ACADEMY AWARDS FEATURED THIS ANIMAL

SWAN

300

PLACING A CONTAINER IN OR ABOVE BOILING WATER TO GRADUALLY HEAT THE FOOD WITHIN

BAIN-MARIE, WATER BATH, DOUBLE BOILER

300

HELEN WAS TAKEN FROM HER HUSBAND MENELAUS, KING OF SPARTA

THE TROJAN WAR

300

A SMALL-TOWN DOCTOR LEARNS PEOPLE IN HIS TOWN ARE BEING REPLACED BY EMOTIONLESS ALIEN DUPLICATES

INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS

300

TO PROMOTE THE GROWTH OF SOMETHING

TO NOURISH
300
IN 2003, TWO SWEDISH TEENAGERS DESIGNED THIS CGI-ANIMATED ANIMAL WHO WOULD TOP CHARTS IN 2005 WITH SINGLE "AXEL F"
CRAZY FROG
400

FREQUENT IN CHINESE COOKING, PIECES OF MEAT ARE MARINATED IN CORN STARCH AND SOMETIMES EGG WHITE, BAKING SODA, OR SOY SAUCE 

VELVETING

400

IN 1791, HOLY ROMAN EMPEROR LEOPOLD II THREATENED WAR SHOULD ANY HARM COME TO HIS ROYAL SISTER OR HER FAMILY

THE FRENCH REVOLUTIONARY WARS (WAR OF THE FIRST COALITION)

400

A CAPTURED FRENCH RESISTANCE FIGHTER DURING WWII ENGINEERS A DAUNTING PRISON BREAK

A MAN ESCAPED

400

A ROUND, USUALLY CRUSTY LOAF OF BREAD

BOULE

400
THIS GERMAN ARTIST'S 1983 HIT "99 LUFTBALLONS" HAD AN ENGLISH REMAKE, BUT SHE WASN'T SO HAPPY WITH HOW IT TURNED OUT

NENA

500

A PROCESS FOR THE PREPARATION OF MAIZE IN WHICH THE GRAIN IS SOAKED AND COOKED IN AN ALKALINE SOLUTION

NIXTAMALIZATION

500

VODOU PRIESTS DUTTY BOUKMAN AND CECILE FATIMAN GAVE THE SIGNAL

THE HATIAN REVOLUTION

500

A KNIGHT RETURNING FROM THE CRUSADES STRUGGLES WITH HIS FAITH, AND PLAYS A CHESS MATCH AGAINST DEATH

THE SEVENTH SEAL
500

SHOWING OR SUGGESTING THAT FUTURE SUCCESS IS LIKELY

AUSPICIOUS

500
THIS SWEDISH GROUP'S ALBUMN, THE SIGN, TOPPED 1994 CHARTS WITH SINGLES "ALL THAT SHE WANTS," "THE SIGN," AND "DON'T TURN AROUND"

ACE OF BASE

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