Remember December
The "New" World
Prison Lingo
Literary Agents
The Name of the Game
That's a Christmas Movie
100
This song heard often in December was once called "One Horse Open Sleigh" & was written for Thanksgiving
Jingle Bells
100
350,000 cubic feet of granite from this state was quarried to build the Library of Congress
New Hampshire
100
As heard in "The Shawshank Redemption", new inmates are called these, since they are "out of water" & in a new environment
Fish
100
Elmore Leonard created Joe LaBrava, an ex-one of these agents with memories of "Mrs. Truman's Living Room"
Secret Service Agent
100
Choose word or phrase; have foe try to guess, letter by letter; invent wheel-based game show based on it (oops, too late!)
Hangman
100
All due respect to Mr. Willis, but "now I have a machine gun ho-ho-ho"? & taking place during a holiday party? It's a Christmasmovie!
Die Hard
200
During the winter solstice each December, this spot on the Earth is tilted 23.4 degrees away from the Sun
The North Pole
200
Of the 45 species of brilliantly plumed birds of paradise, this biodiverse island is home to all but a few
New Guinea
200
"Flying" one of these isn't a hobby glamorized in "Mary Poppins" but a secret message passed between prisoners
A kite
200
Joseph Conrad's "The Secret Agent" is Verloc, who executes a plan to implicate these anti-all-government types
Anarchists
200
54 blocks;
remove;
re-stack,
repeat
Jenga
200
In this 2003 movie, we learned "They tried using gnomes & trolls, but the gnomes drank too much"
Elf
300
Not just self-adulation, but beauty & youth are associated with the name of this birth flower for December
Narcissus
300
It's Canada's only officially bilingual province; English & le français have equal status
New Brunswick
300
"Orange Is the New Black" mentions this 3-letter acronym for solitary confinement that sounds like an apparel item
The SHU
300
She begins "Song of Solomon" with a life insurance agent determined to fly from the roof of Mercy Hospital
Toni Morrison
300
Meet, then escort Ellie to safety; see what's left of the U.S.; encounter a whole bunch of unsafe stuff
The Last of Us
300
Chevy Chase learned a metal plate in Cousin Eddie's head made him forget who he was for a bit after using a microwave in this comedy
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
400
The shammash, a "servant" candle, is used to light the other 8 on this candle holder seen in Jewish windows
Menorah
400
World capital that's home to the sandstone arch seen here, a British war monument completed in 1931
New Delhi
400
A LAPL exhibit on prisoners' inventions included a DIY tool used to boil water called this, like a barbed insect organ
A Stinger
400
A landed proprietor in Russia himself, he wrote a tale of "A Landed Proprietor" in which a land agent has ruined a poor serf
Tolstoy
400
Dragons, bamboo, and other symbols adorn the tiles in this stacking game
Mahjong
400
The tagline to this 1996 Christmas comedy with Arnold Schwarzenegger was "Two dads, one toy, no prisoners"
Jingle All the Way
500
The most popular of the Roman festivals, this December celebration of much merrymaking was dedicated to the god of agriculture
Saturnalia
500
Whatever you do, don't bring coal to this British city on the River Tyne--it already has a whole idiom's worth
New Castle
500
Some inmates have used this Aztecan language for coded conversations in prison (macuahuitl could mean shiv for instance)
Nahuatl
500
2025 is the centennial year of this conservative thinker who was recruited by the CIA & created fictional spy Blackford Oakes
William F. Buckley Jr.
500
Go through phases, including movement & shooting; unit coherency is crucial; 40K reasons to leave your lover
Warhammer
500
It's all in the cards in this movie: "Just because it's Christmas... (and at Christmas you tell the truth)... to me, you are perfect"
Love Actually