ON THE BOOKSHELF
He concludes Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" by saying, "God bless us, every one"
Tiny Tim
To compete with the Sony PlayStation 2, Microsoft has the Xbox & this company has the GameCube
Nintendo
Museum-hopping? You'll find the Burke Museum of Natural History & Culture on this Seattle school's campus
This stimulant is considered the most commonly consumed drug in the U.S.
caffeine
This 2-letter word is one of only 4 in the English language in which an F is pronounced like a V
of
The object of Quasimodo's affections, she was later executed for witchcraft
Esmerelda
The game for this 2001 Disney under-the-sea animated feature has a multiplayer online mode
Atlantis
In 1997 Jodie Foster received an honorary doctorate from this Connecticut university, her alma mater
Yale
Because it acts as a bronchodilator, theophylline is used to treat emphysema, bronchitis & this chronic disease
Meaning "having imagined while asleep", it's one of the few English words that end with "MT"
dreamt
This old charismatic vampire initiates Louis in "Interview with the Vampire"
Lestat
"Exile", seen here, is the third installment in this top-selling series
Myst
This Nashville school named for a commodore is famed for its Intelligent Robotics Lab
Vanderbilt
In the mid-1990s the diet drug with this homophonic name dangerously paired an appetite suppressant & a stimulant
fen-phen
This day of the week is the only day with an anagram that's a real English word (it's "dynamo")
Monday
It's the nickname of John Updike's Harry Angstrom
Rabbit
You like action? Hunt for this author's Red Storm games like "Rainbow Six" & "Ghost Recon"
If you're walking around this Durham, North Carolina university, watch out for gargoyles like the one seen here.
Duke
Often used as rodent poison, this alkaloid has been used medicinally as a tonic & a stimulant
strychnine
Jimmy of the Clue Crew pans for gold along the banks of the river at Marshall Gold Discovery Park.) From the Latin for "outlook", he's often depicted as a grizzled man who searches for gold
prospector
(Sofia of the Clue Crew reports from Central Park.) From up here on Alice's mushroom, I can read lines from this poem that begins, "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves..."
Jabberwocky
Dr. Aki Ross, seen here, is from the 2001 film inspired by this game series
Final Fantasy
To find out more about this East Coast university, check out the online version of its Encyclopedia Brunoniana
Brown University
Also called adrenaline, this hormone is used to restore heart rhythm in cardiac arrest
epinephrine
The shortest name of a scientific "-ology" is this one that means the study of eggs
oology