LITERARY MONSTERS
Assembled from dead bodies, the monster in this Mary Shelley book turns against his creator
Frankenstein
It's a shape-shifting optical instrument with bits of glass at the end of a rotating tubeSinatra:
"These vagabond shoes are longing to stray, right through the very heart of it", this city, this city
Kaleidoscope
Nik Cohn admitted that his "Tribal Rites of the New Saturday Night", which inspired this disco film, was a fabrication
Saturday Night Fever
Taking the 'go" out of escargot, this mollusk is said to be able to lie dormant for months at a time
the snail
In 1948 this brand held its first home party to sell its plastic containers with airtight seals
tupperware
Title monsters in this skin-crawling R.L. Stine series include a mummy, a scarecrow & a snowman
Goosebumps
This "mouth organ" dates back to an instrument called an aura
A 1983 article about a naval flight school was the genesis of this Tom Cruise hit
Top Gun
The peregrine type of this bird can reach speeds of 200 mph in a dive
a falcon
Its hand holding the torch was on display at the Centennial Exposition in Philly before it was completed
The Statue of Liberty
In a Jules Verne work, the Nautilus has to deal with a big one of these, referred to as a devilfish
a squid
No trial & little chance of appeal when you agree to binding this regarding a financial dispute
arbitration
The fourth film in this Bruce Willis series was inspired by an article about cyberhacking
Die Hard
See this alliterative sea creature? It can pack a 300- to 650-volt wallop
an electric eel
Nudie Cohn, the custom tailor for Roy Rogers & Dale Evans, also made this singer's $10,000 gold lame suit
This offspring of a woman & a bull is one of the monsters in the Percy Jackson books
the minotaur
Geographic adjective for the part of Africa shown here
Sub Saharan
"The Boys in the Bank", a Life magazine account of a Brooklyn bank robbery, inspired this 1975 Al Pacino film
Dog Day Afternoon
Now known as an insurance mascot, this type of lizard gets a grip using its roughly 14,000 setae on each footpad
a gecko
A roller coaster called the Cyclone is a part of this amusement area in the southern part of Brooklyn
Coney Island
In a Barbara Jean Hicks story, monsters are tricked into eating these veggies when told they're giant trees
broccoli
From the Latin for "follow", it's a campaign to subjugate a people because of their religion or race
persecution
Starring Kate Bosworth, it was based on Susan Orlean's "Life's Swell", the story of a Maui surfing contest
Blue Crush
The Hercules type of this insect can lift things 850 times its own weight
a beetle
The view from the summit of this mountain inspired the song "America The Beautiful"
Pikes Peak