Lord of the Rings
An X-Men foe shares this name with a bad guy from "The Lord of the Rings"
Sauron
To reduce jet engine noise, scientists study this type of air movement; it's also what your pilot might say you're about to hit, so buckle up
Turbulence
The Chacma species of this monkey lives in southern Africa
Baboon
A case file envelope is put in the middle of this game's board, which has 9 rooms
Clue (cluedo)
She helped Jason with a seemingly impossible task--getting the Golden Fleece (which required her to quarter and kill her own brother)
Medea
These two characters of different races are cousins (63 times removed!)
Aragorn and Arwen
This valve in a car engine opens to allow the fuel-air mixture to be drawn into the cylinder
The intake Valve
It's a romantic trip taken by parents-to-be shortly before an infant's birth
Baby-moon
It's the popular game invented in 1948, and what do you mean "Trebek" isn't allowed?
Scrabble
Call him Bacchus or call him by this other Greek name, the guy knew how to party
Dionysus
This actor read the Lord of the Rings books annually for 40 years before getting a role in the movies.
Christopher Lee as Saruman
Born into slavery, Andrew Beard invented a steam engine & an automatic coupler, which joined these transports
Train cars
The first electric implement to apply these designs was patented in the U.S. in 1891
Tattoo
Harry, Henry, Homer & Happy were the original names of these triply alliterative marble munchers
Hungry, Hungry Hippos
After Medusa was beheaded, this creature sprang from her blood
Pegasus
While writing this trilogy, J.R.R. Tolkien read chapters to this author who thought it lacked realism, character development or moral complexity
C.S Lewis
Last names of William & Arthur, who partnered in 1903, 2 years after William drew a blue-print of an engine on a bicycle
Harley and Davidson
It's the basketball play in which one player passes the ball near the basket to a teammate who jumps, catches the ball in mid-air and dunks or lays it in before touching the ground.
Alley-oop
In this "Checkers" game, the board is a 6-pointed star, & every player starts with 10 marbles
Chinese Checkers
Salmoneus imitated Zeus by riding one of these & throwing fake thunderbolts; Zeus killed him
a chariot
This popular band wanted to make their own adaptation of the Lord of the Rings movies.
The Beatles with Paul McCartney as Frodo, John Lennon as Gollum, George Harrison as Gandalf, and Ringo Starr as Sam
By 1897 this German had perfected his alternative to the Otto gasoline engine
Rudolf Diesel
A temptingly tasty morsel of food. Can also mean someone who is good-looking; attractive.
Toothsome
In 2016 news an A.I. program beat a champion of this 2-letter game with 361 pieces
Go
Typhon, a monster with 100 heads, was the father of these 2 monsters with many heads each: a water snake & hellhound
the 9-headed hydra and the 3-headed Cerberus