"B"OOKS
This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods"
Bambi
The only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still remains is the Pyramids of this city
Giza
The word embassy comes from this job of working in an embassy
ambassador
A noise a bomb might make, it can also refer to a period of rapid economic growth
a boom
There are no singing Jamaican crabs in the original version of this Andersen tale about a sea-dweller who comes ashore
The Little Mermaid
"Fleeing playgirl traced to Rio" is a headline about Holly Golightly in this Truman Capote tale
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Can I get an amen for Pope Gregory, who thankfully reduced the list of these to 7
deadly sins
It's the absence of any form of political authority
anarchy
The sound caused by a spasm of the diaphragm, or the name of the rider of Toothless the Dragon
a hiccup
Created by Astrid Lindgren, this little redheaded literary girl thinks her father lives far away as a cannibal king
Pippi Longstocking
Sylvia Plath died one month after this novel of hers was published
The Bell Jar
Steve McQueen's "Magnificent" movie was actually a remake of a film about 7 of these guys
Seven Samurai
These insects, also known as plant lice, are captured & milked by many ants for the honeydew liquid they produce
aphids
Kerchoo is a word to represent this
a sneeze
Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing
bel canto
Tolkien should have consulted with the Brothers Grimm before having 13 of these accompany Bilbo in "The Hobbit"
Dwarves
The name of this refractive defect of the eye comes from the Greek
astigmatism
Boo's sibilant friend, this 4-letter word can express disapproval
hiss
"Faceless Killers" was book No. 1 in the series about this soul-searching police inspector played on TV by Kenneth Branagh
Wallander
The French title of this existential work is "L'Être et le Néant"
Being and Nothingness
This group of defendants included Abbie Hoffman & Tom Hayden, who were convicted in 1970
the Chicago Seven
You can control light entering a camera by varying the diameter of this, which acts like the iris in the human eye
aperture
The sound of eating a chip, it comes before "time" to mean a moment of pressure
crunch
Early works by this Norwegian playwright include the tragedy "Catiline", published under a pseudonym in 1850
Ibsen