SAME LAST 3/ FIRST 3 LETTERS
(We'll need two two words in each correct response.)
YOU NAMED YOUR BAND WHAT?
"G"OING PLACES
21st CENTURY FILMS
SAY IT BACKWARDS
(Each response here can be found backwards within the clue.)
ALLITERATIVE HISTORY
100

Animal you "play" when feigning death
&
a brief & succinct explanation of an event

What is possum & summary?

100

This group of anarchists with a nonsensical name gained fame with its pro-drinking earworm "Tubthumping"

Who are Chumbawamba?

100

This Scottish city is known for local slang such as "gallus", which means bold or daring

What is Glasgow?

100

Ryan Gosling was her love interest in "Crazy, Stupid, Love." & "Gangster Squad" as well as "La La Land"

Who is Emma Stone?

100

Our crack-of-dawn early-morning duties unfortunately had to be faced with this boostless beverage

What is decaf?

100

American Wild West outlaw who robbed banks, stagecoaches and trains with his brother Frank and various gangs of outlaws


Who is Jesse James?

200

The way a softball pitch is thrown
&
having both male & female characteristics

What is underhand & androgynous?

200

We have "High Hopes" you'll know that this group's name is not from a Smiths song but one by an obscure group called Name Taken  

Who is Panic! at the Disco?

200

Quetzaltenango is a city in this country, whose name comes from the Nahuatl word meaning "place of many trees"

What is Guatemala?

200

Universal began rebooting its famous film monsters with this 2017 movie in which Egyptian royal Ahmanet is freed from her tomb

What is The Mummy?

200

Making room for so many other boats in the crowded harbor, we were unable to do this properly with our own

What is moor?

200

Moniker of the Siberian peasant and mystic who was an influential favorite at the court of Emperor Nicholas II and Empress Alexandra.  

What is Mad Monk?

300

United one piece of film with another
&
wood used in a chest to help repel moths

What is spliced & cedar?

300

This band with songs like "1985" & "Today Is Gonna Be A Great Day", the "Phineas & Ferb" theme, riffed on a Steve Martin sketch for its name

Who is Bowling for Soup?

300

The International Civil Rights Center & Museum in this city is housed in a former Woolworth's, a site of a nonviolent protest

What is Greensboro?

300

Stuart, Kevin & Bob are these title beings recruited by supervillain Scarlet Overkill in a 2015 film

Who are Minions?

300

Hopefully, you were repaid after spending your own cash to get an emergency one of these at the bris

What is a diaper?

300

Cambodian politician, revolutionary, and dictator who ruled the communist state of Democratic Kampuchea from 1975 until his overthrow in 1979

Who is Pol Pot?

400

Of, relating to, or occurring on the sole of the foot
&
Scottish patterned cloth

What is plantar & tartan? 

400

This band's name was the nickname that Rivers Cuomo's biological dad used for him

What is Weezer?

400

This area stretches roughly from Paradise Point to Coolangatta in Queensland & largely consists of beach resorts

What is the Gold Coast?

400

Jeff Bridges won his first Oscar for playing faded country star Bad Blake in this film

What is Crazy Heart?

400

This top part of the semainier held her just reward for services rendered to a stressed family

What is a drawer?

400

Nickname given to the the First Volunteer Cavalry that Teddy Roosevelt was instrumental in recruiting for, and leading, during the Spanish-American War

Who were the Rough Riders?

500

1871-1890 job title of Otto Von Bismarck or 2005-2021 title of Angela Merkel
&
8-letter type of Australian parrot seen here 



What is a chancellor & lorikeet?

500

A statuary store on Route 46 in New Jersey unwittingly bestowed its name on this power pop group

Who is Fountains of Wayne?

500

Ancient region in Western Europe inhabited by Celtic tribes, famous for conflicts with Rome

What is Gaul?

500

This British actress went from TV assassin to playing both Millie & Molotov Girl in the video game-set "Free Guy"

Who is Jodie Comer?

500

The professor said, "I slave away all semester & my nasty students give me" these "that will make everyone avoid my course"

What are evals?

500

In the late 19th century, the Pinkertons infiltrated this cabal of coal miners named for a widowed Irishwoman

Who were the Molly Maguires?

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