THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
1- & 2-SYLLABLE HETERONYMS
MUSICALS BASED ON LITERATURE
THE MONTHLY MOVIE TITLE
NOBEL PEACE PRIZES
SCIENCE & NATURE
400
Inti was the sun god of this empire centered in Cusco, Peru
the Inca
400
1 syllable: pink flower; 2 syllables: pink wine
rose and rosé
400
It took only about 350 years for this musical "Man" to ride forth from Cervantes' "Don Quixote"
Man of La Mancha
400
Oliver Stone co-wrote this 1989 film with Vietnam vet Ron Kovic, the movie's subject
Born on the Fourth of July
400
Al Gore won along with the IPCC, the Intergovernmental Panel on this
climate change
400
Vitamin K is essential for blood to be able to do this normally
clot
800
Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico
the Rockies
800
1 syllable: a beauty mark; 2 syllables: spicy Mexican sauce
mole and mole
800
In 2018 "Fiddler on the Roof" was staged in NYC in this language of Sholem Alechiem's original stories
Yiddish
800
In 1990 Sean Connery could have sung, "We all live in a non-yellow submarine" in this film, but thankfully, did not
The Hunt for Red October
800
Ralph Bunche won for his efforts in ending the war that began when this country came into being in 1948
Israel
800
This branch of physics deals with the relationship between heat & other forms of energy
thermodynamics
1200
This Native American stick & ball game is Canada's official national summer sport
lacrosse
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1200
1 syllable: injured; 2 syllables: metallic fabric
lame and lamé
1200
Characters from "War and Peace" populate "Natasha", him "and the Great Comet of 1812"
Pierre
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1200
4 women of the 1920s take to an Italian villa & have the time of their lives in "Enchanted" this
April
1200
The Declaration of the Rights of the Child was a pivotal achievement for this organization
UNICEF
1200
**DAILY DOUBLE**
Resembling a hedgehog, the echidna is also known as the "spiny" this creature
anteater (echidna shown below)
1600
Port-au-Prince is the capital city of this nation on the island of Hispaniola
Haiti
1600
1 syllable: a buddy; 2 syllables: paired with "Yerba" in a beverage
mate and Mate
1600
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Show your luck & name this musical based on Damon Runyon stories including "The Idyll of Miss Sarah Brown"
Guys and Dolls
1600
An all-star cast including Meryl Streep gathers for a funeral in this 2013 adaptation of a Pulitzer-winning play
August: Osage County
1600
The ICBL, or International Campaign to Ban these long-lasting weapons, took home the honor in 1997
land mines
1600
The difference between fluorescence & this type of glow named for element No. 15 is--complicated
phosphorescence
2000
Named after a saint, this most populous Brazilian city is also the most populous metro area south of the Equator
São Paulo
2000
1 syllable: masculine; 2 syllables: the capital of the Maldives
male and Malé
2000
The musical "Big River" was inspired by this novel first published in the U.S. in 1885
Huckleberry Finn
2000
In 1964 Burt Lancaster played a general attempting a military takeover of the government in this film
Seven Days in May
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2000
The 1931 Nobel Peace Prize was shared by 2 Americans:
Nicholas Butler & this Hull House cofounder
Jane Addams
2000
An experiment in which animals are reared in isolation to see what features are innate is named for this foundling of 19th c. Germany
Kaspar Hauser
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