Arabia
Names in Literature
Tough 3-letter Words
U.S. Government Buildings
Popes
Oscar Acceptance Speeches
400
Arabia is separated from Africa by this body of water along its west
Red Sea
400
This word can refer to a craving or an Asian currency
yen
400
One theory says the first pope, St. Peter, had nerve damage that led to the traditional gesture of this with 2 fingers curled in
a blessing
400
When she won for "Tootsie", Jessica Lange said she felt real lucky to have this man "as my leading lady"
Hoffman
800
This city in the Sirat Mountains commands the attention of the devout 5 times a day
Mecca
800
This author created the characters Jonathan Harker & Dr. Van Helsing
Bram Stoker
800
Alexander III convoked 1179's Third Lateran Council, which gave this "College" the task of electing a new pope
The College of Cardinals
800
This "Moonstruck" actress said, "Okay, Michael, let's go!" referring to her cousin running for president
Olympia Dukakis
1200
In Yemen Iran & Saudi Arabia are waging this type of war where others do the fighting
proxy
1200
In "Gulliver's Travels", some of these greedy & violent humanoids have been tamed by the Houyhnhnms
Yahoos
1200
It almost sounds like a symptom of sleepiness, but this word means to deviate from a ship's course
yaw
1200
Our ambassadors such as JFK's sister, Jean Kennedy Smith, have lived in the little place seen here on 62 acres in this city
Dublin
1200
In 993 John XV was the first pope to take this step, honoring Bishop Ulrich of Augsburg, dead just 20 years
bestowing sainthood
1200
In 2021 this "Nomadland" Best Director quoted a Chinese work that begins, "People at birth are inherently good"
Chloe Zhoa
1600
Animals in the region include camels, a main mode of transport, & these 2 farm animals known there as khiraf & ma'iz
sheep and goats
1600
He's the scrawny schoolteacher who gets frightened by the headless horseman
Ichabod Crane
1600
This Latin word meaning "thus" begins Virginia's state motto
Sic
1600
Ariel Rios, who died battling the flow of cocaine, is honored with his name on the D.C. headquarters of this bureau named for other substances
the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco & Firearms
1600
Pope Francis is the first pontiff to have been a member of this religious order that pope Clement XIV abolished in 1773
Jesuits
1600
Winning for this "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" character, Louise Fletcher said, "I've loved being hated by you"
Nurse Ratched
2000
This emirate, a 100-mile-long peninsula on the east coast, has taken a more independent line than its neighbors in recent years
Qatar
2000
Tom & Laura Wingfield are brother & sister in this play
The Glass Menagerie
2000
A depression in the path of a mountain's summit; Hillary climbed Everest's "South"
a Col
2000
What's now a federal center in this Michigan city was once the sanitarium run by John Harvey Kellogg
Battle Creek
2000
Pius XI revived the custom of giving this blessing whose Latin name means "to the city and to the world"
Urbi et Orbi
2000
In 1952 he said, "It's a very long way from the heart of the Belgian Congo to the stage of the Pantages Theater"
Humphrey Bogart