THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE
NEWSPEOPLE
MEASURING YOUR WORDS
A WRITER'S LIFE
CLASS(ICAL MUSIC) IS IN
400
Alaska's Brooks Range is the northern part of this mountain system that extends south into New Mexico
the Rockies
400
Sean Hannity is on this news channel every weeknight
FOX
400
Don't get "tied up in" these measures of speed at sea
knots
400
Nicole Diver in "Tender is the Night" is based in part on his wife Zelda
Fitzgerald
400
Johann Sebastian Bach's haunting suite was written specifically for this instrument
the cello
800
lacrosse
800
Last name of CNN's Chris; he says one person he wouldn't grill on politics is his brother, the New York governor
Cuomo
800
"The whole 9" these means all the way
yards
800
Ironically, poet Hart Crane, whose father invented this ring-shaped hard candy, died after jumping overboard
a Life Saver
800
Debussy was a master of nocturnes, music inspired by this, as the name suggests
the night
1200
Port-au-Prince is the capital city of this nation on the island of Hispaniola
Haiti
1200
She was a college journalism student, acted on "The Newsroom" & corresponded for "The Daily Show"
Olivia Munn
1200
It's a unit of time, or what you do when you express formal support of a motion
a second
1200
This author's close relationship with the Davies family was the subject of the film "Finding Neverland"
James Barrie or J.M. Barrie
1200
The Wagner piece heard here depicts these Norse maidens on a little ride
the Valkyries
1600
Named after a saint, this most populous Brazilian city is also the most populous metro area south of the Equator
Sao Paolo
1600
Telemundo
1600
The arrangement of words in rhythmic verses gives a poem this pattern
a meter
1600
Years after this alliterative poet wrote "Tintern Abbey", he was made poet laureate
Wordsworth
1600
Rimsky-Korsakov wrote a lasting piece about a czar's son being turned into one of these insects & his subsequent flight
a bumblebee
2000
Inti was the sun god of this empire centered in Cusco, Peru
the Inca
2000
Sunday nights on "60 Minutes" & New Year's Eve in Times Square are two places you might spot him
Anderson Cooper
2000
You can "get off on the right" one (yay!) or have one "in the grave" (yikes!)
a foot
2000
While in Samoa, this author penned a sequel to "Kidnapped" called "David Balfour"
Robert Louis Stevenson
2000
In Holst's suite "The Planets", this part is "The Winged Messenger"
Mercury