POTPOURRI
1981
COOKING
SPORTS ARENAS
8-LETTER WORDS
200
'The first 13 people to win the Nobel Prize for Literature were from this continent'
Europe
200
'This man shot President Reagan, James Brady & 2 security men in March'
John Hinckley
200
'This beef stroganoff ingredient can be "sour" or "whipping"'
Cream
200
'The 4th building to bear this name is at 8th Avenue & 33rd Street in NYC, atop Penn Station'
Madison Square Garden
200
'It can precede blanket, eel or Light Orchestra'
Electric
400
'Of mollusks, algae or dinosaurs, the last one to appear on Earth'
Dinosaurs
400
'David & Elizabeth Emanuel became world famous as designers of her wedding gown'
Princess Diana
400
'This ground beef dish was named for J. Salisbury, a physician who advocated dietary reform'
Salisbury steak
400
'The Mariners baseball team & NFL's Seahawks play their home games in this domed stadium'
Kingdome
400
'A clergyman of any denomination attached to a hospital, ship or university'
Chaplain
600
'Of the 4 sections in a typical orchestra, the 1 that includes the most musicians'
String section
600
'His $25,000 sports car with a stainless-steel finish & gull-wing doors was built in Northern Ireland'
John De Lorean
600
'To make chicken a la this, you usually need mushrooms & pimientos'
Chicken a la king
600
'This arena used by the Celtics is the oldest in the NBA'
Boston Garden
600
'Term for a barrier that impedes progress or a course made up of such barriers'
Obstacle
800
'2 of the 6 U.N. members whose names begin with the letter "L"'
Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libya & Luxembourg
800
'To show "Smoking Spoils Your Looks", she posed for an ad with cigarettes in her ears'
Brooke Shields
800
'Quite simply, this is melted butter with the sediment removed'
Clarified butter
800
'A Detroit arena named for this heavyweight boxing champ was the site of the 1980 GOP Nat'l Convention'
Joe Louis
800
'The large rounded part of the brain that occupies most of the cranial cavity'
Cerebrum
1000
'Of the planets in our solar system, this one is last alphabetically'
Venus
1000
'In April 1981 this former V.P. was ordered to pay the state of Maryland $248,735 for bribes he took'
Spiro Agnew
1000
'The name of this French dish means "pot on the fire"'
Pot-au-feu
1000
'1 of 2 pro sports teams that play in the Brendan Byrne Arena in East Rutherford, New Jersey'
New Jersey Devils/New Jersey Nets
1000
'The name of this flatfish can mean to move about clumsily'
Flounder
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