NAUTICAL TERMS
U.S. GEOGRAPHY
ANCIENT AMERICANS
"NIGHT" MOVIES
QUOTATIONS
200
'To snub is to let this heavy device drop on a short cable, bringing the ship to an abrupt halt'
Anchor
200
'This state has a Custer County as well as one named Big Horn'
Montana
200
'Von Humboldt popularized this group name; they called themselves Tenochca, Mexica & Colhua Mexica'
Aztecs
200
'In it Groucho pointed out a contract's sanity clause to Chico who said, "There ain't no Sanity Claus"'
"A Night At The Opera"
200
'Robert Frost wrote, it "Is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in"'
Home
400
'The helm of a small boat may just consist of a tiller & this in the water'
Rudder
400
'This state's parishes began as administrative units of the Catholic Church under Spanish rule'
Louisiana
400
'The 2 major contributions of the Olmecs, the mother culture of Mesoamerica, were writing & this time tracker'
Calendar
400
'At a June 1995 auction, the white suit John Travolta wore in this film sold for $145,500'
"Saturday Night Fever"
400
'Oliver Wendell Holmes said, "Free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting" this "in a theater"'
"Fire!"
600
'Collective term for all the lines used to support masts & raise & lower sails'
Rigging
600
'New Jersey's eastern border is formed by the Atlantic Ocean & this river'
Hudson River
600
'Like Monet, the Mayans used this pond flower as a motif in their art'
Lilies
600
'In this 1934 classic, Alan Hale was the driver who stopped at the sight of Claudette Colbert's leg'
"It Happened One Night"
600
'Thomas Appleton said, "Good Americans, when they die, go to" this European city'
Paris
800
'On shipboard it's opposite starboard'
Port
800
'The Detroit, Huron & Sandusky Rivers are among those that flow into this great lake'
Lake Erie
800
'c. 1200-1465 the Chimu Empire controlled about 600 miles of what's now this Andean country's coast'
Peru
800
'George Romero shot this 1968 horror classic for under $150,000'
Night of the Living Dead
800
'The inspirational quote "Win this one for the Gipper" is attributed to him'
Knute Rockne
1000
'This 4-letter word means to adjust & you do it to sails & ballast'
Trim
1000
'This home of the U.S. Air Force Academy was founded in 1871 as Fountain Colony'
Colorado Springs
1000
'Almost 400 workshops for this black volcanic glass have been discovered in Teotihuacan'
Obsidian
1000
'Truffaut's 1973 movie about making movies'
"Day For Night"
1000
'German who wrote, "I teach you the Superman. Man is something that is to be surpassed"'
Friedrich Nietzsche
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