TINSELTOWN TERMS
HOW DO YOU WORK THIS THING?
NAME THAT NOVEL
19th CENTURY SPORTS
"ITZ" AT THE END
200
'The camera might travel on this wheeled platform to track a character down Madison Ave.'
a dolly
200
'Wind 12-18" of it around your index fingers, slip it between 2 teeth to the gum & scrape both sides'
dental floss
200
'"Before I left the castle I so fixed its entrances that never more can the Count enter there un-dead."'
Dracula
200
'Big ones first held in the 1860s include Canada's Queen's Plate & the Belmont Stakes'
horse races
200
'In this football play, linebackers rush a quarterback to sack him'
a blitz
400
'The best man attends the groom & this person assists the head electrician'
best boy
400
'Put the point at the center of the desired circle & swing the pencil around it'
a compass
400
'"Four legs good,
two legs bad!"'
Animal Farm
400
'1890s outfielder Louis Sockalexis of the Penobscot tribe inspired this name of Cleveland's baseball team'
the Indians
400
'(AUDIO Daily Double):
Song title that follows the line heard here:
"If you're blue and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits...."'
"Puttin\' On The Ritz"
600
'This term for a handler of animals on the set can also mean a cowboy'
wrangler
600
'To add 14 to another number, shift 4 beads on the 1s wire & 1 bead on the 10s wire'
an abacus
600
'"I have told you, reader, that I had learnt to love Mr. Rochester: I could not unlove him now"'
Jane Eyre
600
'In 1875 the All England Croquet Club added this other lawn sport to its activities'
tennis
600
'Skiers who fall on their derrieres leave this German "mark" in the snow'
a sitz mark
800
'Medical term for one who revises a script without credit; writer Robert Towne is a "specialist"'
a script doctor
800
'Hammer it into a crack in the rock & clip a carabiner to its eye through which to run rope'
a piton
800
'"Lennie said, 'I might jus' as well go away. George ain't gonna let me tend no rabbits now.'"'
Of Mice and Men
800
'They were successively stuffed with feathers, molded of gutta-percha & wound with rubber'
golf balls
800
'John F. Kennedy's maternal grandfather sported this "sweet" nickname'
"Honey Fitz"
1000
'A jump one is an abrupt transition; a rough one is a stage in editing'
cut
1000
'Place the electric pads to the chest, press down, yell "Clear!" & hit the button'
defibrillator
1000
'"'What a pretty little Nell!' cried Quilp."'
The Old Curiosity Shop
1000
'Jackson Haines, previously a teacher of this art, introduced its moves to figure skating'
ballet
1000
'Synonymous with "meddle" or "snoop", this Yiddish word means to offer unsolicited advice'
kibitz
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