JAZZ NICKNAMES
FROM BEOWULF TO VIRGINIA WOOLF
AND YOUR LITTLE DOG, TOO
NATURE
HOMOPHONES
200
'He was known as Pops as well as Satchmo'
Louis Armstrong
200
'To avenge this monster's death, his mother slays a soldier but is later killed by Beowulf'
Grendel
200
'In "The Wizard of Oz", a cute Cairn terrier named Terry played this little dog'
Toto
200
'Japanese for "harbor wave", one of these giant sea waves may form a wall of water over 100 feet long'
Tsunami
200
'With a relaxed dress code, you won't need to wear one at this type of Asian restaurant's bar'
Tie/Thai
400
'With this nickname, Julian Edwin Adderly barrelled down "Them Dirty Blues"'
Cannonball
400
'This author planned to have each pilgrim tell 2 tales on the way to Canterbury & 2 on the way back'
Geoffrey Chaucer
400
'He starred in the cartoon "Canine Casanova" without his master Mickey Mouse'
Pluto
400
'From the Greek word for "drop" & "dripping", they're the 2 types of formations seen here:'
Stalagmites & stalactites
400
'Zebulon Pike got only this glimpse of this, his namesake'
Peek/peak
600
'Oran Page, trumpeter & accompanist to Bessie Smith, was known as this, the same as a "M*A*S*H" nurse'
Hot Lips
600
'John Milton's 1671 sequel never gained the reputation of this 1667 epic'
"Paradise Lost"
600
'Title character who sang the following about her dog ("Sandy") in a 1982 film:'
Annie
600
'Since prehistoric times, this single-celled fungus has been used to make beer & bread'
Yeast
600
'What Hurricane Andrew did or how some people felt when he did it'
Blew/blue
800
'He's referrred to as the "Hi De Ho" man'
Cab Calloway
800
'"All you need to know", according to this Keats ode is "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"'
"Ode on A Grecian Urn"
800
'This pet of Nick & Nora Charles was a schnauzer in the novel "The Thin Man" & a fox terrier in the films'
Asta
800
'In the 1940s zoologist Karl von Frisch discovered that bees use this as a compass'
Sun
800
'When a hunter aims at this red deer, this often beats faster'
Hart/heart
1000
'That he was born as an Armando in 1941 should tell you this "Chick" is a guy'
Chick Corea
1000
'In this essay Virginia Woolf said women need money & privacy to develop as writers'
"A Room of One\'s Own"
1000
'When this tobacco heiress died in 1993, she left a $100,000 trust fund to her dog Minni'
Doris Duke
1000
'Named for its most prominent feature (its nose), it's the primate seen here:'
Proboscis monkey
1000
'He might predict you'll wind up with more money than expenses'
Prophet/profit
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