MOMMY DEAREST
HELOISE'S COLLEGE HINTS
MATH VOCABULARY
WILD THINGS
BOOKS & AUTHORS
200
'This comedian has daughter Melissa by her side when she critiques clothes at the Oscars'
Joan Rivers
200
'After dabbing this behind your ears, put some on your light bulb to make your room smell nice'
Perfume
200
'Raise a number to the third power, or a common form for ice & sugar'
Cube
200
'This striped mammal can fire numerous jets of its foul-smelling liquid before it has to "reload"'
Skunk
200
'With no "Time to Kill", he recently turned out another legal thriller, "The Street Lawyer"'
John Grisham
400
'Hunter Tylo won $5 million after she was dropped from this drama while pregnant with daughter Izabella'
Melrose Place
400
'It may make you look "Hefty", but Heloise says a plastic one of these is a great substitute for a raincoat'
Garbage/trash bag
400
'The average value of a set of numbers, or cruel'
Mean
400
'This type of rattlesnake seen here is named for the way it moves'
Sidewinder
400
'This author is famous for giving readers "Goosebumps" & leading them down "Fear Street"'
R.L. Stine
600
'This TV personality rises early, even for a mother of 2'
Katie Couric
600
'Many students make these out of concrete blocks & wood; to dress them up, cover the blocks with cloth'
Shelves
600
'The operation of combining numbers, or a wing appended to a building'
Addition
600
'Some smaller species of this largest marsupial live in the trees of New Guinea'
Kangaroo
600
'In this Stephen King novel, author Paul Sheldon is held hostage by his No. 1 fan'
"Misery"
800
'Afeni Shakur, a member of the Black Panthers, named her son this, for an Inca chief'
Tupac
800
'If the eraser on your pencil smudges, rub it a few times with this manicure utensil'
Nail file/emery board
800
'An angle greater than 90 degrees but less than 180 degrees, or lacking sharpness of intellect'
obtuse
800
'Creature seen here in one of its more familiar "colors"'
Chameleon
800
'Sinclair Lewis dedicated this book about a real estate broker to Edith Wharton'
"Babbitt"
1000
'On a plane showing "One Fine Day", this star wouldn't let her daughter see mommy kiss George Clooney'
Michelle Pfeiffer
1000
'Wrap some wide rubber bands around bottles of this & they won't slip out of your hands in the shower'
Shampoo
1000
'A trigonometric function that equals sine/cosine, or a conversational digression'
Tangent
1000
'Bred in captivity, dozens of these rare "masked" weasels were introduced into the Wyoming wilderness in 1991'
Ferrets
1000
'This author of "All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten" is an ordained Unitarian minister'
Robert Fulghum
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