BAVARIOUS
SCIENCE
MULTIPLE MEANINGS
TRAINS
THE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER
200
'A top car maker, the B in its initials stands for Bayerische, or "Bavarian"'
BMW
200
'It can be fatty matter on the wall of an artery, or a buildup of matter on a tooth'
Plaque
200
'A foot soldier,
a Frankenstein's monster sound,
a bony fish'
Grunt
200
'This 1987 Danny DeVito film pays homage to a classic 1951 Hitchcock film'
Throw Momma from the Train
200
'"I get no kick from" this, "mere alcohol doesn't thrill me at all"'
Champagne
400
'The tallest mountain in Germany is part of this range'
Bavarian Alps
400
'The 4 dimensions in the Einsteinian space-time continuum are time, length, width & this'
Height
400
'A denture,
a segment of the Earth's crust,
a food holder'
Plate
400
'The Granite Railway was built in Massachusetts in 1826 to haul the granite needed to build this monument'
Bunker Hill Monument
400
'"If you're ever in a jam, here I am, if you're ever in a mess", send this distress signal'
SOS
600
'This man, who has covered millions of bottoms in jeans, was reportedly born in Buttenheim, Bavaria'
Levi Strauss
600
'NaOCl, sodium hypochlorite, is this common laundry product'
Bleach
600
'A parade exhibit,
an ice cream & pop drink,
a cork on a fishing line'
Float
600
'In 1987 this "World's Favorite Hobo", known for songs of riding the rails, opened his own theater in Branson'
Boxcar Willie
600
'1 of 2 paintings referred to in the lyrics of "You're the Top"'
Mona Lisa (or Whistler\'s Mother)
800
'Every 10 years the residents of Oberammergau in Bavaria put on this drama first performed in 1634'
Passion Play
800
'Put this in your "notebook": Andromeda (M 31), like the Milky Way, is a galaxy of this shape'
Spiral
800
'An invoice,
a visor on a cap,
a beak'
Bill
800
'Around 1890 Eli Janney's automatic type of this replaced the dangerous link-&-pin type'
Coupler
800
'In a song from "High Society", it's what "I give to you and you give to me"'
True love
1000
'This famous "Spanish" dancer & mistress of Louis I of Bavaria was born Marie Gilbert in Limerick, Ireland'
Lola Montez
1000
'Abbreviated lm, it's a measurement of light'
Lumen
1000
'The bow of a ship,
to stop or dam up,
the main trunk of a plant'
Stem
1000
'By 2005 Germany hopes to have this type of bullet train in operation on a Berlin to Hamburg route'
Maglev (magnetic levitation)
1000
'"Good authors too, who once knew better words now only use" these, "writing prose, anything goes"'
4-letter words
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