EXPLORATION
THE PLAY'S THE THING
SUB CATEGORY
MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES
FIRST NAME'S THE SAME
200
'In 1513 he took one of the first Florida cruises, starting near what's now St. Augustine'
Ponce de Leon
200
'The Creature is a character in the 1974 Tim Kelly play based on this Mary Shelley tale'
"Frankenstein"
200
'The USA's WWII-era Gato class could launch 24 of these; today's Seawolf class carries twice as many'
Torpedoes
200
'Traditionally, this container that held all the world's evil was a jar or vase'
Pandora\'s Box
200
'Gooden,
Moody,
Eisenhower'
Dwight
400
'On a trip in this country in 1860 Henri Mouhot set angkor, finding Wat & Thom'
Cambodia
400
'In a Neil Simon play, Paul was thought stuffy since he wouldn't go walking this title way when it was freezing'
"Barefoot in the Park"
400
'In the term U-boat, the U stands for a word meaning this -- logical enough for a submarine'
Undersea
400
'This verb meaning to tease is from Tantalus, who was forced to stand in water that receded when he tried to drink'
Tantalize
400
'Bronte,
Dickinson,
Post'
Emily
600
'Not quite Robert Peary, Edward Parry did set a record for this in 1827, reaching over 82 degrees latitude'
Coming closest to the North Pole
600
'According to a 1957 William Inge title, it's where you'd find "the dark"'
At the top of the stairs
600
'The Nazis solved the problem of surfacing for air with a tube called this, like one used by swimmers'
Snorkel
600
'This Titan, whose name refers to a type of book, supported the sky on his shoulders, not the Earth'
Atlas
600
'Kun,
Fleck,
Lugosi'
Bela
800
'Exploring from Mombasa, Ludwig Krapf sighted this mountain that shares its name with an African country'
Mount Kenya
800
'In 1970 Louis Nye played this title character's aunt, who was from Brazil, where the nuts come from'
Charley
800
'Submarines dive by flooding these tanks'
Ballast tanks
800
'Worshiped by farmers & the average Roman, this goddess of agriculture lent her name to the word cereal'
Ceres
800
'Dore,
Eiffel,
Flaubert'
Gustave
1000
'Diego de Ordaz was the first European to see this Aztec capital on the site of modern Mexico City'
Tenochtitlan
1000
'It was Stanley Webber's birthday party in this playwright's "The Birthday Party"'
Harold Pinter
1000
'This tower seen here sounds like it's a place from which to conduct a swindle:'
Conning tower
1000
'Derived from the name of the god of wine, it's a drunken or riotous celebration'
Bacchanalia
1000
'Evans,
Head,
Piaf'
Edith
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