DESSERT TIME
BEGINS & ENDS IN "K"
U.S. CITIES
BODY OF LITERATURE
EXPLORERS
200
'A blondie is basically one of these small chewy desserts, but made without chocolate'
Brownie
200
'Lucy wouldn't let Charlie Brown do this to the football'
Kick
200
'The Gateway Arch is part of this city's Jefferson National Expansion Memorial'
St. Louis
200
'Joseph Conrad's "____ of Darkness"'
Heart
200
'Lewis & Clark began their trip by heading up this river May 14, 1804'
Missouri
400
'These small "scalding" cinnamon candies can be used as buttons on gingerbread people'
Red hots
400
'The British say "Touch wood"; we say this "wood"'
Knock
400
'This capital of South Dakota is named for a French fur trader'
Pierre
400
'Oliver Sacks' "A ___ to Stand On"'
Leg
400
'T.E. Lawrence wrote the intro to Charles Montagu Doughty's book on exploring this area'
Arabia
600
'In "The Godfather" Richard Castellano says, "Leave the gun, take" these tubular pastries'
The cannoli
600
'This TV cop wasn't played by a Teletubby, but by a Telly Savalas'
Kojak
600
'Wright-Patterson Air Force Base is located near this Ohio city that was home to the Wright brothers'
Dayton
600
'Daniel J. Boorstin's "Cleopatra's ____"'
Nose
600
'Raise a glass of vodka to Vladimir Atlasov, who explored & claimed this peninsula for Russia'
Kamchatka Peninsula
800
'Liquor brand that's integral to the sweet potato pudding at Miss Mary Bobo's Boarding House in Lynchburg, Tenn.'
Jack Daniel\'s
800
'Mark Twain once worked as a printer in this Iowa town'
Keokuk
800
'A gateway to Yellowstone, it's Montana's most populous city'
Billings
800
'Toni Morrison's "The Bluest ____"'
Eye
800
'On his ship La Dauphine, this Florentine captain became the first European to sail into New York Harbor'
Giovanni Da Verrazzano
1000
'Term for the structure of the crust atop the pie seen here'
Lattice
1000
'Noted Czech astronomer...okay, we'll give you more; the comet named for him was sort of visible in 1973'
Lubos Kohoutek
1000
'Nicknamed "Rocket City, U.S.A.", it served as Alabama's capital in 1819'
Huntsville
1000
'Alan Brown's "Audrey Hepburn's ____"'
Neck
1000
'Father Hennepin, chaplain to this French explorer, was the first to publish an account of seeing Niagara Falls'
La Salle
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