OFF & RUNNING
LITERATURE
CITIES IN INDIA
"TRAC" MEET
NOT REALLY RELATED
200
'In Olympic track & field events, this many runners make up a relay team'
4
200
'James Fenimore Cooper's 1823 novel "The Pioneers" was the first in a series of these 5 "Tales"'
"Leatherstocking Tales"
200
'Until 1912 it was the capital of British India (black hole & all)'
Calcutta
200
'A farming vehicle with large, heavily-treaded tires'
Tractor
200
'"You're So Vain" singer & pieman meeter'
Carly & Simple Simon
400
'She won 3 track & field gold medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics'
Florence Griffith-Joyner
400
'In 1919 Booth Tarkington won a Pulitzer Prize for this "Magnificent" novel; in 1922 he won again for "Alice Adams"'
"The Magnificent Ambersons"
400
'In this city you'll find the National Museum & the Rashtrapati Bhavan or President's House'
New Delhi
400
'It's a commercially released album of music used in a film'
Soundtrack
400
'"Cruelty" singer & chocolate chip cookie maker'
Tori & Famous Amos
600
'In 1985 this American middle-distance runner married discus thrower Richard Slaney'
Mary Decker
600
'In this 1952 short story, Hemingway wrote, "A man can be destroyed but not defeated"'
"The Old Man and the Sea"
600
'This heavily populated port city & capital of Maharashtra state is the leading financial center of India'
Bombay/Mumbai
600
'Oops! It's a newspaper's printed correction'
Retraction
600
'Etiquette expert promoting restraint & a parking place to hold your horses'
Emily & hitching Post
800
'Finland's Olympic Stadium prominently features a statue of this distance runner'
Paavo Nurmi
800
'In "A Scandal in" this, Sherlock Holmes calls Dr. Watson his "Boswell"'
"Bohemia"
800
'Over 2,000 died when the Union Carbide chemical plant in this city leaked toxic gas in 1984'
Bhopal
800
'It can mean a passage from a book or a concentrated food flavoring like vanilla'
Extract
800
'Ring in with these, a "JAG" star & a Philadelphia landmark'
Catherine & Liberty Bell
1000
'Runners must clear hurdles & water jumps in this 3,000-meter track & field event'
Steeplechase
1000
'Graham Greene's "A Gun For Sale" was published in the U.S. under this title'
"This Gun For Hire"
1000
'Mumtaz knows it's the northern India city that's home to the Pearl Mosque & the Taj Mahal'
Agra
1000
'It can be a type of non-representational art or a printed summary of a longer text'
Abstract
1000
'"Lady's Not For Burning" playwright & potato product not for burning at McDonald's'
Christopher & French Fry
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