THE LABORS OF HERCULES
BEST ACTOR OSCAR WINNERS
GOVERNMENT & POLITICS
YOU O ME
SKINS
200
'Hercules used these flying weapons to shoot down the Stymphalian birds'
arrows
200
'1994:
Tom Hanks for this modern parable'
Forrest Gump
200
'Originally, members of the U.S. Senate were chosen not by popular vote, but by these bodies'
state legislatures
200
'Pile an O atop this Swiss mountain to get this dog food'
Alp & Alpo
200
'Before snakes shed their skin, also called this activity, their eyes get cloudy, then clear again'
molting
400
'One of the labors was to capture this raging porker of Mount Erymanthus'
big boar
400
'1944:
Bing Crosby for this religious experience'
Going My Way
400
'The Bureau of Land Management is part of this cabinet department'
Department of the Interior
400
'A one-person compartment with a telephone; remove an O & you get a word referring to 2 people'
booth & both
400
'3-foot-long tusks & inch-&-a-half-thick skin are among the defenses of this Arctic mammal'
walrus
600
'Instead of getting these golden fruits of the Hesperides himself, Herc held up the sky while Atlas got them for him'
apples
600
'1934:
Clark Gable for this romantic comedy'
It Happened One Night
600
'In early January this official presides over a joint section of Congress at which the electoral votes are counted'
vice president (who is president of the Senate)
600
'The title of this 1847 Melville novel is the sound an Irish cow might make'
"Omoo" & moo
600
'2 of the main types of these are the cycloid ones found on salmon & the placoid ones on sharks'
scales
800
'For his labor of cleaning the Augean Stables, Hercules diverted 1 or 2 of these'
rivers
800
'1938:
Spencer Tracy for this heartfelt drama'
Boys Town
800
'In 1856, 3 years after leaving the presidency, he ran again -- this time as the Know-Nothing Party's candidate'
Millard Fillmore
800
'An extra O differentiates these 2 words, both pictured here'
dragon & dragoon
800
'In primates, volar skin, which is hairless & sweats, is found in these 2 places on the body'
palms of your hand & the soles of your feet
1000
'The work seen here shows Hercules in his second labor doing battle with this monster'
Hydra
1000
'1937:
Spencer Tracy for this rollicking adventure'
Captains Courageous
1000
'Independent Bernard Sanders is this state's sole representative in the House'
Vermont
1000
'These 2 words, one O different, combine to form the name of a plant disease'
root & rot (rootrot)
1000
'In the mammalian order chiroptera, 2 layers of skin stretch out to form these distinctive features'
wings
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