MONK
"ER"
THE SHIELD
24
SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
200
'Before his death, this cruel Russian czar joined an order of monks & renamed himself Jonah'
Ivan the Terrible
200
'A short trip somewhere to do something on behalf of somebody else'
errand
200
'Monthly fees to groups of physicians for miners' health care evolved into this program in 1939'
Blue Shield
200
'Its atomic number is 79 & the purest types are said to be 24-karat'
gold
200
'Who could forget this funny lady as Lisa Loopner & Baba Wawa'
Gilda Radner
400
'In the 13th century a Japanese monk named Nichiren founded a branch of this religion based on the Lotus Sutra'
Buddhism
400
'This small northern weasel is also known as a stoat'
ermine
400
'Israel's national emergency medical service, Magen David Adom, is this color shield of David'
red
400
'On October 30, 1954 this sport introduced the use of the 24-second clock'
basketball
400
'Joe Piscopo was Pokey to his Gumby, dammit!'
Eddie Murphy
600
'England's first archbishop of this city was a Benedictine monk named Augustine in the 7th century'
Canterbury
600
'From the Latin for "pull up by the roots", it means to completely get rid of something, like a disease'
eradicate
600
'From the Old French, it's the heraldic design on the shield seen here'
chevron
600
'In an old nursery rhyme four and twenty of these birds are baked into a pie served to a king'
blackbirds
600
'Sluggo & Mr. Hand were the arch-nemeses of this falsetto-voiced character'
Mr. Bill
800
'This monk tested over 28,000 pea plants between 1856 & 1863'
Gregor Mendel
800
'This 3-word Gaelic phrase means "Ireland Forever"'
"Erin Go Bragh!"
800
'By law, this state's seal "shall be a shield argent charged with a pine tree with a moose at the foot of it"'
Maine
800
'This political party split during Buchanan's presidency & wasn't elected to the presidency for 24 years'
Democrats
800
'Enid Strict is the rarely used name of this Dana Carvey character'
The Church Lady
1000
'Cheers to this blind French monk who is credited with pioneering the making of champagne around 1698'
Dom Perignon
1000
'Asmara is this African nation's capital'
Eritrea
1000
'The shield of these Catholic "knights", founded in 1882, bears a sword & axe'
Knights of Columbus
1000
'You're within this "circle" if you experience 24 continuous hours of sunlight on June 21'
Arctic Circle
1000
'This "Weekend Update" anchor seen here is the first female head writer in the show's over-25-year history'
Tina Fey
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