AIR FARE
"P"SCIENCE & MEDICINE
POETS & POULTRY
COUNTRY COVERS
FROM WHAT LANGUAGE?
200
'In 1909 in a 25-HP plane, Louis Bleriot flew over 23 miles to cross this in 37 minutes'
English Channel
200
'Rather than a single disease, it's a general term for lung diseases involving inflammation'
pneumonia
200
'Poet laureate Robert Southey wrote that "Curses are like young chickens, they always come home to" do this'
roost
200
'In 2003 Tim McGraw covered this man's "Tiny Dancer" & performed it with him on the American Music Awards'
Elton John
200
'Brogue'
Gaelic
400
'In 2001 NASA's Helios, a plane powered by this, flew to a record altitude of 96,500 feet'
solar power
400
'This extinct flying reptile's name is from the Greek for "finger wing"'
pterodactyl
400
'In "Eugene Onegin", Pushkin wrote, "Now southward swept the caravan of the wild" these, "a noisy clan"'
geese
400
'This group is heard here covering a song written by Stevie Nicks'
The Dixie Chicks
400
'Fakir'
Arabic
600
'In 1943 Jacqueline Cochran took charge of the Air Force program known by this insect acronym'
WASPs (Women Airforce Service Pilots)
600
'It's any type of severe mental illness characterized by hallucinations & delusions'
psychosis
600
'Pistol calls his wife "my duck" as he kisses her & goes off to war in France in this Shakespeare history play'
Henry V
600
'For "Common Thread", a tribute album to this group, Clint Black contributed "Desperado"'
The Eagles
600
'Intelligentsia'
Russian
800
'The Kremer Prize was awarded to Paul MacCready in 1977 for the first plane successfully powered by this'
human power
800
'In the 2nd century B.C., this Egyptian astronomer thought that stars were fixed points of light in a rotating sphere'
Ptolemy
800
'"We will eat our mullets, soused in wines" & "sup pheasants' eggs", this Elizabethan dramatist wrote in "The Alchemist"'
Ben Jonson
800
'If you need a friend, Buck Owens was sailing right behind in his hit cover of this Simon & Garfunkel song'
"Bridge Over Troubled Water"
800
'Trek'
Afrikaans
1000
'Company name on the record-setting XP-59 & the JetRanger III helicopter'
Bell
1000
'This subatomic particle, which has no electric charge, consists of a quark & an antiquark'
psi particle
1000
'Last name of William Carlos, who wrote, "So much depends upon a red wheel barrow beside the white chickens"'
Williams
1000
'(Hi, I'm Ricky Skaggs) On my 1995 "Solid Ground" album, I covered this famous story song by Harry Chapin'
"Cats in the Cradle"
1000
'Om'
Sanskrit
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