'Center practice is done without the support of this wall-lining object'
the bar
200
'1905's "The Clansman" by Thomas Dixon, Jr. became this silent D.W. Griffith classic'
Birth of a Nation
200
'In 2002 this city's Mayor Akiba invited President Bush to come see what nuclear weapons do to a city'
Hiroshima
200
'7 Calle San Fermin in Pamplona was an address of this American author in 1959'
Ernest Hemingway
200
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew in Cape Cod, Massachusetts) Long used by whalers, this 3-word phrase lets others know a whale has been spotted'
Thar she blows!
400
'The name of this scissor-legged ballet leap means "thrown"'
jete
400
'"Flowers for Algernon" became this Cliff Robertson movie'
Charly
400
'Ron Gonzales of this Silicon Valley city is the first Latino mayor of a major California city since statehood'
San Jose
400
'From 1939 until his death in 1975 (yes, he's still dead) he lived in the palace of El Pardo just NW of Madrid'
Francisco Franco
400
'Whalers used to pass the time at sea by carving designs on whale bone & teeth in an art form called this'
scrimshaw
600
'Nijinsky is seen here in costome for this ballet, with a score by Stravinsky'
Petrushka
600
'1995 film based on "Lost Moon" by Jim Lovell & Jeffrey Kluger'
Apollo 13
600
'The city's former budget director, he led New York City during the fiscal crisis of the mid-1970s'
Abe Beame
600
'A reconstruction of this author's 1547 birthplace stands at 48 Calle Mayor in Alcala de Henares'
Cervantes
600
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew in Cape Cod) A chance happening, perhaps, but it's also the flattened tail of the whale'
fluke
400
'Larry McMurtry's "Horseman, Pass By" inspired this 1963 Paul Newman film'
Hud
400
'In 2003 Uri Lupoliansky was elected the first modern ultra-Orthodox mayor of this city'
Jerusalem
400
'The convent named for this saint is on the site of her birthplace in Avila'
St. Teresa (of Avila)
400
'This whale's scientific name, Monodon monoceros, refers to its unusually long left tooth'
narwhal
500
'Kubrick filmed "Dream Story" by Arthur Schnitzler under this title'
Eyes Wide Shut
500
'Once U.S. drug czar, & New York City's police commissioner, he became mayor of Houston in 1998'
Lee Brown
500
'In 1838 a derelict monastery on Majorca was this author's choice to nurse Chopin back to health'
George Sand
500
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew in Cape Cod) Baleen, which certain whales have instead of teeth, is composed of mainly this protein, just like hair & fingernails'