FISHING FOR VOCABULARY
GAME OVER
MONEY, MONEY, MONEY
AROUND THE CELL
THEY'RE ALL WINNERS!
200
'Tell the theater troupe it's a single toss of a fisherman's line & bait'
a cast
200
'Your fighter, thief & wizard split the treasure & calculate their experience in this role-playing game created in 1974'
Dungeons and Dragons
200
'In 1792 Congress passed the Coinage Act, which authorized construction of a mint in this city'
Philadelphia
200
'The person you share your space with can be your cellie or, based on the type of bed you sleep on, this word'
your bunkie
200
'Things were grave indeed when Patricia Clarkson picked up an Emmy in 2002 for guest-starring on this HBO show'
Six Feet Under
400
'You might be enticed by this general name for any artificial bait used to attract fish'
a lure
400
'You caught the ball & got tensies, which makes you the winner at this game'
jacks
400
'He's the only Civil War general currently depicted on U.S. money'
Grant
400
'It's the period when prisoners are restricted to cells after a disturbance'
lockdown
400
'(Hi. I'm LeVar Burton, and) In 1999 I won a Grammy for narrating "The Autobiography of" this winner of the Nobel Peace Prize'
Martin Luther King, Jr.
600
'By gum, it's a fishing spear with a 3-pronged point'
a trident
600
'Created in 1981, this video game character's life ends when you hear the following sound'
Pac-Man
600
'Did you notice? In 2003 a new version of this note was introduced using background colors of green, blue & peach'
the $20
600
'It's the common (printable) 4-letter term for a solitary confinement cell'
the hole
600
'Talk about a super Mario! He won more than 50 Indy car races before he retired in 1994'
Mario Andretti
800
'Hey, good buddy, it's ground-up bits of bait discarded into the water to attract game fish'
chum
800
'This rough-house recess game ends when the last opposing player fails to do what the name of the game suggests'
dodge ball
800
'Discontinued in 1969, the $100,000 bill featured the portrait of this Democratic president'
Woodrow Wilson
800
'Hot Kansas summers and no A/C got this federal prison its nickname "the hot house"'
Leavenworth
800
'(Hi, I'm Gretchen Carlson of the CBS Saturday Early Show.) You could say it was my "crowning" moment when I became the 1st classical violinist to win this national title'
Miss America
1000
'It might be a social blunder to use one of these long poles with a hook on the end to land a large fish'
a gaff
1000
'You've spoken to Atrus on D'ni so put your mouse down and eject this computer game'
Myst
1000
'In 2004 a new version of this coin depicted the peace medal Lewis & Clark gave to Indians during their exploration'
a nickel
1000
'If you mark of each day on the wall, & you serve exactly 40% of a 5-year sentence, you end up with this many marks'
730 (or 731)
1000
'The epic in Stephen Vincent Benet's body of work that won him a 1929 Pulitzer'
John Brown\'s Body
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