IN THE NEWS 2005
COLLEGE COURSES
THAT'S MY ROYAL NICKNAME
PRESS ON NAILS
SCARY MOVIES
200
'This country's new president Ahmadinejad may have minored in embassy hostage taking in the 1970s'
Iran
200
'At Texas A&M civil engineering majors can take a course called advanced design in this "reinforced" paving material'
concrete
200
'Bloody Romanian prince known as "the Impaler"'
Vlad
200
'Judith Miller got nailed in the Plamegate scandal while reporting for this newspaper'
The New York Times
200
'This 1999 movie says it's the footage shot by 3 film students who disappeared in the Maryland woods'
The Blair Witch Project
400
'12 years after approving NAFTA, Congress barely passed this trade deal opening southern markets'
CAFTA
400
'This University of Nebraska at Omaha offers an English course devoted to this "Canterbury Tales" author'
Chaucer
400
'He was "the Confessor" king of England in the 11th century'
Edward
400
'This CBS anchor got hammered in 2004 reporting on President Bush's military service'
Dan Rather
400
'When Kate Hudson unlocks a hidden attic room that has a terrifying secret, she uses the title object of this 2005 film'
The Skeleton Key
600
'On Sept. 28, 2005 he stepped down as House Majority Leader (at least temporarily) upon being indicted'
Tom DeLay
600
'At N.Y.'s Vassar global feminism & postmodern feminism are 2 of the courses offered in this program'
women\'s studies
600
'Ottoman emperor styled "the Magnificent"'
Suleiman
600
'In 2003 this Caribbean island nation put 27 reporters in the slammer for furthering U.S. interests'
Cuba
600
'It's terror at 30,000 feet for Rachel McAdams in this 2005 film that's like "Phone Booth" on a plane'
Red Eye
800
'Napster's gone legit, but the Supreme Court ruled against this file-sharing company in MGM Studios v. it'
Grokster
800
'Here at N.C. State you can find a course on "The Life and Letters of" this apostle from Tarsus'
Paul
800
'Basil "the Bulgar-Slayer" was emperor of this, also called the Eastern Roman Empire'
the Byzantine Empire
800
'This editor had "Common Sense" but he was arrested while in France for opposing Louis XVI's execution'
Thomas Paine
800
'Elisha Cuthbert & Paris Hilton are amazed by the life-like sculptures at this title museum'
the House of Wax
1000
'(Hi, I'm Nancy Grace with CNN Headline News.) On a busy March 16, 2005, I reported on Scott Peterson's death sentence & this actor's murder acquittal'
Robert Blake
1000
'Biology majors at Humboldt might take mammalogy, herpetology or this, the study of fish'
ichthyology
1000
'Holy Roman emperor Charles II was known by this nickname; today we might call him "the Follicularly Challenged"'
"the Bald"
1000
'Ca.'s Liberty Hill was so named because in 1923 this muckraker & "Jungle" author was arrested at a union rally there'
Upton Sinclair
1000
'A cross of horror & western, "The Devil's Rejects" was written & directed by this shock rocker'
Rob Zombie
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