PHILOSOPHERS
CHESS PAINS
ACTORS & ACTRESSES
TAKE A LETTER
VERMONT
200
'This existentialist gave the world "Nausea", a philosophical novel, in 1938'
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
200
'In the endgame, 2 opposing ones of these pieces that always move on the same color often leads to a draw'
bishops
200
'The middle name of this "Kill Bill" star is Karuna & she has a brother named Mipam'
Uma Thurman
200
'The Spanish put a tilde above this letter to indicate a palatal nasal sound'
N
200
'Vermont hogs have lived high off this company, eating ice cream waste & loving it (except for mint Oreo)'
Ben & Jerry\'s
400
'Cartesianism, based on mathematical principles, comes from the Latin verison of his name'
Rene Descartes
400
'In the newspaper, your dumb move that lost a knight would be followed by this symbol, maybe 2 of them'
question marks
400
'Born in Vancouver in 1981, on film he "skywalked" into space in 2002'
Hayden Christensen
400
'In ASL this letter is indicated by bending the 3 middle fingers to the palm & extending the thumb & pinkie up'
Y
400
'Let's not keep silent about the fact that this president was born in Plymouth Notch, Vermont in 1872'
Calvin Coolidge
600
'A Gershwin song says, "My nights were sour, spent with" this gloomy German philosopher'
Schopenhauer
600
'A guy looking over a game making annoying suggestions is doing this, from a Yiddish word'
kibitz
600
'A star of the "Matrix" movies, she was named after a Hollies song'
Carrie-Anne Moss
600
'It precedes "note" in a slang term for a hundred-dollar bill'
C
600
'While living in Arlington, Vt., he featured many of its residents on his Saturday Evening Post covers'
Norman Rockwell
800
'"Zarathustra's Sister" is a biography of Elisabeth & her brother, this philosopher'
Nietzsche
800
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew plays chess with Cheryl.) By moving my rook, I've given my opponent the nasty shock of discovered this'
check
800
'He delivered the "Jaws" speech about the shark attack on the Indianapolis' crew'
(Robert) Shaw
800
'On a piece of sheet music, play loudly when you come to this letter, short for the Italian meaning "strong"'
f
800
'From Burlington, you can hop aboard the cruise ship The Spirit of Ethan Allen III & cruise this lake'
Lake Champlain
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from Athens, Greece.) Stoicism, the name for his school of philosophy, is derived from the stoa; he taught his followers here'
Zeno
1000
'In tournament play, a fallen flag means you've lost because this has happened'
ran out of time
1000
'OK, one more time: John C. McGinley is on "Scrubs"; this actor played Amos in the 2002 film "Chicago"'
John C. Reilly
1000
'It's the symbol for the old British penny'
d
1000
'In 2004 some residents of this city, Vermont's largest & most bustling ski area, wanted to secede & join N.H.'
Killington
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