FOOTBALL
INSECTOID RHYME TIME
PUBLIC HEALTH
BY THE NUMBERS
ACTOR-PLAYWRIGHTS
200
'Today, most placekickers use the instep rather than the toe in a kicking style adapted from this sport'
soccer
200
'Long, low sound of pain from a nonworker male bee'
a drone moan
200
'A 1992 law introduced by Sen. Cranston aimed to reduce the use of paint containing too much of this element'
lead
200
'Matthew 26:15:
"What will ye give me, and I will deliver him unto you? And they covenanted with him for" this'
30 pieces of silver
200
'Jeff Daniels wrote "Escanaba in da Moonlight", a "super Yooper comedy" set on this state's Upper Peninsula'
Michigan
400
'(I'm Kurt Warner of the NFL.) From 1995 to 1997 I played for the Iowa Barnstormers in this league that plays its games indoors'
the Arena Football League
400
'Butterfly-like insect that listens to gloomy rock music'
a goth moth
400
'An effort lasting from 1985 to 1991 eliminated this paralytic illness from Latin America'
polio
400
'Loss of coolant around 4 A.M. led to a rough March 28, 1979 at this Pennsylvania facility near Harrisburg'
Three Mile Island
400
'In 2004 he won an Oscar for "Mystic River" & appeared off-Broadway in his own play "Embedded"'
Tim Robbins
600
'As his name suggests, the Bears' Willie Thrower was the first black player at this position in the NFL, 10/18/53'
quarterback
600
'A London apartment for a small biting fly'
a gnat flat
600
'(Hi! I'm CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta.) I joined CNN in 2001 & reported on the biological attacks of this bacillus in the news that October'
anthrax
600
'Start your counting please/
It's this many syllables/
In standard haiku'
17
600
'This Englishwoman called her "Shakespeare for My Father" a play about her father (Sir Michael) & her search for him'
Lynn Redgrave
800
'This ex-Cowboy joined Keith Jackson & Howard Cosell on the first "Monday Night Football" telecast'
Don Meredith
800
'A loud & threatening speech from a colony-based insect'
an ant rant
800
'Stanford's med school has a division of this, the study & control of disease in populations'
epidemiology
800
'A reduction of arms & independence for Turkey were 2 items in this Jan. 8, 1918 pronouncement'
the Fourteen Points
800
'Her husband Jerry Stiller made a video appearance in her 1999 comedy "Down the Garden Paths"'
Anne Meara
1000
'Now a running back for the Rams, he scored a career record 12.1 points per game playing for San Diego State'
Marshall Faulk
1000
'Acting instructor for an aspiring household pest'
a roach coach
1000
'Also a type of mathematical quantity, it's a term for disease-carrying critters like ticks'
a vector
1000
'This section was added to the tax code in 1974; it's now the name (or number) for many political advocacy groups'
527
1000
'In 2004 this author of "True West" returned to the stage, acting in "A Number", a play about human cloning'
Sam Shepard
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