NIKE
GLOBETROTTING
THE SWEET 16th CENTURY
PAST, PRESENT OR FUTURE
2-LETTER CROSSWORD HELPER
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'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus, Oregon.) Nike has replicas of the Grand Slam trophies of this golfer, like the '97 Masters & the 2000 British Open'
Tiger Woods
200
'Abercrombie & Kent offers these African journeys; founder Geoffrey Kent was born on one in Zambia'
safari
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'Ending in 1504, his fourth voyage to the New World took him to Panama'
Columbus
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'Mary Manley, back in the 1600s, came up with "There's no time like" this'
the present
200
'No--yes, no is a classic drama of this country'
Japan
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus. Oregon.) In 1996 wearing his golden shoes, he became the first man to win the 200 & 400 meters at the same Olympics; today, he's immortalized at Nike's track'
Michael Johnson
400
'His 129-country international travels ended in August 2004 with a trip to Lourdes'
Pope John Paul II
400
'Johann Eck debated this noted Protestant in 1519 & helped get him excommunicated in 1521'
Martin Luther
400
'A commodity bought or sold with an agreement that delivery will come later'
a future
400
'Aa--basaltic lava having a rough surface, from this language that brought us the Lanai'
Hawaiian
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus, Oregon.) This is one of the actual shoes Bill Bowerman hand-made for the man known as "Pre", the first major athlete to endorse Nikes, who died tragically in 1975'
Steve Prefontaine
600
'The hero of the novel "Up in the Air" is a business traveler obsessed with obtaining 1 million of these'
frequent flyer miles
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'Crowned in 1523, Swedish King Gustav I ended the Kalmar Union of Sweden & these 2 countries'
Norway & Denmark
600
'Alvin Toffler wrote that when man's capacity for change is overwhelmed, he experiences this "shock"'
future shock
600
'Fo--Chinese name for this prince turned religious leader'
Buddha
800
'(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus. Oregon.) In 1988, Nike's first ads with this 3-word tagline starred wheelchair athlete Craig Blanchette, among others'
"Just do it"
800
'Books by Redmond O'Hanlon include the tale of "A Journey Between the Orinoco and" this river'
the Amazon
800
'He was so devastated to find out his fifth wife was cheating on him, he had her beheaded'
Henry VIII
800
'Proust's title "A la recherche du temps perdu" ends with this word in the English translation'
past
800
'Ti--a tropical plant in the agave family, or the symbol for this element'
titanium
1000
'(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Nike campus, Oregon.) Nike Research & Development has come a long way since Bill Bowerman was inspired by this kitchen appliance to design a famous shoe'
a waffle iron
1000
'(Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper of CNN's 360.) I took a 16-hour flight from New York to this 25,000-square-mile nation off India to report on tsunami damage'
Sri Lanka
1000
'In the early 1500s, between 2 more famous pictures, he worked on his "Virgin and Child with St. Anne"'
(Leonardo) da Vinci
1000
'It's a homophone for a word meaning "thrown"'
past
1000
'Ai--this slow-moving arboreal South American animal; its laziness is debatable'
a sloth
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