NOT A CURRENT NATIONAL CAPITAL
U.S. WINTER OLYMPIANS
SCIENCE
WORDS OF THE WRITER
AT THE MALL
200
'Ljubljana,
Bratislava,
Barcelona'
Barcelona
200
'Mike Eruzione of Winthrop, Mass. was captain of the miraculous 1980 Olympic team in this sport'
hockey
200
'At sea level at 70 degrees this travels 1,129 feet per second; it speeds up over 1 foot per sec. for each rising degree'
sound
200
'"I beheld the wretch--the miserable monster whom I had created"'
Mary Shelley
200
'Found "just what I needed" at this "City", an electronics store'
Circuit City
400
'Istanbul,
Ottawa,
Amman'
Istanbul
400
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew puts some lines on the ice in the Olympic Oval rink at Park City, UT.) In 1998, this U.S. skater was 2nd at Nagano; in 2002, she was 3rd here in Utah'
Michelle Kwan
400
'The largest tree, the General Sherman in California, is this type, also called a Sierra Redwood'
a sequoia
400
'"Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!"'
Edgar Allan Poe
400
'SKX is the stock symbol for this manufacturer of sporty shoes'
Skechers
600
'Sofia,
Sarajevo,
Saigon'
Saigon
600
'Life has its ups & downs for Travis Mayer, a 2002 medalist in the event named for these little hills on the slopes'
moguls
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads from the pole vault at Duke University's track in Durham, NC.) In bending an elastic solid, stress is the force causing deformation & this is the 6-letter term for the deformation'
strain
600
'"'Do all lawyers defend n-negroes, Atticus?' 'Of course they do, Scout'"'
Harper Lee
600
'This "Urban" store is the parent company of Anthropologie'
Urban Outfitters
800
'Bucharest,
Bonn,
Bern'
Bonn
800
'In 2002 Vonetta Flowers & Jill Bakken won gold in the 2-woman version of this high-speed sport'
the bobsled
800
'6 elements once known as inert gases are now known by this aristocratic name'
noble gases
800
'"For never man had a more faithful, loving, sincere servant, than Friday was to me"'
Daniel Defoe
800
'This bookstore chain is named for its "edgy" founders, brothers Tom & Louis'
Borders
1000
'Belize City,
Guatemala City,
Panama City'
Belize City
1000
'His "Bode" of work includes 2 Alpine skiing silver medals in 2002'
Bode Miller
1000
'(A honey-colored retriever named Max tries to lick Cheryl of the Clue Crew as she pets him at NC State University in Raleigh, NC.) Veterinarians refer to this area of an animal's body as the posterior or this region, from the Latin for "the tail"'
the caudal region
1000
'"'...Why look'st thou so?'--'With my crossbow I shot the albatross'"'
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1000
'The name of this clothing store for teens is French for "airmail"'
Aéropostale
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