NOVELS
THE MUSEUMS OF EUROPE
BIOLOGY
WORDS BORROWED BY THE INTERNET
O PIONEERS!
200
'This novel by J.D. Salinger chronicles 2 days in the life of a prep school student'
The Catcher in the Rye
200
'Founded in 1963, the Barcelona museum devoted to this Spanish Cubist's works sprawls across 5 gothic palaces'
Picasso
200
'The water mammals called cetaceans are divided into dolphins, porpoises & these'
whales
200
'It was a water sport before it became a term for browsing the web'
surfing
200
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from a forge in Old World Wisconsin.)
Essential to every community was the blacksmith, the black referring to this metal he worked with'
iron
400
'Christopher Paolini was only 18 when he self-published "Eragon", the first volume in this trilogy'
Inheritance
400
'The Peggy Guggenheim collection is housed at the Palazzio Venier Dei Leoni on this city's Grand Canal'
Venice
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a microscopic photo on the monitor.) This genus comes before proteus, a shape changing Greek god, in the scientific name of the creature we're looking at'
an Amoeba
400
'It was a fine string before it became a series of posts dealing with the same subject'
a thread
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Old World Wisconsin.) On a shaving bench like this one, pioneers would cut these thin pieces of wood to cover their roofs'
shingles
600
'The Greasers face off against the Socs in Oklahoma in this 1967 S.E. Hinton novel'
The Outsiders
600
'The Museo Internazionale delle Marionette in Palermo on this Italian island is the world's top puppet museum'
Sicily
600
'Linnaeus posited just 2 of these living realms, Plantae & Animalia; more are recognized now'
a kingdom
600
'It was slang for coffee before it became a programming language that could run on any platform'
Java
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Old World Wisconsin.) Many Finns came to the Upper Midwest; this is an authentic one of these bathhouses built by one family to sort of steam clean themselves'
a sauna
800
'Jerry's refusal to sell candy for a school fundraiser ignites the title conflict in this Robert Cormier novel'
The Chocolate War
800
'You can "wax" nostalgic at the historical figures in this museum next to the London Planetarium'
Madame Tussaud
800
'Microorganisms called euglena have a flexible pellicle, or membrane, in place of a rigid one of these'
a cell wall
800
'It was a marketplace or public square before it became an online area to post discussions'
a forum
800
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a pasture in Old World Wisconsin.)
In this "Little House" book that precedes "on the Prairie", Laura Ingalls Wilder described her earliest days in Wisconsin'
Little House in the Big Woods
1000
'Billy, whose dogs are Old Dan & Little Ann, finds out "Where" this "Grows" in a book by Wilson Rawls'
the Red Fern
1000
'19th century Parisian dolls are on display at this principality's Museum of Automatons & Dolls'
Monaco
1000
'Part of the immune system, these, named for their origin in the thymus, feature special receptor molecules'
T-cells
1000
'It was a small, flowing body of water before it became a continuous data transfer'
a stream
1000
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Old World Wisconsin.) Dedicated at Old World Wisconsin by Queen Margrethe, this restored house is typical of ones built by immigrants from this country'
Denmark
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