BIO HAZARD
"S"-ENTIAL KNOWLEDGE
PRIMATES
AFRICAN-AMERICAN ENTERTAINERS
COMMON BONDS
200
'Roy Jenkins, a leader in the UK's Labour Party, wrote a bio of this great wartime Conservative leader'
Churchill
200
'Broadcast on the Dumont Network in 1946, "Faraway Hill" is considered the first TV show in this daytime genre'
a soap opera
200
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads with a lemur from the Duke U. Primate Center in Durham, NC.) The Duke University Primate Center is part of a project to return captive-bred lemurs to Betampona Reserve on this island, their native habitat'
Madagascar
200
'In grade school he was nicknamed "Prince", as in Prince Charming; later he added "Fresh" to that moniker'
Will Smith
200
'Suspension,
cantilever,
cable-stayed'
bridges
400
'Ibn Ishaq scored in the 8th century with his biography of this Muslim leader'
Mohammed
400
'Important newspapers published in this country include Diario de Cadiz & Diario de Mallorca'
Spain
400
'Like the giant panda, the gray gentle lemur is known for eating the shoots of this plant'
bamboo
400
'She's been bringing down the house in films like "Bringing Down the House" & "Chicago"'
Queen Latifah
400
'Basie,
Dracula,
Monte Cristo'
Counts
600
'"An American Rhapsody" is a biography of this American composer'
George Gershwin
600
'The dog Laika, the first living creature in space, rode there aboard this Russian spacecraft'
Sputnik
600
'This unusual primate with a "double talk" name is the only surviving member of its family'
the aye-aye
600
'This singer who died in 2006 began his Parade of Stars telethon in 1980; it has raised over $200 million for the UNCF'
Lou Rawls
600
'Baseball cap features,
Buffalo athletes,
credit-card mailings'
bills
800
'It's the 2-word title of Hillary Clinton's bestselling 2003 autobiography'
Living History
800
'In the Bible that traitorous hussy Delilah had this man's pride & joy shaved, & then turned him over to the enemy'
Samson
800
'The sifaka gets its name from this, which it does while moving through the forest by vertical clinging & leaping'
its warning call
800
'In 1968 she received a special Tony Award for her starring role in "Hello, Dolly!"'
Pearl Bailey
800
'Feet,
eyebrows,
McDonald's'
arches
1000
'A co-biography of these two men tells of "The Battle of Waterloo and the Great Commanders Who Fought It"'
Napoleon & the Duke of Wellington
1000
'The daughter of the Titans Hyperion & Theia, she was the goddess of the Moon'
Selene
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads with two primates from the Duke U. Primate Center in Durham, NC.) The Duke University Primate Center studies primates often neglected by evolution research: they evolved before monkeys & apes, so they aren't called simians, but these'
prosimians
1000
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads beside the pipe organ in the 16th St. Baptist Church in Birmingham, AL.) Singers who have given recitals in Birmingham's 16th Street Baptist Church include this African-American contralto, a famous victim of prejudice'
Marian Anderson
1000
'A starched shirt,
a week-old cadaver,
a strong drink'
things that are stiff
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