ANCIENT TIMES
SPORTS EVOLUTION
A BUG'S LIFE
ASTRONOMY ADD A LETTER
RICHARD
200
'The ancient Ban Chiang poetry of Thailand resembles that of this country's neolithic Yang-Shao period'
China
200
'In the 1750s the original golf course here had 11 holes & you played each of them twice'
St. Andrews
200
'Known as Wandermeisen in German, these conspicuously mobile ants move about in long, orderly columns'
army ants
200
'Add this letter to Earth & you get a scarcity'
D (dearth)
200
'One man who had this name discovered Lake Tanganyika; the other played Becket & Trotsky on film'
Richard Burton
400
'Ancient Greeks believed that wine was a gift from this god, the Greek equivalent of Bacchus'
Dionysus
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Utah Olympic Park, with Cheryl and Jimmy pushing her in a bobsled.) Begun in the 1800s, the first bobsleds didn't have these--a garden rake was used instead'
brakes
400
'The chigoe is a sand-dwelling variety of this insect'
a flea
400
'Add this letter to Mars & you get a fen'
H (marsh)
400
'In 1886 Richard Sears began selling pocket watches & in 1887 hired this man as his watch repairman'
Roebuck
600
'Because of his work there, you could call the astronomer Hipparchus "the colossus of" this island'
Rhodes
600
'By the time the British discovered this sport in India around 1860, it used a ball, no longer a goat's or enemy's head'
polo
600
'The field & house types of this insect are sold as laboratory subjects, frog food & bait'
crickets
600
'Add this letter to Saturn's moon Titan & you get a Renaissance guy who liked to paint Venus'
I (Titian)
600
'Either of the 2 parents of Richard the Lion-Hearted'
(1 of) Henry II & Eleanor of Aquitaine
800
'Horrified by the carnage of war, Asoka, a 3rd century B.C. ruler in India, embraced this peaceful religion'
Buddhism
800
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew slides a curling stone across the ice in the Utah Olympic Oval.) Curling came to North America with Scottish soldiers who melted down these iron projectiles; today's stone is 40 pounds of polished granite'
cannonballs
800
'This garden pest controller is the state insect of Delaware & Massachusetts'
ladybug
800
'Add this letter to Jupiter's moon Io & you get an acronym that's a ground-floor stock offer for regular guys'
P (IPO)
800
'He shot the famous photo of Nastassja Kinski & the serpent'
Richard Avedon
1000
'Hetepheres was the mother of this Great Pyramid king; when her tomb was found, Mummy's mummy was missing'
Cheops
1000
'The 18th century Broughton rules were intended to lessen the brutality of this sport'
boxing
1000
'Used by scientists to clean flesh off bones being prepared for research, dermestids are a type of this insect'
a beetle
1000
'Add this letter to star & get something harsh or grim'
K (stark)
1000
'He was actually in prison when he wrote, "Stone walls do not a prison make, nor iron bars a cage"'
Richard Lovelace
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