HIPPO-POURRI
EARLY AMERICA
YOU'RE PLAYING GAMES WITH ME, ALEX
MINING "ORE"
CALENDAR LIT
200
'On August 12, 1861 this showman exhibited what may have been the first hippo in the U.S. at his American museum'
P.T. Barnum
200
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) In 1766, citizens of Portsmouth demonstrated in these streets against this much-despised British act that even taxed playing cards'
the Stamp Act
200
'Whist, bridge & euchre are in the family of card games in which you win by capturing rounds called these'
tricks
200
'Lincolnesque term for 80'
fourscore
200
'Jack Ryan believes a Soviet naval commander is about to defect in this 1984 novel'
The Hunt for Red October
400
'From the Greek for "thick-skinned", this term can refer to hippos as well as elephants'
pachyderm
400
'In 1638 early Strawberry Banke settlers drew up a covenant & declared allegiance to this Stuart monarch'
Charles I
400
'Your gingerbread man playing piece might get stuck in the Molasses Swamp when you play this board game'
Candy Land
400
'Meaning material or tangible, this adjective is from the Latin for "bodily"'
corporeal
400
'The title of this anti-war memoir refers to author Ron Kovic's birthday'
Born on the Fourth of July
600
'A bronze hippo is the unofficial mascot of George Washington Univ., as legend says hippos once swam in this river'
the Potomac
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reads from Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) The shipping of goods such as flour & wine, vital to cities like Portsmouth, depended on the skill of the men with this job of making barrels'
a cooper
600
'The south of the border version of this American game show is called "100 Mexicanos Dijeron"--"100 Mexicans Said"'
Family Feud
600
'At the time of the 2000 census, this Eastern city was the 17th most populous in the U.S.'
Baltimore
600
'His "Light in August" tells the story of Joe Christmas, who deals with his demons in Mississippi'
Faulkner
800
'A group of hippos is sometimes called this, perhaps because their stomachs look like they're swollen from gas'
a bloat
800
'Some Strawberry Bankers did this, named for the personal ownership of vessels preying on enemy ships'
privateers
800
'This Milton Bradley board game is a quick-draw version of charades'
Pictionary
800
'Applied to first-degree murder, it's a 2-word term for a predetermination to commit an unlawful act'
malice aforethought
800
'George Eliot penned this tale about the arrival of Dr. Lydgate in the title town'
Middlemarch
1000
'He followed "Prufrock and Other Observations" with a collection of poems containing "The Hippopotamus"'
(T.S.) Eliot
1000
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Strawberry Banke in Portsmouth, NH.) This tavern, opened in Portsmouth in 1766, was named for this British prime minister, a defender of the colonists in Parliament'
Pitt (the Elder)
1000
'If you fail to peg the correct value of a hand in this game, your opponent calls out, "Muggins!"'
cribbage
1000
'At 288 square miles, Sao Miguel is the largest of this group of Atlantic islands'
the Azores
1000
'This author can make the category twice with "The Adventures of Augie March" & "The Dean's December"'
Saul Bellow
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