OPERA
SAME FIRST & LAST LETTER
CABINET CLEANING
WELCOME TO OMAHA
"C"OLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
200
'This Verdi title character is an Ethiopian slave to Pharaoh's daughter'
Aida
200
'It's the last name of TV's SpongeBob'
SquarePants
200
'In 1965 Nicholas Katzenbach replaced this man as LBJ's Attorney General'
Bobby Kennedy
200
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from a scenic fountain in Omaha, NE.) It opened in downtown Omaha in 1917 with 3 lads in juvenile court & 2 homeless newsies; it's now on 900 acres near the city'
(Girls and) Boys Town
200
'A town & gown struggle at Oxford in the early 1200s led some scholars to leave & found this school'
Cambridge
400
'His opera "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" was inspired by Hans Sachs, who wrote more than 4,200 Meisterlieder'
Wagner
400
'This type of canoe is propelled with a double-bladed paddle'
a kayak
400
'In 1997 she took over for Warren Christopher as Secretary of State'
Madeleine Albright
400
'Founded in 1917, the company Omaha these brings superb marbling to your dinner table'
Omaha Steaks
400
'The logo for this Ivy League school is seen here'
Columbia
600
'Heard here in a Gluck opera, this mythological character is lamenting the loss of his beloved'
Orpheus
600
'Often served on Passover, this pungent root is (luckily) not made from the animal in its name'
horseradish
600
'From 1904 to 1908 he was Teddy Roosevelt's Secretary of War; in 1909, he became president'
Taft
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from in front of an Omaha museum.) In 1865 the first spike of this railroad was driven in Omaha; in 1869 it became part of the transcontinental system'
the Union Pacific
600
'Its official address is on Forbes Avenue in Pittsburgh'
Carnegie Mellon
800
'In operas by Massenet & Puccini, it's the given name of Mlle. Lescaut'
Manon
800
'This term is used for items made from clay, including bricks as well as pottery'
ceramic
800
'In 1959 Christian Herter didn't "make a fool of himself over" this man; he just replaced him as Secretary of State'
John Foster Dulles
800
'In a museum near the city you can see missiles of the S.A.C., this part of the Air Force that ended with the Cold War'
the Strategic Air Command
800
'Harvey Mudd & Pomona Colleges are part of this California consortium of schools'
Claremont
1000
'In opera, that "dum-dee-dee-dee-dum" every time the merry carpenter shows up is called one of these'
a leitmotif (a motif accepted)
1000
'The Flamenco is a rhythmic dance of this region in Southern Spain'
Andalusia
1000
'Daniel Roper, Harry Hopkins, Jesse Jones & Henry Wallace were Commerce Secretaries for this president'
FDR
1000
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from behind the "bamboo curtain" in Lied Jungle.) Omaha's renowned zoo includes the Lied Jungle, one of the world's largest one of these vanishing ecosystems'
a rainforest
1000
'Along with his wife Sarah, Peter, the founder of this New York "Union" of Art & Architecture, invented Jell-O'
Cooper
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