"OVER" & "OUT"
EXCELLENT ADVENTURE
BILLs & TEDs
SUPERSTITIONS
YOU'RE A BEAST!
200
'To prevent a check from bouncing due to insufficient funds, banks offer this type of protection'
overdraft
200
'At the end of this novel, Jim has "the voice of Captain Flint still ringing in" his "ears: 'Pieces of eight! Pieces of eight!'"'
Treasure Island
200
'He's Massachusetts' senior senator'
Ted Kennedy
200
'A superstition says pull out one of these from your head & you will soon find several new ones growing'
a gray hair
200
'As you can probably guess, this is the featured color of the fins of the flame tetra'
red
400
'This restaurant chain with an Aussie atmosphere says, "No rules, just right"'
Outback Steakhouse
400
'Thor Heyerdahl recounted his real-life sea adventure, 4,300 miles across the Pacific on a raft, in this 1948 classic'
Kon-Tiki
400
'In 2005, after 25 years as its anchor, he said goodnight to "Nightline"'
Ted Koppel
400
'In Oxford's "Dict. of Superstitions", trimming nails is among the many things not to do on this day of the week'
Friday (Sunday also accepted)
400
'This hooded snake of India is the longest of the venomous snakes'
the king cobra
600
'It's the problem with the photo seen here'
overexposure
600
'It was originally published under the title "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours"'
Around the World in Eighty Days
600
'A decade after "Politically Incorrect", he launched "Real Time" on HBO'
Bill Maher
600
'When birthday cake is served, it's what the birthday girl can do to make her wish come true'
blow out the candles
600
'One popular breed of cat bears the name of these mountains, the world's highest'
the Himalayas
800
'Among the more famous ones were Belle Starr, Butch Cassidy & Billy the Kid'
outlaws
800
'In his final adventure, Gulliver meets these filthy & despicable brutes; do a web search if you're not sure'
the Yahoos
800
'With some 2 million acres, much of it for his bison, he's America's largest private landowner'
Ted Turner
800
'After popping off one of these at a wedding, bring the couple luck by slitting it & putting a coin in it'
a champagne cork
800
'Not Rommel's but Ruppell's sand fox lives in this desert'
the Sahara
1000
'S.E. Hinton was just a freshman in college when she published this classic tale about rival teen gangs'
The Outsiders
1000
'In this classic, an adventurous scientist finds himself in a world divided between the Eloi & the Morlocks'
The Time Machine
1000
'Sadly, in 1991 this concert promoter died when his helicopter crashed en route from a Huey Lewis concert'
Bill Graham
1000
'Cast in a play with Al Pacino, Paul Giamatti enraged the superstitious star by whistling & by naming this Shakespeare play'
Macbeth
1000
'3-letter name of the mythical bird of Arabian legend that was so huge it could carry off an elephant'
the roc
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