3-LETTER WORDS
ROBOTS & ANDROIDS
OPERA IN OTHER WORDS
POETS & POETRY
THE LATE PRESIDENT FORD
200
'From the Latin for "invite", it's to strive in competition, as for a title'
vie
200
'2 of the model numbers for these big-screen robots are the T-800 & the T-1000'
a Terminator
200
'"One Enchanted Recorder"'
The Magic Flute
200
'Fitzgerald's translation of "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" is quite enthused about "this forbidden" drink'
wine
200
'The Nebraska city where he was born in 1913'
Omaha
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew holds a peanut in her hand.) A peanut is more "pea" than "nut": it's actually a legume; the nuts are seeds and the shell is properly called this'
a pod
400
'In "Blade Runner", this is the term for the androids that Rick Deckard is tracking down & killing'
Replicants
400
'"Herodias' Daughter Who Was Trying to Get a Head"'
Salome
400
'Written in September 1819, his "To Autumn" begins, "Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness."'
Keats
400
'The Michigan city where he set up his law practice, before his political career'
Grand Rapids
600
'This 3-letter word can refer to a globe or an eyeball'
an orb
600
'This Comedy Central series featured fighting robot vehicles trying to disable each other'
Battlebots
600
'"How You Might Address an Upper-Class Married Creature of the Order Lepidoptera"'
Madame Butterfly
600
'Shortly after writing "I Have a Rendezvous With" this, WWI poet Alan Seeger met it'
Death
600
'The man he succeeded as vice president'
Agnew
800
'A water spirit, or to put the kibosh on something'
nix
800
'The 1957 MGM film "The Invisible Boy" featured this "Forbidden Planet" robot turning in his 2nd mechanical role on film'
Robby
800
'"A Hairstylist in an Andalusian City in Spain"'
The Barber of Seville
800
'Though born on Long Island, in his poetry he was "Walt Whitman, a Kosmos, of" this island "the Son"'
Manhattan
800
'The investigative body to which Ford was appointed on November 29, 1963'
the Warren Commission
1000
'Arabic for "son of", it's often used in personal names'
Bin (or Ibn)
1000
'This series featured 2 robots & one human making sarcastic comments while watching B movies'
Mystery Science Theater 3000
1000
'"Masculine Singular Ablative in Latin for Faithful or True"'
Fidelio
1000
'"A terrible beauty is born", this Irishman wrote on "Easter, 1916"'
(William Butler) Yeats
1000
'The location where Pres. George W. Bush eulogized Ford as "the best of America"'
the Washington National Cathedral
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