COMPLETE THE POETIC RHYME
ABSINTHE
MAKES THE HEART
"IDI" I MEAN
PENINSULATION
200
'Lewis Carroll:
"O frabjous day! Callooh! _____!"'
"Callay!"
200
'A cube of this is used to allay the bitterness of absinthe'
sugar
200
'The left side of the heart pumps oxygenated blood to the body; the right side picks it up from these organs'
the lungs
200
'In "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen" these come in "comfort" & "joy" varieties'
tidings
200
'They're the 2 countries that make up almost all of the Scandinavian Peninsula'
Norway and Sweden
400
'William Blake:
"When the stars threw down their spears,/ And watered heaven with their _____"'
"tears"
400
'Seen here is a 1901 painting by this Spaniard of a woman drinking absinthe'
Picasso
400
'This term first meant a central court in a Roman house; now it also means a heart chanber'
an atrium
400
'The television is sometimes referred to as this kind of "box", though not when you're watching our show'
the idiot box
400
'You can drive the length of this peninsula from Tijuana all the way to Cabo San Lucas'
the Baja Peninsula
600
'Maya Angelou:
"...your bitter twisted lies,/ You may trod me in the very dirt/ but still, like dust, I'll _____"'
"rise"
600
'The "Girdle of St. John" in Europe, this herb contains a toxic substance used to make absinthe'
wormwood
600
'Diastole is the part of the cardiac cycle when chambers are relaxed; when the chambers contract, it's this'
systole
600
'(Listen.) You're hearing this type of file for communication between electronic instruments & computers'
a midi file
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports.) Jutting into the Black Sea, this region of Ukraine includes Yalta and Sevastapol, the site of a famous 1855 siege'
the Crimean Peninsula
800
'Wordsworth:
"And then my heart with pleasure fills,/ And dances with the _____"'
"daffodils"
800
'A 1992 Paris retrospective of this short artist's life sold replicas of his cane with a hidden vial for absinthe'
(Henri de) Toulouse-Lautrec
800
'The mitral valve has 2 flaps & is also called this valve, just like a certain tooth'
a bicuspid
800
'Derision'
ridicule
800
'The inhabitants of this 70,000-square-mile peninsula are predominantly descendants of the Maya'
the Yucatan
1000
'Andrew Marvell:
"The grave's a fine and private place,/ But none, I think, do there _____"'
"embrace"
1000
'A revival of absinthe-making in this country benefited from the 1989 "Velvet Revolution"'
Czechoslovakia
1000
'The Amer. Heart Assoc. defines bradycardia as a heart rate of fewer than this many beats per minute'
60
1000
'This is either a regional dialect or an odd phrase that can't be understood by looking at the individual parts'
idiom
1000
'This European peninsula is named for a mythological son of Tantalus'
the Peloponnese (or the Peloponnesian Peninsula)
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