SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
UNREAL ESTATE
REAL CASTLES & PALACES
ARABIC
JAZZ HANDS
200
'SCIAM reported on the founder type of these genetic changes--they happen in 1 person & affect millions of descendants'
a mutation
200
'The Villa Diana in his novel "Tender Is The Night" was based on the French Riviera home of his friend Gerald Murphy'
F. Scott Fitzgerald
200
'Joan Rivers was among the guests at Charles & Camilla's wedding reception in this castle'
Windsor Castle
200
'A shamal is a wind that whips up this blinding phenomenon'
a sandstorm
200
'This trumpeter was born May 26, 1926; you could call it the "birth of the Cool"'
Miles Davis
400
'A March 2002 story was on this bacterial toxin, months after the "first purposeful release" in the U.S.'
anthrax
400
'Satis House is the home of Miss Havisham in this classic'
Great Expectations
400
'As you can see, Neuschwanstein Castle is one of the most beautiful in this mountain range'
the (Bavarian) Alps
400
'The number 3 is talaata, & this day of the week is El Talaat'
Tuesday
400
'I've got "a Love Supreme" for "the last Trane"; it's one of "My Favorite Things" by this saxophonist'
(John) Coltrane
600
'An IPY, an international this year, kicked off in 2007 to study ice shelfs & permafrost'
polar
600
'Bly is the "big ugly antique" house that may be haunted in this Henry James novelette'
The Turn of the Screw
600
'King John's Castle rises majestically above the banks of this river in the city of Limerick'
the Shannon River
600
'The name of this headdress for men may be related to the word "coif"'
kaffiyeh
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew sits at the kit.) The use of the floor tom was popularized by this drummer, especially with Benny Goodman on "Sing, Sing, Sing"'
Gene Krupa
800
'Appropriately, he wrote the October 1994 story "The Search for Extraterrestrial Life"'
Carl Sagan
800
'Shellmound is the Fairchild Family plantation in this Mississippi woman's 1946 novel "Delta Wedding"'
Eudora Welty
800
'Churchill, Stalin & FDR hung out in the Livadia Palace during this 1945 conference'
Yalta
800
'Change 1 letter in "wade" to get this, a gully that's dry except during periods of rain'
a wadi
800
'We pray to hear his hands on the piano keys "'Round Midnight" (which he wrote)'
Thelonious Monk
1000
'Millions of spam messages are generated by "rogue... software programs" called these, a 4-letter word'
bots
1000
'Castle Richmond is the title setting of an 1860 work by this author of "Barchester Towers"'
(Anthony) Trollope
1000
'In the Yusupov Palace, an eerie wax figure of this mystic dominates the room in which he was poisoned'
Rasputin
1000
'In Arabic, follow a hope about the future, like the train arriving shortly, with this, meaning "Allah willing"'
inshallah
1000
'This gypsy guitarist lost the use of two fingers on his left hand, but still had some of the best jazz hands around'
Django Reinhardt
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