THE BIG APPLE
COMPOSERS ON FILM
A SHAPELY CATEGORY
SALMON
CHANTED
200
'There's an annual footrace up its 86 flights of stairs'
the Empire State Building
200
'Kevin Kline
in "De-Lovely"'
(Cole) Porter
200
'Often stuffed & baked, conchiglioni is jumbo pasta shaped like these'
shells
200
'"Fish ladders" help salmon travel upstream over these man-made obstructions'
dams
200
'In a children's playground chant, they're the 2 things that will "break my bones, but names will never hurt me"'
sticks & stones
400
'On the NYC subway this train will also take you to Harlem, but then it splits off & heads for Yankee Stadium'
the B train
400
'Cary Grant
in "Night and Day"'
Cole Porter
400
'Something that's cordate is shaped like this, my love'
a heart
400
'World Book says this country leads the world in salmon fishing, with more than 450,000 tons caught each year'
the United States
400
'This musical instrument consists of a chanter, several drones & an air sack'
a bagpipe
600
'In 1865 NYC, already home to 800,000, finally abandoned this type of fire department'
volunteer
600
'James Cagney
in "Yankee Doodle Dandy"'
George M. Cohan
600
'It's the more common 4-letter name for a regular hexahedron'
a cube
600
'The roe of the chum salmon is a popular source for the red variety of this'
caviar
600
'Their chant in "Macbeth" begins, "Double, double, toil and trouble"'
the witches
800
'One of NYC's most famous seafood joints is the bar for these bivalves in Grand Central'
oysters
800
'James Cagney
in "The Seven Little Foys"'
George M. Cohan
800
'Dendroid means shaped like a tree; dentiform means shaped like this'
a tooth
800
'Salmon are members of the same family as the speckled or brook variety of this fish'
trout
800
'The Kol Nidre prayer is chanted by the cantor on the eve of this Jewish day of atonement'
Yom Kippur
1000
'Artsy types like Maya Lin & Art Spiegelman find inspiration in this area that gets its name from its northern border'
SoHo (South of Houston)
1000
'Toralv Maurstad
in "Song of Norway"'
Edvard Grieg
1000
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew points out a four-sided shape on the monitor.) In geometry, I'm sure you've come across this shape: it's a plane figure with 2 parallel & 2 non-parallel sides'
a trapezoid
1000
'Weighing up to 100 pounds, this large type of salmon shares its name with a warm, dry wind'
chinook
1000
'Named for a 6th century pope, these a capella songs might have earned a Papal's Choice Award'
Gregorian chants
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