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JACK LONDON
THE ASSASSINATION BUREAU
200
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park, New Mexico.) Calcite formations called soda straws are precursors to these larger formations that grow from cave ceilings'
stalactites
200
'Lisa Marie Presley'
Priscilla Presley
200
'It's the official state berry of Massachusetts--let us all give thanks'
cranberry
200
'Jack London often purchased story ideas, including "The Assassination Bureau", from this "Babbitt" author'
Sinclair Lewis
200
'Sara Jane Moore was one of 2 would-be assassins of this man in 1975'
Gerald Ford
400
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the amphitheater at Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park, New Mexico.) Carlsbad Caverns, not San Juan Capistrano, is home to what may be the USA's largest colony of the cave species of this bird, which cohabits with the bats'
the swallow
400
'Ben Stiller'
Anne Meara
400
'Pucker up for this official state pie of Florida'
key lime
400
'Beauty Smith trains the title wolf dog to become a lethal dog fighter in this Jack London novel'
White Fang
400
'Spencer Perceval, the only British prime minister to be assassinated, was killed in the meeting place of this body'
the House of Commons
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from the amphitheater at Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park, New Mexico.) Each night thousands of Mexican freetail bats leave the batcave in search of food using this process in which sound reflects off prey'
echolocation
600
'Rumer Willis'
Demi Moore
600
'This melon made it big--really big--as Oklahoma's state vegetable (yep, vegetable--they already had a state fruit)'
watermelon
600
'The 1913 Hobart Bosworth film is the first movie of this Jack London novel about Wolf Larsen & his ship'
The Sea Wolf
600
'Engelbert Dollfuss, the chancellor of this neighbor of Germany, was assassinated by Nazis in 1934'
Austria
800
'(Jon of the Clue Crew wriggles through a small cave opening at Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park, New Mexico.) Carlsbad is part of an ancient one of these structures, on the edge of an inland sea; it was mostly formed by the remains of algae & sponges, not coral'
a reef
800
'Shaun Cassidy'
Shirley Jones
800
'The official state drink of Rhode Island is milk with this flavor syrup; that'll wake you up'
coffee
800
'In "The Call of the Wild", a dog with this name is stolen & forced to be a working dog in Alaska'
Buck
800
'Bearing the name of the man who filmed it, it's the best-known recording of JFK's assassination'
the Zapruder film
1000
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from inside Carlsbad Caverns Nat'l Park, New Mexico.) The immense chambers in the cave at Carlsbad Cavern are the result of the aggressive dissolution of limestone by this acid, H2SO4'
sulfuric acid
1000
'Sean Astin'
Patty Duke
1000
'Natchitoches meat pie, which has its own festival, is the official meat pie of this state'
Louisiana
1000
'The popular Jack London story "To Build" this is about a man trying to survive a harsh Yukon winter night'
a fire
1000
'In 1835, this U.S. president survived an assassination attempt when both pistols used by the gunman misfired'
Andrew Jackson
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