"J" WALKING
WRITERS
QUASI-PRESIDENTIAL CINEMA
THE BODY HUMAN
CHEESY COUNTRIES
200
'A pair of these will come in handy when you need to recharge your car's dead battery'
jumper cables
200
'Samuel Langhorne Clemens first used this pen name in 1863 while with the Territorial Enterprise in Virginia City, Nev.'
Mark Twain
200
'The IMDB says that this Jimmy Stewart movie was banned in fascist states because of fears that it showed democracy works'
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
200
'Bones range in size from the stapes in your ear to this thighbone'
the femur
200
'Lincolnshire Poacher'
U.K. (or England)
400
'Aye, matey! It's the popular term for a black pirate flag with a white skull & crossbones'
a Jolly Roger
400
'This "Roses are Red" author also inspired a TV show with his "Women's Murder Club" series'
James Patterson
400
'This 2005 Samuel L. Jackson film details one man's attempts to teach his players there's more to life than hoops'
Coach Carter
400
'In the upper part of the chest, this ringed tube about 1 inch in diameter splits to form 2 tubes called bronchi'
the trachea
400
'Oaxaca'
Mexico
600
'Bartenders use this small cup or glass to measure 1½ ounces of liquor'
a jigger
600
'Richard Wright wrote "Native Son"; this fellow African-American author wrote "Notes of a Native Son"'
James Baldwin
600
'Peter Weir got an Oscar nomination for directing this 1998 film about a man trapped in a real-time 24-hour-a-day documentary'
The Truman Show
600
'Also called the kneecap, this flat, triangle-shaped bone is at the front of the knee joint'
the patella
600
'Brillat-Savarin'
France
800
'First name of Confederate Lieutenant General Early'
Jubal
800
'"The Hundred Days" is one of his books detailing the naval career of Jack Aubrey'
(Patrick) O\'Brian
800
'In a 1990 movie, Wayne Newton grapples with Andrew Dice Clay, who plays this title character'
Ford Fairlane
800
'Acetylcholine acts as one of these chemicals that pass nerve impulses across synapses'
neurotransmitters
800
'Asiago'
Italy
1000
'Military term for the person in charge of paratroopers as they exit an aircraft'
a jumpmaster
1000
'In 1939 he wrote,
"O tell me all
about Anna Livia!
I want to hear all
about Anna Livia...
Tell me all.
Tell me now"'
James Joyce
1000
'Adam Sandler gives "sophomoric" a new meaning when he has 24 weeks to pass 12 years of school in this 1995 comedy'
Billy Madison
1000
'The threads of this insoluble plasma protein help with clotting'
fibrin
1000
'Gruyere'
Switzerland
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