SPELLING "B"
NEBRASKA: THE GOOD LIFE
ONE-WORD BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS
COOKING
A CATEGORY FULL OF HOLES
200
'Acute or chronic inflammation of the membrane lining the lungs'
B-R-O-N-C-H-I-T-I-S
200
'Rub shoulders with Nebraska state legislators at Billy's restaurant on H Street in this capital'
Lincoln
200
'A controversial U.S. general'
Patton
200
'Butterball advises putting the thermometer in this part of the turkey that provides dark meat'
the thigh
200
'A par 3 golf course often has this many holes, half as many as a regular course'
9
400
'This country borders the Congo, Tanzania & of course, Rwanda'
B-U-R-U-N-D-I
400
'In 1927 Edwin Perkins of Hastings, Nebraska invented this powdered soft drink'
Kool-Aid
400
'A Hindu leader'
Gandhi
400
'From the Latin for "flat wood", it's one of a fry cook's tools'
a spatula
400
'In case of rain when camping, always keep one of these South American cloaks with a hole in it ready for wear'
a poncho
600
'Acute form of food poisoning that once claimed as many as 65% of its victims'
B-O-T-U-L-I-S-M
600
'Visit this area of rolling dunes, or check out the migration of the cranes also called these'
sandhills
600
'Collision'
Crash
600
'Hungarian goulash recipes measure salt & pepper in teaspoons or tablespoons, but this spice in cups'
paprika
600
'The nearby Andromeda Galaxy has a supermassive one of these at its center'
a black hole
800
'Istanbul was once Constantinople & before that, this city founded by the Greeks'
B-Y-Z-A-N-T-I-U-M
800
'Born in 1913, this 38th U.S. president was the only chief executive whose life began in Nebraska'
Ford
800
'An historic Scotsman's nickname'
Braveheart
800
'Craig Claiborne's recipe for this French soup reminds you to chill thoroughly & pronounce the final "S"'
vichyssoise
800
'Until these holes on postage stamps were introduced in the 1850s, stamps had to be cut by hand'
perforations
1000
'A Marxist adjective for the middle class'
B-O-U-R-G-E-O-I-S
1000
'It's not such a good life in this "corny" tale that Stephen King set in Nebraska, not Maine'
Children of the Corn
1000
'A middle name in Latin'
Amadeus
1000
'Also sometimes done to harbors, it means to coat food with a dry ingredient like flour'
dredge
1000
'This "Hoosier Poet" recalled "long, lazy... happy days of yore" in his poem "The Old Swimmin' Hole"'
James Whitcomb Riley
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