LITERARY VILLAINS' PERSONAL ADS
INVENTORS & INVENTIONS
MOVIE COMEDY
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
DIA-GRAMMAR
200
'Are you Tolkien to me? I'm the "eye" in your sky! But you have to give me & my Black Riders a ring to win my love!'
Sauron
200
'The World Almanac's list of inventions goes from Pascal's adding machine to a 1913 improvement of this fastener'
a zipper
200
'Mike Myers comes to bring nirvana to North America as Pitka, this title character'
The Love Guru
200
'It's nicknamed "Old Eli"'
Yale
200
'A 19th c. book says diagrams clarify each clause in the sentence, each phrase in the clause & each this in the phrase'
word
400
'Turn-ons: Type O-positive personalities; turn-offs: Dutch metaphysicians who try to kill me'
Dracula
400
'Around 1870 Christopher Sholes & 2 friends invented the 1st practical one of these, including a QWERTY keyboard'
typewriter
400
'This visitor from Central Asia tells an American rodeo crowd, "We support your war of terror!"'
Borat
400
'The oldest college in the Southern U.S. is named for this royal pair who founded it in 1693'
William & Mary
400
'(Jon of the Clue Crew indicates five Latin sentences, all translating to "dog bites man", on the monitor.) In Latin, word order doesn't affect meaning; canis is this in each sentence because it's in the nominative case'
subject
600
'Back on market after a bad breakup with my ex-GF, Nancy; okay, I killed her, but she betrayed Fagin!'
Bill Sikes
600
'In June 1974 a package of Wrigley's gum became the first product scanned having one of these'
a bar code
600
'In 2 movies Martin Lawrence has impersonated tough granny Hattie Mae Pierce, better known as her'
Big Momma
600
'This Louisiana univ. with a famed marching band began as the Colored Industrial & Agricultural School in 1901'
Grambling
600
'You do this, from the Latin for "part", when you break a sentence down'
parse
800
'"Discourtesy is unspeakably ugly to me", especially when I'm enjoying having people for dinner'
Hannibal Lecter
800
'In 1971, 3 engineers invented this company's 4004 chip, the world's first single-chip microprocessor'
Intel
800
'On DVD, this sequel in which Jason Biggs & Alyson Hannigan tie the knot sold 3 million copies in 3 days'
American Wedding
800
'This Baltimore university's hospital formally opened in 1889'
Johns Hopkins
800
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew indicates the monitor.) A verb phrase can be either just Vi or Vt plus a noun phrase; the "I" and the "T" stand for these opposites'
transitive & intransitive
1000
'I'm a brilliant academic but I tend to leave the deerstalker caps & hard drugs to a certain arch-nemesis'
Moriarty
1000
'This "hip" communications device got its present form in a 1974 Motorola version, but it had no display'
a pager
1000
'Bruce, played by this man, was almighty before Evan was'
Jim Carrey
1000
'Martha Stewart & Anna Quindlen are graduates of this women's college that's affiliated with Columbia'
Barnard
1000
'Sentence diagrams visually represent this, the way words are arranged & relate within sentences'
syntax
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