CLOSING WORDS IN THE CINEMA
A LINE
GRAMMAR
MY OFF-SHOW WARDROBE
IN THE SAND
200
'1964:
"Eliza? Where the devil are my slippers?"'
My Fair Lady
200
'This 18th c. line & its extensions westward became the boundary between Northern & Southern states'
the Mason-Dixon line
200
'In the sentence "It was as if an occult hand had been at work", "occult" is this part of speech'
an adjective
200
'I still have this artsy rhyming type of shirt seen here from the time I toured with The Dead back in '73, man'
tie-dye
200
'This bird rearranges its eggs in the sand--hence the belief it's burying its head'
an ostrich
400
'1961:
"Fat man, you shoot a great game of pool."
"So do you, Fast Eddie"'
The Hustler
400
'The Yamanote Line, this city's busiest train line, carries more than 3.5 million people a day'
Tokyo
400
'As in this clue, ending a sentence with one of these is a practice some don't agree with'
preposition
400
'I'm kickin' it island-style in these geographically named shorts I sport here'
Bermuda
400
'This fanged, hairy spider of the Southwest desert can live up to 30 years'
a tarantula
600
'1979:
"This is Ripley, last survivor of the Nostromo, signing off. Come on, Cat"'
Alien
600
'In the 1930s Germany built fortifications called the Siegfried Line on the west side of this river'
Rhine
600
'"As the sun set" is known as a "sentence" this'
fragment
600
'Hey, there, Daddy-O--it's the rhymin' name of the threads I'm stylin' here'
a zoot suit
600
'The name of this wild canine now found across the U.S. comes from an Aztec word'
coyote
800
'1975:
"I used to hate the water."
"I can't imagine why"'
Jaws
800
'The Curzon Line, proposed in 1919, became essentially the boundary between Poland & this country in 1945'
Russia (the Soviet Union)
800
'As necessary to complete the idea, the last 3 words of "I like men who bake bread" form a restrictive type of this'
clause
800
'It's the '70s casual attire I'm in here--I burned all the real pics of me in one'
a leisure suit
800
'Russian thistle is also called this, since the plant detaches from its base & scatters seeds as it rolls'
tumbleweed
1000
'1968:
"Boys, let's watch the cigarette butts, shall we? This is my house, not a pigsty"'
The Odd Couple
1000
'In 1949 Israel & Jordan created the Green Line between them, determining the boundary of this troubled area'
the West Bank
1000
'It's best to use this type of voice when possible; "Bob ate the pie" is good... "The pie was eaten by Bob", not so much'
active
1000
'I think this '50s fashion seen here looks good on me--hey, who are you to judge?'
a poodle skirt
1000
'This desert insect was part of Egyptian cosmogony; it was the Sun, & its rolled food was the Earth'
a scarab beetle
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