PETER, PETER
HAD A WIFE & COULDN'T KEEP HER
COLOR-FULL WORDS
C'EST LA "V"
PUMPKIN EATER
200
'Jason Alexander & this "Columbo" actor co-starred in the 2000 play "Defiled" at L.A.'s Geffen Playhouse'
Peter Falk
200
'She wasn't Henry VIII's first wife, but she was the first that he beheaded'
Anne Boleyn
200
'Astronomer John Herschel developed the process to make this type of architectural drawing'
a blueprint
200
'As I hold the door for you oh-so-politely, I say "apres" this (yes, this means "you")'
vous
200
'Alton Brown shreds 3 cups of fresh pumpkin to make one loaf of this'
pumpkin bread
400
'Christopher Knight, more recently of "Celebrity Circus", played Peter on this classic family sitcom'
The Brady Bunch
400
'Instead of becoming a pillar of the community, this biblical man's wife became just a pillar'
Lot
400
'At night this good-natured elf secretly helps out with housework'
a brownie
400
'If you want French people to be nice to you, learn this French phrase that means "Long live France!"'
Viva la France !
400
'Paula Deen puts a twist on tradition--instead of pumpkin pie, it's pumpkin gooey butter cakes for this holiday'
Thanksgiving
600
'This director saw Cybill Shepherd on the cover of Glamour & decided she'd be perfect for "The Last Picture Show"'
Peter Bogdanovich
600
'Her second husband divorced her, also known as "Old Hatchet Face", soon after she started smashing saloons'
Carrie Nation
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew points her remote, first at you, and then at her digital camera.) You don't see anything happening when you press your remote, but hold it up to a camera & you can see it's communicating to the TV using this spectrum of light'
infrared
600
'A type of mineral water sparkles with the name of this French spa town, the capital of unoccupied France'
Vichy
600
'Emeril says to shell these & toast them before putting them in his mole verde sauce'
pumpkin seeds
800
'Hercule Poirot could detect that this actor won Oscars for "Spartacus" & "Topkapi"'
Peter Ustinov
800
'Pauline, this emperor's sister, left her second husband in 1803 to do fun things like go to Paris & pose nude'
Napoleon
800
'During the Middle Ages, the Arabs reintroduced to Europe this process of converting hides to leather'
tanning
800
'The French term for a Peeping Tom isn't Tomas le Peepe, it's this'
voyeur
800
'Out of pumpkin? Tyler Florence says you can substitute the butternut type of this in his pumpkin soup'
squash
1000
'Sir Walter Scott wrote a tale called "The Talisman" in 1825; Stephen King & this man, a little more recently'
Peter Straub
1000
'After a scandalous celebration, his wife Pompeia was no longer "above suspicion" & he divorced her'
(Julius) Caesar
1000
'Teaberry plant leaves have an oil with astringent properties that's used for this gum flavor'
wintergreen
1000
'It's true:
"C'est" this is French for "it's true"'
vrai
1000
'Giada de Laurentiis adds 6 of these "wise" leaves to her pumpkin ravioli with toasted hazelnuts'
sage
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