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HEAVY EQUIPMENT

200

'At the end of its arm, a hydraulic shovel has one of these, bigger than one a kid would take to a beach'

a bucket

400

'Used in this industry, an excavator made by Krupp is the largest land vehicle ever created'

(strip) mining

600

'A park in Morrowville, Kansas has a replica of the first of these pushy machines, patented in 1925'

a bulldozer

800

'It's a toothed implement for breaking up plowed soil; it's also a British boarding school'

a harrow

1000

'It's the type of place where you'd most likely put your feller buncher through its paces'

a forest (in logging)

THE LONDON STAGE

200

'We wonder how this witty playwright would have liked "Avenue Q", the first show at the theatre renamed for him'

Noel Coward

400

'The efforts of American actor Sam Wannamaker built this theatre where you can watch Shakespeare today'

the Globe

600

'The National Theatre, launched in 1963, was housed for its first 12 years at this "venerable" venue'

the Old Vic

800

'(Jon of the Clue Crew shows a map of London on the monitor.) Getting its name from its position in relation to the older area called "the City", on a map this theatre district is actually in the middle of London'

the West End

1000

'In 2007 these studious "Boys" were back in town in Alan Bennett's play at Wyndham's Theatre'

The History Boys

BEDTIME STORIES

200

'(Adam Sandler, whose latest movie is the holiday release Bedtime Stories, reads the clue.) In an 1887 version of the bedtime story about the 3 these, it's an old woman who eats their porridge, & after she leaves the house she's arrested as a vagrant'

bears

400

'2 yellow creatures are yawning, just look at the cover of this children's author's "Sleep Book"'

Dr. Seuss

600

'(Adam Sandler delivers the clue again.) This classic about a bunny at bedtime begins, "In the great green room, there was a telephone and a red balloon"'

"Goodnight Moon"

800

'A boy in bed enters a fantastic dream world in this author-illustrator's "In the Night Kitchen"'

Maurice Sendak

1000

'(Adam Sandler shills for his Christmas release.) To show kids the world of Ancient Rome the way I do in my new movie "Bedtime Stories", try the children's version of this author's "Parallel Lives"'

Plutarch

HYBRIDS

200

'Daedalus built the labyrinth in which this half-man, half-bull monster was kept'

the Minotaur

400

'These lascivious woodland deities, a goat-man hybrid, were followers of both Pan & Dionysus'

satyrs

600

'This monster with a woman's body, like Medusa, has claws & serpents for hair, making a day at the salon a real trial'

a Gorgon

800

'These monsters with birds' bodies & women's faces got a nasty rep for snatching children & souls'

harpys

1000

'The name of this fire-breathing, lion-headed, goat-bodied monster has come to mean any idle fancy'

the Chimera

IN-FLIGHT MOVIES

200

'In the 1980 film "Airplane!", Leslie Nielsen memorably says, "I am serious... and don't call me" this'

Shirley

400

'Gary Oldman leads the terrorists who hijack the President's plane in this 1997 action film'

Air Force One

600

'It's drama at Dulles International in this second John McClane adventure'

Die Hard 2

800

'Samuel L. Jackson has worse problems than airplane food in this 2006 thriller'

Snakes on a Plane

1000

'John Lithgow was the terrified passenger in the "Twilight Zone" movie's remake of this classic episode'

"Nightmare at 20,000 Feet"