BOOKS THAT BECAME FILMS
THE OTHER
FORTUNE-TELLING
IN JOE PATERNO'S FIRST YEAR
PREPOSITIONS
200
'"Who Censored Roger Rabbit?"'
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
200
'The 3 Baltic states are Estonia, Latvia & this other country'
Lithuania
200
'Gaze into Uma Silbey's book about these fortune-telling spheres; there's a whole section on quartz ones'
crystal balls
200
'Secretary of State Rusk visited this capital to assure South Vietnam we wouldn't sell it out'
Saigon
200
'It comes between Doctors & Borders in an international humanitarian organization'
without
400
'"Vengeance: The True Story of an Israeli Counter-Terrorist Team"'
Munich
400
'Linus Pauling had the same initials as this other chemist who lived in France 100 years earlier'
Louis Pasteur
400
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew tries her hand at fortune-telling.) The middle part of the cup stands for the near future in tasseography, the art of doing this'
reading tea leaves
400
'On Dec. 18 this Dr. Seuss animated classic aired for the first time'
How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
400
'If this preposition didn't exist, we'd have song titles like "More Than There" & "More Than The Rainbow"'
over
600
'"Wiseguy"'
Goodfellas
600
'The 2 official languages of Haiti are Creole & this'
French
600
'"It's only a game--isn't it?" is a slogan of this board whose mysterious new version actually glows in the dark'
a Ouija board
600
'This leader launched his Cultural Revolution'
Mao
600
'It's the 4-letter preposition in the 4-word phrase that starts many a fairy tale'
upon
800
'"The Murder of Bob Crane"'
Auto Focus
800
'Among the 30 busiest airports in the U.S. are O'Hare & this other one in Chicago'
Midway
800
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reads your future.) In palmistry, the fleshy pads on the hands are called mounts; a well-developed mount of this signifies a satisfying love life'
a mount of Venus
800
'U.S. Catholic bishops did away with the rule prohibiting this on Fridays'
eating meat
800
'It precedes "wraps" when keeping something a secret'
under
1000
'A 2008 award-winning movie:
"Q & A"'
Slumdog Millionaire
1000
'The holiest cities in Islam are Mecca & this'
Medina
1000
'From the Latin for "to speak", it's a speaker of wise predictions, whether at Delphi or in Omaha'
an Oracle
1000
'The Tashkent agreement, signed in the USSR, ended a 17-day war between these 2 other countries of Asia'
India & Pakistan
1000
'To infinity & this preposition, as they say in "Toy Story"'
beyond
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