MR. ROBINSON
FAMOUS LAST WORDS
HERE'S 2 "U"
WORLD WAR II
PLEAS & CARATS
200
'1935's "The Little Colonel" contains the scene in which Bill Robinson tap dances up & down the stairs with her'
Shirley Temple
200
'A woman facing the guillotine, 1793:
"Farewell, my children, I go to rejoin your father"'
Marie Antoinette
200
'This grandfather clock part moves to & fro by the action of gravity & acquired momentum'
pendulum
200
'In March 1942 Hitler approved Operation Aida, an offensive by Rommel to cross North Africa to this river'
Nile
200
'Henry David Thoreau's 1859 essay "A Plea for" this Harpers Ferry guy didn't work; he was executed'
John Brown
400
'"Before the Frost/Until the Freeze" was a 2009 double album from this band fronted by Chris Robinson'
The Black Crowes
400
'A composer, 1827:
"I shall hear in heaven"'
Beethoven
400
'In German, the plural of "mother" gets this diacritical mark'
umlaut
400
'To help the war effort, this composer wrote "Any Bonds Today?" for the Treasury Department'
Irving Berlin
400
'The 3,106-carat Cullinan Diamond was cut into more than 100 smaller gems that are now part of this royal collection'
the British Crown Jewels
600
'"Shop Around" was the first Top 40 hit by this group featuring Smokey Robinson'
The Miracles
600
'A Mexican bandito, 1923:
"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something"'
Pancho Villa
600
'This language of the Incas is still spoken in Peru & Ecuador'
Quechua
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from the World War II Memorial in Washington, D.C.) A panel honors the contribution of paratroop units like the 507th, which helped beat back this German counteroffensive of December 1944'
Battle of the Bulge
600
'The 4.25-carat Kahn Canary Diamond, found in Arkansas in 1977, was worn by her to her husband's inaugurations'
Hillary Clinton
800
'The middle initial of this movie actor known for playing gangsters stood for Goldenberg'
Edward G. Robinson
800
'An Irish writer, 1900:
"My wallpaper & I are fighting a duel to the death. One... of us has to go"'
Oscar Wilde
800
'To build up or gather, like snow'
accumulate
800
'In July 1942 the port of Sevastopol fell to the Germans & the rest of this peninsula soon followed'
the Crimean Peninsula
800
'Spiro Agnew pleaded this, Latin for "no contest", to tax fraud charges in 1973'
nolo contendere
1000
'Walker Smith used this name as a professional boxer'
Sugar Ray Robinson
1000
'An admiral, 1805:
"Thank God, I have done my duty"'
Horatio Nelson
1000
'The name of this branch of math comes from the Latin for "small stone"'
calculus
1000
'The final land battle of WWII was fought on this island in the Ryukyus in June 1945'
Okinawa
1000
'Chief Pleas is the parliament of Sark, one of these islands between England & France'
the Channel Islands
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