THE DREADED COUNTING CATEGORY
WORLD HERSTORY
YOU'RE SUCH AN ANIMAL!
THE QUOTABLE DE NIRO
WORD PUZZLES
200
'In baseball it's how a pitcher-to-catcher-to-first double play is scored (this is an easy one)'
1, 2, 3
200
'In 1860, 4 years after leaving the Crimea, she wrote the book "Notes on Nursing: What It Is and What It Is Not"'
Florence Nightingale
200
'It's the only seal with tusks'
a walrus
200
'1980:
"You never got me down, Ray"'
Raging Bull
200
'When I needed money, I did this--bought, then quickly resold'
flipped the house
400
'In poker if you've got a jack high straight, these are your 3 lowest cards'
7, 8, 9
400
'Convincing the gang to take the Bozeman Pass was just one of her contributions to Lewis & Clark's expedition'
Sacagawea
400
'In parts of Asia, more than half the milk produced comes from the "water" type of this bovid'
buffalo
400
'1991:
"Counselor, come out, come out, wherever you are"'
Cape Fear
400
'It's an arm of the Mediterranean'
the Aegean Sea
600
'If a Spanish child tells you to count to mil while he hides, you'll end with this trio of numbers'
998, 999, 1000
600
'After briefly attending Oxford University, she returned to India in 1941 & married a Parsi lawyer the following year'
Indira Gandhi
600
'North America's 2 venomous lizards are the Mexican beaded lizard & this scary denizen of the Southwest'
a Gila monster
600
'(In Sicilian)
"To you she's beautiful. For me, there's only my wife & son"'
The Godfather Part II
600
'Quickly, quickly, quickly--this way'
lickety split
800
'If Joe Biden counts senators to see if he has a quorum, he can stop after these 3 numbers'
49, 50, 51
800
'Some scholars believe that this wife of Akhenaton was not Egyptian but an Asian princess from Syria'
Nefertiti
800
'This agile monkey of the Americas dines on, among other things, the arachnid in its name'
a spider monkey
800
'1995:
"Meeting in the middle of a desert always made me nervous, it's a scary place"'
Casino
800
'Condition of commotion & noisy confusion'
uproar
1000
'If you're counting out pennies to buy a first class stamp, you'll end with these 3 numbers'
42, 43, 44
1000
'For supporting a revolt against him, Henry II had this wife imprisoned from 1173 till his death in 1189'
Eleanor of Aquitaine
1000
'Around 9 pounds at birth, the pygmy species of this African mammal may eventually reach some 600 pounds'
a hippopotamus
1000
'1988:
"$100,000 & I'll have the Duke here for you by Friday night"'
Midnight Run
1000
'Formidable feudal firearm'
crossbow
M
e
n
u