BALLETS WE'VE NEVER ASKED ABOUT BEFORE
BEST MOVIE QUOTES EVER!
6 CHARACTERS IN SEARCH OF AN AUTHOR
SYRIA'S EATING
UP IN THE AIR
200
'In Jerome Robbins' "Celebration", couples representing 5 countries dance this, "step for 2" in French'
pas de deux
200
'1967:
"We rob banks"'
Bonnie and Clyde
200
'D'Artagnan'
Dumas
200
'Syria had to wait until 2006 for an American fast food franchise, this fowl-selling one'
KFC
200
'It decreases for the first 6 miles of the atmosphere, then goes way up, way down & finally up again around 55 miles high'
the temperature
400
'"Fete Noire" was first presented in 1971 by the fledgling dance theatre of this Manhattan area'
Harlem
400
'1975:
"She turned me into a newt!"'
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
400
'Harry Angstrom, aka "Rabbit"'
(John) Updike
400
'Mansaf is this favorite meat cooked in a yogurt sauce'
lamb
400
'Warm air flows deflected by the Earth's rotation create winds that were named this by business-minded mariners'
trade winds
600
'In "Harlequinade" the hero tries to rescue Columbine with the help of the magical "La Bonne Fee", this in English'
the good fairy
600
'1999:
"Get in my belly!" (Second in a series)'
Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me
600
'Esmeralda & Claude Frollo'
(Victor) Hugo
600
'Sultan Ibrahim is a Mideastern name for red mullet, a type of this creature'
fish
600
'At under 6,000 feet, this 7-letter layered type of cloud is one of the lowest'
stratus
800
'The ballet "Bhakti" features 3 Hindu gods including this "destroyer", whose wife, Shakti, dances for him'
Shiva
800
'1999:
"Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler"'
Office Space
800
'Catherine Earnshaw'
Emily Brontë
800
'The leaves of mulukhiya resemble those of this vegetable; we hope Syrian kids don't turn up their noses at mulukhiya'
spinach
800
'Pilots are leery of CAT, or clear-air this, which often occurs over mountains & around thunderstorms'
turbulence
1000
'The 1969 ballet "Trinity" was inspired by the peace movement in this California university city'
Berkeley
1000
'1951:
"Nature, Mr. Allnut, is what we are put in this world to rise above"'
The African Queen
1000
'Paul Baumer, a young German soldier'
Erich Maria Remarque
1000
'To make eish al-Saraya or "Syrian dessert" you need this preparation made by steeping petals in liquid'
rosewater
1000
'From 30 to 50 miles up is this intermediate section of the atmosphere; it gets its name from the Greek for "middle"'
mesosphere
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