'"And it came to pass" that Samson loved this "woman in the valley of Sorek"'
Delilah
200
'In "Written on the Wind", said wind blows the pages of this back 1 year, indicating a flashback'
a calendar
200
'This conqueror & pupil of Aristotle is quoted, "I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well"'
Alexander the Great
200
'This 1895 Stephen Crane work has been called the first modern war novel'
The Red Badge of Courage
200
'It means to fly apart suddenly, especially from internal pressure such as can happen to a balloon or an appendix'
burst
400
'She told her mother-in-law Naomi, "whither thou goest, I will go...thy people shall be my people"'
Ruth
400
'Horror films often show the victim from the perspective of the killer, a shot known by this 3-letter abbrev.'
POV (point of view)
400
'In 1963 this pres. said cynics would pay "those to whom they entrust the minds of their children" less than their plumbers'
Kennedy
400
'The subtitle of this 1877 novel is "The Autobiography of a Horse"'
Black Beauty
400
'Neil Sedaka sang, "If you go then I'll be blue, 'cause" this "is hard to do"'
"Breaking Up"
600
'This Phoenician princess who married King Ahab was thrown out a window & her corpse devoured by dogs'
Jezebel
600
'A cut from an event to a close-up on someone's face is this type of shot, also found in a Newtonian law'
a reaction shot
600
'In this work Khalil Gibran said a wise teacher "leads you to the threshold of your own mind"'
The Prophet
600
'A trip to Liverpool as a cabin boy on a merchant ship helped this man pen "Redburn"; it wasn't the last novel he set at sea'
(Herman) Melville
600
'It can precede bean, fastener or dragon'
snap
800
'The story of this woman, the only female to judge Israel, is told twice in Judges'
Deborah
800
'Grainy film stock gives the impression of this, verite en francais'
truth
800
'He wrote in the business magazine bearing his name that education "replaces an empty mind with an open one"'
(Malcolm) Forbes
800
'The first chapter of this 1887 work is titled "Mr. Sherlock Holmes"'
A Study in Scarlet
800
'This word was used to describe the "Fairy Tales" narrated by Edward Everett Horton on "The Bullwinkle Show"'
fractured
1000
'By offering water to Abraham's servant, she identified herself as the bride appointed by God for Isaac'
Rebecca
1000
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew gives the clue.) A Dutch tilt gives the viewer a sense that things aren't quite right; the word "Dutch" was originally this word, because German filmmakers liked the technique'
deutsche
1000
'This 19th c. pioneer of public schools called education a "great equalizer...balance-wheel of the social machinery"'
(Horace) Mann
1000
'In 1872 he published the first of his Wessex novels "Under the Greenwood Tree"'
(Thomas) Hardy
1000
'Tennyson wrote "Out flew the web and floated wide, the mirror" did this "from side to side"'