TV SHOW OPENINGS
As a punishment, a boy writes on a chalkboard over & over
The Simpsons
A cylinder around which wire or thread is wound
a spool
"Breakpoint" by William Brinkley
tennis
It produces more than 1,500 feature films in a good year
India
Centeotl, a god of these people aka the Mexica, was big into solar & also associated with feasting & pleasure
the Aztecs
A happy woman spins & throws her hat high into the air
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Directive to treat others the way you'd like them to treat you
the Golden Rule
"Man on Spikes" by Eliot Asinof
baseball
Home to Europe's largest glacier by volume
Iceland
One of the 12 labors of Hercules was working in animal control, stealing this 3-headed dog
Cerberus
A boy & his dad carry fishing poles as they leisurely walk along
The Andy Griffith Show
British seaport at the mouth of the Mersey River
Liverpool
"Semi-Tough" by Dan Jenkins
football
You can find the Negev Desert here
Israel
Here comes the sun god, this Egyptian deity who could have gone by "Ol' Falcon Head" but did not
Ra (Horus accepted)
A plane! A plane! arrives at a vacation resort to the delight of a diminutive employee
Fantasy Island
A private institution for girls preparing for entry into fashionable society
a finishing school
"Pistol", a biography by Mark Kriegel
basketball
Country with the most Shia Muslims
Iran
This Greek monster of myth had the head of a lion, body of a goat & tail of a serpent & terrorized the kingdom of Lycia
a Chimera
This 1960s Robert Conrad series opened with a 5-panel cartoon that saw a gunslinger foil a bank robbery
The Wild Wild West
An evil spirit originally from Arabic lore, or someone taking pleasure in a tragedy
a ghoul
"Fever Pitch" by Nick Hornby
soccer
Home to the Wicklow & Blue Stack Mountains
Ireland
Loki & Heimdall kill each other in this final battle of the Norse gods, aka the Day of Doom
Ragnarok