ONE LETTER SAYS IT ALL
ANIMAL PLANET
MUSIC OF THE '60s
BOB DYLAN LYRICS
FILM NOIR
100
Monetarily, a Ben Franklin in hand means you have a this-note
a C-note
100
Deep in the Mariana Trench, you'll find the octopus named for this film pachyderm that uses its ears to help it fly--I mean swim
Dumbo
100
Marvin Gaye's first No. 1 hit, it got new life when it was used in a commercial for California raisins in the 1980s
"I Heard it Through the Grapevine"
100
"Hey", this guy, "play a song for me, I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to"
"Mr. Tambourine Man"
100
In "The Night of the Hunter", Robert Mitchum's brutal villain has these antonyms tattooed across the knuckles of his hands
love & hate
200
Europeans get weird toward the end of the alphabet:
There's "zed" & this letter that's "I grec" in French
Y
200
The antlers of these largest deer can be palmate, meaning shaped like an open hand
moose
200
This Aretha Franklin song says, "For five long years I thought you were my man but I found out I'm just a link in your chain"
"Chain of Fools"
200
"May your heart always be joyful, may your song always be sung, and may you stay" this
forever young
200
The 1946 murder noir "The Blue" this preceded the real-life murder case known as "The Black" this by a year
Dahlia
300
Two traditional letter-named football formations are the T & this one that can also have "power" before it
an I formation (the power I)
300
The red variety of butterfly from West Africa seen here has this name, like a light, engineless aircraft
a glider
300
The Sherman brothers of Disney fame wrote this song of young love that mentions "peaches & cream" & "lips like strawberry wine"
"You're Sixteen"
300
One of Dylan's greatest songs, it includes "You're invisible now, you got no secrets to conceal, how does it feel?"
"Like a Rolling Stone"
300
The title of this classic 1944 noir refers to a life insurance policy that pays twice as much in a case of accidental death
Double Indemnity
400
50 degrees F. equals 283.15 degrees this
K
400
These hoofed animals can be "odd-toed" like the rhino, or "even-toed" like the antelope
ungulates
400
This top 5 hit by The Mamas & The Papas was written on a cold winter night in Manhattan
"California Dreamin'"
400
Singing about this comic who died in 1966:
"He didn't commit any crime, he just had the insight to rip off the lid before its time"
Lenny Bruce
400
Noir fans debate the merits of Bogie in "The Big Sleep" vs. Dick Powell in "Murder, My Sweet" as this Raymond Chandler hero
(Philip) Marlowe
500
To a guy like Julius Caesar, it was 500
D
500
These birds fly well enough but excel in the water where they can dive 200 feet down
puffins
500
This folk trio had a 1969 Top 10 hit with "Leaving On A Jet Plane"
Peter, Paul and Mary
500
"We never did too much talkin' anyway, but don't" do this, "it's all right"
think twice
500
This 1947 noir starring Tyrone Power as a carnival con man was remade in 2021 by Guillermo del Toro
Nightmare Alley