WHAT A BUNCH OF CHARACTERS!
BADJECTIVES
FIRST COFFEE
POP CULTURE-POURRI
DISCOVERIES IN SCIENCE
UNIFORMITY
100
If Luke had spoken Dutch he wouldn't have been so surprised since part of this character's name is father in Dutch
DARTH VADER
100
Loathsome or a baseball hit outside the lines
FOUL
100
Coffeehouses first appeared in Mecca in the 15th century though authorities said coffee was prohibited by this 7th century text
THE QURAN
100
In 2021 Queen Latifah rebooted this old Edward Woodward TV role of righting wrongs that no one else will
THE EQUALIZER
100
Lavoisier said he never got Scheele's 1774 letter about discovering this component of water but it was found in his papers
OXYGEN
100
Uniforms at this Maryland college are dinner dress, service dress, service working & plebe summer
THE NAVAL ACADEMY
200
Scooby-Doo is best pals with this guy--
real name Norville Rogers
SHAGGY
200
This bad bad word also sounds like you've got bits of crackers all over your shirt
CRUMMY
200
Englishman John Dring who patented a coffee compound in 1771 is often credited as the first to make this time-saving stuff
INSTANT COFFEE
200
Robert Newton's 1950 performance as this rogue in Treasure Island is considered the source of the pirate accent
LONG JOHN SILVER
200
The first one of these discovered in the human body was secretin produced by the small intestine in 1902
A HORMONE
200
Turnout gear that's NFPA-certified for this heroic job has 3 layers--an outer shell, a moisture barrier & a thermal liner
FIREFIGHTER
300
Ranking at #7 on AFI's list of Top Villains is Alex Forrest in this 1987 thriller, but I prefer to think of her as a misunderstood woman who is not going to be ignored
FATAL ATTRACTION
300
Drop an "L" from the beginning of a word meaning legal to get this truly bad adjective
AWFUL
300
You can visit the first of these at 1912 Pike Place
STARBUCKS
300
In 2008 the visitors' locker room in Bryant-Denny Stadium at this university was named in honor of James M. Fail
U of ALABAMA
300
The discovery of a fault scarp in Washington state showed that recent tremors are these still happening from an 1872 earthquake
AFTERSHOCKS
300
Generally on a pilot's uniform 4 stripes on these -- French for little shoulder -- denotes the captain & 3 the first officer
EPAULETS
400
On TV in 2020 Tom Ellis had a devil of a time doing double duty as Michael (with an American accent!) as well as this title character
LUCIFER
400
It followed penny in the name of an old-timey novel
DREADFUL
400
Originally grown only in Arabia in the 17th century, coffee plants first made it to this 50,000-square-mile Indonesian island
JAVA
400
You can get your own red energy dome hat from the website of this 4-letter band popular in the 1980s
DEVO
400
The Curies gave Paul Villard some radium & he discovered these very high-energy Greek-letter rays
GAMMA RAYS
400
The sweet but now mostly outdated uniform of this kind of hospital worker is seen here
A CANDY STRIPER
500
This hard-to-pin-down guy played by Brad Pitt in Fight Club starts Project Mayhem
TYLER DURDEN
500
It means repulsive or 12 dozen
GROSS
500
Patented in 1906 the first process for doing this involved steaming green coffee beans & treating them with a chemical
DECAFFEINATING
500
A Nintendo video game creator used an animal word that symbolizes stubbornness in naming this gorilla villain
DONKEY KONG
500
A 9-year-old found a clavicle that turned out to belong to an unknown species of this southern ape genus that also included Lucy
AUSTRALOPITHECUS
500
A white chef's hat is called this 5-letter word
TOQUE