THAT'S THE END OF THE LINE
COMMON BONDS
MOUTH TO MOUTH
GILLS, GILLS, GILLS
GRAPPLE SAUCE
MOVIE REFRESHMENTS
200
Back in the day, this state capital was the last horse-&-rider stop on the Pony Express
Sacramento
200
Cinnamon,
honor,
Rick
roll
200
Idiomatically, something said to come straight from this beastly location is from the most reliable source
the horse's mouth
200
The branchial hearts, 2 of the 3 in an octopus, pump blood through its gills, where this is released & oxygen is absorbed
carbon dioxide
200
He was already a popular pro wrestling star when he made the leap into movies like "The Scorpion King" & "Fast Five"
Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson
200
"Tampopo", about a woman's adventures in her noodle shop in this country, has been called a "Ramen Western"
Japan
400
On Obama's pre-inaugural whistle-stop train tour in 2009, this Washington, D.C. station was the end of the line
Union Station
400
Bridal,
soul,
bullet
a train
400
The white interior of a water moccasin's mouth gives it this alternate name
a cottonmout
400
When you pull a leg off this crustacean to eat, the fuzzy gray part is the gill; it has several pairs & yes, I'll have it Thermidor
a lobster
400
The 2 ways to win a match in this form of wrestling are to force an opponent to the ground or out of a 15-foot circle
sumo
400
Eva Longoria directed 2023's "Flamin' Hot", about Richard Montanez, who claims to have invented these flamin' hot snacks
Flamin' Hot Cheetos
600
5 days of round-trip choo-chooing on the Royal Canadian Pacific puts you back where you began in this city, Alberta's largest
Calgary
600
Hobby,
dark,
charley
horses
600
This character in "2001: A Space Odyssey" reads the lips of the astronauts, who think they are talking privately
🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣
HAL
Duh! It's ME. Of course we will cheers to that!
🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣🥒📣
600
Using all its tools, the scalloped type of this shark suppresses gill use during dives & can hold its breath for about an hour
a hammerhead shark
600
In Genesis this patriarch wrestles all night with God & won't stop until receiving a blessing
Jacob
600
Dishes made by Remy, an animated gourmand of the garbage, include an omelet, a roasted mushroom & this title dish
ratatouille
800
If you ride the MBTA (or "T") to the end of the Green Line's Westbound B branch, you'll be at this Jesuit college founded in 1863
BC (Boston College)
800
Pizza,
mud,
cutie
pie
800
In Jewish folklore, when a sacred word written on paper was placed in the mouth of one of these, the creature would come to life
a golem
800
Gills aren't part of the name of these fish, subclass Dipnoi, but they actually have them & use them
lungfish
800
The 2 types of wrestling in the Olympics are freestyle & this hyphenated variety
Greco-Roman
800
As Harold & Kumar in a 2004 film can attest, this fast food chain hits different after riding a cheetah & hang gliding
White Castle
1000
It's no longer where a famous train line ends, but there's still an Orient Express restaurant at this city's Sirkeci Station
Istanbul
1000
Napoleonic,
honor,
genetic
code
1000
The Shatt al-Arab River in southeastern Iraq is formed where the mouths of these 2 rivers meet at the town of Al-Qurnah
Tigris & Euphrates
1000
From Greek & Latin for "naked gills", the nudibranch, better known by this alliterative name, has gills on its back
a sea slug
1000
In 1938, in what was billed as the first women's match in this, when a winner was declared, it took time to figure out who she was
mud wrestling
1000
At the start of this 1973 sci-fi film, Edward G. Robinson wants more of the title food; by the end, he becomes the title food
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