CHINESE FOOD
EARTH SCIENCE
WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE
MOVIES AS TV NEWS STORIES
2 WORDS IN ONE
MOIST THINGS
200
The scientific name of this, often used to flavor Chinese food, is Zingiber officinale
ginger
200
In a mining lode, the gangue is the junk & this is the mineral with the good stuff in it
ore
200
Indonesia's the place to see this ape whose name comes from Malay for "person of the forest"
an orangutan
200
Rocky Balboa has begun training Adonis Johnson; will Adonis have the eye of the tiger? That's up next in sports
Creed
200
Cleopatra's cobra plus a command to stop gives us this road surface
asphalt (asp + halt)
200
This 9-letter word for a small piece of paper used for cleansing often follows "moist"
towelette
400
These "nutty" cookies for dessert are known as the Chinese national cookie & even have their own day in April
almond cookies
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400
This temperature oscillation in the equatorial Pacific Ocean was also a nickname of the young Rafael Nadal
El Niño
400
Go deep (though not 20,000 leagues) to find Architeuthis dux, this rarely seen cephalopod
a giant squid
400
A crime novelist, dead in his mansion under mysterious circumstances. Benoit Blanc, on the case. Eyewitness News starts now
Knives Out
400
To ask for spare change plus one ninth of a baseball game gives us this starting place
beginning (beg + inning)
400
In chapter I of "Bleak House" this is "everywhere... up the river... down the river... in the eyes & throats..."
fog
600
Sometimes called fensi, this thin pasta is made from mung beans & becomes transparent when soaked in water & cooked
glass (cellophane) noodles
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600
It's not just oil--Saudi Arabia has reserves of over 300 trillion cubic feet of this
natural gas
600
The Amur tiger, aka this tiger, ranges from southeastern Russia to northern China
the Siberian tiger
600
**DAILY DOUBLE**
2 musicians dressed like undertakers led police on a wild chase through Chicago. Their car, & many others, did not survive the trip
The Blues Brothers
600
One piece of butter plus public group violence gives us this nation lover
patriot (pat + riot)
600
This moist cake with cream cheese icing is probably the most popular cake named for a garden root veggie
**PICKLE PARTY**
carrot cake
800
The use of spicy Huajiao peppers gives food from this Chinese province its zesty flavor
Sichuan
800
Seismographers use the difference in speed between P waves & S waves to help locate this point
the epicenter (of an earthquake)
800
Formosan rock macaques are only found in Japan & in the mountains & forests of this Asian island
Taiwan
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800
A young man from Mumbai won big on a game show tonight; the winning final answer? Aramis, from "The Three Musketeers"!
Slumdog Millionaire
800
A Catholic religious service plus a standard unit of area gives us this wanton slaughter
a massacre (mass + acre)
800
This Iberian plant seen here hanging from trees needs to be in a moist habitat
Spanish moss
1000
A popular ingredient in stir fry recipes, its name means "white vegetable" in Cantonese
bok choy
1000
Some ocean sediment is radiolarian ooze, made of these parts of tiny protozoans
little skeletons (shells)
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1000
We have good hope you can tell us this alternate name for the African buffalo (it lives in Africa, by the way)
a Cape buffalo
1000
An APB is out for a man who escaped a southern chain gang; authorities noted the man's amazing blue eyes & "failure to communicate"
Cool Hand Luke
1000
A shark appendage plus a type of beer gives us this musical conclusion
finale (fin + ale)
1000
From the Latin for "tear", these glands keep the eyeballs moist
lachrymal glands
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