PUT IT ON
ANCIENT NAMES
THAT'S CRICKETS
8-LETTER WORDS
IN THE BOOK
AARON SORKIN
200
Why not wear this Mexican hat with a name from Spanish?
a sombrero
200
Before serving as court physician to the Roman emperor, Galen was chief physician to a group of these trained fighters
gladiators
200
In the movies he sings, "Always let your conscience be your guide"
Jiminy Cricket
200
It can mean a left-handed boxer, like Marvin Hagler
southpaw
200
"You should be ashamed of yourself, comparing a fine man like Ashley Wilkes to a scoundrel like Captain Butler!"
Gone with the Wind
200
This baseball picture garnered Oscar nominations for stars Brad Pitt & Jonah Hill, as well as co-writer Sorkin
Moneyball
400
The cap named for Davy Crockett featured the fur & tail of this type of animal
a raccoon
400
Plutarch wrote that this queen's beauty was "not altogether incomparable", but to converse "with her had an irresistible charm"
Cleopatra
one wrong answer
400
Fried crickets are a delicacy in this country but I'll just stick with pad see ew
Thailand
400
Common in newborn babies, it causes yellowing of the skin & in the whites of the eyes
jaundice
400
The first in a series: journalist Mikael Blomkvist solves a mystery with the aid of a female computer hacker
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
400
A 2023 revival of this beloved Broadway musical featured a rewritten book by Aaron Sorkin & starred Phillipa Soo as Guenevere
Camelot
600
Put on the short-sleeved shirt named for this sport; Ralph Lauren is famous for them, but they date to the 1920s
a polo
600
Considered China's greatest sage, he's gotten new endorsement from Xi Jinping, who spoke on his 2,565th birthday in 2014
Confucius
600
He led the band called The Crickets until his untimely death in 1959
Buddy Holly
600
This word for someone who's on the lam was in a TV & movie title
fugitive
600
A girl absconds with a copy of "The Grave Digger's Handbook", marking "the beginning of an illustrious career"
The Book Thief
triple stumper
600
(Aaron Sorkin presents the clue.) I'm not a journalist, so I take dramatic license to capture the sentiment of a scene, like having this character say, "You can't write code, you're not an engineer, so how come ten times a day I read Steve Jobs is a genius--what do you do?"
Steve Wozniak
800
A girl in the Buster Brown comic strip gave her name to this style of shoe
Mary Jane
800
After this Roman emperor's death in 117, it's said his ashes were placed in his column
Trajan
one wrong answer
800
The sport of cricket gave us this 2-word phrase for a difficult or awkward situation
Sticky Wicket
800
A popular meme shows Jean-Luc Picard doing this gesture of exasperation
facepalm
triple stumper
800
DAILY DOUBLE
Boys in Afghanistan battle to see who can cut the strings of their opponents' toys
800
(Aaron Sorkin presents the clue.) I was working as a bartender in New York City in the 1980s while I was writing this play & even wrote some of it on cocktail napkins during my shift; I was 28 when it came out on Broadway, & I got to write the screenplay for the film too
A Few Good Men
1000
The Spanish word for guava may be the origin of the name of this Cuban shirt with 4 pockets
the guayabera
1000
Fearing its rise again after the Second Punic war, Cato the Elder ended speeches with this city "must be destroyed"
Carthage
1000
Mormon crickets, which are actually katydids, threatened crops in Utah in 1848 until a flock of these birds saved the day & ate them
(sea)gulls
one wrong answer
1000
It's a small pepper from a variety of Capsicum chinense that's named for a place in the Caribbean
habanero
triple stumper
1000
Dally Winston, leader of the Greasers, & Cherry Valance, a Soc cheerleader
The Outsiders
1000
(Aaron Sorkin presents the clue.) I wrote "Charlie Wilson's War", which was the last film directed by this Hollywood legend, the most talented man I've ever met; he made directing look simple--it's not
Mike Nichols
triple stumper