18th CENTURY AMERICAN WRITIN' & SPEAKIN'
THEATER GLOSSARY
14-LETTER WORDS
COOL RHYMES
AN "I" LAND
200
IN 1774 HE SAID "I AM NOT A VIRGINIAN, BUT AN AMERICAN"; THE LIBERTY OR DEATH THING CAME LATER

WHO IS PATRICK HENRY ?

200

FRENCH TERM FOR A DAYTIME PERFORMANCE OF A SHOW

WHAT IS A MATINEE ?

200

ON SEPT. 12, 2001

NORMAN MINETA, SECRETARY OF THIS GOV.T DEPARTMENT, ANNOUNCED THE DEPLOYMENT OF SKY MARSHALS

WHAT IS TRANSPORTATION ?

200

A CYLINDER AROUND WHICH WIRE OR THREAD IS WOUND

WHAT IS A SPOOL ?

200

IT PROCES MORE THAN 1,500 FEATURE FILMS IN A GOOD YEAR

WHAT IS INDIA ?

400

A COATED LETTER OF HIS OFFERS "A PLAN...BY WHICH SIR HENRY SHALL POSSESS HIMSELF OF WEST POINT" FOR 20,000 POUNDS

WHO IS BENEDICT ARNOLD ?

400

AS 1 WORD, IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU COULD EAT IT; AS A HYPHENATED TRADEMARK, IT'S A TYPE OF STAGE MAKEUP

WHAT IS PANCAKE ?

400

SOMEONE 

IN HIS OR HER 

SEVENTIES

WHAT IS A "Septuagenarian" ?

400

DIRECTIVE TO TREAT OTHERS THR WAY YOU'D LIKE THEM TO TREAT YOU 

WHAT IS THE GOLDEN RULE ?

400

HOME TO EUROPE'S LARGEST GLACIER BY VOLUME

WHAT IS ICELAND ?

600

JUDITH SARGENT MURRAY BEGAN AN ESSAY, "HOW ABSURD IS THE PRACTICE OF" SETTLING SCORES WITH THIS CUSTOM

WHAT IS A DUEL ?

600

USED ON STAGE, PRACTICALS ARE THESE THAT ALWAYS FUNCTION, AS DISTINGUISHED FROM REPLICAS

WHAT ARE PROPS (OR LIGHTS) ?

600

ADJECTIVE FOR A SPEECH GIVEN WITH NO PREPARATION OR FORETHOUGHT

WHAT IS extemporaneous ?

600

BRITISH SEAPORT AT THE MOUTH OF THE MERSEY RIVER

WHAT IS LIVERPOOL ?

600

YOU CAN FIND THE NEGEV DESERT HERE 

WHAT IS ISRAEL ?

800

ON DEC. 19, 1776, WITH WASHINGTON'S ARMY VERGING ON DISINTEGRATION, THOMAS PAINE PUT OUT "THE AMERICAN" THIS

WHAT IS "AMERICAN CRISIS" ?

800

SOUNDING LIKE IT ONLY GOES ONE DIRECTION, ANY STAGE CURTAIN THAT CAN BE RAISED OR LOWERED IS KNOWN AS ONE OF THESE

WHAT IS A DROP ?

800

THE NAME OF THESE BREACHES WAS INSPIRED BY WASHINGTON IRVING'S 1809 WORK "A HISTORY OF NEW YORK"

WHAT ARE KNICKERBOCKERS ?

800

A PRIVATE INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS PREPARING FOR ENTRY INTO FASHIONABLE SOCIETY

WHAT IS FINISHING SCHOOL ?

800

COUNTRY WITH THE MOST SHIA MUSLIMS

WHAT IS IRAN ?

1000

IN THE LAST LINE OF THE DEC. OF INDEP.,

THE SIGNERS PLEDGED "TO EACH OTHER OUR LIVES, OUR FORTUNES AND OUR SACRED" THIS

WHAT IS HONOR?

1000

IT'S THE 4-LETTER WORD FOR AN UPRIGHT PIECE OF PAINTED SCENERY MOUNTED ON A FRAME

WHAT IS A FLAT ?

1000

MAIS OUI, IT WAS THE PHILOSOPHY OF THE MAN WHO TURNED DOWN THE 1964 NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE

WHAT IS EXISTENTIALISM ?

1000

AN EVIL SPIRIT ORIGINALLY FROM ARABIC LORE, OR SOMEONE TAKING PLEASURE IN A TRAGEDY

WHAT IS A GHOUL ?

1000

HOME TO THE WICKLOW & BLUE STACK MOUNTAINS

WHAT IS IRELAND ?

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