SNAILS
ALL "STAR"s
FEMALE FIRSTS
WORLD LEADERS REVEALED
RHYME TIME
200
Snails are eaten in many countries, including as this Provençal-named delicacy in French cuisine
escargot
200
The right side of a sailing ship
starboard
200
Kathryn Bigelow became Oscar's first female Best Director for this film with only one named female character
The Hurt Locker
200
The real question is, when does this present-day leader actually wear a shirt?
Putin
200
Hippies advocated this nonviolent strategy to promote peace & love
flower power
400
The eyes of most land snails are found atop the pairs of long stalks called these, like the limbs of a cephalopod
tentacles
400
An Olympian who starts running less than a tenth of a second after the gun is guilty of this violation
a false start
400
In July 1923 Italian actress Eleanora Duse became the first woman to grace the cover of this U.S. magazine (issue No. 22)
Time
400
Here's President Obama at Sandy Beach in this state where he spends many Christmas vacations
Hawaii
400
This type of shirt bares the midriff
a crop top
600
Snails make up part of the more than 45,000 species in this class of animals that has a name meaning "stomach foot"
gastropods
600
Judy Greer's memoir is "I Don't Know What You Know Me From: My Life as" this type of actor
a Co-Star
600
250 years after Magellan's expedition, Jeanne Baret became the first woman to do this
circumnavigate the Earth
600
Sometimes you gotta flex your muscles, like this Canadian
(Justin) Trudeau
600
Let's go tropical with this Polynesian-style cocktail made with rum, Curacao & fruit juices
a mai tai
800
Be careful around the aquatic cone snail; it produces these "nerve poisons" that can be venomous to humans
neurotoxins
800
Jesus tells a parable about this seed of condiment fame
a mustard seed
800
In 1919 this "Lady", the former Nancy Langhorne of Virginia, was the first woman to sit in the British Parliament
(Lady) Astor
800
Sometimes you gotta play Ping-Pong shirt-free, like this guy
(Fidel) Castro
800
Jeopardy! categories include Potpourri & this 10-letter synonym for "potpourri"
hodgepodge
1000
Tasmania produces around 25% of the world's wild caught supply of this large edible sea snail, mainly the black lip variety
abalone
1000
One word meaning not wearing any clothes, in Nottingham
starkers
1000
The first woman in space was Valentina Tereshkova, riding into the heavens on the 6th launch in this Soviet space program
Vostok
1000
A candid 1994 photo of Bob Hawke, ex-prime minister of this country, in his "swimmers", as they say, made a few waves
Australia
1000
It calls itself "the nation's leading online and mobile food-ordering and delivery marketplace" (USA)
Grubhub