"B" PLUS
AMERICAN LIT
RALEIGH
WOLF (BLITZER) PACK
ROCKET SCIENCE
300
'A common type of pet turtle, or the type of structure you might keep it in'
box
300
'Scout Finch lives with dad Atticus & brother Jem in Maycomb, Alabama in this classic novel'
To Kill a Mockingbird
300
'In 1603 Sir Walter Raleigh was tried & convicted of this for plotting to dethrone the king'
treason
300
'Wolf Blitzer was born in this New York city that's home to some Bills, Sabres & Wings'
Buffalo
300
'Mercury flights had 1 astronaut, Apollo had 3; this intermediate program had 2-man flights'
Gemini
600
'At Parris Island, Marines learn techniques for using this rifle blade'
a bayonet
600
'His 5 "Leather-Stocking Tales" include "The Deerslayer" & "The Pathfinder"'
James Fenimore Cooper
600
'Raleigh introduced this tuber into Ireland; seemed like a good idea at the time'
the potato
600
'Prior to the 2000 elections, Wolf hosted a town hall meeting with this First Lady & Senate hopeful'
Hillary Clinton
600
'William Hale's 1844 military rocket, using curved vanes, stayed stable by doing this in flight'
spinning
900
'A ring-shaped cake pan with fluted sides'
a Bundt
900
'The title of this novel refers to "a small log building, close adjoining to 'The House'... his master's dwelling"'
Uncle Tom\'s Cabin
900
'In 1569 Raleigh fought in France on the side of these French Protestants'
the Huguenots
900
'Blitzer started his career in 1972 with this huge news service named for the German who started it in 1851'
Reuters
900
'In Dec. 1972 Gene Cernan became the last man to command one of these vehicles known as the LM'
the lunar module
1200
'A strong, coarsely woven cloth made from jute or hemp'
burlap
1200
'Oprah's Book Club read Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound & the Fury" & this aptly titled one in summer 2005'
Light in August
1200
'A poet himself, Raleigh encouraged this man to publish "The Faerie Queene"'
Edmund Spenser
1200
'In 2003 Wolf won an award named for this reporter slain in Pakistan by terrorists in 2002'
Daniel Pearl
1200
'(Jon of the Clue Crew releases a balloon.) Thrust comes from the sudden inequality of this, sometimes measured in atmospheres, inside & outside a rocket'
pressure
1500
'This Slovak capital was also known by the German name of Pressburg'
Bratislava
1500
'This Chicago-set Richard Wright novel centers on Bigger Thomas, who ends up killing his own sweetheart'
Native Son
1500
'In 1600 Raleigh was appointed governor of Jersey, part of this island group'
the Channel Islands
1500
'In 1991 Wolf returned to Moscow to cover this new Russian president'
Boris Yeltsin
1500
'To leave Earth's orbit, a rocket must accelerate to 25,000 mph to achieve this, EV for short'
escape velocity
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