BUGS
Lyme disease is transmitted to humans via the deer species of this bug
Tick
The film "In Love and War" draws on the diary of Agnes Von Kurowsky, who got to know this author in WWI
Ernest Hemingway
In "Paint Your Wagon" it's called "Maria"
Wind
Nicolas Cage drives to the desert to drink himself to death & meets an angelic hooker in this 1995 drama
Leaving Las Vegas
NOBEL PEACE PRIZE
This Peace Prize winner financed his medical studies partly through royalties from his Bach biography
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Each species of this bioluminescent bug has its own characteristic flashing pattern
Firefly
He based Lara in "Dr. Zhivago" on his mistress Olga Ivinskaya
Boris Pasternak
It's the "culinary" term for the thick weather condition indicated by the following
(sound of a foghorn)
Pea Soup
Felons skyjack a plane with Nicolas Cage (who else?) on board & crash-land on the Vegas Strip in this 1997 thriller
Con Air
20TH CENTURY PERSONALITIES
In a 1998 interview, she said, "I see it as my apostolic duty to talk about art"
Sister Wendy
The brightly colored harlequin bug, also known by this "smelly" name, is a cabbage pest
Stinkbug
Best known for her romance with Sartre, she also had a fling with Chicago novelist Nelson Algren
Simone de Beauvoir
Peter Hoeg's Smilla Jaspersen had a "sense of" this
snow
Nicolas Cage (of course) skydives into Vegas with a troop of Elvis impersonators in this 1992 comedy
Honeymoon in Vegas
AMERICAN FOLKLORE
Name of the animal that measured 42 axe handles & 1 plug of chewing tobacco between the horns
Babe the Blue Ox
Species of this insect include rhinoceros, Hercules & Goliath
Beetle
His lover, stage designer Aline Bernstein, helped him publish "Look Homeward, Angel"
Thomas Wolfe
Director Michael Mann took his name off this 1995 DeNiro-Pacino film in protest of NBC's editing of it
Heat
1996 film in which L.A. hipsters Vince Vaughn & Jon Favreau take a road trip to "Vegas, Baby, Vegas!"
Swingers
FAMOUS NAMES OF THE 1950'S
The lyricist of the song "That's America to Me" adopted the 2 brothers with this last name, orphaned in 1953
Rosenberg
The 2 types of insects that make up the order Lepidoptera
Butterflies & Moths
W.B. Yeats' love Maud Gonne was a founder of this Irish party whose name means "We Ourselves"
Sinn Fein
Richard Pryor's daughter, she's been seen on Showtime's "Rude Awakening"
Rain Pryor
Frank Sinatra leads 10 other men in an attempt to rob 5 Vegas casinos in this 1960 classic
Ocean's Eleven
VOLCANOES
In the last 400 years, over 2/3 of all the deaths caused by volcanoes occurred in what is now this nation