"B"OOKS
THEY COME IN SEVENS

THE "A" LIST
ONOMATOPOEIA
NORDIC LITERATURE
500

This classic kids' book by Felix Salten is subtitled "A Life in the Woods"

Bambi

500

The only one of the Seven Wonders of the World that still remains is the Pyramids of this city

Giza

500

The word embassy comes from this job of working in an embassy

ambassador

500

A noise a bomb might make, it can also refer to a period of rapid economic growth

a boom

500

There are no singing Jamaican crabs in the original version of this Andersen tale about a sea-dweller who comes ashore

The Little Mermaid

1000

"Fleeing playgirl traced to Rio" is a headline about Holly Golightly in this Truman Capote tale

Breakfast at Tiffany's

1000

Can I get an amen for Pope Gregory, who thankfully reduced the list of these to 7

deadly sins

1000

It's the absence of any form of political authority

anarchy

1000

The sound caused by a spasm of the diaphragm, or the name of the rider of Toothless the Dragon

a hiccup

1000

Created by Astrid Lindgren, this little redheaded literary girl thinks her father lives far away as a cannibal king

Pippi Longstocking

2000

Sylvia Plath died one month after this novel of hers was published

The Bell Jar

2000

Steve McQueen's "Magnificent" movie was actually a remake of a film about 7 of these guys

Seven Samurai

2000

These insects, also known as plant lice, are captured & milked by many ants for the honeydew liquid they produce

aphids

2000

Kerchoo is a word to represent this

a sneeze

2000

Sweden is a grim place in this first book of the "Millennium" series in which Lisbeth & Mikael solve a 40-year-old crime

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

3000

The title of this bestseller by Ann Patchett refers to a smooth style of opera singing

bel canto

3000

Tolkien should have consulted with the Brothers Grimm before having 13 of these accompany Bilbo in "The Hobbit"

Dwarves

3000

The name of this refractive defect of the eye comes from the Greek

astigmatism

3000

Boo's sibilant friend, this 4-letter word can express disapproval

hiss

3000

"Faceless Killers" was book No. 1 in the series about this soul-searching police inspector played on TV by Kenneth Branagh

Wallander

4000

The French title of this existential work is "L'Être et le Néant"

Being and Nothingness

4000

This group of defendants included Abbie Hoffman & Tom Hayden, who were convicted in 1970

the Chicago Seven

4000

You can control light entering a camera by varying the diameter of this, which acts like the iris in the human eye

aperture

4000

The sound of eating a chip, it comes before "time" to mean a moment of pressure

crunch

4000

Early works by this Norwegian playwright include the tragedy "Catiline", published under a pseudonym in 1850

Ibsen