WORLD CURRENCY
LAST NAME FLOW-TOGETHERS
(Alex: Let me give you an example: "Actor Christopher; singer Freddie"--Christopher Plum-MER, singer Freddie MER-cury,)
(Alex: Let me give you an example: "Actor Christopher; singer Freddie"--Christopher Plum-MER, singer Freddie MER-cury,)
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CANADIAN TV SHOWS
ADAPTATIONS
400
After the U.S. pulled out of the 2015 nuclear deal with this country in 2018, its currency plunged
Iran
400
Leonard, a conductor & piano player "on the town" in 1944, & Henry, who made his first grand piano in 1856
Bernsteinway
400
This is an old word for a sack; buy "a pig in" one & you don't really know what you're getting
a poke
400
Until 1784 music out of this city had the Fort Nashborough sound
Nashville
400
Several incarnations of this sci-fi show about an ancient space portal were filmed in British Columbia
Stargate
400
This Margaret Atwood novel was adapted by the Royal Winnipeg Ballet in 2018
The Handmaid's Tale
800
ISK is the currency code for this country's krona
Iceland
800
Lena, one of TV's "Girls", & Dashiell, who wrote about hard-boiled men
Dunhammett
800
In 1901 John Moore-Brabazon strapped a shoat named Icarus into a basket on the wing of his Voisin, & this impossibility was a reality
pigs flying
800
The Portuguese name for this island was Ilha Formosa, "Beautiful Island"
Taiwan
800
After witnessing the death of her double, a hustler is drawn into a clone-spiracy on this drama
Orphan Black
800
Depicted here is Carlo Gozzi, whose play "The Love of" these was turned into an opera by Prokofiev
The Love of Three Oranges
1200
In 2018 its pres. Erdogan urged his people to take euros & dollars from under their pillows & convert them to the native lira
Turkey
1200
Journalist Ted, who brought us the news late at night, & politician Nancy, who makes news on many days
Koppelosi
1200
The first recorded use of "in a" this as an exclamation of derision dates to 1847
pig's eye
1200
St. Petersburg was once called Leningrad; similarly, Volgograd was once called by this name
Stalingrad
1200
Showing bush pilots at work & at play, "Arctic Air" is set in this "colorful" capital of the Northwest Territories
Yellowknife
1200
This 1910 E.M. Forster work about the Schlegels & Wilcoxes was filmed in 1992 by James Ivory & adapted for TV in 2017
Howards End
1600
In 2018 this country introduced the sovereign bolívar, dropping 5 zeroes so something that cost 5 mil. old bolívars is now just 50
Venezuela
1600
Edwin, husband of Caroline Kennedy, & Ingrid, wife of Roberto Rossellini
Schlossberg & Bergman
1600
An 1824 London news report on a boxing match said that one of the fighters did this like a pig
sweat
1600
Much of what makes up the Czech Republic today was once this kingdom, which was, oddly, once ruled by the Luxembourg Dynasty
Bohemia
1600
The TV stories of this animated 4-year-old & his family are available in French & English versions
Caillou
1600
When this TV & film scribe was adapting "To Kill a Mockingbird" for the stage, he kept getting disappointed in Atticus
Aaron Sorkin
2000
Nicaragua's currency is the cordoba, equal to 100 of these, from the Spanish for "100th part"
centavo
2000
Jesse, who created a Rainbow Coalition, & Barry, who directed "Addams Family Values"
Jacksonnenfeld
2000
Completes a quote from Matthew 7:6: "Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your..."
pearls before swine
2000
Until 1855 this Western Hemisphere capital city was known as Bytown
Ottawa
2000
This Canadian sketch comedy troupe including Dave Foley & Kevin McDonald had its own show
Kids in the Hall
2000
To stop violence, women take a vow of abstinence in Spike Lee's "Chi-Raq", a retelling of this Greek comedy
Lysistrata