THE FILM INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS
YE OLDE BRITISH MONEY
PHRASE CONNECTORS
THE RIVER
BORN TO RUN
THE GHOST OF TOM JOAD
400
Apparently alright times 3 with the voters, he won Best Supporting Male for "Magic Mike" in 2013
McConaughey
400
A nursery rhyme begins, "Sing a song of" this amount
sixpence
400
Hat
____
or treat
trick
400
"Yo, heave ho", says the song of this Russian river's boatmen
the Volga
400
The last of 4 runs for president by this consumer advocate was in 2008 with running mate Matt Gonzalez
Nader
400
Maybe the ghost hangs around the cells of this state's penitentiary in McAlester, where Tom did time
Oklahoma
***
800
His 2015 acceptance speech for Best Male Lead did not, but should have, included him saying in a threatening way, "I'm Birdman"
Michael Keaton
800
The pound was divided into 20 of these, colloquially called bob
shillings
***
800
The naked
____
will out
truth
800
It winds some 500 miles from the Cote d'Or to Le Havre
the Seine
800
On his third try in 1981, François Mitterrand became the first French president representing this quite gauche party
the Socialist
***
800
Enjoying a meal of lapin, this animal, think of Tom, who eats it strung on baling wire & cooked over a burning plank from his family home
rabbit
1200
A question sung & asked by Mr. Rogers for decades was the title of this documentary winner about the man in 2019
Won't you be my neighbor?
1200
You'll find R-E-I-G-N in this word for a gold one-pound coin depicting one who reigned
a sovereign
***
1200
The dogs of
____
of attrition
war
1200
One of the world's largest freshwater fish at almost 10 feet in length, the pirarucu is found in this river system
the Amazon
1200
This newspaperman didn't raise much Kane in losing runs for NYC mayor, state governor & then mayor again, all in a 4-year span
Hearst
1200
Looking at a Hudson Super Six, named for its six of these, feel the presence of the Joads who converted one into a truck & piled in
six cylinder engine
***
1600
Seen here, this actress won for her direction of "The Lost Daughter" at the 2022 awards
Maggie Gyllenhaal
1600
**DAILY DOUBLE**
A pound note, or the Latin word for "what"
quid
1600
**Daily Double**
Feet of
____
pigeon
clay
***
1600
Texas' Declaration of Independence was signed in Washington — Washington-on- this river named for "the arms of God"
the Brazos River
1600
India's Congress (this letter) Party formed in 1978; the letter, for the 1st name of the woman who soon regained a seat in parliament
I
1600
Don't forget Tom & all those who fled the Dust Bowl on this highway Steinbeck called "The Great Western Road"
Route 66
2000
In 2011 Dale Dickey won Best Supporting Female for supporting this female who played Ree in "Winter's Bone"
(Jennifer) Lawrence
2000
The name of an old-timey bicycle with a large front wheel & a much smaller back wheel combines penny & this smaller coin
farthing
2000
The time is out of
____
venture
joint
***
2000
In 1966 the Po produced devastating floods, like this Florentine river the same yearq
the Arno
2000
In 1965 he entered politics & won a seat as the member for Mount Royal; 3 years later he was prime minister of Canada
Pierre Trudeau
2000
Remember Tom if you visit Bakersfield; he did too —specifically the outskirts & this kind of place named for a president
(a) Hooverville