Book Title Math
First Day on the Job
Facts about Animals
& The Best Supporting Actor Oscar Goes To...
___ & ___
7-Syllable Words
400
Joseph Heller plus Jules Verne sea distance
20,022 (20,000 + 22)
400
Getting used to the binoculars & keeping an eye out for rip currents are first-day tasks at this summer job
a lifeguard
400
The right or bowhead this gets tangled in fishing nets, which can stunt growth, causing the species to be shorter than its typical 52 feet
a whale
400
Tommy Lee Jones, for doing the pursuing in this movie
The Fugitive
400
This cat & mouse duo were at odds in the Big Apple in a 2021 live action/ animated film
Tom & Jerry
400
It's not being too shy to have one's picture taken; it's the quality of being responsive to light
photosensitivity
800
1956's "Dalmatians" minus 2003's "People You Meet in Heaven"
96 (101-5)
800
One-word title of the job seen here: on your first day, don't be nervous, remember your glissando & fingering technique
flautist
800
The 2-toed one of these can live up to 20 years, most of it upside down in the canopy of the rainforest
a sloth
800
Jared Leto, as Rayon in this 2013 film
Dallas Buyers Club
800
Theirs was the first COVID-19 single-shot vaccine to receive emergency authorization in the United States
Johnson & Johnson
800
A gross this is a misrepresentation of an event as less complex than it really is
oversimplification
1200
Original "Space Odyssey" plus Original "Shades of Grey"
2051 (2001 + 50)
1200
New at this gig, Neil Gorsuch embraced life on the cafeteria committee & having to open the door when someone knocks
a Supreme Court justice
1200
When faced with danger, certain ducks, snakes & mammals do this, also called thanatosis
play dead
1200
This man, as Juan in "Moonlight"
(Mahershala) Ali
1200
This iconic role-playing game was a 2016 inductee into the National Toy Hall of Fame
Dungeons & Dragons
1200
Type of church not affiliated with Baptists or Presbyterians, for example; it includes many megachurches
nondenominational
1600
Khaled Hosseinie's "Spendid Suns" divided by John Reed's "Days That Shook the World"
100 (1000/10)
1600
You've just got this gig assisting the mixologists; lots of lifting, so don't hurt the body part in the job's name
barback
1600
The kestrel is also known as this type of hawk, after the nice little bird it's looking around for here
(the) sparrow (hawk)
1600
Jason Robards, as this newspaper editor in "All the President's Men"
Bradlee
1600
Some places in Britain have banned this once popular puppet pair
Punch & Judy
1600
If you fear the number 13, you suffer from this
triskaidekaphobia
2000
Harrer's Himalayan hiatus times Hawthorne's house parts
49 (Seven Years in Tibet x Seven Gables)
2000
You're the new court reporter, dazzle them with your fingers while you operate this intimidating machine
stenography machine
2000
Sweden's only wild feline is this short-tailed cat that's able to bring down much larger animals, like reindeer & roe deer
lynx
2000
Martin Landau, as this real-life actor in "Ed Wood"
(Bela) Lugosi
2000
Michael Chabon won a 2001 Pulitzer for his "Amazing Adventures of" this pair of cousins & comic book creators
Kavalier & Clay
2000
Richard Waterman, who studied the songs of the Yolngu people, helped popularize this field of study
ethnomusicology