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Crossword Clues "Q"
100

He's the only president honored on Mount Rushmore who lived into the 20th century

Roosevelt

100

Amateur magician Tony Curtis did his own tricks in a 1953 biopic of this conjurer & escape artist

Houdini

100

In the musical "Finian's Rainbow", Finian & his daughter have been followed by one of these creatures from Irish folklore

a leprechaun

100

What color is Freddy Krueger's sweater?

Red and green

100

H2O is more commonly known as this

Water

100

An argumentative dispute (7 letters)

quarrel

200

Georgia is a leading producer of the 3 Ps: peaches, peanuts & these praline nuts

pecans

200

At age 78, Ian McKellen said this character "is over 7,000 years old, so I'm not too old"

Gandalf

200

It's another name for Irish language

Gaelic

200

In what movie was an individual thrown down the stairs after being possessed by a demon?

The Exorcist

200

The study of plants is known as this.

Botany

200

To haggle over a small detail
(7 letters)

quibble

300

Belonging to a cousin, the historic home seen here in Salem, Massachusetts, inspired Nathaniel Hawthorne to write this novel

The House of the Seven Gables 

300

In "Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets", Professor Snape uses this spell to disarm Professor Lockhart

Expelliarmus 

300

The name of this plant comes from an Irish word meaning "clover" 

Shamrock

300

What movie portrays someone being stabbed to with a knife in the shower?

Psycho

300

What did Ernest Rutherford win a Nobel Prize for?

Chemistry

300

Scandinavian traitor
(8 letters)

quisling

400

It's the year chiseled into Plymouth Rock

1620

400

Magician Nicolas Cage hires an assistant in this 2010 Disney film with the same title as a segment of "Fantasia"

The Sorcerer's Apprentice

400

Irish city famous for its crystal

Waterford

400

In Carrie, what do the other students dump on Carrie at prom?

Pig's Blood

400

This element, along with Chloride, makes up normal table salt (NaCl).

Sodium

400

Not "Jeopardy! "-like, but puzzled
(9 letters)

quizzical

500

One of New York City's oldest streets, the Bowery once led to the farm of this last Dutch colonial governor

Peter Stuyvesant

500

Sandra Bullock & Nicole Kidman were witch sisters in this 1998 movie

Practical Magic 

500

Dublin's Leinster House inspired James Hoban's design of this Washington D.C. building

the White House

500

In Poltergeist, what grabs Robbie Freeling through his bedroom window?

a Tree

500

What is the unit for force?

Newton (N)

500

Term for a 40-to-49 year old
(14 letters)

quadragenarian