Of the Same Name
Homophonic Pairs
(aired on your 30th birthday)
Italian Food
(aired on your 40th birthday)
Reading by the Numbers
(aired on your 50th birthday)
200

Jim, Van, and Toni all share this surname

Morrison

200

A hirsute Truman

A hairy Harry

200

Fusilli, a pasta, is often described as being this shape, like the tool that opens your wine bottle

Corkscrew

200

This Shakespeare title character is only 13 years old

Juliet

400

Critics cheered this 1990 Scorsese film based on Nicholas Pileggi's 1985 mafia bestseller, "Wiseguy"

Goodfellas

400

The sixty minutes that belongs to us

Our hour

400

For brunch, how 'bout some uova al tartufo bianco--eggs with the white type of this fungus

Truffle

400

This book of poetry & wisdom has 150 chapters, the most in the Bible

Psalms

600

Originally, this woman born in 1755 had the middle names Antonia, Josepha, & Joanna

Marie Antoinette

600

A prohibited group of musicians

A banned band

600

A traditional side dish, it's a cornmeal mush often with butter & cheese mixed in

Polenta

600

This author was publicly chastised by Oprah after "A Million Little Pieces" just didn't add up

James Frey

800

A bachelor when elected president, he married Frances Folsom, 27 years his junior, in 1886

(Grover) Cleveland

800

Conceal a Robert Louis Stevenson villain

Hide Hyde

800

This deep-fried pastry horn filled with sweetened ricotta, chocolate & candied fruit is a specialty of Sicily

Cannoli

800

Prof. Aronnax explains that at 32,000 feet deep, you'll be squashed by 17.6 million kilos of pressure in a novel by this man

(Jules) Verne

1000

In his will, this title guy tells his niece Antonia she should marry a man who knows not "about. . .chivalry"

Don Quixote de la Mancha

1000

Mode of water transport to get Tinker Bell to an island

A fairy ferry

1000

This famous ham from Parma is often designated cotto for cooked & crudo for raw

Prosciutto

1000

This Englishman's "Two Treatises of Government" held the key to the writing of the Declaration of Independence

(John) Locke