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MYTHING IN ACTION
FICTION-ALE
GROWING PAINS
WOOD
500

A covered sports stadium

a dome

500

It's where the goddess Persephone spends a third of the year away from home

Hades

500

Pabst Blue Robot is Bender's favorite on this TV show

Futurama

500

More common in women than men, these swollen & twisted veins can be a real pain in the leg

varicose veins

500

In 1994 & 1999 this rock festival celebrated its 25th & 30th anniversaries with new concerts

Woodstock

1000

A weighty book

tome

1000

Collective name for 7 sisters, daughters of Atlas & Pleione, whom Zeus placed among the stars

the Pleiades

1000

You'll find Ent-draughts, served by an old stick, in this trilogy

The Lord of the Rings

1000

These hard, pebble-like masses in your renal organ can cause pain until they pass

kidney stones

1000

"Knock knock" guess who? It's this bird that made his cartoon debut in "Knock Knock" in 1940

Woody Woodpecker

2000

Friendly garden fellow tossed by Harry Potter and his ginger friend

gnome

2000

This woman whose prophecies were disbelieved was one of Agamemnon's spoils after Troy fell

Cassandra

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This sitcom introduced Monkeyshine beer; Marcel was the mascot

Friends

2000

Using a keyboard like this one may reduce the risk of this painful condition, abbreviated CTS

carpal tunnel syndrome

2000

Pirates shiver when woodsmen yell this word from the Old English for "trees for building"

timber

3000

Metal used for plating

chrome

3000

Laertes was the king of Ithaca & the father of this world traveler

Odysseus

3000

Harry Potter might get carded trying to drink a pint of this at the Three Broomsticks

butterbeer

3000

There are more than 300,000 hip fractures annually, many attributable to this porous bone disease

osteoporosis

3000

This mythic ship's prow was made of wood from the sacred talking tree of Dodona & it talked to Jason & the crew

the Argo

4000

A problem on the one numbered 17 can lead to leukemia

chromosome

4000

In Norse mythology's great final battle, Fenrir, a giant one of these animals, is destined to swallow Odin

a wolf

4000

A blue ale is named for this warrior race related to Vulcans

Romulans

4000

Bursitis of the shoulder is often treated with injections of this hormone, from the Latin for "bark"

cortisone

4000

In German, this Strauss waltz is known as "Geschichten aus dem Wienerwald"

"Tales From The Vienna Woods"