THE FANNIE FARMER COOKBOOK
1980s LIT
MOVIE DEBUTS
"PEN" PALS
INVENTORS
200
'Recipes for shad, a type of this, include broiling, planking & stuffing with roe'
Fish
200
'A man can't remember if he murdered his wife or another girl in his "Tough Guys Don't Dance"'
Norman Mailer
200
'He's been "Hard To Kill" & "Under Siege", but in his first film he was merely "Above The Law"'
Steven Segal
200
'The 2-word phrase preceding "pound foolish"'
Penny wise
200
'Hippolyte Mege-Mouries invented it in 1869 to satisfy "imperial" desire for a butter substitute'
Margarine
400
'"Like a velvet cape wrapped around a simple dress", these French pancakes will dress up good leftovers'
Crepes
400
'In 1980 this author had his agent Smiley face his KGB nemesis, Karla'
John le Carre
400
'He played a pimp in "Report To The Commissioner" before he became an "American Gigolo"'
Richard Gere
400
'City in Cornwall from which Gilbert & Sullivan's pirates hailed'
Penzance
400
'We don't know how Snow White's stepmother managed before Justus von Liebig began silvering these'
Mirrors
600
'A rule of thumb: a pound of parsnips serves this many (if you have that many who like them)'
4
600
'This John Updike novel of 1984 had women set for a spell in New England'
"The Witches Of Eastwick"
600
'(VIDEO DAILY DOUBLE):
Eva Marie Saint made her screen debut in this classic film seen here: "Tarrytown. Where's that? It's in the country. I don't like the country...it makes me nervous"'
"On The Waterfront"
600
'This line of verse is composed of 5 metrical feet; iambic is one form'
Pentameter
600
'First century alchemist Maria the Jewess invented this "double" apparatus used in cooking'
Double boiler
800
'A true sponge cake doesn't use baking powder; it's leavened by the air in these'
Well-beaten eggs
800
'18 years after her suicide, she was awarded a Pulitzer Prize for her collected poems'
Sylvia Plath
800
'Danny Glover broke into film in this 1979 Clint Eastwood flick about a prison break-out'
"Escape From Alcatraz"
800
'Next to last'
Penultimate
800
'He invented the standard drum brake & built France's largest automobile company'
Louis Renault
1000
'Fannie says price indicates the quality of this "virgin" oil that you don't refrigerate or store airtight'
Olive oil
1000
'Controversial '88 book in which 2 Indian actors are transformed into archangel & devil after a plane bombing'
"The Satanic Verses"
1000
'This blonde had a bit role in "The Petty Girl" in 1950; 13 years later she was attacked by "The Birds"'
Tippi Hedren
1000
'It begins with the creation & ends with the death of Moses'
Pentateuch
1000
'A laboratory at Livermore, California is named for this physicist who developed the cyclotron'
Ernest Lawrence