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3-LETTER WORDS

200

'In the '60s it meant trendy or hip, like a member of a TV "Squad"'

mod

400

'For 5 & 7 it's 12'

sum

600

'A criminal charge, it's listed on a "sheet"'

rap

800

'I can't tell either of these 2 3-letter words; I only tell the truth'

fib & lie

1000

'A gullible person, or the juice in a tree'

sap

EXPERIMENTS

200

'Galen's neighbors heard the squeals of stuck pigs when he proved that veins carry this, not air'

blood

400

'In 1952 Hershey & Chase used a Waring model of this machine to study bacteria-eating viruses'

blender

600

'Josef Stefan heated up physics by showing that radiation from a glowing wire was proportional to this'

temperature

800

'NASA's passive seismic experiment detected thousands of lunar seismic events, called these'

moonquakes

1000

'1887's Michelson-Morley experiment demolished the idea of this medium that supposedly conducted light'

aether

KILLERS

200

'In 1990 these insects on the lam from South America since 1957 reached Texas'

killer bees

400

'The Aum Shinrikyo cult was behind a March 1995 nerve gas attack on this city's subway'

Tokyo

600

'"(Hi, I'm Billy Warlock of "General Hospital") In the TV movie "Honor Thy Father And Mother: The True Story Of" these "Murders", I played Lyle"'

the Menendez murders

800

'To get the crown for himself, this Shakespearean king murders 2 little princes'

Richard III

1000

'The savage Gilles de Rais probably inspired this "colorful" character who keeps bodies in a locked room'

Bluebeard

CLASSIC FILM MONSTERS

200

'In a 1933 film this big ape was brought to America from his island home on a huge raft'

King Kong

400

'In 1982 this film's original Japanese version, "Gojira", was shown in America without Raymond Burr's scene'

Godzilla

600

'The old Gypsy Maleva tells this dead character, "Your suffering is over...now find peace for eternity"'

The Wolf Man

800

'Dr. Jack Griffin was the real name of this Claude Rains character; there's more to him than meets the eye'

The Invisible Man

1000

'Also known as the Gill-Man, he was played by Ben Chapman; underwater scenes were done by Ricou Browning'

The Creature from the Black Lagoon

"U" WHO

200

'When the new "Love Boat" set sail in 1998, this "Vega$" star was in the captain's seat'

Robert Urich

400

'This "Exodus" author returned in 1999 with a new political novel, "A God In Ruins"'

Leon Uris

600

'In 1987 he outraced his son to win his fourth Indianapolis 500'

Al Unser

800

'This Norwegian star of such movies as "Autumn Sonata" was actually born in Japan'

Liv Ullman

1000

'Once a staff writer for the New Yorker, this "Rabbit, Run" author still contributes regularly'

John Updike