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COMMON BONDS

200

'Boston,
Bibb,
iceberg'

lettuce

400

'Vampire,
Masterson,
Louisville Slugger'

bats

600

'Dessert,
tuning,
pitch'

forks

800

'An angel,
an airplane,
many large museums'

winged

1000

'Thunder,
the tide,
a bowling ball'

rolling

U.S. PRESIDENTS

200

'In 1976 he was the first incumbent president to take part in a campaign debate with a rival candidate'

Gerald Ford

400

'In 1921 Harding appointed this man Secretary of Commerce; 8 years later he was the president'

Hoover

600

'(Sofia of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the Waldorf Astoria.) A circle of five stars marks the doorway of the suite that this U.S. president once lived in'

Eisenhower

800

'At his second inauguration, Coolidge took the oath of office from this former president, a first'

William Howard Taft

1000

'Before becoming president, he was a professor at Harvard'

John Quincy Adams

TV TALK SHOW HOSTS

200

'This "Politically Incorrect" host once described his show as "The McLaughlin Group on acid"'

Bill Maher

400

'He was a writer & supervising producer for "The Simpsons" before hosting his own late-night talk show'

Conan O\'Brien

600

'She's the co-host of "The View" seen here'

Star Jones

800

'This singer who hosted a variety series in the '50s had her own talk show from 1974 to 1980'

Dinah Shore

1000

'In 1967 his Philadelphia-based show became the first syndicated talk show to win an Emmy'

Mike Douglas

A SEEDY CATEGORY

200

'Crazy as it sounds, technically an acorn is one of these, a one-seeded fruit with hard walls'

a nut

400

'Among the duties of these hard-working insects is dispersing the seeds of plants like bloodroot'

an ant

600

'The rare production of a seed without this process taking place is called apomixis'

pollination (or fertilization)

800

'From the liquid they produce, the sesame & sunflower are known as this type of "seed"'

oil seeds

1000

'Unlike seeds of gymnosperms like conifers, the seeds of the flowering plants, also called these, are enclosed'

angiosperms

SHAKESPEARE

200

'Shakespeare's synonyms for this body part include sconce, noll, poll, pash & pate'

head

400

'Looking for a title for your mystery novel? Lift this play's "murder most foul" or "not a mouse stirring"'

Hamlet

600

'In a 1936 production Orson Welles moved the setting of this play from the heath to Haiti'

Macbeth

800

'Her Uncle Pandarus encourages her affair with Troilus'

Cressida

1000

'"As You Like It" is partially set in the forest of this'

Arden