PUNS
WILDLIFE
PEN NAMES
"CHRISTMAS" MOVIES
PARIS MUSEUMS
200
'(Sarah of the Clue Clue reports from Seattle) Why am I shopping at Seattle's Pike Place Market? Just for this!'
the halibut
200
'Its vascular system has special valves that allow blood to reach the brain, which is over 6' higher than the heart'
giraffe
200
'Otis Criblecoblis was the name he used as a scriptwriter of "Never Give a Sucker an Even Break"'
W.C. Fields
200
'1989:
starring Chevy Chase'
National Lampoon\'s Christmas Vacation
200
'French sculpture can be found in the Richelieu wing of this museum that was established in 1793'
The Louvre
400
'Cabinet minister: "We must take up the tax". Groucho: "You've got to take up the tacks before you can take up" this'
the carpet
400
'This hairy family contains the world's largest spider, a South American species that has a 10-inch leg span'
tarantula
400
'John Lange & Jeffery Hudson are some of the pen names this "Andromeda Strain" author has used'
Michael Crichton
400
'1954:
with Bing Crosby'
White Christmas
400
'Housed in the cellars of a former abbey, the museum of this potent potable (my favorite) gives tastings'
wine
600
'Thomas Hood wrote that Holland "lies so low they're only saved by being" this'
damned
600
'Nobel Prize winner Karl von Frisch deciphered the "dancing" patterns of this insect'
bee
600
'A 1984 special Pulitzer Prize citation went to the children's author who used this pen name'
Dr. Seuss
600
'A 1988 TV movie:
featuring Florence Henderson'
A Very Brady Christmas
600
'A small museum traces the history of this Paris cathedral'
Notre Dame
800
'To the patient with alternating dreams of being a tepee & a wigwam, the doctor said, "Your problem is you're" this'
two tents
800
'This stinging arachnid bears its young live & the mother carries the young on her back until they molt'
scorpion
800
'"I have no mouth, and I must scream" that this science fiction writer has been Jay Solo & Paul Merchant'
Harlan Ellison
800
'1992:
featuring Kermit & Miss Piggy'
"A Muppet Christmas Carol"
800
'Also called the Beaubourg, this center houses a modern art museum'
Pompidou Centre
1000
'Funny in 1600 Dept.: When the king, acting fatherly, says, "Clouds still hang on you", Hamlet says, "I am too much in" this'
the son
1000
'This deadliest fish in the sea sits like a "rock" at the bottom of the ocean & stings prey via its poisonous spines'
stonefish
1000
'Ed McBain & he are credited as the authors of "Candyland"; so he actually wrote it by himself'
Evan Hunter
1000
'1988:
starring Jim Varney'
Ernest Saves Christmas
1000
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from along the bank of the Seine in Paris) The Impressionists are a major draw at this train station-turned-museum that opened in 1986'
Musee d\'Orsay