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NAVAL VESSELS

200

'The specific job of this type of ship is to trawl the waters searching for explosive devices'

minesweeper

400

'The Massachusetts, this type of ship that sailed in WWII, was actually built in Quincy'

battleship

600

'The name of this ship that provides service & support to other ships is also the "T" in TLC'

tender

800

'Your regular old garden variety destroyer's main mission is to sound out & destroy these'

submarines

1000

'This adjective from the animal world is used to describe ship-to-shore transport craft'

amphibious vessels

HAVE A BEER!

200

'The "King of Beers"'

Budweiser

400

'"It's Australian for beer"'

Fosters

600

'"La cerveza mas fina"'

Corona

800

'"The beer that made Milwaukee famous"'

Schlitz

1000

'"From master brewers a master brew"'

Meister Brau

HELLO, SPORTS FANS

200

'(Yankees manager Joe Torre reads the clue.) In 1971 I led the league in average & RBIs, so I was just the home run title short of winning this'

Triple Crown

400

'A sculpture of this heavyweight's fist was donated to the city of Detroit by Sports Illustrated'

Joe Louis

600

'(I'm Ed McCaffrey.) It was the name of my team at Stanford, & also one of the team colors'

Cardinal

800

'(Pro golfer Peter Jacobsen.) To land the ball on the green with this, also called juice, hit the ball below its equator with a lofted club'

backspin

1000

'(I'm NFL quarterback Jeff Garcia.) In 2000 I became the fourth 49er to throw for 30 TDs in a season, after John Brodie & these 2 other fairly decent passers'

Joe Montana & Steve Young

UNUSUAL PLACE NAMES

200

'While there's no Mama in this state, there is a Papa & a Papaaloa'

Hawaii

400

'It's the state where you'll find Tumtum, Nooksack & Walla Walla'

Washington

600

'This town, 10 miles south of Boston, sounds like it grows cerebrums & cerebellums on its branches'

Braintree

800

'An Alaskan town bears the name of this type of bread, a staple of miners during the Gold Rush'

Sourdough

1000

'In the 1950s this Texas town considered changing its name, so as not to be associated with the Nabokov novel'

Lolita

PLAGUES ON EGYPT

200

'Plague No. 4, they were everywhere, including in my soup! Waiter!'

flies

400

'In plague No. 2 these went a-pharaoh courtin

frogs

600

'This plague, No. 8, occurs every 17 years in some places'

locusts

800

'In 1991 Gloria Estefan was "Coming Out of" this, also plague No. 9'

the darkness

1000

'Pharaoh could have used a pediculicidal shampoo to get rid of these in plague No. 3'

lice