EARLY AMERICA
SPORTS HOME CITIES
THE AMAZING COCKROACH
20th CENTURY THINKERS
ANIMAL WORDPLAY
200
'Harvard College was founded at Newtowne, Massachusetts in 1636; 2 years later the town was renamed this'
Cambridge
200
'The NFL's
Colts'
Indianapolis
200
'Though they are called "white ants", these destructive insects are more closely related to the cockroach'
termites
200
'Called the Russian Revolution's most brilliant thinker, he lost a power struggle with Stalin & was killed in Mexico'
Trotsky
200
'In the titles of Bugs Bunny cartoons, it precedes "Trigger" & "Tonic"'
"Hare"
400
'In the summer of 1586 this British circumnavigator attacked the Spanish fort at St. Augustine & razed it'
(Sir Francis) Drake
400
'The NHL's
Flames'
Calgary
400
'Marilyn Monroach & Liberoachi are 2 of the fun attractions of the Cockroach Hall of Fame in Plano in this state'
Texas
400
'This New Yorker wondered, "Can we actually 'know' the universe?... It's hard enough finding your way around Chinatown"'
Woody Allen
400
'It's the beastly 6-word line in the "Sound of Music" song "Do Re Mi"'
"Doe, a deer, a female deer"
600
'A British act of 1732 prevented the colonists from exporting these, made out of beaver or anything else'
hats
600
'The NBA's
Grizzlies'
Memphis
600
'Like chickens & some dinosaurs, cockroaches have this internal muscular organ where they grind their food'
a gizzard
600
'The works of this woman on the left include 1965's "Normality and Pathology in Childhood"'
Anna Freud
600
'We say ole! to Deloitte Consulting for software called this; it strips inane jargon from documents'
Bullfighter
800
'In December 1620 the Pilgrims established Plymouth Colony on the rocky shore of this bay'
Cape Cod Bay
800
'The NFL's
Panthers'
Charlotte
800
'Around 1916 newspaper writer Don Marquis created this typing cockroach & friend of Mehitabel the Cat'
Archy
800
'This 3-named economist was an architect of the International Monetary Fund & part of the Bloomsbury Group'
Keynes
800
'8-letter adjective for an embarrassed ewe'
sheepish
1000
'On September 5, 1774 Virginia's Peyton Randolph was unanimously elected the first president of this body'
the Continental Congress
1000
'The WNBA's
Monarchs'
Sacramento
1000
'Hissing cockroaches from this African island have become popular pets in the U.S.'
Madagascar
1000
'This "in the machine" was Gilbert Ryle's term for the idea that the mind is apart from the body yet controls it'
ghost in the machine
1000
'(Hello, my name is James Thrash.) At my alma mater, Missouri Southern State, the teams are the Lions & our boosters are these, a bit like a football position'
the Lionbackers