Show:
OBSERVATIONS & CELEBRATIONS
THE MIND
THEY ALL PLAYED COUNTRY SINGERS
JUNE BUGGED
A RUNNING "TAB"
200
'Chinese New Year for kids is a red envelope day; they get 'em stuffed with this'
cash
200
'Every year in the 1990s, women scored higher on this S.A.T. section than on the other'
verbal
200
'Beverly D'Angelo played her in "Coal Miner's Daughter" & Jessica Lange played her in "Sweet Dreams"'
Patsy Cline
200
'Zut! On June 22, 1815, 4 days after Waterloo, Napoleon had to do this officially for the second time'
abdicate
200
'A striped or mottled kitty'
a tabby
400
'In 2003 Christmas was celebrated during this Jewish holiday'
Hanukkah
400
'This substance whose formula is C2H5OH affects the neocortex so you're less inhibited'
alcohol
400
'Annette O'Toole, seen here in the audience at "Jeopardy!", played this singer in the TV movie "Stand by Your Man"'
Tammy Wynette
400
'A June 1967 Encyclical affirming that priests must maintain this may have disappointed some'
celibacy
400
'Lurid or sensational journalism is called this type'
tabloid journalism
600
'The Queen of England's "official" one is on the 2nd or 3rd Saturday in June'
birthday
600
'In a famous 1848 case, Phineas Gage's personality was altered by damage done to his left frontal one'
lobe
600
'Before "The Larry Sanders Show", this actor seen here played a ruthless country singer in the 1972 film "Payday"'
Rip Torn
600
'This League MVP didn't talk to reporters after the 76ers lost out on the NBA crown June 15, 2001'
Allen Iverson
600
'A Middle Eastern bulgur wheat salad'
tabbouleh
800
'Buddhists celebrate 3 anniversaries of Buddha: the day of his birth, the day of his death, & the day of this'
his enlightenment
800
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew explains a graph on the chalkboard.) Contrary to common use, a steep one of these indicates rapid mastering of a skill'
a learning curve
800
'He wrote and performed his own songs (& won a Best Actor Oscar) when he starred in "Tender Mercies"'
Robert Duvall
800
'June 10, 1985 was a cloudy day for the prosecution, as this man was acquitted of trying to kill his wife Sunny'
Claus von Bulow
800
'To arrange information in columns & rows'
tabulate
1000
'When giving your pennies to UNICEF on Halloween, hold one back for this "guy" 5 days later (if you're British...)'
Guy Fawkes
1000
'Leonardo Da Vinci supposedly had an eidetic memory, today more commonly called this type'
photographic memory
1000
'Best known as "Marcia, Marcia, Marcia" on "The Brady Bunch", she starred in the 1997 TV movie bio of Barbara Mandrell'
Maureen McCormick
1000
'On June 28, 1914 the Kaiser's yacht race was interrupted by news from this Balkan city'
Sarajevo
1000
'An Evangelical place of worship'
a tabernacle