j-archive-4623-J-2004-10-13

4X4

200

'Take an archaic version of a second person pronoun & add beach grains to make this number'

thousand

400

'Take being actively engaged & add the physical structure of a person to make a meddlesome person'

busybody

600

'Take the opposite of front & add someone who has been legally placed under a court's care to make reverse'

backward

800

'Take a partly ground husk of wheat & add a serving plate to do this, like waving a sword'

brandish

1000

'Take a group & add a large wild cat to make a cluster of nerve cells'

ganglion

DUMB CRIMINALS

200

'A woman altered the numbers on one of these to win $20; dumb move, it was already a $5,000 winner'

a lottery ticket

400

'A vending machine thief had a hard time claiming innocence after paying $400 bail in this currency with Washington on it'

quarters

600

'A Georgia woman was surprised to find they don't take $1 million bills at this chain co-founded by Sam Walton in 1962'

Wal-Mart

800

'A counterfeiter found out the hard way they don't take $16 bills in this city, Kansas' most populous'

Wichita

1000

'Robert Ligon got 15 months for repacking these as "low fat" when each had 530 calories--as Homer says, Mmm, these'

donuts

LYRICS FROM MUSICALS

200

'"Bet your bottom dollar that tomorrow there'll be sun"'

Annie

400

'"Give 'em the old razzle dazzle, razzle dazzle 'em"'

Chicago

600

'"I dreamed I met a Galilean, a most amazing man"'

Jesus Christ Superstar

800

'"A lady doesn't wander all over the room and blow on some other guy's dice"'

Guys and Dolls

1000

'"That carriage ride--
You walked me home--
You lost a glove--
I lost a comb"'

Gigi

BYE BYE BIRDIE

200

'Pigs were among the creatures that killed off this bird on Mauritius in the 1600s'

the dodo

400

'The Puerto Rican plain one is endangered; the passenger one has already passed on'

a pigeon

600

'This city's Bishop Museum has a princess' pa'u (skirt) made from feathers of the extinct mamo & 'o'o'

Honolulu

800

'The last known Mariana mallard died in 1981 at this San Diego adventure park'

Sea World

1000

'Like the ostrich, which it resembled, the 10-foot moa of this country defended itself by kicking'

New Zealand

WE LOVE YOU CONRAD

200

'In a Joseph Conrad work, Marlow heads into the Congo & finds the "Heart of" this'

Darkness

400

'This novel was adapted into the film seen here

"You must let me free the lifeboats."
"Why so you can abandon us?"
"You believe that?"'

Lord Jim

600

'The young Conrad apparently attempted suicide, though he claimed the wound came in one of these confrontations'

a duel

800

'In a 1903 work, this title type of storm hits the Nan-Shan on its way to China'

a typhoon

1000

'Joseph Conrad was introduced to English at age 8 when his dad was translating Shakespeare into this language'

Polish