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SHORT STORY WRITERS
HOT DRINKS
JEOPORTMANTEAU!
YOU'RE IN FOR A BATTLE
NEW NAME
200
'While in Paris in the 1820s, this "Rip Van Winkle" author co-wrote plays with John Howard Payne'
Washington Irving
200
'"House rules" for this fermented fruity potable include using it in hot buttered rum'
cider
200
'Pachyderm plus ghost'
elephantom
200
'The 1453 battle of this capital signaled the end of the Byzantine Empire'
Constantinople
200
'Persia'
Iran
400
'He set 2 of his stories, "The Balloon Hoax" & "The Gold-Bug", on Sullivan's Island, S.C., where he'd served in the army'
Edgar Allan Poe
400
'Americans at a military base in Limerick help popularize this "national" drink that can be made with Jameson'
Irish coffee
400
'Brett Favre or John Elway plus knapsack'
quarterbackpack
400
'In this 1940 battle, a much smaller air force held off 2,500 German planes for many months'
the Battle of Britain
400
'Siam'
Thailand
600
'Is 1906 collection "The Four Million" contained some of his best-known stories, including "The Gift of the Magi"'
O. Henry
600
'This "hot" drink was derived from the sap of a Palmyra palm; today it's often made with bourbon & cloves'
a hot toddy
600
'Pansy or daffodil plus lycanthrope'
flowerewolf
600
'More than 100 Japanese ships were defeated by a U.S. force half that size in this decisive battle of June 1942'
the Battle of Midway
600
'Ceylon'
Sri Lanka
800
'A 1900 collection of his short stories was titled "The Son of the Wolf"'
Jack London
800
'This warm frothy beverage made with rum & brandy shares its name with a Hanna-Barbera animated pair'
a Tom & Jerry
800
'Sam Malone plus preparing meat by pounding & flavoring'
bartenderizer
800
'The valley of this French river was the scene of a 1916 battle that had over 1 million casualties'
the Somme
800
'Cathay'
China
1000
'The "Old Manse" in Concord where he & his wife Sophia lived from 1842 to 1845 was rented from Ralph Waldo Emerson'
Nathaniel Hawthorne
1000
'The angel in "It's a Wonderful Life" asks for this type of wine, "heavy on the cinammon & light on the cloves"'
mulled wine
1000
'Tear-shedding reptile plus something you can be "perched on the horns of"'
crocodilemma
1000
'At this 1415 battle, a force of about 6,000 English, mostly archers, defeated 25,000 French troops'
Agincourt
1000
'Abyssinia'
Ethiopia