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A BALTIC CRUISE

200

'(In her very first clue on the show, Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from a street in Gdansk, Poland.) I'm on the charming street in Gdansk that's named for this sainted woman, especially venerated in Poland'

Mary

400

'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reads in front of a cathedral topped by onion domes.) I'm between the national parliament and the tsarist-era cathedral in Tallinn, capital of this land so long dominated by Russia'

Estonia

600

'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew reads from Russia.) Here at the east end of the Baltic, a palace known as the Russian Versailles was built by this man who opened Russia to the West'

Peter the Great

800

'(In his very first clue on the show, Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Germany.) From its buildings and its setting, it makes sense that this North German city was originally called Liubice, or beautiful'

Lubeck

1000

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from Visby, Sweden.) In more prosperous days, the town of Visby was the headquarters of this commercial league'

the Hanseatic League

THIS MOVIE IS A DISASTER!

200

'Cows fly & trucks fall from the sky as Bill Paxton leads a team of storm chasers'

Twister

400

'As President Whitmore, Bill Pullman leads the world in a fight against an alien invasion'

Independence Day

600

'Dustin Hoffman fights a deadly African virus that has spread to America'

Outbreak

800

'1998:
Look out! A comet is on a collision course with Earth (not "Armageddon", that's different)'

Deep Impact

1000

'Killer bees from South America threaten the U.S. in this Irwin Allen disaster epic (not "The Sting", that's different)'

The Swarm

POETIC LINES

200

'Poe was referring to these when he wrote, "How they clang, and crash, and roar! What a horror they outpour"'

the bells

400

'In a famous poem, this character asks, "If I can rid your town of rats will you give me a thousand guilders?"'

the Pied Piper

600

'"'E'll be squattin' on the coals givin' drink to pore damned souls, an' I'll get a swig in hell from" this Kipling character'

Gunga Din

800

'In this poem, Coleridge penned, "He prayeth best who loveth best, all things both great and small"'

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

1000

'In December 1839 he penned the line, "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea"'

Longfellow

BATTLE STATIONS

200

'7 weeks after the Alamo, Sam Houston took this Mexican leader prisoner at the 1836 Battle of San Jacinto'

Santa Anna

400

'Site of a fierce September 1914 WWI battle, this river joins the Seine north of Paris'

the Marne

600

'Fought in Maryland in September of 1862, it was the bloodiest 1-day engagement of the Civil War with about 5,000 dead'

Antietam

800

'The Revolutionary War's Battle of Bennington was not fought in Vermont, but in this neighboring state'

New York

1000

'The last military clash on mainland Britain, the 1746 Battle of Culloden, routed the forces of this Jacobite prince'

Bonnie Prince Charlie

2-LETTER ABBREV.

200

'The location of the National Cathedral, for short'

D.C.

400

'Wolfman Jack made a name for himself as one of these'

DJ

600

'Very simply, it's still America's largest auto maker'

GM

800

'Heinrich Himmler headed this dreaded organization'

SS

1000

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GQ