GRAB BAG
KEANU, ASHTON OR EINSTEIN
YOUR FRIENDLY MILITARY RECRUITER
CARTOON BEFORE & AFTER
"OLD" SCHOOL
200
'In October 2005, 6 days shy of her 16th birthday, this golf phenom from Hawaii announced she was turning pro'
(Michelle) Wie
200
'Honored with a star on Hollywood's "Walk of Fame"'
Keanu
200
'Imagine managing propulsion for a Navy sub under this type of power, like the Virginia class'
nuclear power
200
'SpongeBob's multi-limbed neighbor & best friend who became a Jewish national symbol'
Patrick Star of David
200
'Furry fungi you might find on food'
mold
400
'Henry Morton Stanley's most famous discovery, we presume, was this missing explorer in 1871'
Dr. Livingstone
400
'Studied music & the violin at the behest of his mother, Paulina'
(Albert) Einstein
400
'You'll stay closer to home in this service, the USA's main maritime search & rescue organization'
the Coast Guard
400
'Krusty the Clown's odd-haired partner who jammed to reggae in Jamaica before his 1981 death'
Sideshow Bob Marley
400
'A wallet for carrying paper money'
a billfold
600
'It's the proper term for the dot dot dots that indicate missing words in a sentence'
ellipses (or an ellipsis)
600
'A high school dropout but later graduated from college'
Einstein
600
'In the Army, gyms, movies & shopping are part of life on one of these, the P in PX'
post
600
'Ghost-hunting Nickelodeon superhero who's in the title of "Star Wars: Episode I"'
Danny Phantom Menace
600
'A word meaning to rebuke someone angrily'
to scold
800
'1 potato, 2 potato, 3 potato, 4, more potatoes are of this brown-skinned variety than any other'
russet
800
'Studied biochemical engineering in college'
Ashton (Kutcher)
800
'Though this job of controlling the course comes from the Latin for "ship", you can be one for an Air Force plane'
a navigator
800
'Mysterious masked brother of Speed who is an extreme sports competition'
Racer X Games
800
'American plant seen here'
a marigold
1000
'ancestry.com is one of the better-known websites for people interested in this 9-letter hobby'
genealogy
1000
'Born in Beirut, Lebanon'
Keanu (Reeves)
1000
'Sorry, ladies--some Army jobs under this 6-letter category, like cannon crewmember, are off limits'
combat
1000
'Based on Peter Pan's little winged fairy friend, it's a way of grading tests'
Tinker Bell Curve
1000
'A doorsill, or a point that must be exceeded to begin producing a desired effect'
the threshold