CHIEF JUSTICES OF THE U.S.
MONTY PYTHON'S FLYING CIRCUS
BRIT LIT
SCIENCE "T"ALK
THEY DID GOOD
200
'The longest-serving Chief (1801-1835), he & Thomas Jefferson both descended from Va. planter William Randolph'
(John) Marshall
200
'It's the type of bird being complained about

"It has ceased to be! It's expired and gone to meet its maker! This is a late--"'
a parrot
200
'The full title of a Henry Fielding novel is "The History of" him, "a Foundling"'
Tom Jones
200
'Hydras paralyze their prey with poison from stingers on these body parts'
tentacles
200
'Terry Fox lost a leg to this disease & tried to run across Canada to raise money to fight it'
cancer
400
'No. 17, as a lawyer he argued 39 cases before the high court, more than the rest of the sitting justices combined'
Chief Justice Roberts
400
'It's the profession he's singing about

"I cut down trees /
I skip and jump /
I like to press wild flowers /
I put on women's clothing /
And hang around in bars..."'
lumberjack
400
'Dona Inez is the mother of this Byron title character'
Don Juan
400
'It's the second of the 3 main sections of an arthropod's body'
the thorax
400
'He's the missionary seen here the year he went to minister to the lepers of Molokai'
Father Damien
600
'Hard to miss this 300-lb. Chief, known for walking the 3 mi. between his home & the court most mornings & nights'
Taft
600
'It's the packaged meat product that comes with the following

"...or lobster thermidor aux crevettes with a mornay sauce garnished with truffle pâté, brandy, and a fried egg on top and--"'
Spam
600
'"Jacob's Room" & "A Room of One's Own" are by this member of the Bloomsbury Group'
Virginia Woolf
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew reports from a science lab.) There are two basic types of flow--laminar, which is smooth & regular, & this more common one with swirls & eddies'
turbulent
600
'He left the NFL's Arizona Cardinals to join the Army Rangers & was killed in Afghanistan in 2004'
Pat Tillman
800
'We commission you to name this chief who penned the opinion of the ruling outlawing public school segregation'
Earl Warren
800
'It's the tribunal making an appearance here

"Our chief weapon is surprise--surprise and fear, fear and surprise. Our two weapons are fear and surprise--"'
the Spanish Inquisition
800
'At the end of this novel, the contents of the note that George secretly gave Becky Sharp are finally revealed'
Vanity Fair
800
'The name of this element is from the Swedish for "heavy" & "stone"'
tungsten
1000
'In 1857 he held that Congress did not have power to abolish slavery in the territories'
Taney
1000
'It's the game show being played

"This is for 15 pounds, and it's to stop us revealing the name of your lover in Bolton."'
Blackmail
1000
'He served up "Cakes and Ale", a 1930 satire of English literary life'
Somerset Maugham
1000
'It's what the "t" stands for in tRNA'
transfer