j-archive-4975-D-2006-04-07

I CAN'T TELL YOU "Y"

200

'To the east, the Red Sea is bordered by Saudi Arabia & this nation'

Yemen

400

'Neil Simon won a Pulitzer for his play "Lost in" this city'

Yonkers

600

'In 1966 this company became the world's largest piano maker'

Yamaha

800

'This NYC school is the oldest & largest Jewish university in the U.S.'

Yeshiva

1000

'In the late 1917 battle for this town, the British lost 400,000 men & only gained about 5 miles of territory'

Ypres

ALREADY GONE

200

'Similar to its larger relative the mammoth, this extinct mammal had shaggy hair & 2 sets of tusks'

the mastodon

400

'A remnant of this large, extinct & thankfully plant-eating critter of the Cretaceous period is seen here'

Triceratops

600

'The quagga, a type of this equine, was found in Southern Africa until going extinct around 1900'

a zebra

800

'Author Jean Auel could tell you this better-known name of the extinct prehistoric Ursus spelaeus'

a cave bear

1000

'2-word "steller" name for this relative of the dugong & the manatee that went extinct around 1768'

Steller\'s sea cow

ONE OF THESE NIGHTS

200

'One April night in 1912 Titanic passenger Henry Harper lay in bed & saw this scrape past his cabin window'

an iceberg

400

'He's heard here in a speech the night of Martin Luther King's murder

"What we need in the United States is not violence and lawlessness, but is love, and wisdom, and compassion toward one another."'

Robert F. Kennedy

600

'After his ballet troupe's Toronto performance on June 29, 1974, he didn't get on the KGB bus'

Baryshnikov

800

'Hitler massacred the leadership of the SA, his own paramilitary group, on June 30, 1934, "The Night of the Long" these'

Knives

1000

'After the Last Supper & a little hymn singing, Jesus went to this Jerusalem site to pray'

Gethsemane

THE EAGLES

200

'"The Boys Of Summer" was a solo hit for this Eagles drummer'

Don Henley

400

'"You Belong To The City" was a solo hit for this Eagles guitarist'

Glenn Frey

600

'This Eagles hit begins, "Well I'm running down the road tryin' to loosen my load, I've got 7 women on my mind"'

"Take It Easy"

800

'This name of a '90s Eagles tour & album was a reference to the likelihood of an Eagles reunion'

Hell Freezes Over

1000

'"Tequila Sunrise" is a track on this cowboy-themed Eagles album from 1973'

Desperado

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE

200

'2-word term for the loud noise that results when a jet flies faster than the speed of sound'

a sonic boom

400

'A fuzzbuster is one of these devices that helps motorists elude cops trying to catch them speeding'

a radar detector

600

'This planet was named for a swift messenger because of its speedy orbit around the sun'

Mercury

800

'Considered the world's fastest ball game, its name comes from Basque words meaning "merry festival"'

jai alai

1000

'In the equation E=mc², it's the constant that "c" represents'

the speed of light