Show:
MUSICAL THEATRE
IN THE HEADLINES
OH "MY"
NEWSPAPERS
ELEMENTAL ETYMOLOGIES
200
'Sally Bowles is a singer at the Kit Kat Club in this musical set in Berlin'
Cabaret
200
'She reported & made news when she announced she'd leave NBC to anchor the CBS Evening News'
Katie Couric
200
'It borders Thailand'
Myanmar
200
'In the 1780s John Walter started this London newspaper to show off his printing works'
the London Times
200
'This gas was named for the Greek word for "sun" after it was discovered during an eclipse in 1868'
helium
400
'One of the major hits of 1973, "Raisin" was a musical version of this 1959 Lorraine Hansberry play'
A Raisin in the Sun
400
'He & the late Kenneth Lay, his predecessor as Enron CEO, were tried & convicted in 2006'
(Jeffrey) Skilling
400
'This type of infarction is a heart attack'
a myocardial infarction
400
'Charles Foster Kane published the Inquirer; this model for Kane published the Examiner'
(William Randolph) Hearst
400
'It was named from the Greek for "maker of water", as water was produced when this element burned'
hydrogen
600
'Jane sings "Waiting For This Moment" in this swinging Disney musical that opened on Broadway in 2006'
Tarzan
600
'It turned out that Hwang Woo Suk, a scientist from this country, had not managed to clone human embryos as he said'
South Korea
600
'It's the Golden variety of the famous copycat seen here'
a mynah bird
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew walks in a New Hampshire park holding a newspaper.) One of the USA's most solidly conservative newspapers, the New Hampshire Union Leader is published in this largest New Hampshire city'
Manchester
600
'Romans called this Cyprium, the metal of Cyprus'
copper
800
'This musical about a sleepwear company is based on the novel "7-1/2 cents", the hourly raise wanted by the workers'
The Pajama Game
800
'In 2005 this former judge was selected by President Bush to head the Dept. of Homeland Security'
Michael Chertoff
800
'It's an indefinite number, as in an indefinite number of possibilities'
a myriad
800
'France's satirical Canard enchainee, "Chained Duck", got its name from the censorship of l'Homme libre, meaning this'
the free man
800
'Californium & this other element not found in nature are named for their university of discovery'
berkeleium
1000
'Rich patron Vera Simpson is "bewitched, bothered and bewildered" by this title song & dance pal'
Pal Joey
1000
'This Grand Ayatollah, Iraq's leading Shiite cleric, influenced many with his support of elections'
Grand Ayatollah Sistani
1000
'I'll be such a fun guy if you tell me this name for the study of fungi'
mycology
1000
'Name of both Indianapolis' & Kansas City's biggest daily papers'
the Star
1000
'This element's name comes from the Greek word for "color", because of the many colors of its compounds'
chromium