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PISTOLS
SAX
"UNK" ROCK
200
'(Sarah reports from the Plasma Physics Lab in New Jersey)
A record level of fusion power was produced at the Plasma Physics Lab of this New Jersey Ivy League university'
Princeton
200
'In this "Red Badge" author's "A History of Heroism", Collins risks his life for a bucket of water-- that gets spilled'
Stephen Crane
200
'"Weekend" name for a small cheap handgun used in robberies & assaults'
Saturday night special
200
'Number of reeds used in the playing of a saxophone'
one
200
'Cowboy bed'
bunk
400
'The year the Empire State Building opened, this bridge opened to help you get to it from New Jersey'
George Washington Bridge
400
'In this character's "Secret Life", he's a naval commander & a brilliant surgeon, while buying overshoes in Waterbury'
Walter Mitty
400
'An order for 1,000 pistols from the U.S. government in 1847 helped re-establish this now legendary gun company'
Colt
400
'Of the 1740s, 1840s or 1940s, the decade in which Adolphe Sax invented the saxophone'
1840s
400
'Terrestrial critter seen here'
chipmunk
600
'(John reports from Radio City Music Hall in New York)
The stock market crash ended this man's dream of putting an opera house here; he ended up building Radio City Music Hall on the land he controlled'
John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
600
'In "In the Penal Colony" by this Czech master, a torture device is finally used on its operator'
Franz Kafka
600
'Prominent pair who dueled with pistols on July 11, 1804'
Alexander Hamilton & Aaron Burr
600
'He's the Grammy-winning saxophone master seen here'
Kenny G
600
'Quality of special soldiers honored & entombed at Arlington'
unknown
800
'The USA's last wooden whaling ship, the Charles W. Morgan, is docked in the harbor of this Conn. seaport'
Mystic
800
'In this author's "To Build a Fire", a man needs to, in extreme cold, but it goes out'
Jack London
800
'Ford's Theatre has on display this type of .44 caliber pocket pistol infamously used by John Wilkes Booth'
derringer
800
'Charlie Parker took the instrument to new heights playing this style of jazz he helped invent'
bebop
800
'From the old High German for "uncombed", this adjective means disheveled or crude'
unkempt
1000
'This submarine building Connecticut town was the site of a 1781 massacre of U.S. troops by the British; a memorial is shown'
Groton
1000
'In a story by him, a woman is sure she'll die as soon as "The Last Leaf" falls, but-- well, just wait for the ending'
O. Henry
1000
'This Olympic event was inspired by a soldier's ability to swim, run, ride a horse & fight with a sword & a pistol'
pentathlon
1000
'Originally there were 14 types of saxophone; today the most widely used types are the tenor, alto & this one'
soprano
1000
'Branch of the Sioux headed by Sitting Bull'
Hunkpapa