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BOTANY

200

'The flowers of this lawn weed, Taraxacum oficinale, are sometimes used to make wine'

dandelions

400

'The common species of this prairie flower, Helianthus annuus, can reach a height of 15 feet'

sunflower

600

'About 3/4 of U.S. plantings of this palm fruit are of the Deglet Noor, a semidry variety'

dates

800

'Reproducing by means of spores, the only tree with no flowers, fruits or seeds is called the tree type of this'

fern

1000

'Prized for its oil, this evergreen shrub of the American southwest is also known as the goat nut'

Jojoba

I PLAY THE DRUMS!

200

'(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from the drummer's throne.) A common rock & roll pattern is this one which stresses the 2nd and 4th beat; it's also the title of a movie about the Beatles'

backbeat

400

'(Jon of the Clue Crew peers down between the cymbals.) Playing triplets--three strokes for every two notes--was a trademark of this late Led Zeppellin drummer'

John Bonham

600

'(Jon of the Clue Crew sticks with his drums--& drums with his sticks.) Playing this gives me an explosive sound on the snare drum; to help out a comedian's lame joke combine it with a cymbal crash'

a rimshot

800

'(Jon of the Clue Crew subs on the drum set.) After you get into a groove, now & again throw in this; as the name suggests its for when there's an empty space in the music'

a fill

1000

'(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the final clue of the category.) It's the rhyming phrase for a steady rhythm that hits the bass drum on each quarter note'

four-on-the-floor

FLY COUNTRIES

200

'Iberia Airlines'

Spain

400

'Aer Lingus'

Ireland

600

'Olympic Airlines'

Greece

800

'Belavia (Its first terminal was in Minsk)'

Belarus

1000

'Koninklijke
Luchtvaart
Maatshappij
(you might know it by its abbreviation)'

The Netherlands (KLM)

FUN WITH BALLET

200

'In "La Boutique Fantasque", dolls come to life & perform this high-kicking, skirt-swooshing dance'

Can-can

400

'Every "Psycho" knows that Matthew Bourne's ballet "Deadly Serious" is an homage to this film director'

Alfred Hitchcock

600

'The Roanoke Ballet's dancers raced around with logos on their unitards in a ballet named for this auto assoc.'

NASCAR

800

'The music of film composer Alex North drives the ballet based on this play about Stanley Kowalski'

"A Streetcar Named Desire"

1000

'Dizzy Gillespie's music is also featured in it, but the ballet "For 'Bird' - With Love" is a tribute to him'

Charlie Parker

LETTER MEN

200

'At his death in 1971, there were more than 1,600 department stores bearing his name'

J.C. Penney

400

'He's the taller of the two gentlemen in the photo seen here'

P.T. Barnum

600

'In 1930 he directed his first talkie, "Abraham Lincoln", starring Walter Huston'

D.W. Griffith

800

'He designed the building for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame'

I.M. Pei

1000

'A visit to the Marabar Caves is a turning point in his novel "A Passage to India"'

E.M. Forster