j-archive-5202-D-2007-04-03

WELCOME TO MONTREAL

200

'The boulevard dividing Montreal East from West shares this name with Montreal's river'

St. Lawrence

400

'The area known as Old Montreal is characterized by streets made from these'

cobblestone

600

'The classic Montreal hot dog bun isn't grilled or toasted but prepared this way, to be nice & wrinkly'

steamed

800

'"Carte" is French for map, & this is the French explorer who in 1535 put Mount Royal on the map'

(Jacques) Cartier

1000

'In 1811 this fur merchant bequeathed his property at the foot of Mount Royal to start a University'

McGill

MAKE IT SINGULAR

200

'Moose'

moose

400

'Alumni, like some fraternity boys'

alum (or alumnus)

600

'Criteria'

criterion

800

'The verb exeunt'

exit

1000

'A military term:
phalanges'

phalanx

AMERICAN FACES

200

'This woman from Georgia is "nuts" for her husband, whom she first dated in college'

Rosalynn Carter

400

'One time artistic director of the American Ballet Theater seen here'

Baryshnikov

600

'This actress and director seen here was the valedictorian at her French language high school in Los Angeles'

(Jodie) Foster

800

'He's the "Little Giant" of Illinois seen here'

Stephen Douglas

1000

'Known to many a slender fellow, he's the big guy seen here as he looked in those magazine ads'

Charles Atlas

FOREIGN CINEMA

200

'This Taiwanese director's films include "The Wedding Banquet", "Pushing Hands" & "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"'

(Ang) Lee

400

'The submarine models for this 1981 German film were also used in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"'

Das Boot

600

'In this 1957 Ingmar Bergman film, a knight back from the Crusades challenges Death to a chess game for his life'

The Seventh Seal

800

'Truffaut provided the story for this 1959 Godard film in which Belmondo plays a hood who kills a cop'

Breathless

1000

'This 1963 Fellini film was the basis for the 1982 Broadway musical "Nine"'

8 1/2

SHALL WE PLAY A GAME?

200

'Auction & contract are 2 types of this game derived from whist'

bridge

400

'4 of these "hungry" animals compete to "eat" as fast as possible in a "frantic marble munching game"'

hippos

600

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew arranges 5 dice.) In Yahtzee, the sequence I rolled is called this, just like in poker'

a straight

800

'This game is a sort of vertical tic-tac-toe, but with the added twist of needing an extra checker in the row'

Connect Four

1000

'In this "fishy" game, a reverse hide & seek, the "it" hides, & each person who finds him squeezes into the hiding spot'

sardines