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ATTENTION!
BRITISH ROYALTY
"AT" EASE
DISCOVERIES
WILLIAM FAULKNER
200
'Total number
of words
in this clue'
7
200
'He called himself "king of Great Britain" after gaining England's throne in 1603--he was already king of Scotland'
James I
200
'A midge is one of these small biting flies'
a gnat
200
'The tallest living tree, a 378-footer, was discovered in 2006 in this U.S. state; its exact location is secret'
California
200
'Accepting this honor for 1949, Faulkner said any story needs the old truths like love, honor, pity & pride'
the Nobel
400
'Zero
divided by
3.14159'
zero
400
'When he was executed on Jan. 30, 1649, the chopping block was so low he had to lie down rather than kneel'
Charles I
400
'In this casino game, the winner is the one whose cards total closest to a number ending in 9'
baccarat
400
'Lake Vostok, the size of Lake Ontario, was only discovered in the last 40 years, as it's under 2 1/2 miles of this'
ice
400
'Faulkner worked uncredited on many movies but did get his name on this 1946 adaptation of a Chandler novel'
The Big Sleep
600
'Of rock,
paper,
or scissors,
the one that's the lowest-scoring Scrabble word'
paper
600
'This mother of King Henry II tried "waltzing" onto the English throne but failed to get herself crowned'
Matilda
600
'A warning or caution, or a formal notice in law'
a caveat
600
'Silicon carbide, used for grinding & cutting, was discovered by a man trying to make artificial these'
diamonds
600
'(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Rowan Oak in Oxford, Mississippi.) Speaking at the rededication of Faulkner's home, John Grisham said this 1929 book at first baffled him; guess he thought it was signifying nothing'
The Sound and the Fury
800
'It's the
10-letter term for the phrase
"never odd
or even"'
a palindrome
800
'Isabella of Angouleme was 12 or 13 (perhaps a bit too young) when she wed this king in 1200'
King John
800
'A terraced pyramid of the ancient Babylonians'
a ziggurat
800
'In 1650 Mizar was the first double one of these discovered; today we know it's actually a quadruple'
a star
800
'(Jon of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Rowan Oak in Oxford, Mississippi.) "The Town" and "The Mansion" were written here in Rowan Oak, and were the final two pieces of this family's trilogy'
the Snopes family
1000
'(4 x 22)
divided by
(11 x 8)
equals this'
1
1000
'This king may have been starved to death by order of Henry IV, but at least he got his own Shakespeare play'
Richard II
1000
'A national capital on the Arabian Peninsula'
Muscat
1000
'"Love waves" isn't a Barry White song; they're this type of wave discovered by geophysicist Augustus Love'
seismic waves
1000
'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue from Rowan Oak in Oxford, Mississippi.)On the wall is Faulkner's handwritten plot outline for this 1954 novel set during World War I. Its title is a type of story'
Fable