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YOU'VE BEEN CONVERTED

200

'In cooking, a stick of butter converts to this many ounces'

four

400

'To convert from miles into these units, multiply by 1.6'

kilometers

600

'To convert from miles to these units, multiply by 1,760'

yards

800

'The year 2007 becomes this in Roman numerals'

MMVII

1000

'(Jon of the Clue Crew points out a partial formula.)To convert from degrees Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply the Celsius temperature by 1.8, then add this amount'

32

TIME FOR "UNCH"

200

'Accountants do it to numbers'

crunch

400

'Collection of coconuts in a 1950 novelty song'

a lovely bunch

600

'It should ring a bell that Quasimodo was one'

a hunchback

800

'In a 1961 song it's what Ray Charles wanted done with his heart'

unchain

1000

'Elastic band used to fasten hair'

a scrunchie

LET'S EAT

200

'3 of the Dead Sea Scrolls tell of the preparation of a sacred meal of bread & this potent potable'

wine

400

'Put on your goggles at breakfast when eating Citrus paradisi, this fruit that grows in clusters'

grapefruit

600

'A food staple on any camping trip is gorp, "good old raisins &" these'

peanuts

800

'Some soldiers might say it stands for "yuck!", but "MRE" stands for this in the army'

a meal ready to eat

1000

'Actress Suzette Reichenberg may have lent her name to this dish that is served on fire'

Crêpe Suzette

KIDDY LIT

200

'In "Little Women", the March girls' father is an army chaplain serving during this war'

the Civil War

400

'In the children's classic titled "The Wonderful" this, a character named Henry says, "There's a cyclone coming, Em"'

The Wizard of Oz

600

'"And Mamma in her kerchief, and I in my cap, had just settled our brains for a long" one of these'

winter\'s nap

800

'James Henry Trotter meets the silkworm, the ladybug & 5 other insects in a very large one of these'

a peach

1000

'E.H. Shepard's illustrations of this imaginary creature in the Winnie-the-Pooh books resemble an elephant'

a heffalump

BEST PICTURE OSCAR WINNERS

200

'One of 4 musicals that won for Best Picture in the 1960s, it was based on a Charles Dickens novel'

Oliver!

400

'It not only won Best Picture, it also earned Martin Scorsese his long-awaited Best Director Oscar'

The Departed

600

'In this film, Clint Eastwood says, "Hell of a thing, killin' a man. Ya take away all he's got and all he's ever gonna have"'

Unforgiven

800

'Mel Gibson won Oscars for producing & directing this 1995 Best Picture'

Braveheart

1000

'Inmates at the Oregon State Mental Hospital played extras in this 1975 Oscar winner'

One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest