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PAKISTAN & DELIVER

200

'Pakistan's longest border is with this country to its east'

India

400

'Pakistanis are predominantly Muslim, with the vast majority belonging to this branch'

Sunni

600

'Like some of its neighbors, Pakistan uses this unit of currency'

the rupee

800

'Though Islamabad is the capital, this former capital is the most populous city, with 13 million people'

Karachi

1000

'Since 1947, Pakistan has fought 2 wars over this disputed region to its far north'

Kashmir

PRESIDENTIAL NICKNAMES

200

'"Bachelor President"'

James Buchanan

400

'"Tennessee Tailor"'

Andrew Johnson

600

'"Grandpa's Grandson"'

Benjamin Harrison

800

'"Butcher from Galena"'

Grant

1000

'"Hermit Author of Palo Alto"'

Hoover

THE BIBLE

200

'In Luke, Jesus is tried both by Herod & by this Roman governor'

Pontius Pilate

400

'When the Jews of Persia are ordered killed, Mordecai puts on a sackcloth accessorized with these'

ashes

600

'The First & Second of these books cover the same period as Second Samuel & First & Second Kings'

Chronicles

800

'The Jews held these people in low esteem, so they're made to look "good" in Luke'

the Samaritans

1000

'As Rachel died bearing him, she called him Benoni, "son of my suffering"; his father, Jacob, used this name'

Benjamin

SMOKIN' "ACE"s

200

'A turn of 180 degrees from the position of attention'

about-face

400

'Hello, baby! The Big Bopper knows this delicate fabric used for bridal gowns'

(chantilly) lace

600

'A very small amount of something, or in meteorology, precipitation of less than 0.0005 in.'

a trace

800

'A shell covering some or all of the dorsal part of a turtle'

a carapace

1000

'For the Titanic, this figure was 60,000 tons of water'

displacement

LETTER SYMBOLISM

200

'The railroad crossing warning sign called a crossbuck is shaped like this letter'

X

400

'(Jon of the Clue Crew stands in front of a monitor.)
The letter "shin", which begins one of the Hebrew names of God, inspired this Star Trek actor to create his famous hand gesture'

(Leonard) Nimoy

600

'In 1706 William Jones made this the symbol of the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter'

pi

800

'When it comes after Byron Dorgan, "D." stands for this'

Democrat

1000

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew stands in front of a monitor.) Alif, the first Arabic letter, looks like the number "1", so it represents the oneness of everything in this mystic tradition of Islam'

Sufism