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QUOTATIONS

200

'James Thurber observed, "It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all" of these'

the answers

400

'On signing the 1979 peace treaty with Israel, this Egyptian said, "Let there be no more suffering or denial of rights"'

Anwar Sadat

600

'Jacqueline Roque said of him, "If my husband ever met a woman... who looked like one of his paintings, he would faint"'

Picasso

800

'In 1939 Churchill said the action of Russia "is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside" this'

an enigma

1000

'Paine's seasonal phrase that precedes "and the sunshine patriot will... shrink from the service of their country"'

The summer soldier

10-LETTER WORDS

200

'A decorative item on a ship's prow, or a leader with a title but no power'

figurehead

400

'This big adjective comes from Rabelais' giant king'

gargantuan

600

'In a children's song, this bird "sits in the old gum tree"'

kookaburra

800

'Slow down, as in a car'

decelerate

1000

'From the Latin for "sugar", this adjective means sugary or exaggeratedly sentimental'

saccharine

SHAKESPEAREAN CHARACTERS

200

'Hamlet tells her, "Get thee to a nunnery"'

Ophelia

400

'When he first contemplates the murder of Duncan, he says its "horrid image doth unfix my hair"'

Macbeth

600

'This villain tells Roderigo, "Now, sir, be judge yourself whether I in any just term am affined to love the Moor"'

Iago

800

'Julius Caesar observes that this man "has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much: such men are dangerous"'

Cassius

1000

'The first name spoken in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" is that of this Amazon queen'

Hippolyta

MAJOR

200

'In 1933 this major became the aide to Gen. MacArthur; later, he would become Supreme Allied Commander'

Eisenhower

400

'In the 1860s Major John Wesley Powell led a pioneering Grand Canyon expedition on this river'

the Colorado

600

'In 1655 this Lord Protector of England appointed major generals to combat royalist uprisings'

Oliver Cromwell

800

'Benedict Arnold is in the basement of St. Mary's Battersea; this major & contact of his lies in Westminster Abbey'

Major John André

1000

'It's the Gilbert & Sullivan comic opera where an old major general sings his "modern" song'

The Pirates of Penzance

WALKING WITH DINOSAURS

200

'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew walks with a robotic Stegosaurus.) You might encounter a real Stegosaurus if you can go back to the late part of this geological period, a good one for dinosaurs'

Jurassic

400

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew is stalked by a giant robot T. rex.) Until the recent discovery of the Gigantotasaurus fossil, 3 tons bigger, T. rex was thought to be the largest dinosaur of this dietary class... aaaagh!'

carnivore

600

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew stands next to a robot Stegosaurus.) The Stegosaurus' plates could have been used in mating, may have been for defensive purposes, or may have served as living solar panels and helped the dinosaur regulate this'

body heat (or body temperature)

800

'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) Named for its cattle-like horns, this 9-tonner whose name means "bull lizard" had the largest head of any known land animal'

Torosaurus (Torosaur accepted)

1000

'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew delivers the clue.) If a bite that could puncture a car roof wasn't enough, T. rex's teeth have recesses where these live; if the bite didn't kill you, the infection would'

bacteria