Show:
FAMOUS COLLEGE DROPOUTS
BREWERS, BUCKS & PACKERS
THE NEW YORK TIMES TECH BIZ
TAKE A LETTER
HELLO KITTY
200
'This conservative radio talk show host dropped out of SE Missouri State after flunking ballroom dancing'
Rush Limbaugh
200
'On March 4, 2008 this Packer quarterback called it quits (probably)'
Brett Favre
200
'The Times exposed memos from this company's execs who had trouble upgrading to its Vista operating system'
Microsoft
200
'Desmond Llewelyn played this gadget man in 17 James Bond films'
Q
200
'The Turkish Angora is named for this Turkish city'
Ankara
400
'This Russian novelist dropped out of college after 3 years & then wrote "Anna Karenina"'
Tolstoy
400
'He hit 22 of his 755 career HRs as a Brewer; he hit 398 as a Milwaukee Brave'
Hank Aaron
400
'Hoping to regain its luster, this Time Warner online service is buying the no. 3 social networking site, Bebo'
AOL
400
'In the English alphabet, it's the only polysyllabic letter'
W
400
'The "fold" in the name of the Scottish Fold refers to these folded-down features'
the ears
600
'She dropped out of Columbia Univ. to sign with Columbia Records & later won a Grammy for "My Boo"'
Alicia Keys
600
'In 1970-71 this master of the skyhook averaged 31.7 ppg & led the Bucks to an NBA title'
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (or Lew Alcindor)
600
'The Times cites an estimate that in 2007, its 3rd year, this site used as much bandwidth as the entire Internet in 2000'
YouTube
600
'Used with an apostrophe, this letter can be a contraction of had, would & did'
D
600
'This color follows "Russian" in the name of a cat breed; it actually refers to various shades of gray'
blue
800
'After dropping out of the Univ. of Maryland, he exposed the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward'
Carl Bernstein
800
'Guess winning was the only thing for him; he coached the Pack to 5 NFL titles'
Lombardi
800
'The Times reported Best Buy is giving $50 gift cards to buyers of this format that is on the losing end of the video battle'
HD-DVD
800
'On a bowling scoresheet, a diagonal line represents a spare & this letter, a strike'
an X
800
'Eugene Field's poem "The Duel" tells of a fight between a gingham dog & this cat, a tortoiseshell & white coat pattern'
a calico
1000
'This inspirational TV pastor dropped out of Oral Roberts University before writing the bestseller "Your Best Life Now"'
Joel Osteen
1000
'"Royal" first name of Mr. Fielder, who hit 50 HRs for the Brewers in 2007; his first name is this, & he is funky"'
Prince
1000
'The David Pogue blog says the iPhone with push email is gunning for this most popular smartphone'
the BlackBerry
1000
'All Japanese words end in a vowel or this consonant'
an N
1000
'The riddle of this cat breed seen here: Is it a pet, or is it art?'
a Sphynx