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"B" SHARP

200

'Sepia & mahogany are tones of this color'

brown

400

'A joke says that when you play country music this way, your wife, your dog & your car return'

backwards

600

'From the Italian for "jest", it's a clown or a fool'

a buffoon

800

'The battle of Bunker Hill actually took place on this adjacent hill'

Breed\'s Hill

1000

'"Diglot" is a synonym for this adjective that describes a certain ability'

bilingual

THE ELEMENTS

200

'Nearly all of this element in the body is found in the bones & teeth'

calcium

400

'Although it's a poisonous gas, this element is used to purify drinking water & swimming pools'

chlorine

600

'This element, once widely used in plumbing is known in Latin as plumbum, hence its symbol Pb'

lead

800

'An 18-karat gold alloy consists of this percentage of gold'

75

1000

'You're out of your element if you don't know that this element is also called wolfram'

tungsten

INTERNATIONAL PARKS

200

'The Hohe Tauern National Park stretches across part of the Salzburg state of this nation'

Austria

400

'You can visit the ruins of an ancient Mayan city at Tikal National Park in this Central American country'

Guatemala

600

'(Cheryl of the Clue Crew presents from the American Museum of Natural History in New York.) This diorama at the American Museum of Natural History depicts Virunga National Park in this African Democratic Republic'

the Congo

800

'Abruzzo National Park is in this mountain range that forms the backbone of peninsular Italy'

the Apennines

1000

'Fundy National Park is on the Bay of Fundy in this Canadian Province'

New Brunswick

"M.J."

200

'He led the Bulls to 6 NBA championships in the '90s'

Michael Jordan

400

'She was the lead actress in "The Fifth Element" & "Resident Evil"'

Milla Jovovich

600

'In the 2000 Olympics, this American repeated as 400-meter champ but didn't break his Olympic record set in 1996'

Michael Johnson

800

'A founder of the Industrial Workers of the World, she used the slogan "Join the union, boys"'

Mother Jones

1000

'He won Oscars for his scores for "Doctor Zhivago", "A Passage to India" & "Lawrence of Arabia"'

Maurice Jarre

BOOZE-A-PALOOZA

200

'This adjective follows "whiskey" in the name of a whiskey & lemon juice cocktail'

sour

400

'In 1830, rather than become a fourth-generation clergyman, Charles Tanqueray began making this'

gin

600

'This song that was a No. 1 hit for The Champs in 1958 always makes me want a Margarita'

"Tequila"

800

'The Sondheim song "Ladies Who Lunch" rhymes "another brilliant zinger" with "another vodka" one of these'

a Stinger

1000

'Double-talk name for a Piña Colada made with vodka instead of rum'

Chi-Chi