Show:
"TWO""THOUSAND" & "EIGHT"
NATION STATION
POPE-POURRI
LET'S EAT
FROM BOOK TO BIG SCREEN
200
'Be grateful for what you have, because "a bird in the hand is worth" this'
two in the bush
200
'In 1980 if you were in the city of Mariel in this nation, you could have joined the "Freedom Flotilla" heading for Miami'
Cuba
200
'Cardinal Ratzinger chose this name to honor a peace-seeking pope, not the IXth, who sold the papacy'
Benedict
200
'Soup made with ham hocks & the navy type of this is on the menu in the U.S. Senate restaurant every day'
beans
200
'Zhang Ziyi played Chiyo-Sen in the film version of Arthur S. Golden's "Memoirs of" one of these'
A Geisha
400
'This book by Eliot Asinof is subtitled "The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series"'
Eight Men Out
400
'In an Aug. 30, 1999 referendum, the people of East Timor voted overwhelmingly for independence from this nation'
Indonesia
400
'(Sarah reports from the cathedral in Lima, Peru.) On his visit to Latin America in 1985 he crowned this statue of the Virgin de la Evangelizacion here in Lima's cathedral'
Pope John Paul II
400
'Choose a dry day to make the pie combining lemon & this egg-white concoction; the latter does poorly in humidity'
meringue
400
'This 2005 film in which aliens use tripod machines is based on a novel by H.G. Wells'
War of the Worlds
600
'In effect from 1922 to 1944, it was the part of the army code that allowed them to kick you out for undesirable traits'
Section 8
600
'Seen here is the flag of this African republic that declared its independence in 1847'
Liberia
600
'Pope Innocent X refused to recognize Portugal's independence from this country'
Spain
600
'The French dish eggs sardou features artichoke hearts & this veggie, creamed'
spinach
600
'This novel and its 2006 film version both start with a museum curator staggering through the Louvre'
The Da Vinci Code
800
'Completes the 1940 song title "Beat Me Daddy..."'
8 To The Bar
800
'Cagayan State University & Bataan Polytechnic are colleges in this nation'
the Philippines
800
'One story says Julius II told Michelangelo to hurry up with the Sistine ceiling or he'd knock him off this structure'
his scaffold
800
'Peter Brady wanted them with applesauce; people in Butte, Montana eat them deep-fried on buns'
pork chops
800
'Hayden Christensen can teleport himself anywhere in this 2008 film based on a novel by Steven Gould'
Jumper
1000
'This Jane Smiley farmland novel was adapted into a movie starring Jessica Lange & Michelle Pfeiffer'
A Thousand Acres
1000
'Iraq's shortest national border is with this monarchy'
Jordan
1000
'This title refers to someone set up as Bishop of Rome in opposition to the one already holding the See; 2 lived in Avignon'
antipope
1000
'Boursin, a rich cheese from Normandy is often flavored with the cracked type of this'
pepper
1000
'This 1962 novel by Ken Kesey was adapted for the big screen in 1975 & won 5 Academy Awards'
One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest