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THAT'S INVENTIVE!
ON WORDS
CHRISTIAN
WORLD CAPITALS
APPROXIMATE WEIGHTS & MEASURES
200
'He's the documentary filmmaker who co-invented the Aqualung'
(Jacques) Cousteau
200
'Not as popular as brunch, "lupper" comes from these 2 words'
lunch & supper
200
'He played the rebellious J.D, in "Heathers"'
Christian Slater
200
'Haneda Airport serves this Asian capital'
Tokyo
200
'It can be a small piece of gold or a bite-sized piece of batter-fried chicken'
a nugget
400
'His lesser-known inventions include a vote-recording machine & the mimeograph machine'
Edison
400
'Both left & wrong are antonyms of this word'
right
400
'The 1989 Disney version of "The Little Mermaid" is based on a story by him'
Hans Christian Andersen
400
'This new South American capital was dedicated on April 21, 1960'
Brasilia
400
'It can be an extremely small amount of a chemical component; some "vanish without" one'
a trace
600
'This Italian physicist was made a count in 1801 for his invention of the electric battery'
(Alessandro) Volta
600
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew strolls through Central Park.) Before this word meant a shopping center, it meant a tree-lined promenade like the one here in Central Park, lined with stately American elms'
a mall
600
'Mel Gibson played him in the 1984 film "The Bounty"'
Fletcher Christian
600
'Major projects to reclaim land from the sea have thrived here since the 1850s, before it was N.Z.'s capital'
Wellington
600
'It can be a barely perceptible amount; it's also a clue or a tip that you may need to solve a riddle'
a hint
800
'Scientist Joseph Priestley dubbed the material he used as an eraser this'
rubber
800
'A Tamil word for "drummer" gave us this term for a social outcast; it's also a member of a low caste in India'
a pariah
800
'This Welsh-born actor played Americans in "Batman Begins" & "3:10 to Yuma"'
Christian Bale
800
'In the "Spring" of 1968, students in this capital were climbing on Soviet tanks & yelling, "USSR go home!"'
Prague
800
'This word for a cluster of trees or a clod of soil may come from the Dutch for "lump"'
a clump
1000
'In 1803 the British army adopted the metal-scattering shell that this man invented back in 1784'
(Henry) Shrapnel
1000
'Now meaning to destroy or wipe out a great number, it;s from the Latin word for "ten"'
decimate
1000
'This French designer's shoes are recognizable by their red lacquered soles'
Christian Louboutin
1000
'Minsk is the capital of this former Soviet republic'
Belarus
1000
'Gladstone poetically said, "All the world over, I will back" these "against the classes"'
masses