'Located on a tributary of the Yarlung Zango River, this city is at an altitude of almost 12,000 feet'
Lhasa
200
'Angels talking about George Bailey / I can't stand to watch that Mr. Potter / An angel gets his wings'
It\'s a Wonderful Life
200
'This collection had a follow-up, "The New Spoon River"'
Spoon River Anthology
200
'(I'm CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien.) Barack Obama can claim favorite son status all over the country; born in Hawaii, he went to college in New York & then moved to this state as a community organizer'
Illinois
200
'Carl Sagan pioneered & promoted SETI, the search for this kind of intelligence'
extraterrestrial
400
'In the 8th c. the scholar & mystic Padmasambhava fashioned the Tibetan variety of this faith'
Buddhism
400
'Josh Brolin took the money / Wait, this is the end? Where'd Josh Brolin go?'
No Country for Old Men
400
'In Arabic "rubai'i" refers to a type of 4-line verse, & this is a book of them, like Omar Khayyam's'
a rubaiyat
400
'In music, it's the lowest tone of a scale; in politics it's a rousing convention speech'
a keynote
400
'One who implements a will'
an executor
600
'Asia's mightiest rivers begin in Tibet, including the Yangtze & this river that flows through Vietnam'
the Mekong
600
'Just wanted to see Jack Lemmon strain spaghetti through his tennis racket /'
The Apartment
600
'In 1923 he published the collection "New Hampshire"'
Robert Frost
600
'(I'm Campbell Brown, CNN.) One of John McCain's weapons in appealing to a younger demographic is this type of Internet diary kept by his daughter Meghan'
a blog
600
'Trekkies might know that F-14A Tomcats were first assigned to this aircraft carrier in 1974'
the Enterprise
800
'Tibet borders Burma, Bhutan, Nepal, India & also this region disputed between India & Pakistan'
Kashmir
800
'Robert Walker can't be serious about the plan he's proposing to Farley Granger, can he / Well, I guess he was'
Strangers on a Train
800
'"The Lamb" & "The Shepherd" are found in these William Blake "songs" from 1789'
Songs of Innocence
800
'Type of benefit, like Social Security, to which you have an automatic right if you meet certain criteria'
an entitlement
800
'Born in Norway, he patented the first practical outboard motor for boats'
(Ole) Evinrude
1000
'After the Dalai Lama fled in 1959, this lama became titular spiritual leader of Tibet'
the Panchen Lama
1000
'Nick Nolte / Sunken treasure, bla bla / Aha, there's Jacqueline Bisset underwater'
The Deep
1000
'Critic Hippolyte Babou suggested the title of Baudelaire's "Les Fleurs du mal", which translates as this'