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AD WEAR

200

'In ads for this company, the doughboy wears a chef's hat & a while neckerchief'

Pillsbury

400

'In the '60s this pancake lady traded in her bandana for a headband; in 1989 she traded that for a lace collar'

Aunt Jemima

600

'This Planters icon is quite dapper, carrying a cane & wearing a top hat & a monocle'

Mr. Peanut

800

'The girl on this brand's label wears a yellow dress & stands under an umbrella'

Morton\'s Salt

1000

'The elfin trio of characters that advertise this Kellogg's cereal wear hats; 2 in baker's hats, one in a dunce cap'

Rice Krispies

POLITICAL NICKNAMES

200

'"Silent Cal"'

Calvin Coolidge

400

'The loser of a famous duel:
"The Little Lion"'

Alexander Hamilton

600

'A veep:
"Nixon's Nixon"'

Spiro Agnew

800

'A recent GOP House Majority Leader:
"The Hammer"'

Tom DeLay

1000

'Michigander who in 2009 became the longest-serving U.S. representative in history: "Tailpipe Johnny"'

(John) Dingell

YOU'RE A JEOPARDY! FAN IF…

200

'A citizenship test asks for these 3 enemy countries of the U.S. in WWII & all you hear is "Da-da-da-da…"'

Germany, Italy & Japan

400

'You named your son this, after the original 1964 host of "Jeopardy!"'

Art Fleming

600

'In hospital you try to buzz in but dose yourself with this main alkaloid in opium'

morphine

800

'You put dollar amounts into the grid of this Japanese-named number puzzle to remind you of the game board'

sudoku

1000

'At the Preakness horse race in this state, you hear "daily double" & make a tsyoo-tsyoo-tsyoo noise'

Maryland

ALSO A COLOR

200

'Area where the pin is a marker for the hole'

the green

400

'Communist'

red

600

'Indecent'

blue

800

'In the 17th century Frederick Henry, Count of Nassau, was also called the Prince of this'

Orange

1000

'Before "Burbank" in a high-starch, fluffy potato'

russet

PURPLE PROSE & POETRY

200

'This song mentions "purple mountain majesties"'

"America the Beautiful"

400

'Gelett Burgess wrote, "I never saw" this, "I never hope to see one; but I can tell you, anyhow I'd rather see than be one"'

a purple cow

600

'Author who wrote that it angers God "if you walk by the color purple in a field…and you don't notice it"'

Alice Walker

800

'Milton wrote of this Roman god, "that first from out the purple grape crush'd the sweet poison of misused wine"'

Bacchus

1000

'This lord's poem "Locksley Hall" tells of "pilots of the purple twilight, dropping down with costly bales"'

Tennyson