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HIDDEN STATES

200

'When I visit here, I play bocce in St. Johnsbury, never Montpelier'

Vermont (in never Montpelier)

400

'Let's visit my grandma in Exeter in this state--it's a quaint little place'

Maine (in grandma in Exeter)

600

'You'd have found the 120-degree heat exasperating at Seymour in this state on Aug. 12, 1936'

Texas (in heat exasperating)

800

'If you need to seek out a great bookstore go no further than Powell's in this state'

Oregon (in bookstore go no)

1000

'If you're under 18, put a helmet on when you ride a motorcycle in this Western state'

Utah (in put a helmet)

IT'S IN MY COFFEE

200

'This trusted friend was the first non-dairy powdered creamer'

Coffee-Mate

400

'For a coffee royal, add this, perhaps from Christian Brothers'

brandy

600

'A recipe for this: add 1 part milk to 1 part cream'

half-and-half

800

'Starbucks sells bottles of syrup to add the flavor of this nut to your joe'

hazelnut

1000

'Sweet'N Low contains saccharin; sucralose goes into this "S" brand'

Splenda

THEY'RE NO. 1!

200

'This country is the world's No. 1 debtor, owing more than $13 trillion'

the U.S.

400

'This Riviera principality has the world's lowest unemployment rate--0%'

Monaco

600

'It has the world's highest net immigration rate; Dubai needs workers'

United Arab Emirates

800

'Riyals actually gain value in Qatar--it has the world's lowest rate of this, negative 3.9%'

inflation

1000

'This tiny country wedged between Switzerland & Austria has the world's highest per capita GDP'

Liechtenstein

GOING GREENER

200

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) Sony's green philosophy uses varied trees, like the California sycamore, important to hummingbirds & butterflies, & the coast live oak, resistant to this condition from the Middle English for "dryness"'

drought

400

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) Sony Studios' new basketball court is made from thousands of recycled these, provided by Nike'

sneakers

600

'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) Though it looks like a more traditional wood, the flooring here is actually made from what is called the perfect renewable resource, this treelike grass that can grow a foot a day'

bamboo

800

'(Kelly of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) Some energy on the Sony lot is generated by the sun's photons striking the solar cell surface, making these jump from one atom to the next, creating a chain reaction which can be harnessed'

electrons

1000

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Sony Pictures Studios.) The residue from producing electricity with coal is called fly this; instead of ending up in a landfill, it's been added to the now eco-friendly concrete used at Sony'

ash

SONNETS & SONNETEERS

200

'About this season Josiah Conder wrote, "The light yellow leaves of fading trees come dancing down all ways"'

fall (autumn)

400

'John Milton wrote a sonnet about this Lord Protector under whom he served as Secretary of Foreign Languages'

Oliver Cromwell

600

'Best known for "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard", his only sonnet was a memorial to friend Richard West'

(Thomas) Gray

800

'This sonnet by Shelley begins, "I met a traveller from an antique land"'

"Ozymandias"

1000

'No. XVII of these begins, "My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes God set between his after and before"'

Sonnets from the Portuguese