Show:
IMMANUEL CAN'T...
PHILOSOPHERS
NEAT, SHE
SPIN-OZA
CONFUSE US
200
'Immanuel can't have a milkshake: like 90% of Asian Americans, he has an intolerance to this sugar'
lactose
200
'You shouldn't put this French "Discourse on Method" author before the horse'
Descartes
200
'You'll find obsessive-compulsive Bree van de Kamp tidying up on this ABC show'
Desperate Housewives
200
'In a Grimm fairy tale, this little man spins straw into gold: can you guess his name?'
Rumpelstiltskin
200
'Changing the last vowel of a word meaning "seat of government" creates this building where lawmakers meet'
capital/capitol
400
'Immanuel can't become U.S. president because he's not yet this minimum age'
35
400
'Kukai & Saicho were major philosophers of this country's Heian period'
Japan
400
'This character on "Friends" is a "self-professed neat freak"'
Monica
400
'Spinnerets are the organs in a spider that spin this fiber for its web'
silk
400
'Affluent means wealthy: effluent refers to waste in this state of matter'
liquid
600
'No, Immanuel can't return to the soccer game; he got one of these cards, his first ever & is not allowed back'
a red card
600
'Plato % Xenophon left accounts of this philosopher who wrote nothing himself'
Socrates
600
'Annette Bening chafes when Kevin Spacey tries to seduce her in this 1999 movie: she's worried he'll spill beer on the couch'
American Beauty
600
'Spins performed in this include the sit spin, the camel spin & the Biellmann spin'
figure skating
600
'Spelled with "al" at the end, this word refers to a school official: with "le", it's a fundamental truth'
principal/principle
800
'Immanuel can't spell very well: he keeps transposing letters, which makes me think he has this learning disorder'
dyslexia
800
'The argument that the mind at birth is a blank slate is "key" to his 1690 "Essay Concerning Human Understanding"'
John Locke
800
'This real-life actress played by Faye Dunaway kinda flipped out when she thought her bathroom wasn't clean enough'
Joan Crawford
800
'This instrument on your car's dashboard measures the revolutions or spins per minute of the engine shaff'
the tachometer
800
'When this heavy metal loses an "a", it becomes a word meaning "guided"'
lead
1000
'Immanuel can't stand girls, & yes, it's safe to call him one of these, from the Greek for "woman hater"'
a misogynist
1000
'This 3-named British political theorist who wrote "On Liberty" was also a major utilitarian philosopher'
(John Stuart) Mill
1000
'Jayma Mays plays a germophobic guidance counselor on this Fox series'
Glee
1000
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew shows a revolving gas planet on the monitor.) This planet might be a sphere if it weren't spinning so fast--turning on its axis in under ten hours, resulting in a bulge near the equator'
Jupiter
1000
'Some people needlessly put ir- in front of this word that means "in spite of everything"'
regardless