Show:
I KNOW UR
MOVIES AT SEA
DICKENS TITLE LETTER DROP
BUT WHAT AM I?
WORDS WITH DIACRITICAL MARKS
200
'The first major excavations of Ur were made after WWI by H.R. Hall of this London institution'
the British Museum
200
'"Yell barracuda, everybody says, 'huh? what?'; you yell shark, we've got a panic on our hands" is said in this film'
Jaws
200
'Drop a letter from Dickens' novel about pickpockets & it becomes this story of an internal organ that's sprained'
Liver Twist
200
'I'm not a canine, I'm this burrowing squirrel of the genus Cynomys that's ubiquitous on the plains of North America'
prairie dog
200
'A woman engaged to be married'
the fiancée
400
'One of the last kings to build at Ur was this "great" Persian, also called Koresh'
Cyrus
400
'A captain & his inexperienced crew patrol the Atlantic in a sub in this 1981 Wolfgang Petersen film with a German title'
Das Boot
400
'Bah! Humbug! It's Rob Reiner's dad on December 25'
Christmas Carl
400
'I'm this colorful bird formally known as Cyanocitta cristata, not a Canadian baseball player'
blue jay
400
'In a beverage or a hue, it precedes "au lait"'
café
600
'Now called Tall al-Muqayyar, modern Ur is about 10 miles from Nasiriyah in this troubled Mideast country'
Iraq
600
'One tagline for this 1997 Oscar winner was "Collide with destiny"'
Titanic
600
'The loss of a letter causes the evil Quilp & Little Nell to jump around on one leg a lot'
The Old Curiosity Hop
600
'I'm P. onocrotalus, the white species of this big-throated bird; more fish, please!'
pelican
600
'A daytime movie or play'
a matinée
800
'Ur is dominated by one of these stepped, pyramidal temple towers dating from the 3rd millennium B.C.'
a ziggurat
800
'This 1995 film with Kevin Costner as a "manphibian" (he had gills!) cost an estimated $175 million'
Waterworld
800
'It's a Pip of a novel full of anticipation from Beowulf's people'
Geat Expectations
800
'I'm C. latirostris, this South American crocodilian, not an island group in the Caribbean'
caiman
800
'These chili peppers seen here are popular because they can be easily seeded'
a jalapeño
1000
'Founded in the 4th millennium B.C., Ur was a capital city of this oldest Mesopotamian civilization'
Sumeria
1000
'Jack Lemmon was Ensign Pulver, in charge of laundry & morale aboard a ship called The Reluctant, in this 1955 film'
Mister Roberts
1000
'Drop a letter from Dickens' last completed novel & it's about that devilish guy we both know'
Our Mutual Fiend
1000
'I'm not a piece of farm equipment, I'm this shark of the genus Alopias that uses its long tail to stun prey'
a thresher
1000
'This 2-word Native American tribe lived in the Pacific Northwest'
the Nez Percé