Show:
CONTRONYMS
CUBA, SI!
YANKEES, NO!
AUTHORS' BIRTHPLACES
THEY COME IN TWOS
200
'To hide by blocking, or to show by projecting'
screen
200
'Turquino Peak, Cuba's highest, is in the chain known as this "Maestra"; California has one "Nevada"'
Sierra
200
'"Next year" finally came to this team's fans in 1955, when its "Bums" beat the Yanks in the Series for the first time in 6 tries'
the Brooklyn Dodgers
200
'This playwright was born in March 1828 in Skien, a small lumbering town of Norway'
Ibsen
200
'The 2 most basic forms of skiing are Nordic & this downhill type named for a mountain range'
Alpine
400
'A solid fruit core, or a cavity in the ground'
a pit
400
'Celebrated Jan. 1, Triumph of the Revolution, Cuba's national holiday, commemorates events of this 20th c. year'
1959
400
'The Yankees lost game 7 of the 1926 World Series when this portly gent was thrown out trying to steal second base'
Babe Ruth
400
'He was born in "The Jungle" of Baltimore in 1878'
(Upton) Sinclair
400
'The 2 components of a complete sentence are a subject & this unit'
a verb
600
'An advantage in golf or a disadvantage through lack'
a handicap
600
'Cuba is the largest island in this "directional" archipelago'
the West Indies
600
'A "Big Red Machine" from this city ran right over the Yankees in a 4-game sweep of the 1976 World Series'
Cincinnati
600
'Salinas, California (east of... Frisco) was the birthplace of this author, who often referred to it in his work'
Steinbeck
600
'The 2 main gods of Hinduism are Vishnu & him'
Shiva
800
'To remove excess fat, or to add Christmas ornaments'
trim
800
'Reaching heights of 75 feet, Cuba's national tree is the royal this'
palm
800
'In 2004 this team came back from a 3-games-to-0 deficit & beat the Yanks for the A.L. pennant; revenge gets no sweeter'
the Boston Red Sox
800
'He didn't have a "Sister Carrie" when he was born in Terre Haute, Indiana in 1871'
Theodore Dreiser
800
'The 2 main kinds of camels are the one-humped dromedary & this 2-humped Asian species'
Bactrian
1000
'To bless an action by decree, or to ban an action by decree'
sanction
1000
'Many Cuban practitioners of this "saintly" Afro-Caribbean religion speak Lucumi, a "secret" language'
Santería
1000
'This ace L.A. lefty dominated the Yanks in the 1963 World Series, striking out 23 & beating them twice in a 4-game sweep'
Sandy Koufax
1000
'This existentialist came into being (not nothingness) June 21, 1905 in Paris'
(Jean-Paul) Sartre
1000
'Named for their method of secretion, they're the 2 main types of glands in the body'
endocrine & exocrine