PLAYING FOOTBALL FOR VOCABULARY
THAT'S MY DRINK
VIRGIN BERTHS
THINKING GREEN
"C" SERPENTS
200
'It covers a baby bird, or it's in your quilt'
down
200
'Gin, lemon juice, sugar & soda water:
____ Collins'
Tom
200
'It took 62 seconds in 1911 for this ship's hull to slide from its building berth into Belfast's waters'
Titanic
200
'Since 1974 mulch from this annual Rockefeller Center sight has gone to Boy Scouts to use as ground cover in camps'
the Christmas tree
200
'The ringhals of southern Africa is also known as the spitting this'
a cobra
400
'A gap through a mountain range, e.g. Donner'
pass
400
'Apple brandy, pineapple juice & bitters:
____-in-the-box'
Jack
400
'On March 15, 2006 the George H.W. Bush was launched as the 10th & final ship in the Nimitz class of these'
an aircraft carrier
400
'Oregon's 1972 first-in-the-nation recycling act for containers is commonly known as this alliterative "bill"'
a bottle bill
400
'Because its markings resemble the patterns on an oriental rug, an Australian python species is called this'
the carpet python
600
'The distance along a city street from where one road crosses it to the next road'
a block
600
'Gin, lime & club soda:
Gin this guy'
Rickey
600
'Formerly known as the Bethia, this refitted ship set sail to find Tahitian breadfruit in 1787'
the Bounty
600
'(Kelly of the Clue Crew shows us the solar array on the roof of Sony Pictures Studios.) Solar panels like the one used here at Sony convert energy from the sun into direct current, using these types of cells, PV for short'
photovoltaic
600
'A penny for your thoughts on this venomous snake aka the highland moccasin'
a copperhead
800
'6-letter word for fishing equipment'
tackle
800
'Brandy, heavy cream & brown creme de cacao:
Brandy ____'
Alexander
800
'Launched in 1938, it became a WWII troopship & then entered regular transatlantic service for Cunard in 1946'
the Queen Elizabeth
800
'The U.S. Army experimented with green bullets, thought to be more Earth-friendly without this metal'
lead
800
'The harlequin snake is an eastern species of this colorful but deadly biter that sounds like a real undersea serpent'
a coral snake
1000
'Electrical activity impeding communication'
interference
1000
'Tequila, tomato juice, lemon juice, Tabasco, Worcestershire sauce:
the variation Bloody ____'
Maria
1000
'This guy with the name of a Norse god first took his raft Kon-Tiki for a spin in 1947'
Thor Heyerdahl
1000
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows us an engine compartment at Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, MI.) Among Ford's future products is this environmentally-friendly update of the Ford Focus, with a lithium ion power train; it's known as the BEV, which stands for this'
battery electric vehicle
1000
'A white lining exposed by an angry Agkistrodon piscivorus gets it this name'
a cottonmouth