j-archive-6148-D-2011-05-11

LOST PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES?

200

'At Dr. Clark's school we applaud the young man's almost military discipline, but he can't go slapping other boys'

Patton

400

'Mr. Clay, your son won't raise his own hand; he gets a classmate here at Louisville Central High to raise it for him'

Muhammad Ali

600

'His schoolmaster Mr. Chauvet called him incorrigible & he replied, "Irredeemable, incurable, inveterate..."'

(Peter) Roget

800

'Your Francois is the worst bully in the Port-au-Prince schools, though his ambition to be a doctor is commendable'

("Papa Doc") Duvalier

1000

'Madame & Monsieur, young Antoine sits all day playing with toy planes & drawing little princes'

Saint-Exupéry

THE EYES HAVE IT

200

'Images received by each eye are transposed to a hypothetical single eye named for this mythical character'

Cyclops

400

'If you have heterochromia, one of these may be blue & the other brown'

iris

600

'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew shows an anatomical animation on the monitor.) To allow your eyes to see clearly at varying distances, fibers called the zonules of Zinn change the shape of this eye part that focuses light onto the retina'

the lens

800

'The eyes have these 2 types of receptor cells; one gives color vision, the other black & white vision in dim light'

rods & cones

1000

'It's no laughing matter: your eyes are filled with a clear gel called the vitreous this'

humor

TAILS FROM SHAKESPEARE

200

'"O, thereby hangs a tail", says the clown shortly before this villain's entrance in Act 3 of "Othello"'

Iago

400

'"Henry VI, Part II" describes an animal that "clapp'd his tail between" these'

his legs

600

'"Who knows not where a wasp does wear his sting? In his tail", says Petruchio in this play'

The Taming of the Shrew

800

'In "Henry VI, Part I" , Joan of Arc says, "Let frantic Talbot triumph for a while and like" this bird "sweep along his tail"'

the peacock

1000

'"My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail", laments Gloucester's son in this play'

King Lear

THE NON-WASHINGTON CAPITALS

200

'A clock tower built in 1530 is a landmark in this Swiss capital city'

Bern

400

'One night in this Asian city makes a hard man humble, & with 38,850 people per sq. mile in its Sam Peng district, that's a lot of men'

Bangkok

600

'An 1855 earthquake in this Kiwi city raised the harbor bed by over a yard, allowing land to be drained & reclaimed'

Wellington

800

'It lies on the shore of its same-named bay, at the mouth of the Pasig River in Luzon'

Manila

1000

'The name of this Romanian capital first appears in a document of Vlad the Impaler'

Bucharest

FRENCH SCRAMBLE

200

'I'm grateful:
CRIME'

merci

400

'I'm asking nicely:
VIOLA'S TULIPS'

s\'il vous plait

600

'I'm complimenting you:
BERET SIN'

tres bien

800

'A season:
TEE'

été

1000

'How many are there?:
NICE MOB'

combien