INTERNATIONAL FOOD & DRINK
20-SOMETHING
HOWARD'S END
DOWN TO "RTH"
FICTION
NONSENSE WORDS
200
If you're in Central Asia, ask for shashlik; if you head down to the Middle East, ask for this 2-word skewered meat equivalent
shish kabob
200
Arranged in pairs, you've got 24 of these chest protectors
ribs
200
In 2015 this radio host ended his time judging "America's Got Talent"
Stern
200
It precedes
Pole, Sea & Star
North
200
A bestseller by Terry McMillan tells "How Stella", on vacation in Jamaica, "Got" this "Back"
Her Groove
200
Spelled differently from the Italian city it is derived from, it's a "meaty" nonsense word
baloney
400
The name of this Caribbean liqueur is from the Spanish for "aunt Mary"
Tia Maria
400
The Constitution states that to be a member of the U.S. House of Representatives, you must be at least this age
25
400
As of 2021 the once-vast empire of restaurants named for this Howard is down to a single one in Lake George, N.Y.
Howard Johnson
400
Once upon a time home was where this fireplace area was, providing heat & light at night, & fire for cooking
a hearth
400
His "Licks of Love" short story collection also includes the novella "Rabbit Remembered"
(John) Updike
400
This 4-letter word refers to a military cot, or a nonsense word
bunk
600
Similar to a latte is a galao, a coffee drink that originated in this country
Portugal
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600
26 is the atomic number of this chemical element, symbol Fe
iron
600
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Some cried fowl when this Marvel comic book hero flew away in 1979, but he would return
Howard The Duck
600
Time to go to sleep on the train? Do you want the upper one or the lower one?
a berth
600
"The Amber Spyglass" is the concluding novel in this Philip Pullman trilogy
His Dark Materials
600
This hyphenated nonsense word begins with a word for a violin & ends with a word one letter different from the first
fiddle-faddle
800
Aromatics, like garlic & fennel, are key to this Middle Eastern rice dish with a 5-letter name
pilaf
800
In the Olympics, games of table tennis are played to 11 points & games of this racket sport are played to 21
badminton
800
The very brief marriage of Henry VIII to this woman ended in 1542
Catherine Howard
800
It's the distance around something, like a middle-aged waist
girth
NO COMMENT! lol
800
This 2009 bestseller from Stephen King comes with a map of the isolated Chester's Mill
Under The Dome
800
Seen here, it is the logo for this candy treat whose name also means "nonsense"
poppycock
1000
Bot chien is fried dough & egg served with papaya & a popular street food in this city once known as Saigon
Ho Chi Minh City
1000
This language, introduced around 1900, has 28 letters, including 6 special ones; you can enable your keyboard to type them
esperanto
1000
In 1939 it was Hodgkin's disease, not King Tut's curse, that did in this archaeologist
Carter
1000
In Scotland it's an inlet like Moray or of Clyde
firth
1000
In 2021 her "Firefly Lane", about a lifelong friendship, became a Netflix series
Kristen Hannah
1000
Originally it referred to the slop used as food for pigs; now it's a term for a meaningless sentiment
hogwash
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