NATURE
The weight of the General Sherman, a type of this tree in California, is equal to about 40 adult blue whales
Sequoia
Brett Hascall's favorite word / A nickname for home runs in baseball
Dinger
Bourbon is one type of this product
Whiskey
The Reno Gang was credited as 1st to rob these steam vehicles
Trains
In "Working Class Hero" from his "Plastic Ono Band" album, he sang, "They hurt you at home and they hit you at school"
John Lennon
The high school basketball team from Hickory, Indiana is trying to win the state championship in this favorite
Hoosiers
1920s Swiss Psychological Scientist / Gritty masked DC Comic Character
Rorschach
The Goliath birdeater, which eats rodents & reptiles as well as birds, is an extra large variety of this hairy spider
Tarantula
To be fast of foot / A group of vehicles or warships
Fleet
E is represented by this, this, this, this
Echo
The Las Vegas Outlaws & Los Angeles Xtreme were teams in this league
XFL
In this Top 10 hit from 1972, Alice Cooper exults over "No more pencils, no more books"
School's Out
This title of a 2002 soccer film refers to how Jess needs to kick the ball to score the winning goal
Bend It Like Beckham
Contrary to popular belief, opossums don't play dead when frightened; they are suffering from this paralyzing effect
Shock
To trample underfoot / A closed court sport / A vegetable
Squash
F is this dance done in a slow-quick-quick rhythm
Foxtrot
Aliases for Robert Leroy Parker & Harry Longbaugh which became title of a 1969 movie hit
Butch Cassidy & The Sundance Kid
Brownsville Station's only Top 10 hit was a 1973 smash about doing this forbidden thing "in the boys room"
Smoking
Pro player Paul Bettany falls for a tennis phenom while both are competing at this tournament
Wimbledon
These nocturnal beetles seen during summer make up the family Lampyridae
Fireflies
Saliva / Slender rod on which meat is impaled for broiling
Spit
Check in, check out; H is this
Hotel
It's the alliterative name of Robin Hood's legendary band of outlaws
Merry Men
Gwen Stefani sang, "Meet me at the bleachers, no principals, no student teachers... I ain't no" this
Hollaback Girl
Basketball hustlers + "Jeopardy!" = this film with Wesley Snipes & Rosie Perez
White Men Can't Jump
The Queen Alexandra's birdwing of Papua New Guinea isn't a bird at all but the world's largest one of these
Butterfly
DAILY DINGER!!!
DAILY DINGER!!!
Take a swing at it--G is this
Golf
Jesse James' skill at anonymity kept him from the law but not from this fellow gang member who shot and killed him in 1882
Robert Ford
This seminal NYC punk band performed the title track for the 1979 cult film "Rock 'N' Roll High School"
The Ramones
Will Ferrell finds he's inherited his dad's bad temper when he coaches kids' soccer in this comedy
Kicking and Screaming