MOUNTAINS
3-LETTER INITIALISMS
PRESIDENTIAL RHYME TIME
FROM BOOK TO TV
PHRASE FARMING
11
200
According to a Japanese proverb, "He who climbs" this mountain "once is a wise man, he who climbs it twice is a fool"
Mt. Fuji
200
Big Blue is the nickname of this Fortune 500 company
IBM
200
Ulysses' angry tirades
Grant's rants
200
In this novel & the TV series based on it, Beth Harmon pictures a chessboard on the ceiling above her in bed at night
The Queen's Gambit
200
You'll be waitin' a mighty long time, or "'til" this idiomatic return of certain bovines
until the cows come home
200
Released in 2021, this Microsoft operating system 11 is the first version in over 20 years shipped without Internet Explorer
Windows
400
Ben Nevis in this country is the highest mountain of the British Isles
Scotland
400
The emoji seen here is commonly used in place of this exclamation of astonishment that actually goes back to the early 1900s
OMG
400
Gerald's bladed weapons
Ford's swords
400
**DAILY DOUBLE**
A nonfiction book subtitled "The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City" inspired this HBO series
Boardwalk Empire
400
Judging good against bad is "separating" these 2 threshed farm items
wheat from the chaff
400
11 is the atomic number of this silvery white chemical element with symbol Na
sodium
600
Bring a chair and enjoy the view of this famous mountain that overlooks Cape Town
Table Mountain
600
The electric i4 is one of its ultimate driving machines
BMW
600
Eisenhower's scares
Ike's yikes
Dwight's frights
600
Tony Hale plays the rich benefactor who recruits a group of gifted orphans to take part in this "Mysterious" society
The Mysterious Benedict Society
***
600
This porcine phrase means you're being offered something but its real value is being hidden
a pig in a poke
***
600
This religious epic from 1959 was the first film to win 11 Academy Awards
Ben-Hur
800
These 2 highest mountains of Hawaii with similar names differ in height by just over 100 feet
Mauna Loa & Mauna Kea
800
Garmin is a leader in this technology that keeps you on track, wherever you go
GPS
800
Jimmy's official founding documents
Carter's charters
800
John Cusack & Zoe Kravitz played the record store owner in the film & TV adaptations of this novel by Nick Hornby
High Fidelity
800
"Resist placing each of one's ova within a single receptacle" is another way to put this phrase of warning
don't put all your eggs in one basket
800
In craps, a winning dice roll of 11 on the first throw is called this
natural
***
1000
Referring to its shape, this peak on which Brazil's Christ the Redeemer Statue stands has a name meaning "hunchback"
Mt. Corcovado
***
1000
Managed by Caltech for NASA, this facility was originally created in the 1930s for rocket research
JPL
Jet Propulsion Lab
1000
William Howard's vertical gold mine passages
Taft's shafts
1000
This 2021 miniseries based on a Beth Macy book goes from big pharma boardrooms to the struggles of opioid addicts
Dopesick
1000
n Apple commercial where a rural fellow finds a lost iPhone is a reference to this idiom
find a needle in a haystack
1000
The Duchess of Richmond is one of the "Windsor Beauties", 11 portraits of women in the life of this Restoration king
Charles II