Discovery
Approach the Bench
Sentencing
It Comes from Animals
Pieces of "Eight"
On the Go
200
In 1985 this ship was discovered by a U.S. Navy expedition led by Robert Ballard that found where she had lain for 73 years
Titanic
200
Claiming this star player was out of shape for a 2008 exhibition vs. Germany, England's soccer coach benched it like him
Beckham
200
In "He gave the dog a bone", bone is a direct one of these & dog is an indirect one
an object
200
These 4-letter soft feathers are used to stuff pillows
down
200
LXXVIII
seventy-eight
200
This live form of transportation is sometimes called the "ship of the desert"
camel
400
Collective name for the ancient manuscript fragments discovered in 1947 in caves in the Qumran region of the West Bank
the Dead Sea Scrolls
400
Soviet coach Viktor Tikhonov's benching of goalie Vladislav Tretiak helped Team USA get miraculous at the 1980 Olympics in this village
Lake Placid
400
In French most adjectives are postpositive, meaning you'll find them here
after the noun
400
Used in lotions, lanolin generally comes from the body grease of these shearable creatures
sheep
400
I could have had this type of internal-combustion engine with 2 opposed banks of 4 cylinders
v-eight
400
Almost 100 years old, the Delta Queen is this kind of river steamboat, named for a feature 28 feet in diameter
paddlewheel
600
In this year James Marshall discovered gold from the American River in California; the next year the rush was on
1848
600
Backups Lenn Sakata, Ron Washington & Juan Bell had time to bird watch as Cal Ripken Jr. played nonstop for this team
Baltimore Orioles
600
Austrian novelist Thomas Bernhard used long sentences; the 2nd sentence of "Correction" has 79 of these punctuation marks
commas
600
Seth Boyden never got a patent for the process to manufacture the "patent" type of this
leather
600
A 134-pound boxer, or a guy who can't hold his booze
a lightweight
600
Ride the track from one end of the Las Vegas Strip to the other in about 15 minutes via this, similar to the one at Disneyland
800
In late 1805 this pair's Corps of Discovery arrived at the Pacific Ocean near what is now Astoria, Oregon
Lewis and Clark
800
Eli Manning started 232 of 233 regular season games at QB for this team but in 2019, couldn't keep up with the (Daniel) Jones
the Giants
800
This is the subject at hand; this type of "sentence" tells the main idea of a paragraph
topic
800
This alliterative type of bristle used in brushes comes from a wild pig relative
boar bristle
800
An ice skating move, or a type of knot
a figure eight
800
Competitors in this flat-on-your-back Winter Olympic sport can reach 90 miles per hour
luge
1000
At Mount Wilson Observatory in the 1920s, Edwin Hubble made the discovery that this isn't a nebula but a large galaxy all its own
Andromeda
1000
N.Y. Yankee Wally Pipp had a headache in 1925, so this "lucky" man played at 1st; he didn't leave the lineup until 1939
Lou Gerhig
1000
The arrangement of words to make a sentence meaningful; in programming, it's the arrangement of characters so a computer cooperates
syntax
1000
The red pigment carmine comes from cochineal, this type of animal
insect
1000
Perhaps foreign objects if you weren't around to enjoy music in the 1970s, they're the items seen here
eight tracks
1000
In 1960 this nuclear sub bearing the name of Poseidon's son became the first to circumnavigate the globe underwater
Triton