FIRE ISLAND
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LOST IN EXPLORATION
BERNIE & BERNADETTE
ALL ABOUT ALLITERATIVE BOOK CHARACTERS
EVERYBODY LOVES RAIN, MAN
Final Jeopardy
200
This Hawaiian island had a Honolulu of a hot year in 2019; attention, shoppers at Waimalu Plaza, it hit 107 one day
Oahu
200
In U.S. v. U.S. Steel, the Supreme Court noted "the menace of" this, where one company corners the market, & that ain't no game
Monopoly
200
In 1492 Columbus was actually trying to reach this continent--thus the name "West Indies" for the places where he landed
Asia
200
The mittens this Vermont senator wore to President Biden's inauguration became an internet sensation
Bernie Sanders
200
Severus Snape is the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher at this school that Harry Potter attends
Hogwarts
200
This largest tropical rain forest can average well over 100 inches of rain each year
the Amazon
200
OBITUARIES
On this famed Yankees catcher's death in 2015, his New York Times obit said he "built his stardom 90 percent on skill and half on wit"
400
On the map, Italy looks like it's giving the boot to this Mediterranean island, which was kicking around at 120 degrees in 2021
Sicily
400
Tom Freston got fired from Viacom but had a very soft landing thanks to a "golden" this of $100 million
Parachute
400
Percy Fawcett, who disappeared searching for a lost jungle city in the 1920s, is often called "the real life" this movie character
Indiana Jones
400
In 1987 she originated one of her iconic roles as the witch in the Broadway production of "Into the Woods"
Bernadette Peters
400
Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis
Narnia
400
Drivers can thank Mary Anderson for creating an early form of this, moved by a handle from inside a streetcar to clear rain
a windshield wiper
400
On this famed Yankees catcher's death in 2015, his New York Times obit said he "built his stardom 90 percent on skill and half on wit"
Yogi Berra
600
Playing all the hits of 2020, it's hot 102.7 in Veguitas in this Caribbean country about 90 miles south of Florida
Cuba
600
A chapter no one ever wants to read, this one is often called a "reorganization" bankruptcy, like J.C. Penney in 2020
Chapter 11
600
Ponce de Leon was looking for an island said to be the site of this rejuvenating spring but found Florida--how's that irony?
The Fountain of Youth
600
Terry Kiser played the titular corpse in this 1989 comedy that also starred Andrew McCarthy & Jonathan Silverman
Weekend at Bernie's
600
Tiny Tim is a sickly boy in this Dickens classic with an alliterative title
A Christmas Carol
600
The title number in "Singin' in the Rain" was shot in summer in Culver City when water was in high demand & this star was ill
Gene Kelly
800
In September 2020 it was a toasty 110 in this one of California's Channel Islands with Avalon as its only city
Catalina
800
Air-ing things out, this occurs when you don't have enough money in your account to cover a check but the bank pays anyway
overdraft
800
"I presume" you know the name of this Doctor who went missing exploring in Africa; a search party found him in 1871
Dr. Livingstone
800
He died in 2021 while serving 150 years for running the largest Ponzi scheme in history, with paper losses of $64.8 billion
Bernie Madoff
800
He's the evil dictator who's "watching you" in "1984"
Big Brother
800
On Titan, this ringed planet's largest moon, it rains methane
Saturn
1000
92 at Kilkenny Castle in 1887 was long considered the hottest temperature in this island nation
Ireland
1000
Time to get an "A" in finance; leveraged by hedge funds, this investment strategy has many types, like retail & merger
arbitrage
1000
This Italian was looking for a sea route to the Pacific when he found some New York "narrows"; ah well, he got a bridge named for him
Verrazzano
1000
In 1858 the future St. Bernadette went to a grotto & had visions that turned this French town into a pilgrimage center
Lourdes
1000
Billy Bibbit & Charles Cheswick are fellow inmates with Randle McMurphy in this Ken Kesey novel set in a mental hospital
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Net
1000
In the King James Bible, "the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah" these 2 things
fire & brimstone