A Real Nut Job
Zoologist's Dictionary
Sat it With Chocolate
Give Me 5 "CC"s
Stat!
200
Natives along the Amazon basin collect these, AKA para nuts, which are later used in soaps or as food
Brazil nuts
200
Ovoviviparous describes animals such as rattlesnakes that develop these inside the body
Eggs
200
The bitter native drink chocolatl had sugar added to it by these 16th century conquerors
the Spaniards
200
Hurry up & name this synonym for "quicken"
Accelerate
200
96,950,000: boxes of oranges produced in 2014-15 by this state
Florida
400
marthastewart.com says to roast these nuts at 350 degrees in an oven; a song suggests "on an open fire"
Chestnuts
400
From the Latin for "to carry", it's the period between conception & birth
Gestation
400
It might ring a bell that these chocolate cakes from Hostess debuted in 1967
Ding Dongs
400
A type of snake, or that old soft shoe
Moccasin
400
5: permanent members of this U.N. body
Security Council
600
Workers at the Mauna Loa Corporation pack & sell these nuts on a street named for them
Macadamia nuts
600
Meaning "feather-foot", pinnipeds all have flippers and included these largest seals
Elephant seal
600
Charlie Bucket is the title character in this 1964 children's book
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
600
This ball-rolling game is a Special Olympics event
Bocce
600
The Cubs' Hack Wilson, 1930: 191 these
RBI (Runs Batted In)
800
Confectioners in the South are known to take pecans and turn them into this sweet treat that also starts with a "P"
Praline
800
A respiratory organ in some arachnids is called the "book" this
Lung
800
Originally it meant coffee that came from Yemen; later, it came to mean coffee flavored with chocolate
Mocha
800
Odd or irregular
Eccentric
800
4.6 seconds: this figure for a 1964 Pontiac Tempest GTO, per Car and Driver
0 to 60
1000
Turkish workers are powering an eco-city by harnessing this gas, CH4, from the fermentation of pistachio shells
Methane
1000
These invertebrates have pores and bigger holes called oscula, through which water comes out
Sponges
1000
In addition to its famous square in San Francisco, this chocolatier has ice cream & candy stores in several other cities
Ghirardelli
1000
A respiratory spasm
Hiccup
1000
23.5 miles: distance you travel under the sea in this, opened 1994
Chunnel / Channel Tunnel / Eurotunnel