LITERARY CHARACTERS
The invaders in this H.G. Wells novel are described as having tentacles & "a peculiar V-shaped mouth"
War of the Worlds
About 300,000 people in Africa suffer from sleeping sickness spread by the tsetse variety of this insect
a fly
Study at Ohio's Heidelberg college & you could spend your jr. year abroad at this country's U. of Heidelberg
Germany
Cut up this tuber that was native to South America before becoming a major crop in Europe at the end of the 17th c.
a potato
In basketball, this ball handling infraction will cost you possession
double dribble
This gangly schoolmaster in "The Legend of Sleepy Hallow" gives singing lessons to Katrina Van Tassel
Ichabod Crane
There are 20,000 known species of these insects, including social, parasitic & "killer" types
bees
Go to Georgetown & wear these school colors that signify the union of the North & South afer the Civil War
gray & blue
Use a few green stalks of this, which is a good dip scoop & is also the log in an "ant"sy snack
celery
A condition of low priority; in a cooking phrase, it usually follows "on the..."
back burner
If it was named for a different character, this 1899 Chekhov play would be "Niece Sonya"
Uncle Vanya
Responsible for millions of cases of malaria each year, the Anopheles variety of this insect is one deadly bug
the mosquito
Don't just study history, but live & breathe it at this college just steps away from Colonial Williamsburg
the College of William and Mary
Use a bunch of these orange taproots, rich in provitamin A
carrots
You'll get a charge over this critter, an Amazon River dweller that can pack a 650-volt wallop
electric eel
In "A Scandal in Bohemia" & other early stories, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle gave this physician a wife, Mary Morstan
Dr. Watson
Of the one million species of insects, more than 300,000 are of this type, including the ladybug
beetles
Cornell's Dept. of this study would prep you for the "INSECT INVASION" category; it has more than 6 million specimens
entomology
Don't forget to add this bulb; you can use the Walla Walla, Maui, Bermuda or Vidalia variety
onion
The Weather Channel believes that 1 degree can change the world, & that the lowering of these alliterative emissions can help
greenhouse gases
In "A Christmas Carol" the ghost of this dead partner is the first spirit to visit Scrooge
Marley
You could learn to play the bagpipes & march with the pipe band at this S.C. school whose name means "The Fortress"
the Citadel
Toss in some florets of this vegetable whose name comes from the Italian
broccoli
R.R., as a description in mail delivery
rural route