Rocks and Minerals
Homophones
Celebs
Poetry
Quirky News
200

Utah's state rock, it's burned to produce heat & electricity

coal

200

An ache, or a piece of glass in a window

a pain/pane

200

Rooney Mara is NFL royalty: her relatives founded the Steelers & also this New York team

the NY Giants

200

Poe's "ebony bird"

raven

200

Disproving the adage that you can't teach an old one new tricks, these pets learned to drive as part of an SPCA campaign

dogs

400

Mount Rushmore is carved into a cliff made of this coarse rock

granite

400

Got up, or lines of seats

rose/rows

400

He's the JT in JT & the Tennessee kids, seen on the Grammys in 2013 performing "suit & tie"

Justin Timberlake

400

Dante's trilogy

"The Divine Comedy"

400

Bill Maher said if this real estate tycoon could prove his dad isn't an orangutan, Maher would give him $5 million

Donald Trump

600

Lodestone, a natural picker-upper, is a variety of this mineral
that's named for
its attractive properties

magnetite

600

To give advice, or an assembly formed to reach conclusions

counsel/council

600

This "Family Guy" guy hosted the Oscars in 2013

Seth MacFarlane

600

Sidney's form in "Astrophel and Stella"

a sonnet (3x stumper)

600

Some golf opens
have weather delays. The one in this country, seen here, was delayed by interference on the fairway

Australia

800

Composed mostly of talc, this soft rock derives its name from its greasy feel, but don't try to wash with it

soapstone
800

A meteorological environment, or to go up a mountain

clime/climb

800

She appeared on the cover of the 2013 Sports Illustrated swimsuit edition with the caption "polar bare"

Kate Upton

800

Whitman's 1855 collection

"Leaves of Grass"

800

Just like our "yule log", Norwegian public TV aired 12 hours of this--but with commentary!

a fireplace

1000

Named for its scaly, snakelike appearance, this mineral commonly passes for jade

serpentine (3x stumper)

1000

A small bit of land surrounded by water, or a small hole for the passage of a shoelace

an islet/eyelet

1000

Chris Pratt, goofy Andy on "Parks and Recreation", played one of the members of this elite group in "zero dark thirty"

SEAL Team Six

1000

Langland's 14th century title "Plowman"

"Piers the Plowman" (3x stumper)

1000

TV viewers were warned of zombies rising from their graves when this warning system, EAS for short, was hacked in 2013

The Emergency Alert System (3x stumper)