FRUITY STORIES
It's the second of the four tales in which Tom Sawyer appears
What is The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn?
Major Stede Bonnet may have been the only pirate who actually made his victims walk this
What is the plank?
A ballad or a Hawaiian garland of flowers
What is a lay/lei?
It's hollow, has a mouthpiece, shoots poison darts & can be 25 feet in length
What is a blowgun?
A nickname for a tall guy, or a type of limo that's been extended for greater capacity
What is stretch?
It opens as Tom Joad travels home from prison through drought-stricken Oklahoma
What is The Grapes of Wrath?
In the 1600s, Sir Henry Morgan was noted for plundering Spanish colonies in this sea
What is the Caribbean?
A labyrinth or corn on the cob
What is maze/maize?
From the Latin for "fly", this shoulder gun let fly with ammo throughout the 17th & 18th centuries
What is a musket?
This number is found in the title of a Shakespeare comedy about Viola & Duke Orsino
What is 12 (Twelfth Night)?
The wacky Disney gang of 1975 that rode again in 1979
What is The Apple Dumpling Gang?
The Barbary States, once the base of the Barbary corsairs, were on this continent
What is Africa?
A common urban bird or a simplified form of speech
What is pigeon/pidgin?
Built in the 16th century, the Czar Pushka is the world's largest one of these & is now in the Kremlin
What is a cannon?
Of the chess pieces each player has only 2 of, the one that fits the category
What is the knight?
Anthony Burgess created this novel's Nadsat language from proper Russian & English, as well as slang
What is A Clockwork Orange?
Canine term used to describe English privateers like Sir John Hawkins
What are sea dogs?
An ornamental embroidered loop or a grade of black tea
What is pekoe/picot?
Guy Fawkes was part of the conspiracy known as this
What is the Gunpowder Plot?
This synonym for power or might has 7 consonants & only 1 vowel
What is strength?
Ingmar Bergman's classic 1957 film that's noted for its use of flashbacks
What is Wild Strawberries?
He once lived in Bath, North Carolina, where an outdoor musical about him featured his decapitation
Who is Edward Teach (Blackbeard)?
To shape with an axe or a particular gradation of color
What is hew/hue?
Also called onagers, the largest one could throw a missile weighing 60 lbs. a distance of 500 yards
What is a catapult?
Matthew 2:11 mentions this 5-letter aromatic gum resin that has only one vowel
What is myrrh?