TJ!

"B" PLUS

300

'A common type of pet turtle, or the type of structure you might keep it in'

box

600

'At Parris Island, Marines learn techniques for using this rifle blade'

a bayonet

900

'A ring-shaped cake pan with fluted sides'

a Bundt

1200

'A strong, coarsely woven cloth made from jute or hemp'

burlap

1500

'This Slovak capital was also known by the German name of Pressburg'

Bratislava

AMERICAN LIT

300

'Scout Finch lives with dad Atticus & brother Jem in Maycomb, Alabama in this classic novel'

To Kill a Mockingbird

600

'His 5 "Leather-Stocking Tales" include "The Deerslayer" & "The Pathfinder"'

James Fenimore Cooper

900

'The title of this novel refers to "a small log building, close adjoining to 'The House'... his master's dwelling"'

Uncle Tom\'s Cabin

1200

'Oprah's Book Club read Faulkner's "As I Lay Dying", "The Sound & the Fury" & this aptly titled one in summer 2005'

Light in August

1500

'This Chicago-set Richard Wright novel centers on Bigger Thomas, who ends up killing his own sweetheart'

Native Son

RALEIGH

300

'In 1603 Sir Walter Raleigh was tried & convicted of this for plotting to dethrone the king'

treason

600

'Raleigh introduced this tuber into Ireland; seemed like a good idea at the time'

the potato

900

'In 1569 Raleigh fought in France on the side of these French Protestants'

the Huguenots

1200

'A poet himself, Raleigh encouraged this man to publish "The Faerie Queene"'

Edmund Spenser

1500

'In 1600 Raleigh was appointed governor of Jersey, part of this island group'

the Channel Islands

WOLF (BLITZER) PACK

300

'Wolf Blitzer was born in this New York city that's home to some Bills, Sabres & Wings'

Buffalo

600

'Prior to the 2000 elections, Wolf hosted a town hall meeting with this First Lady & Senate hopeful'

Hillary Clinton

900

'Blitzer started his career in 1972 with this huge news service named for the German who started it in 1851'

Reuters

1200

'In 2003 Wolf won an award named for this reporter slain in Pakistan by terrorists in 2002'

Daniel Pearl

1500

'In 1991 Wolf returned to Moscow to cover this new Russian president'

Boris Yeltsin

ROCKET SCIENCE

300

'Mercury flights had 1 astronaut, Apollo had 3; this intermediate program had 2-man flights'

Gemini

600

'William Hale's 1844 military rocket, using curved vanes, stayed stable by doing this in flight'

spinning

900

'In Dec. 1972 Gene Cernan became the last man to command one of these vehicles known as the LM'

the lunar module

1200

'(Jon of the Clue Crew releases a balloon.) Thrust comes from the sudden inequality of this, sometimes measured in atmospheres, inside & outside a rocket'

pressure

1500

'To leave Earth's orbit, a rocket must accelerate to 25,000 mph to achieve this, EV for short'

escape velocity