“V” Crossword Clues
Cheesy Country of Origin
Film Studies
Containers
History
100

Buy one of these on Wheel of Fortune.

What is vowel? 

100

Parmigiano-Reggiano

What is Italy? 

100

Sidney Poitier stars as a teacher in this 1965 film. His class in London’s East End is filled with undisciplined, irreverent students who want nothing to do with learning

What is To Sir with Love?

100

Those who keep large stashes of cash and other valuables at home store them in one of these, which is sometimes built into a wall.

What is safe?

100

 What was the name of the world’s first man-made satellite launched by the USSR in 1957?  

What is Sputnik?

200

Healthy diets include fruits and these.

What are vegetables? 

200

Brie

What is France? 

200

This 1964 film stars Audrey Hepburn as Eliza Doolittle and Rex Harrison as Professor Henry Higgins, her speech teacher. The film and the earlier Broadway musical are based on George Bernard Shaw’s Pygmalion

What is My Fair Lady? 

200

These containers sit on your kitchen table and hold your two most-used seasonings.

What are salt and pepper shakers or grinders?

200

The statue of liberty was a gift from which country?  

What is France?

300

This is the opposite of horizontal.

What is vertical?

300

Roquefort

What is France? 

300

The 2001 film Legally Blonde stars Reese Witherspoon as Elle Woods and follows her journey at this Ivy League law school.

What is Harvard? 

300

This tiny, decorative container is worn around the neck and opens to display two tiny photos.

What is locket?

300

Marjorie Robb, who died in Boston in 1992 (age 103), Barbara Dainton, Millvina Dean, and Lillian Asplund, achieved notoriety for being among the last living survivors of what?

What is the Titanic  

400

This string instrument is also known as a fiddle.

What is violin? 

400

Feta

What is Greece? 

400

In this 1986 cult classic, characters played by Matthew Broderick, Alan Ruck, and Mia Sara decide to cut class for the day. Ben Stein has a small role as one of their teachers, and he became famous for the line, “Anyone, anyone?”

What is Ferris Bueller’s Day Off? 

400

This container with a lid is used to collect table crumbs or ashes from ashtrays.

What is silent butler? 

400

Who was the first African American to win the Nobel peace prize?  

What is Ralph Bunche  

500

This dry version of fortified wine is used in martinis.

What is vermouth?

500

Llama and alpaca cheese comes from this continent.

What is South America? 

500

In the 1989 film Dead Poets Society, this comedic actor plays a passionate, eccentric teacher at Welton Prep, where proper boys are molded to become future, elite movers and shakers.

Who is Robin Williams? 

500

Before briefcases or backpacks, people used to carry books and papers in these.

 What is satchel? 

500

What 3 countries were part of the Axis powers in WWII? 

Germany, Italy and Japan