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MY JOB IN THE MOVIE
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$200
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Michael B. Jordan in "Creed"
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a boxer
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$400
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Margot Kidder in "Superman"
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a reporter
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$600
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Jodie Foster in "Silence of the Lambs"
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FBI agent
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$800
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Harrison Ford, before becoming "The Fugitive"
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a doctor
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$1000
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Matt Damon at M.I.T. in "Good Will Hunting"
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a janitor
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SNAKES!
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$200
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The ball & the reticulated are 2 types of these constricting snakes
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python
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$400
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This largest cobra is the only species in the genus Ophiophagus, which means "snake eater"
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king cobra
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$600
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Humans have 24 of these chest protectors arranged in pairs; snakes may have as many as 400
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ribs
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$800
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This official reptile of Massachusetts, one of the most common snakes in North America, is nonvenomous and found on lawn grass
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a garden snake (garter snake)
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$1000
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The yellow type of this South American snake can reach 15 feet long; its green cousin can reach 30
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the anaconda
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POLITICAL MEMOIRS & BIOGRAPHIES
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$200
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"The Power of In-Your-Face Politics" is part of the subtitle of "Let Me Finish" by this recent New Jersey governor
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Chris Christie
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$400
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Emmeline Pankhurst's 1914 autobiography has appeared under this title, the type of activist she was
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a Suffragette
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$600
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Written by one of her longtime aides, "Lady in Red" is a portrait of this first lady & onetime starlet
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Nancy Reagan
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$800
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"Crazy Town: The Rob Ford Story" looks at the headline-making antics of the ex-mayor of this Canadian city
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Toronto
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$1000
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"The Long Game" by this GOP Senate leader clarifies his opinions about Barack Obama & Harry Reid
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(Mitch) McConnell
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A MENU OF RESTAURANTS
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$200
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Lake Effect in Buffalo, N.Y. is an old-school one of these, the first "D" in TV's "triple-D", a show it was featured on
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a diner
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$400
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This beefy building follows the names of Chicago's Chicago Cut & Minneapolis' Manny's
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Steakhoouse
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$600
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Open for 2 days in May 2019, Tiffany Cafe in Beverly Hills was this kind of spot that sounds like it sprang from a toaster
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a pop-up
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$800
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Restaurants specializing in this array used to be popular in the United States. Many like Seattle's A Little Bit of Sweden, are gone
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a smorgasbord
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$1000
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These portmanteau places are taverns that serve high-end food
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a gastropub
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FROM THE LATIN
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$200
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From the Latin for "break off", it means to stop someone from speaking & I won't do it during your response
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interrupt
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$400
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This adjective means all-powerful, like a god
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omnipotent
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$600
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It means to relinquish responsibility; King Juan Carlos did it in 2014
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abdicate
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$800
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They're just the facts & doing "entry" of them is a job at the Bureau of Labor Statistics
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data
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$1000
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A 10-letter examination of a body "after death" to determine how it happened
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postmortem
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DAYTONA 500 GRAND MARSHALS
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$200
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2017 Grand Marshal Owen Wilson is the voice of this "Cars" car
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Lightning McQueen
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$400
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This man of few words is the only Supreme Court justice on the list
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Clarence Thomas
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$600
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In 2019, 5 years after recording 20.5 sacks & even 3 offensive TDs for the Houston Texans, this D.E. got his grand marshal on
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J.J. Watt
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$800
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Alabama's governor & a presidential candidate in the '70s, he got the honor twice in the decade
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George Wallace
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$1000
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He did some slick driving in "Gone in 60 Seconds", perhaps qualifying him as the 2007 grand marshal
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Nicolas Cage
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WATER UNDER THE BRIDGE
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$400
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Beneath the Mark Twain Memorial Bridge in Hannibal, Missouri
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the Mississippi
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$800
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Below New York City's George Washington Bridge
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the Hudson
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$1200
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Beneath the Ponte Sant'Angelo, commissioned by Hadrian
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the Tiber
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$1600
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Below the Newport Pell Bridge, featured on the Rhode Island state quarter
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Narragansett Bay
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$2000
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Beneath the Vasco da Gama Bridge in Lisbon
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the Tagus
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RAPPER'S DELIGHT
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$400
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Chance the Rapper said his 2019 album "The Big Day" was inspired by how he was dancing on this day
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his wedding day
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$800
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Just like Oprah, Chicago rapper Noname started one of these in 2019 that thousands of people joined
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a book club
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$1200
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This Cadillac has been a favorite ride of many rappers; in 2018 Remy Ma got one from her husband Papoose after giving birth
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an Escalade
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$1600
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Atlanta rapper Killer Mike tries to build one of these Thomas More title communities on an episode of his show "Trigger Warning"
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a utopia
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$2000
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Rapper Danny Boy O'Connor loved the Tulsa house used in the film version of this author's "The Outsiders", so he restored it
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S.E. Hinton
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REDUNDANT PHRASES THAT ARE ALSO REPETITIVE TOO
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$400
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2-word term for a present handed out without cost to help get new customers for a business
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free gift
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$800
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An abbreviation begins this redundant phrase for a device outside some banks to make withdrawals & deposits
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ATM machine
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$1200
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3.3 million square miles in area & the largest of its kind on earth; its name is from Arabic
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the Sahara Desert
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$1600
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This flooded spot where a grain grows; in the original Asian language, the second word means the same grain
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a rice paddy
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21st CENTURY JAPAN
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$400
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In May-June 2002 32 teams competed as Japan co-hosted this international sporting event with South Korea
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the FIFA World Cup
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$800
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In 2015 the space probe Akatsuki entered orbit around this inner planet to study its atmosphere
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Venus
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$1200
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In 2019 a rare papal visit to Japan included a speech against nuclear arms in this, the second city where an A-bomb was used in war
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Nagasaki
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$1600
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In a 2019 referendum 70% on this island opposed a plan to move a U.S. Marine air base to another spot still on the island
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Okinawa
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$2000
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In Japan's first foreign combat zone deployment since WWII, troops served in Samawah in this country in 2004
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Iraq
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WALKING
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$400
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In 2008 this state made walking its official exercise; it's a 4-mile official exercise from Bethesda to Silver Spring
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Maryland
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$800
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Johnny Cash wrote that Carl Perkins convinced him to change a song title from "Because You're Mine" to this
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"I Walk The Line""
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$1200
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In 1974 Dave Kunst became the first person verified to have done this (minus water)--a distance of 14,450 miles
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walk around the Earth
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$1600
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The A.H.A. says walking 150 minutes a week can reduce risk of this silent killer caused by blocked or burst brain arteries
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a stroke
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A FINE LINE
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$400
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In a Gwendolyn Brooks poem, "Maud went to college./ Sadie stayed at home./ Sadie scraped life/ with a fine-tooth" this
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a comb
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$800
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Andrew Marvell's "To His Coy Mistress" says this grim spot is "a fine and private place, but none, I think, do there embrace"
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grave
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$1200
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From this ancient fable author's "The Jay and the Peacock": "It is not only fine feathers that make fine birds"
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Aesop
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$1600
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In 1917 D.H. Lawrence wrote, "A fine" this "is blowing the new direction of time"
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wind
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20th CENTURY EUROPEAN LEADERS
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N/A
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In a 1930s broadcast, this man spoke of “A quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing”
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Neville Chamberlain
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