|
VOLCANO CITY USA
|
|
$200
|
This Oregon city has an extinct volcano within city limits, 630-foot Mount Tabor
|
Portland
|
|
$400
|
Jackson Volcano, under the capital of this southern state, erupted 75 million years ago & formed a dome on which the city sits today
|
Mississippi
|
|
$600
|
Just east of the Valles Caldera, this New Mexico City & national lab site helped create a different type of explosion in WWII
|
Los Alamos
|
|
$800
|
Erupting several times in 1992, Mount Spurr has dumped ash on & remains a threat to this largest Alaska city
|
Anchorage
|
|
$1000
|
This "gem" is an extinct volcanic cone with a summit that overlooks Honolulu
|
Diamond Head
|
|
|
|
|
|
GROUPS OF 12
|
|
$200
|
Now used by many groups as an aid to rehabilitation, the twelve-step program started with this organization
|
AA (Alcoholics Anonymous)
|
|
$400
|
This nation is last alphabetically of the 12 independent mainland countries of South America
|
Venezuela
|
|
$600
|
Pauly Shore plays a loser who becomes this spokesman for a group of 12 in "Jury Duty"
|
the foreman
|
|
$800
|
Of the 12 signs of the zodiac, it's the only one represented by an arachnid
|
Scorpio
|
|
$1000
|
In song, the 12 days of Christmas gifts include this gift on the eighth day
|
eight maids a-milking
|
|
|
|
|
|
BASEBALL'S BIG NUMBERS
|
|
$200
|
This legendary Braves slugger who's first on the all-time RBI list with 2,297 passed away in 2021
|
Hank Aaron (Hammerin\' Hank)
|
|
$400
|
During his career he had a record 14,053 official at-bats; maybe that's why he's also the career hits leader
|
Pete Rose
|
|
$600
|
In 1973 & 1974 this California Angels pitcher hurled a total of 750 strikeouts, the most ever in 2 straight years
|
Nolan Ryan
|
|
$800
|
He is the only player in MLB history to walk more than 200 times in one season; he got 232 free passes in 2004
|
Barry Bonds
|
|
$1000
|
With Negro League stats now part of Major League history, this slugger may claim the title of "last .400 hitter"
|
Josh Gibson
|
|
|
|
|
|
NAME CALLING
|
|
$200
|
Due to his New Deal spending, some called the president Franklin Deficit Roosevelt instead of using this middle name
|
Delano
|
|
$400
|
This Roman emperor was called "Biberius" due to his noted love of drinking
|
Tiberius
|
|
$600
|
France's fifth king with this name, the last Carolingian monarch, was "The Do-Nothing", & that's saying something
|
Louis
|
|
$800
|
Using the old family name, Winston Churchill referred to this world leader as "Herr Schicklgruber"
|
Hitler
|
|
$1000
|
Mystic & royal companion Grigori Novykh received this nickname, Russian for "debauched one"
|
Rasputin
|
|
|
|
|
|
EDUCATION
|
|
$200
|
In 2020 the most common apps used by schools for remote learning included Microsoft Teams & this one founded by Eric Yuan
|
Zoom
|
|
$400
|
ESL programs, short for this, got a big push in Florida in the 1960s as Cubans fled their country
|
English as a second language
|
|
$600
|
A counterpart of the Rhodes Scholarship, Kennedy Scholarships enable British citizens to study at these 2 Boston-area schools
|
Harvard & MIT (the Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
|
|
$800
|
This 2-word term has been defined as tools that help to make an issue or lesson clearer
|
visual aids
|
|
$1000
|
To get into a school accredited by the American Bar Association, be prepared to take the entrance exam with this acronym
|
LSAT
|
|
|
|
|
|
ALSO A DOG BREED
|
|
$200
|
Type of nose that's short, broad & somewhat turned up
|
pug
|
|
$400
|
Swimming Olympian Mark
|
Spitz
|
|
$600
|
Manny Pacquiao's occupation; while also true, congressman does not fit the category
|
boxer
|
|
$800
|
A clothes size once meant for the heavier-than-average boy
|
husky
|
|
$1000
|
Nationality-wise it would describe the wonderful Vitus Bering or the super Jorn Utzon
|
great Dane
|
|
|
|
|
|
1930s LITERATURE
|
|
$400
|
In a classic story for children, this title bull ignores the matador & enjoys smelling flowers
|
Ferdinand
|
|
$800
|
In this Pearl Buck novel, Wang betrays his wife O-Lan for another woman
|
The Good Earth
|
|
$1200
|
A soldier is horribly wounded in the WWI novel he "Got His Gun", published 2 days after World War II began
|
Johnny
|
|
$1600
|
After a plane crash in the Himalayas, 4 people end up in Shangri-La in this 1933 novel
|
Lost Horizon
|
|
$2000
|
Her novella "Anthem" is set in a future where people live without freedom in collectives
|
Ayn Rand (Alisa Rosembaum)
|
|
|
|
|
|
NOTABLE WOMEN
|
|
$400
|
In 1939 she became the first 20th century Mexican artist to have a painting bought by the Louvre
|
Frida Kahlo
|
|
$800
|
Before this woman moved to Montgomery, she helped her husband Raymond defend the Scottsboro Boys in the 1930s
|
Rosa Parks
|
|
$1200
|
Asked about how she hit the ball so far in golf, this multi-sport wonder said she just loosened her girdle & let it fly
|
Babe (Didrikson) Zaharias
|
|
$1600
|
This 3-named woman has been called America's Historian-in-Chief
|
Doris Kearns Goodwin
|
|
$2000
|
A 2021 biography says this first female doctor in the U.S. was originally admitted to medical school as a joke
|
(Elizabeth) Blackwell
|
|
|
|
|
|
SKILLFUL WORDS & PHRASES
|
|
$400
|
The NAGC is the National Association for these children, which means they're smart, not that they got a lot of Christmas presents
|
gifted
|
|
$800
|
This word for a skillful veteran can also mean well-flavored with paprika or cumin
|
seasoned
|
|
$1200
|
There are 2 consecutive "V"s in the middle of this word that describes your shrewdness
|
savvy
|
|
$1600
|
From the French for "right", you're skillful in mind or body if you're deemed it
|
adroit
|
|
$2000
|
Latin for "easy" gives us this 6-letter adjective for a display of smooth skill
|
facile
|
|
|
|
|
|
SCIENCE
|
|
$400
|
This scientific instrument records P waves, S waves & surface waves
|
a seismograph
|
|
$800
|
Castor canadensis is the scientific name for this aquatic rodent
|
a beaver
|
|
$1200
|
Types of joints in the body include hinge, saddle & "ball &" this
|
socket
|
|
$1600
|
On weather maps, isobars are lines that join areas of equal measures of this
|
(atmospheric) pressure
|
|
$2000
|
The nuclear research organization CERN has made this stuff & kept it around for 15 minutes, leading to fears of Armageddon
|
antimatter
|
|
|
|
|
|
GHOST
|
|
$400
|
Ghosts are said to live in a "sea of trees" at the base of this Japanese volcano, as do moles, deer & black bears
|
Mount Fuji
|
|
$800
|
Named for its white fur, the northern ghost bat feeds mostly on these nocturnal lepidopterans
|
moths
|
|
$1200
|
This superhero has a flaming skull & sold his soul to a demon
|
Ghost Rider
|
|
$1600
|
Near its western border with Algeria, this large African country is home to Idinen, a fortress that's said to be haunted
|
Libya
|
|
$2000
|
"Ghost shirts" that were supposed to protect believers were part of this 19th century Native American movement
|
the Ghost Dance movement
|
|
|
|
|
|
BUSTERS
|
|
$400
|
In a stunning 1990 upset, Buster Douglas knocked out this heavyweight boxing champ
|
Mike Tyson
|
|
$800
|
Prince Buster was a leader in this 3-letter Caribbean music style
|
ska
|
|
$1200
|
Catcher Buster Posey helped this team win World Series championships in 2010, 2012 & 2014
|
the San Francisco Giants
|
|
$1600
|
Buster Keaton made his film debut in this portly silent comic's 1917 2-reeler "The Butcher Boy"
|
(Roscoe) "Fatty" Arbuckle
|
|
$2000
|
It's the 2-word alliterative name of the 1895 Frederic Remington sculpture seen here
|
Bronco Buster
|
|
|
|
|
|
GEOGRAPHY WORDS
|
|
N/A
|
From the Latin for "key", this word for a type of isolated country applies to Vatican City, which has keys on its flag
|
an enclave
|
