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OPENING LINES IN DR. SEUSS
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$200
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"1 fish, 2 fish red fish blue fish. Black fish blue fish" this fish "new fish"
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old fish
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$400
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"I am Sam Sam I am... do you like" this offering?
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green eggs and ham
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$600
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"...but the Grinch who lived just north of" this place "did not!" (like Christmas a lot, that is)
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Whoville
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$800
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"On the fifteenth of May, in the jungle of Nool" this guy "heard a small noise"
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Horton
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$1000
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"Now, the star-belly" these "had bellies with stars. The plain-belly" these "had none upon thars"
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a Sneetches
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METAPHORS
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$200
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A problem individual in an organization ruins things for everyone, as in the old saying this "spoils the barrel"
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one bad apple (a bad apple)
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$400
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Literally, it's to exit with a gesture of lowering the head; it's often followed by "gracefully"
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to bow out
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$600
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Stan Lee addressed Marvel Comics readers directly in the column "Stan's" this, once an actual crate that speakers would stand on
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Soapbox
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$800
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Meaning achieving great success, grabbing this was originally a way to get a free ride on a merry-go-round
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the brass ring
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$1000
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President Eisenhower saw Stalin's death as a chance "to crack" this barrier & thaw out the Cold War
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the Iron Curtain
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THEIR FIRST TOP 10 SOLO HIT
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$200
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"California Girls" in 1985, the year he left Van Halen
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David Lee Roth
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$400
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"Cry Me A River", by a former boy bander
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Justin Timberlake
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$600
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"Pillowtalk" in 2016, by a former boy bander
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Zayn (Malik)
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$800
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"Cruisin'", in 1980 by this Motown legend
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Smokey Robinson
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$1000
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Turning back time, "Bang Bang (My Baby Shot Me Down)", in 1966
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Cher
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IT WAS 1970s AMERICA, MAN
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$200
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After she beat Bobby Riggs in straight sets, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 on Sept. 20, 1973, Riggs admitted, "I underestimated you"
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Billie Jean King
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$400
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In 1973 he was minority leader of the House of Representatives but got 2 big job promotions by the end of the next year
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Ford
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$600
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On May 1, 1971 this service had its 1st run from N.Y. to Philly, just after midnight; really, at that time, it should have been to Georgia
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Amtrak
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$800
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Paul Gann & Howard Jarvis led a revolt against these taxes that upset many Californians with big jumps every October
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property taxes
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$1000
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On July 2, 1979 the U.S. Mint elected to release a coin honoring this woman; nearly 758 million were made that year
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Susan B. Anthony
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MOVE IT!
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$200
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Called the "move of the millennium", in 1999 one of these massive beacons was moved inland about 1,000 yards on Cape Hatteras
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a lighthouse
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$400
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Historic London Bridge was taken apart beginning in 1968 & reassembled in this U.S. state as a tourist attraction
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Arizona
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$600
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This first treasury secretary's former New York City home, the Grange, was jacked up & rolled to a new location nearby in 2008
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Hamilton
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$800
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In the 1930s the 4th century Obelisk of Axum was taken to Italy, but in 2005 returned to this African nation & rebuilt there
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Ethiopia
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$1000
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The Ara Pacis, an altar built to honor this Roman emperor c. 9 B.C., was long forgotten, rescued in the 1930s & moved to a new home
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Augustus
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DOUBLE TIME
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$200
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In this alliterative playground activity, 2 ropes are turned simultaneously in opposite directions
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Double Dutch
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$400
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Worth twice as much as a pistole, this Spanish gold coin was once widely used in the Americas
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a doubloon
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$600
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The 1946 article that coined this term for a brooding drama cited "Double Indemnity", starring Barbara Stanwyck, as an example
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film noir
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$800
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This double reed woodwind is played using a neck sling & separates into 6 parts, including the bass & boot joints
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a bassoon
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$1000
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This American Nobel Prize winner penned the book "The Double Helix"
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Watson
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4-LETTER BIRDS
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$400
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On a chessboard, this European black bird would be worth about 5 pawns
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a rook
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$800
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The canyon species of this bird is small, brown & chubby & a sweet whistler
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wren
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$1200
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You can tell the "mourning" species of this by its characteristic call & long, pointed tail
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dove
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$1600
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A bufflehead, teal or merganser, for example
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a duck
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$2000
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A "true" this is a member of the swift, predatory genus Accipiter
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true hawks
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AWARDS & HONORS
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$400
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The Nobel prizes are awarded in 6 categories, including this one for which Louise Gluck won in 2020
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literature
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$800
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Marvin Minsky built the first neural network simulator & won the Turing Award in 1969 for helping create this 2-word field
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artificial intelligence
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$1200
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His first two Tonys honored his work in lighter fare; in 2018, his third was for his performance in "Angels in America"
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Nathan Lane
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$1600
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John B. Glen began in veterinary science but won a 2018 Lasker Award for developing propofol, one of these for humans
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an anesthetic
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$2000
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In 2021, this longtime PBS anchor won a Peabody Award for her journalistic integrity
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Judy Woodruff
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HIS WIDOW LIVED ON
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$400
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In 2019, 96-year-old Rachel Robinson attended ceremonies at this stadium in her husband's centennial year
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Dodger Stadium
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$800
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This former first lady died in Austin in 2007, having outlived her husband by 34 years
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Lady Bird Johnson
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$1200
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Ruth Ziolkowski kept working on a monument to this Native American warrior long after her sculptor husband died in 1982
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Crazy Horse
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$1600
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Laura, shown with Timothy Leary, died in 2007; this husband who wrote "The Doors of Perception" back in 1963
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(Aldous) Huxley
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$2000
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In 1994, nearly 60 years after his death, his wife Anna passed away still proclaiming his innocence in the Lindbergh case
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Bruno Hauptmann
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POP CULTURE MONIKERS
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$400
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This "Avengers" actor was nicknamed "Hammer" before he played Thor
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Chris Hemsworth
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$800
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Maggie Smith gave the man seen here this flower-part nickname, an anagram of his last name
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Petal
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$1200
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Born on the South Side of Chicago, he originally had "Sense" behind his name in his early rap years
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Common
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$1600
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The main character on this HBO comedy was called "Grizzly Madam" & "The Wicked Witch of the West Wing"
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Veep
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$2000
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The Victims is the fitting name for superfans of this hard-rocking Vegas band
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The Killers
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THAT'S BORDER LINE
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$400
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Put it all on black in this principality that's surrounded by France & also just 5 miles from the Italian border
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Monaco
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$800
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Bordering Alaska & British Columbia, this territory has a population of 42,000, around 4,000 more than Fenway Park's capacity
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the Yukon Territory
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$1200
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Home to Brisbane, this "royal" Australian state is bounded to the west by, of course, the Northern Territory
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Queensland
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$1600
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A hundreds-of-miles-long eastern border with Vietnam is part of what makes this nation landlocked
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Laos
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$2000
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You have a couple of choices if you're heading directly across the eastern border of Wyoming--these 2 states
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South Dakota & Nebraska
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WORDS THAT START WITH 2 VOWELS
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$1200
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An ejection or an eviction
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an ouster
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$1600
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This Japanese martial art aims to turn an attacker's strength & momentum against him
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aikido
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$2000
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The joker was invented for this card game & the 2 words may be related
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Euchre
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20th CENTURY NONFICTION
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N/A
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"Norwegian Independence Day" & "a vast blue sea" are mentioned in Chapter 1 of a 1948 book by this man
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(Thor) Heyerdahl
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