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ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS
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$200
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Enjoy the beauty of this woodwind in Mozart's Concerto in A major featuring it
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the clarinet
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$400
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Dvořák wrote a Concerto in B minor for this 4-stringed instrument, which not just anyone can play like a Yo-Yo
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the cello
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$600
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It's the low-end woodwind seen here that's held aslant on a sling when played
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the bassoon
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$800
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A quartet played these "national" brass instruments on "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"
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French horns
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$1000
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As a visual aid, all the C's are red & the F's are black on the many strings of a standard type of this instrument
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a harp
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NAME THE AUTOMAKER
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$200
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The Camry
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Toyota
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$400
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The classic Firebird Trans Am
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Pontiac
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$600
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Soul & Sportage
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Kia
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$800
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Phantom & Silver Shadow
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Rolls-Royce
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$1000
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The Rabbit & Cabriolet
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Volkswagen
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TV
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$200
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Michael Chabon & Akiva Goldsman are 2 of the creators of the show called "Star Trek:" this last name
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Picard
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$400
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Seen here, this actor played Mr. Corman, a teacher in, like, the San Fernando Valley
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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$600
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"Our Flag Means Death" features Taika Waititi as this pirate also known as Edward Teach
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Blackbeard
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$800
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"The Greenlanders" & "The Last Daughter of Uppsala" are episodes of the drama called these people: "Valhalla"
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Vikings
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$1000
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Not only did she star in "Better Things", she wrote & directed many of its episodes
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Pamela Adlon
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SILENT CONSONANT WORDS
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$200
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A prominent rounded hill, or a rounded control switch or dial
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knob
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$400
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Her unrequited love for Narcissus reverberates through mythology
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Echo
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$600
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Jesus had 12 of these special disciples, from the Greek for "messenger"
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apostles
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$800
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To bite or chew persistently, like an animal with a bone
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gnaw
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$1000
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This 6-letter synonym for self-assurance comes from the French; we hope you respond to the clue "with" it
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aplomb
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TUNNELS
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$200
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On the high-speed trains, it takes about 35 minutes to go underwater between England & France via this
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the Chunnel
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$400
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The Holland & Lincoln tunnels both run beneath this river to connect New York with New Jersey
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the Hudson
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$600
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In 2019 Egypt inaugurated 4 new tunnels beneath this artificial waterway
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the Suez Canal
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$800
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A busy border crossing between the U.S. & Canada is the tunnel linking Detroit with this city in Ontario
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Windsor
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$1000
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Japan's Seikan Tunnel beneath the Tsugaru Strait links Hokkaido with this main island
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Honshu
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BYE, GEORGE
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$200
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A memorable 2018 photo showed this president's flag-draped casket, with his service dog Sully beside it
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(George H.W.)Bush
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$400
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After George III died, his son, who held this title reserved for the heir apparent, took the throne as George IV
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the Prince of Wales
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$600
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This governor who led the South's fight against integration died in Montgomery in 1998
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George Wallace
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$800
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In 1876 this "Boy General" died along with his 2 brothers & a nephew at "Last Stand Hill"
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Custer
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$1000
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On June 23, 1937 this American composer complained of headaches, & an L.A. hospital diagnosed hysteria; on July 11 he died
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George Gershwin
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NON-ORCHESTRAL INSTRUMENTS
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$400
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Hold on--we appear to be having some earthquake activity as recorded by this instrument
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a seismograph
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$800
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It's commonly known as a lie detector
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a polygraph
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$1200
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Seen here, an ophthalmologist uses a tonometer to measure pressure inside the patient's eye to screen for this disease
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glaucoma
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$1600
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Change one letter in Google's mobile phone operating system to get this type of non-liquid barometer
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aneroid
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$2000
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In cases of frequent heartburn, a doctor may examine your esophagus using this flexible tube with a light & camera attached
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an endoscope
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STARTS WITH "AU"
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$400
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A philographist collects these; would you like mine?
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an autograph
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$800
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Though from Latin for "whitish", it's actually reddish brown
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auburn
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$1200
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It's the A in ASD; Asperger's is no longer a separate diagnosis
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autism
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$1600
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It's the folk instrument seen played here
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an autoharp
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$2000
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In ancient Rome this person interpreted divine signs, often by observing birds
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an augur
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IT'S KIND OF A FUNNY STORY
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$400
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In "Why Not Me?", this actress "freely" admits that her relationship with "Office" mate "B.J. Novak is weird as hell"
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Mindy Kaling
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$800
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Firoozeh Dumas recounts "Growing Up Iranian in America" in the memoir "Funny in" this language
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Farsi
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$1200
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Sloan Crosley's collection of humorous narratives of life in NYC has the tasty title "I was Told There'd be" this treat
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Cake
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$1600
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There's a lot more humor in her story "Charles" than in her most famous one, "The Lottery"
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Shirley Jackson
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$2000
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Written by Laurence Sterne, "The Life & Opinions of" this gentleman has been called the greatest shaggy dog story
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Tristram Shandy
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MEDICAL ADJECTIVES
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$400
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This adjective used of non-cancerous tumors is from the Latin for "kindly"
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benign
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$800
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This 5-letter word means pertaining to the kidneys
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renal
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$1200
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This 5-syllable word means infected with a virus but showing no obvious signs
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asymptomatic
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$1600
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It can refer to a procedure that doesn't penetrate the body or to disease that doesn't encroach into healthy cells
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non-invasive
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$2000
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From a Latin word for "to cloak", it's the type of care given to seriously ill patients to provide comfort without curing
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palliative
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OLD MOVIES
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$400
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908 S. Broadway in Los Angeles is where Harold Lloyd dangled from this in "Safety Last", one of the most famous movie stunts
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a clock
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$800
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Sometimes forgotten among the many movies teaming this actor & Katharine Hepburn is the Elia Kazan frontier tale "The Sea of Grass"
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Spencer Tracy
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$1200
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"Baby Face", with a rather unchaste Barbara Stanwyck, is a classic of the early '30s films called "Pre"-this set of restrictions
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Pre-Code
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$1600
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This Nevada-set 1964 movie was Elvis' highest-grossing film
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Viva Las Vegas
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$2000
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In an Oscar winner, Piletti is the last name of Ernest Borgnine's butcher character; this first name is the title
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Marty
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THE POWER OF THE DOGE
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$400
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At the end of the 7th c., Paolo Lucio Anafesto became, by tradition, Venice's 1st doge, Venetian Italian for this European noble title
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a duke
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$800
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Doge from 1192 to 1205, Enrico Dandolo was big on the 4th this Christian expedition, which doomed the Byzantine Empire
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Crusade
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$1200
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After becoming doge in 1478, Giovanni Mocenigo achieved a brief peace with this Turkish empire, then put his feet up & relaxed
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the Ottoman Empire
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$1600
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Trying to find his own corner of the sky, Agnello Parteciaco defied Venice's control by this man, Charlemagne's son
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Pippin
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$2000
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A Verdi opera subject, Francesco Foscari warred with the leader of this city, not Prospero but Filippo Maria Visconti
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Milan
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THE EASTERN U.S.
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N/A
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At its peak, this state had 6 seats in the House of Representatives; since the 1930s, it has had just 1
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Vermont
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