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California's Muir Woods National Monument is known for its stand of this tree, Sequoia sempervirens |
Redwood
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Dopey, Sleepy, Doc, Bashful, Happy, Sneezy & Grumpy |
The Seven Dwarfs
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Based on a novel by Anna Quindlen, "One True Thing" stars this actress as a cancer-stricken mother |
Meryl Streep
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I've told you a billion times, it's overstatement for effect |
Exaggeration
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Members of this Christian sect founded by Charles Taze Russell often go door to door to preach the faith |
Jehovah's Witnesses
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From the name of the Roman goddess Vitula, it's what y'all might call a violin down in Nashville |
a fiddle
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Ocmulgee National Monument at Macon in this state preserves some prehistoric & historic Indian villages |
Georgia
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Moe Howard, Larry Fine & Curly Howard |
(Alex: Why is it that guys always get that & never the women?)
The Three Stooges
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This 1998 Robin Williams tearjerker is based on a 1978 novel by Richard Matheson |
What Dreams May Come
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After Arthur's last battle, this weapon is returned to the Lady of the Lake |
Excalibur
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The musical "Hair" features a mantric chant of this Hindu sect founded in the U.S. in 1966 |
Hare Krishna
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The first of these highly prized violins was created in Italy in 1666 |
Stradivarius
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During the Civil War, this Baltimore fort was used as a federal prison |
Fort McHenry
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The Aventine, Caelian, Capitoline, Esquiline, Quirinal, Viminal & Palatine |
Seven Hills of Rome
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(Hi, I'm Jane Leeves.) I provided the voice of a ladybug in the movie "James and the Giant Peach", based on a book by this author |
Roald Dahl
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It's not physical activity for evil spirits, to do this is to ritually expel them |
Exorcise
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From the Hebrew for "pious", this joyous Jewish mystical sect was founded in eastern Europe in the 18th century |
Hasidic
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This style of violin playing refers to plucking the strings with your fingers |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go.)
pizzicato
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument is the largest of the 13 national monuments in this SW state |
Arizona
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Wang Hong-Wen, Zhang Chunqiao, Yao Wen-Yuan & Jiang Qing |
(Alex: Don't ask me to say it again!)
The Gang of Four
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In a 1998 adaptation of "Les Miserables", Geoffrey Rush's Javert pursues this man, played by Liam Neeson |
Jean Valjean
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Jean-Paul Sartre gave this term general usage by using it to describe his own philosophy |
Existentialism
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This sect takes its name from Haile Selassie's "prince"ly name |
Rastafarians
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This Paris-born violinist helped popularize the European style of "Le Jazz Hot" |
Stéphane Grappelli
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The gypsum sand in this New Mexico national monument comes from the mountains flanking the valley |
White Sands
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British TV comedians Corbett & Barker |
The Two Ronnies
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1998's "Simon Birch" was a loose adaptation of this author's "A Prayer for Owen Meany" |
John Irving
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Crunch! It's the scientific term for the hard outer shell of an insect or crustacean |
exoskeleton
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The remains of a large community believed to be of this sect are at Qumran on the shore of the Dead Sea |
Essenes
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Born in Genoa in 1782, this virtuoso played so well listeners thought he was in league with the devil |
(Kristine: Who is Stradivarius?) (Jennifer: Who is Vivaldi?)
Niccolo Paganini
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