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One of Galen's favorite animals to dissect was this "ape" of Gibraltar |
(Mark: What is a monkey?) ... (Alex: Less than a minute to go.)
the Barbary ape
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Hey, gimme an I-5, "I" being short for this |
Interstate
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This Maryland signer of the Constitution got a fort named for him |
James McHenry
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A stage musical based on this 1997 film about stripping steel mill workers opened in 2000 |
The Full Monty
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Shortly before midnight April 14, 1912 it struck an iceberg & sank by 2:30 A.M. |
the Titanic
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It's a painting of an artist by the artist |
a self-portrait
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In 1894 Kitasato found the bacillus that caused this scourge of the Middle Ages |
the black death
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In the case of Piccadilly, it's 1-ring, not 3-ring |
Circus
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In the '80s this California preschool was involved in what was then the USA's longest, costliest criminal trial |
McMartin
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1978 classic in which Bluto sneaks a peak at Mandy undressing |
[ERRATUM: The word "peek" was misspelled as "peak" in the clue as shown.]
Animal House
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On Sept. 30, 1993 a 6.4 earthquake rocked villages in the Maharashtra state in this country, killing thousands |
(Michel: What is Turkey?)
India
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It's used as a plea in court to justify the defendant's use of physical force against an attacker |
self-defense
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Alfred Lovell's Jodrell Bank radio telescope was finished in 1957 just in time to track this 1st artificial satellite |
Sputnik
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Hey bud, it's "my way or" this |
the highway
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"Blackboard Jungle" author Evan Hunter writes the 87th Precinct mysteries under this name |
Ed McBain
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She was stripper Erin Grant in the 1996 classic "Striptease" |
Demi Moore
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This exploded about 70 seconds after lift-off from Cape Canaveral Jan. 28, 1986 |
the space shuttle Challenger
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A positive sense of this represents how valuable you think you are |
self-esteem (or self-worth)
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A ring road surrounding an urban area; on a diet you may have to tighten it a notch |
a belt
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Seen here, his film roles include a Scottish slacker & a Jedi knight |
Ewan McGregor
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(Hi, I'm Kari Wuhrer.) In "The Crossing Guard" I had to do a (very provocative) striptease in front of this actor; that role wasn't one of my five easy pieces |
Jack Nicholson
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On Feb. 3, 1998 a low-flying jet clipped a ski lift cable, killing 20 in the Dolomite Mountains in this country |
Italy
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In 1980 Spain granted the Basques this, though it was limited |
self-rule
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To make his barometer, Evangelista Torricelli inverted a glass tube in a dish of this |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.] [NOTE: Even though the $400 clue wasn't used, Alex read the first two words before he stopped for the Daily Double clue, those two words being "Darwin's first..." Aired more than two years later, FLOWERS $1200 in #4201, aired 2002-12-02 begins with those words.]
mercury
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Spanish for "road"; for Tennessee Williams it was the "Real" thing |
(Fran: [No response])
camino
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This WWF head coined the phrase "sports entertainment" to suggest pro wrestling isn't pure athletics |
Vince McMahon
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In this Altman film, singer Sueleen strips before a rowdy crowd at a fund-raiser |
Nashville
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This captain was killed in a skirmish with natives at Kealakekua Bay on Feb. 14, 1779 |
Captain James Cook
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This prophecy comes about through a tendency to make events confirm to a predicted outcome |
self-fulfilling
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