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AP's MALE ATHLETE OF THE YEAR BY DECADE |
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The petals of the English daisy do this at night; the flowers of the scarlet pimpernel, when bad weather approaches |
fold up (or close)
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Rafer Johnson & Roger Maris |
the 1960s
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Daisuke Inoue won in 2004 for this musical invention, for giving a "new way for people to learn to tolerate each other" |
(Greg: What is the accordion?) [Alex mistakenly prompts David to choose next clue and acknowledges the error after the next clue is read.]
karaoke
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In "Shirley", a novel by this longest-lived Bronte sister, Shirley is the mistress of Fieldhead Estate |
Charlotte
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Last names of the pair of chemists in Worcester, England who made up a food sauce requested by a British nobleman |
Lea & Perrins
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In 1958 this brand introduced its 64 box, which featured a built-in sharpener |
Crayola
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The medulla portion of this gland produces hormones like epinephrine |
(David: What is the brain?)
the adrenal gland
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The U.S. Olympic Hockey Team & Carl Lewis |
the 1980s
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The winners of the '99 peace prize invented one of these armed with a flamethrower; beats those beeps & whistles |
a car alarm
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Giant Despair inhabits Doubting Castle in this John Bunyan allegory |
The Pilgrim's Progress
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In 1891 this New York financial firm introduced the world's first traveler's checks |
American Express
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To prevent a thrombosis, you may be given an "anti" this, like heparin |
(Greg: What is an anti-inflammatory?)
coagulant
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In 1991 this "Titan of Wall Street and Father of the Junk Bond, to whom the world is indebted" won for economics |
Michael Milken
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A weekend party at a mansion called Chimneys turns deadly in her 1925 novel "The Secret Of Chimneys" |
(David: Who is Willa Cather?) (Alex: No, who is [*]. [*]. I guess it wasn't so obvious after all.)
Agatha Christie
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You auto know that this company is the world's largest automaker |
GM
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It's the medical term for measles that fits the category |
rubeola
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This hydrocarbon mix obtained druing petroleum refining is used to make candles & to coat paper |
(Jaya: What is wax?) (Alex: Be more specific.)
paraffin
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He won the 2000 economics prize "for bringing efficiency and steady growth to the mass-marriage industry" |
Sun Myung Moon
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Robin Hill is the country home that Soames builds for Irene in the first book of this "Saga" |
The Forsyte Saga
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In 2001 Nestle merged with this pet food company headquartered in Checkerboard Square |
Purina
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The name of this largest of the British Virgin islands means "turtle dove" in Spanish |
Tortola
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In hydraulics, hydrokinetics is the study of liquids in motion & this is the specific study of liquids at rest |
(Greg: What is hydrostasis?)
hydrostatics
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Dizzy Dean & Jesse Owens |
the 1930s
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For "redefining the industrial revolution with such devices as the Veg-O-Matic", this inventor took a 1993 prize |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Ron Popeil
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The Pollitt family plantation is overrun by "no-neck monsters" in this Tennessee Williams play |
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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Brothers Robert, Edward & James didn't need a band-aid concert to help this company they founded in 1886 |
Johnson & Johnson
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He led the young Seminoles who opposed the 1832 Treaty of Payne's Landing |
Osceola
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