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In 2010 this Arizonan won a fifth 6-year term to the Senate |
John McCain
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This 2009 film is the all-time top-grossing movie in the U.S. & the world |
Avatar
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"Let me take you down, 'cause I'm going to..." California, which produces 3/4 of this jam item in the United States |
strawberry
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An Observatory at Corning CC, her alma mater, is named for Eileen Collins, the first woman to command this NASA vehicle |
the Space Shuttle
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It's a synonym for speed |
velocity
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This house minority leader has routinely won 80% of the vote in her re-elections to California's 8th district |
(Chuck: Who is Feinstein?)
Nancy Pelosi
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It's all a dream (or a dream within a dream within a dream) for Leonardo DiCaprio & Ellen Page in this film--or is it? |
Inception
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This jam fruit named for a New Zealand bird is rich in vitamin C |
kiwi
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Richard Carmona rose from Bronx Community College to med school to this job atop the U.S. public health service |
the Surgeon General
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Prohibited, German style |
verboten
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In 2000 this Virginian won his primary by 263 votes; now he's house majority leader |
Eric Cantor
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Disney retold the story of Rapunzel in this 2010 animated film |
Tangled
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A cultivar of this jam fruit is Elberta, a freestone that originated in Georgia in 1870 |
peach
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A long time ago in Modesto, Calif., far, far away, this producer/director went to community college & studied history |
George Lucas
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Now Senate majority leader, he beat John Ensign by 428 votes in 1998 |
Harry Reid
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Cher played Christina Aguilera's Mentor in this musical |
Burlesque
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Good in jam (& pulled out of pies with a thumb), Japanese these are native to China, but were 1st cultivated in Japan |
(Brian: What is a cherry?)
plums
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Curt Jones studied chemistry at CC before inventing these delicious flash-frozen beads of ice cream |
(Brian: What is Ice Cream of the Future?)
Dippin' Dots
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Revenge, Italian style, especially between families |
vendetta
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(Kelly of the Clue Crew reads from the Maui Ocean Center.) Sea turtles dive to hundreds of feet by storing air in special passages; unlike the lungs, the passages don't have a network of blood vessels, so nitrogen doesn't get into the bloodstream to cause this, as in humans |
the bends
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In the Senate, Mark Kirk replaced Roland Burris, who had replaced this man |
Barack Obama
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Tina Fey was the voice of reporter Roxanne Ritchi, who covers the title villain-turned-hero of this 2010 movie |
Megamind
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Greeks & Phoenicians spread the popularity of this 3-letter jam fruit throughout the old world; enjoy a San Pedro! |
fig
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This PBS "Newshour" anchor edited the student newspaper at Victoria College in Beaumont, Texas |
[ERRATUM: Victoria College is in Victoria, Texas, about 210 miles away from Beaumont. He attended middle school, not college, in Beaumont.]
Jim Lehrer
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When you make an active decision, you do it of your own this |
volition
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