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Insert 2 letters into "melanin" to get this hormone that helps make you sleepy |
melatonin
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Tony, Maria, Bernardo |
West Side Story
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By right of conquest in 1066 came the house with this geographic name |
Norman
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This meal precedes "nook" in the name of the cozy kitchen area seen here |
breakfast
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This word meaning "to kindle" starts with the same first 3 letters as a basic type of rock |
ignite
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The original title of this Steinbeck novel was "Salinas Valley" |
East of Eden
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Most of these catalysts are proteins that end with the letters -ase |
enzymes
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Billy Flynn, Matron Mama Morton, Roxie Hart |
Chicago
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Even after marrying a Mountbatten, Queen Elizabeth II said this house would remain |
Windsor
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This movie includes the line "Nobody puts Baby in a corner" |
Dirty Dancing
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Found between "internal" & "engine", it's rapid oxidation usually coupled with heat |
combustion
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Longfellow's "Tale of Acadie", it begins, "This is the forest primeval" |
(Alex: "Murmuring pines and the hemlocks, bearded in moss"--[*].)
Evangeline
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Your floating ribs are so named because their anterior ends don't attach to this bone |
the sternum (or breastbone)
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FDR, dog catcher |
(Natalie: What is The Glass Menagerie?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Annie
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Henry VII's father was known as Edmund this, hence this house's moniker |
Tudor
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From 1871 to 1891 Mark Twain lived in the Nook Farm region of this Connecticut city |
(Bobby: What is New Haven?) (Audrey: What is Bridgeport?)
Hartford
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Victory at all costs is sometimes referred to as a this "earth" policy |
scorched
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Thomas Gray said, "The paths of glory lead but to the grave" in this sad poem "Written in a Country Churchyard" |
Elegy
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It's the 10-letter term for the principle that living organisms are produced only by other living organisms |
biogenesis
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This house that collapsed in 9 days bore the name of an ill-fated lady |
Grey
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You'll find "nook" in this word from the Scottish for a cozy corner by the hearth |
(Bobby: What is a snook?)
inglenook
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A sudden outburst of fire, violence or a rash |
a flare-up
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This novel by Sinclair Lewis caused an uproar for its satiric indictment of fundamentalist religion |
(Audrey: Oh, no. [Laughs] Um... what is Ender's Game?) ... (Alex: Starts with, "[*] was drunk.")
Elmer Gantry
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Brunswick-Luneburg was an earlier name for the Hanovers; Saxe-this & Gotha was what they became |
Coburg
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Perfect for a nook is this stand, a series of shelves for small objects whose name is from the French for "shelf" |
(Alex: We have less than a minute for those last three clues, Natalie.)
an étagère
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Rhyming term for a section of forest that keeps catching fire |
(Alex: Firefighters know it as [*].)
a hot spot
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Hana is the nurse who takes care of the nameless & terribly burned man in this novel by Michael Ondaatje |
The English Patient
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