Fibonaccio! July 2007

REDUPLICATIVES, OR DOUBLE NAMES--PROPER ONES
5) Island of French Polynesia in the Leeward group of the South Pacific Ocean's Society Islands
Ans: Bora Bora.
BLUE POTPOURRI
8) World's largest deep blue diamond, now on display at the Smithsonian's Museum of Natural History
Ans: Hope Diamond.
AIRPORT LOCATION
13) George Bush Intercontinental
Ans: Houston, Texas.
"SAINTS," NOT SINNERS
21) Bishop of Hippo in Africa who wrote the Confessions and The City of God
Ans: St. Augustine.
SINNERS, NOT SAINTS
34) Serial killer played by Charlize Theron in the movie Monster who admitted killing 7 men in Florida--she was executed in 2002
Ans: Aileen Wuornos.
"YELLOW," BUT NO SUBMARINES
55) Popular term for the alleged threat to Western Civilization from Asian people, especially those from China and Japan, during the late 19th and early 20th century
Ans: Yellow peril.
FATHERLY NICKNAMES OF LITERARY EUROPEANS
TB) Thomas, the "Father of Bowdlerizing" and editor of the heavily censored 10-volume Family Shakespeare
Ans: Thomas Bowdler.
"BROWN" PEOPLE, REAL OR FICTIONAL
1) Comic strip Peanuts character known for saying "Good grief!"
Ans: Charlie Brown.
THE "EL'S" HAVE IT, BUT NO ERNIE ELS
1) Texas city whose Spanish name means "The Pass"
Ans: El Paso.
CARDINAL NUMBER FILM TITLE COMPLETIONS
2) 1960's The Magnificent _____, starring Yul Brenner and Steve McQueen
Ans: Seven.
FAMOUS WILLIAMS WITH A MIDDLE NAME
3) William Frederick _____, Pony Express rider, army scout, and buffalo hunter
Ans: Cody.
POTENT POTABLES WITH A TWIST
5) Brand of bottled gin from the U.K., or a yeoman of the British monarch's royal guard
Ans: Beefeater.
MUSICALS
8) Leonard Bernstein's 1957 musical drama set in New York City and loosely based on William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
Ans: West Side Story.
ANSWER THE "BELL"
13) Poisonous European plant, also known as deadly nightshade, whose name is Italian for "beautiful lady"
Ans: Belladonna.
WORLD AIRPORTS, CITY AND COUNTRY
21) Jose Marti International
Ans: Havana, Cuba.
TV SHOW TITLES BY THE NUMBERS, T's and S's
34) Teen-oriented police series about a L.A. Police Department unit fighting crime in schools with Johnny Depp as Officer Tom Hanson
Ans: 21 Jump Street.
PROVERB COMPLETIONS, BEGINNING WITH A
55) _____ makes strange bedfellows.
Ans: Adversity.
IF YOU HAVE AN "ITZ," SCRATCH IT
TB) St. _____, the Swiss resort where the 1928 and 1948 Winter Olympics were held
Ans: Moritz.
NUMBERS FROM 1-10
1) Single in baseball by a batter who reaches first base
Ans: One-base hit (one-bagger).
RICH FICTIONAL CHARACTERS
1) Millionaire Gotham City crime fighter in disguise as Batman, the "caped crusader," who operates out of his secret crime laboratory
Ans: Bruce Wayne.
BODY PARTS NICKNAMES IN SPORTS, SURNAME ONLY
2) Baseball's Sandy "Man with the Golden Arm" _____
Ans: Koufax.
THAT'S MIGHTY NOBLE OF YOU
3) Alpine plant whose name means "noble white" in German
Ans: Edelweiss.
STORMY, STORMY NIGHT
5) 2000 film starring George Clooney and Mark Wahlberg about a tropical hurricane that collided with a cold front from the Great Lakes
Ans: The Perfect Storm.
STEAMY FILMS, TITLE COMPLETIONS
8) 1972's Last Tango in _____, starring Maria Schneider and Marlon Brando
Ans: Paris.
LITTLE MISSES
13) First name of the U.S. President's daughter known as "Little Miss Roosevelt" and "Mrs. L."
Ans: Alice (Roosevelt Longworth).
"VAN," VAN, HE'S OUR MAN
21) Bands of high radiation circling the earth named for their discoverer James Alfred _____
Ans: Van Allen belts.
WHAT ABOUT US VONS!?
34) System of notation for dance that Hungarian Rudolf von Laban developed in the 1920s
Ans: Labanotation.
ON THE TITLE COMPLETIONS
55) Wassily Kandinsky's 1912 On the Spiritual in _____, expressing his ideas on abstract painting
Ans: Art.
GOOD "KNIGHT"
TB) Roman Catholic fraternal organization of men and their families who give moral support to other Catholic families
Ans: Knights of Columbus.
TV's JEOPARDY!
1) TV host and producer who with his wife, Julann, developed Jeopardy! in 1964
Ans: Merv Griffin.
TV's WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE?
1) Letter of the answer designed to elicit a laugh on the $100 question
Ans: D.