FIBONACCIO! September 2007

SHARE AND SHARE ALIKE
55) Nickname of both the fictional Natty Bumppo and the explorer John Charles Fremont
Ans: "The Pathfinder."
WHAT CAN BROWN DO FOR YOU?
TB) Marmalade-eating bear from Peru wearing a floppy hat who lives with the Brown family in London in children's books by Michael Bond
Ans: Paddington.
MOVIES AND LITERARY CONNECTIONS
1) 1956 film starring Gregory Peck as Captain Ahab in his search for a great white whale and based on a Herman Melville novel
Ans: Moby Dick.
BLACK OSCAR WINNERS
1) Best Actor Oscar for playing Idi Amin Dada in 2006's The Last King of Scotland
Ans: Forest Whitaker.
GREAT QUOTES/CATCH PHRASES
2) U.S. President who said "I am not a crook" in 1973, adding that he had not profited from public service
Ans: Richard Nixon.
SCIENTIFIC POSSESSIVES
3) Iron or copper pyrites, resembling gold in color
Ans: Fool's gold.
FROM 100 TO 500
5) _____ B Baker St., Sherlock Holmes' address
Ans: 221.
BIRTH NAMES
8) American basketball player born Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr.
Ans: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
BODY PARTS NICKNAMES IN HOLLYWOOD, SURNAME ONLY
13) Comedian/actor Roscoe "Fatty" and "The Prince of Whales" _____
Ans: Roscoe Arbuckle.
STICKS, BUT NO STONES
21) U.S. state capital whose name means "Red Stick" in French
Ans: Baton Rouge.
"STONES," BUT NO STICKS
34) Sacred Muslim object located in a corner of the Kaaba and believed to be a sign that Allah sent to mankind
Ans: Black Stone.
NUMBERS FROM 11-20
55) First written code of Roman law, carved about 449 B.C. on wooden tablets and publicly exhibited
Ans: Twelve Tables.
SNOW WHITE AND THE 7 DWARFS A LA DISNEY
TB) Character with a pure-white steed who with a kiss awakens Snow White from the sleep induced by a poisoned apple from a witch, or the Queen transformed
Ans: Prince (he did not have a name).
STRANDED ON AN ISLAND
1) World's largest island, within the Arctic Circle and owned by Denmark
Ans: Greenland.
WHERE'S A "MAN" WHEN YOU NEED ONE
1) British island in the Irish Sea whose capital is Douglas
Ans: Isle of Man.
IF YOU KNOW IT AND CAN PRONOUNCE IT . . .
2) President of Iran as of 2005
Ans: Mahmoud Ahmandinejad.
RING ANY BELLS
3) American author who wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls
Ans: Ernest Hemingway.
PIRATES
5) Sailor/pirate's sword with a single-edged blade that shares its name with an Oldsmobile mid-sized car
Ans: Cutlass.
CAPITAL CITIES FOR U.S. COLLEGES
8) U.S. Naval Academy
Ans: Annapolis.
U.S. PRESIDENTIAL OLDS
13) One called "Old Kinderhook" as he was born in Kinderhook, New York
Ans: Martin Van Buren.
"DE" FOLLOWED BY A CAPITAL LETTER
21) NBA player nicknamed "Big D" for his defense, who won 2 championships with the New York Knicks
Ans: Dave DeBusschere.
BEST ACTRESS OSCAR-WINNING ROLES
34) Miss Josephine Norris in 1946's To Each His Own
Ans: Olivia de Havilland.
LET MY PEOPLE GO
55) First black, in 1884, to play professional baseball at the major league level
Ans: Moses Fleetwood Walker.
CLASSIC ROCK BANDS FROM THEIR ALBUMS
TB) 1976's Hotel California
Ans: The Eagles.
FOOT TRAFFIC
1) Error called against the server in tennis for having his foot cross the base line before hitting the ball
Ans: Foot fault.
IT'S ALL GREEK TO ME
1) Catalyst that helps digest food, from the Greek for "leavened"
Ans: Enzyme.
GROUP THINK
2) Palatine, Quirinal, Viminal, Esquiline, Capitoline, Aventine, and Caelian
Ans: 7 Hills of (ancient) Rome.
SENSE OF SMELL
3) Word completing the idiom to smell a _____, meaning "to suspect a betrayal," or "to sense that something is wrong"
Ans: rat.
JUDY, JUDY, JUDY
5) Actress starring as Queen Victoria in Mrs. Brown and as Queen Elizabeth in Shakespeare in Love
Ans: Dame Judi Dench.
LOOKING FOR A GOOD MAN
8) Tailless cat named after the Isle of Man where it is believed it originated
Ans: Manx.
SOME OF THE 8TH WONDERS OF THE WORLD
13) City whose Astrodome opened in 1965 as the world's first domed sports structure
Ans: Houston.
IT JUST AIN'T RIGHT
21) American humorist to whom is linked the remark, "It ain't a fit night out for man or beast," said several times in the film The Fatal Glass of Beer
Ans: W.C. Fields.