17

[{"question":"This Iberian power occupied Bahrain from 1521 until the locals asked for Persian help in 1602","category":"BAHRAIN","value":"$200","answer":"Portugal"},{"question":"Appropriately, Stephen King is the creator of this 2004 series based on a Danish TV production","category":"POP CULTURE","value":"$200","answer":"<i>Kingdom Hospital</i>"},{"question":"The new Woodrow Wilson Bridge project will connect Maryland &amp; Virginia across this river","category":"BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE","value":"$200","answer":"the Potomac"},{"question":"In 1852, this poet laureate &amp; lord wrote his \"Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington\"","category":"GREAT BRITS","value":"$200","answer":"Tennyson"},{"question":"Thyme honey from the Iblei Mtns. on this large Mediterranean isle has been a delicacy for centuries","category":"A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME","value":"$200","answer":"Sicily"},{"question":"It's how modern Millie is<br>(10)","category":"BROADWAY CROSSWORD CLUES \"T\"","value":"$200","answer":"thoroughly"},{"question":"Bahrain is known as this \"of the Arabian Gulf\", although cultured ones are banned in the market of the same name","category":"BAHRAIN","value":"$400","answer":"the Pearl"},{"question":"Debuting in 1982, it was the arcade follow-up to Centipede","category":"POP CULTURE","value":"$400","answer":"<i>Millipede</i>"},{"question":"This 22 ½ mile Hangzhou bridge will cut 2 hours off the travel time from Ningbo to this city, China's largest","category":"BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE","value":"$400","answer":"Shanghai"},{"question":"He joined the British navy at age 12 &amp; died at the Battle of Trafalgar 35 years later","category":"GREAT BRITS","value":"$400","answer":"Lord Nelson"},{"question":"Parsley, sage, rosemary &amp; thyme figure prominently in this hit by Simon &amp; Garfunkel","category":"A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME","value":"$400","answer":"\"Scarborough Fair\""},{"question":"River City situation<br>(7)","category":"BROADWAY CROSSWORD CLUES \"T\"","value":"$400","answer":"trouble"},{"question":"The 5 triangular shapes on the Bahraini flag represent these \"foundations\" of Islam","category":"BAHRAIN","value":"$600","answer":"pillars"},{"question":"In 2004, she starred as Jenna Rink, who's \"13 Going on 30\"","category":"POP CULTURE","value":"$600","answer":"Jennifer Garner"},{"question":"The new Colorado River bridge downstream of Hoover Dam will connect these 2 adjacent states","category":"BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE","value":"$600","answer":"Nevada and Arizona"},{"question":"Returning from the Crusades in 1192, this English king was captured in Vienna &amp; jailed for over a year","category":"GREAT BRITS","value":"$600","answer":"Richard I"},{"question":"This \"elder\" Roman encyclopedist referred to thyme as a fumigant","category":"A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME","value":"$600","answer":"Pliny"},{"question":"\"No, No, Nanette\" \"beverage\" song<br>(3, 3, 3)","category":"BROADWAY CROSSWORD CLUES \"T\"","value":"$600","answer":"\"Tea For Two\""},{"question":"Bahrain's capital, it shares most of its letters with a Central American country","category":"BAHRAIN","value":"$800","answer":"Manama"},{"question":"Huey Freeman of this edgy comic strip is named after Black Panther Huey Newton","category":"POP CULTURE","value":"$800","answer":"<i>The Boondocks</i>"},{"question":"A bridge over this river will connect Vidin, Bulgaria with Calafat, Romania","category":"BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE","value":"$800","answer":"the Danube"},{"question":"There was no royal fun allowed when this man took power in England in 1653","category":"GREAT BRITS","value":"$800","answer":"Oliver Cromwell"},{"question":"Monks know that thyme is an ingredient in this popular upscale French liquor, one of the \"B\"s in B&amp;B","category":"A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME","value":"$800","answer":"benedictine"},{"question":"\"Aida\" lyricist's first name<br>(3)","category":"BROADWAY CROSSWORD CLUES \"T\"","value":"$1000","answer":"Tim"},{"question":"In 1971 Bahrain joined this regional organization that was formed in Cairo in 1945","category":"BAHRAIN","value":"$1000","answer":"the Arab League"},{"question":"Not to be confused with The Doves or Vines, this Swedish band had a hit with \"Hate To Say I Told You So\"","category":"POP CULTURE","value":"$1000","answer":"The Hives"},{"question":"The Binh Bridge is being constructed for this Northern Vietnamese port city","category":"BRIDGES TO THE FUTURE","value":"$1000","answer":"Hai Phong"},{"question":"American-born, this first woman in the House of Commons said, \"I am the kind of woman I would run from\"","category":"GREAT BRITS","value":"$1000","answer":"Lady (Nancy Witcher) Astor"},{"question":"Thyme contains about 1% this type of \"oil\" used in fragrances &amp; pharmaceuticals","category":"A BRIEF HISTORY OF THYME","value":"$1000","answer":"essential oil"},{"question":"\"My One And Only\" tall Tony-winning Texan<br>(5, 4)","category":"BROADWAY CROSSWORD CLUES \"T\"","value":"$400","answer":"Tommy Tune"},{"question":"Samuel Schwabe got deeply into sunspots after trying to find a planet crossing the sun closer than this one","category":"SCIENCE &amp; NATURE","value":"$400","answer":"Mercury"},{"question":"This Dutch painter, a member of the Delft Guild, had a total output of only about 40 pictures (one with a pearl)","category":"ART &amp; ARTISTS","value":"$400","answer":"(Jan) Vermeer"},{"question":"Chicken-chasing &amp; gathering ingredients for a communal gumbo are Cajun festivities for this pre-Lenten day","category":"A CAJUN CATEGORY","value":"$400","answer":"Mardi Gras"},{"question":"Tennessee Ernie Ford's \"Tons\" times Eddie Money's \"Tickets To Paradise\"","category":"TOP 40 MATH","value":"$400","answer":"32"},{"question":"His father was born Theodore Anagnostopoulos","category":"THE VEEP","value":"$400","answer":"Spiro Agnew"},{"question":"This letter begins the Shakespearean sonnet \"...truant muse, what shall be thy amends...\"","category":"LETTER PERFECT","value":"$800","answer":"O"},{"question":"A seal's these, also called vibrissae, sense vibrations in the water that can represent food","category":"SCIENCE &amp; NATURE","value":"$800","answer":"their whiskers"},{"question":"This Englishman described <a href=\"http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-09-28_DJ_22.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">his work</a> as \"modern moral subjects... similar to representations on the stage\"","category":"ART &amp; ARTISTS","value":"$800","answer":"(William) Hogarth"},{"question":"This Cajun favorite, deep-fried &amp; dusted with sugar, is the state doughnut of Louisiana","category":"A CAJUN CATEGORY","value":"$800","answer":"a beignet"},{"question":"Rolling Stones' \"Nervous Breakdown\" number plus Beatles' \"Days A Week\"","category":"TOP 40 MATH","value":"$800","answer":"27"},{"question":"Vice President under Thomas Jefferson, he was the first Vice President who did not later become President","category":"THE VEEP","value":"$800","answer":"Aaron Burr"},{"question":"As you might expect, this is the first letter in the poem \"Song of Myself\"","category":"LETTER PERFECT","value":"$1200","answer":"I"},{"question":"A male moth's antennae are attuned to these released by female moths","category":"SCIENCE &amp; NATURE","value":"$1200","answer":"pheromones"},{"question":"Gericault's most famous work, \"The Raft of\" this ship, was based on a historic event &amp; caused a political scandal","category":"ART &amp; ARTISTS","value":"$1200","answer":"the <i>Medusa</i>"},{"question":"If we covered everything Cajun from A to Z, we'd finally come to this accordion-based musical style heard <a href=\"http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-09-28_DJ_28.mp3\">here</a>","category":"A CAJUN CATEGORY","value":"$1200","answer":"zydeco"},{"question":"The Crests' \"Candles\" plus Boyz II Men's \"Season Of Loneliness\"","category":"TOP 40 MATH","value":"$1600","answer":"20"},{"question":"This senator from Indiana who became Vice President has a city named for him--in Alaska, of all places","category":"THE VEEP","value":"$1600","answer":"(Charles) Fairbanks"},{"question":"John Doe played bass &amp; wrote songs for this seminal punk rock band, \"discovered\" by Ray Manzarek of The Doors","category":"LETTER PERFECT","value":"$1600","answer":"X"},{"question":"It's the wavelike muscular contractions of the alimentary canal that move food through the digestive system","category":"SCIENCE &amp; NATURE","value":"$1600","answer":"peristalsis"},{"question":"His \"Jolly Toper\" of the 1600s is seen <a href=\"http://www.j-archive.com/media/2004-09-28_DJ_24.jpg\" target=\"_blank\">here</a>","category":"ART &amp; ARTISTS","value":"$1600","answer":"Franz Hals"},{"question":"After Louisiana, this state has the largest Cajun population, especially in areas like Port Arthur","category":"A CAJUN CATEGORY","value":"$1600","answer":"Texas"},{"question":"The speed Sammy Hagar \"Can't Drive\" minus Three Dog Night's title \"Loneliest Number\"","category":"TOP 40 MATH","value":"$2000","answer":"54"},{"question":"The nation's 42nd Vice President, he was born in Ceylon... Ceylon, Minnesota, that is","category":"THE VEEP","value":"$2000","answer":"(Walter) Mondale"},{"question":"On a baseball scorecard, you can mark a walk with either a \"W\" or 2 of these","category":"LETTER PERFECT","value":"$2000","answer":"B"},{"question":"Conductors allow electric current to flow &amp; these opposite materials restrict the flow of the current","category":"SCIENCE &amp; NATURE","value":"$2000","answer":"insulators (or resistors)"},{"question":"Minerva, Venus &amp; Juno are the 3 being \"judged\" in this famous Claude Lorrain painting","category":"ART &amp; ARTISTS","value":"$2000","answer":"<i>The Judgment of Paris</i>"},{"question":"The Cajuns are descended from the Acadians, the subject of this famous 1847 poem","category":"A CAJUN CATEGORY","value":"$2000","answer":"\"Evangeline\""},{"question":"In the song's title, Zager &amp; Evans' \"In The Year\" this minus The Commodores' \"Times A Lady\"","category":"TOP 40 MATH","answer":"2522"},{"question":"As Harding's running mate in 1920, he said, \"One with the law is a majority\"","category":"THE VEEP","answer":"(Calvin) Coolidge"},{"question":"The holes in the body of a typical violin get their name from being shaped like this letter","category":"LETTER PERFECT","answer":"F"},{"question":"A San Francisco resident since the 1950s, in 1998 he became the city's first Poet Laureate","category":"POETS","answer":"Lawrence Ferlinghetti (owner of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco)","value":"final"}]