Whim, how about an entirely different type of word puzzle, one where you set the total sum of a given number of answers, and the players would have to find numbers to match the total. Just a thought.
For e.g. a: You could say, "Total 143 in three"
Answer:
46 chromosomes in a human cell
47 Lenghth of Berlin wall in kilometers
50 cubits, width of Noah's ark
Total 143
Whilst it is obvious there are many different possible answers, that only broadens its appeal to a larger number of people to take part.
E.g. b: You give clues to the numbers. (But, still 143 in three)
1. Human jail. (46 chromosomes)
2. Germany divided. (47 kilometers)
3. Noah knew itscub. (50 cubits)
Total 143.
This form would reduce the choices, but focus the search.
Good either way.
Turtlette wrote, "Still going with the nice drives. Route 113 into Newburyport, nice."
Wow! That's better than nice, those lighthouses just explode the senses.
Have you ever driven the route 113, traveling between Holderness, South Tamworth and Silver Lake.? Simply magical.
Mark wrote, "I can get to 101 in under two minutes. "
That sounds as convenient, as it does noisy. Do you hear it with a west wind?
Francis, some answers:
1907 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine:
Charles L. A. Laveran (France), for work with protozoa in the generation of disease
1984
Truffaut, François , 1932-84, French film director and critic died.
1997 Nobel Prize for Physics:
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji (France), for developing a method to cool and trap atoms using light from lasers.
Press release 2001
July 2001 : France Télécom fined 40 million FF for abuse of a dominant position.
Before I go
"What do Elephants have that no other animals in the world have."
A trunk?
Although Mark agrees with you, I hafta say, ?'no way babe'
The order under which Elephants are classified is the Proboscidea. This is for one of the elephant's most interesting physical features. It is something that attracts curiosity from around the world for elephants along with many other aspects in the past only ascribed to the human, such as, rudimentary tool use, complex social behaviours, and reverence for a dead family member or friend. It is their trunk or proboscis; the meaning of Proboscidea species is simply animals with trunks/proboscis.
Henry F. Osborn identified some
352 proboscidean species and subspecies of which half are recognized and valid today.
My head and tail both equal are,
My middle slender as a bee.
Whether I stand on head or heel
Is quite the same to you or me.
But if my head should be cut off,
The matter's true, though passing strange
Directly I to nothing change.
What am I
<---that'a me starring at my brain freeze. I shouldn't eat ice cream so fast. 
I'm all for a "create a new puzzle" topic in this forum.
