Twenty More Kashias

Before I get to more riddles, let me first let you know that while the Jerusalem Post Awards for blogs began yesterday, the "Best Student Blog" category doesn't start voting until January 24. Until then, you can check out the other blogs and categories, and even vote for those.

Anyway, back by semipopular demand is... more Jewish-themed riddles! Yes, more puzzling puzzles playfully playing on Jewish ideas. Points are at stake in the ever-important Race for the Most Points, and this is another way to move up in the standings, so brace yourself!

The rules are available by checking out the post with the first twenty questions, here (you can also check out the scoring procedures and answers here). Some of the important rules: do not look at previous responses; you can only post once... I think that's it. The answers will be posted one week from today.

Ready? Here we go...

1. Moabite woman gets her own talk show (3 points)
2. Synagogue platform used in gymnastics competition (4 points)
3. Midrashic quality of the Plague of Hail, as titled by a James Taylor song (4 points)
4. Heaven-sent bird of a certain tribe in the desert, perhaps as a vice president (4 points)
5. Rapid rate of construction of Jewish festive temporary buildings, as uttered by P.T. Barnum (5 points)
6. The person who holds the baby at a circumsicion penned a "Where the Wild Things Are" (4 points)
7. Murderer of Saul's descendant is executed in an unusual way, then David names a dessert after him (5 points)
8. The rules of the circumcisor, which also relates pressure and volume (4 points)
9. Daily offering of stacte, onyche, galbanum, and frankincense, as one would logically think (5 points)
10. The proper way to act in the Tabernacle, as pronounced by a lisping Hartford beauty queen (10 points)
11. Objects of Michal's criticism (including her husband, David), made into a film starring Harrisson Ford (8 points)
12. Territorial lowlands of a certain tribe, poetically described as:

"a fantastic farm where [something] grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens, where [something] take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumling through the powdery air"

(7 points)
(note: the [something] is a word that I deleted to make the answer less obvious])

13. Lumber of a certain tribe, starring in the 1965 film "The Great Race" (5 points)
14. Joshua leads the people into the promised land, taking a path that influences the creation of a NBC TV show about Boston coroners (4 points)
15. Wearing one's sidelocks facing front, as a title of a film starring Haley Joel Osment (5 points)
16. Pharaoh's labor plans for enslaving the Jews also served as a fraudulent money-making ploy (3 points)
17. What the Jewish people became after the death of Malachi, joining groups such as PBS and the Better Business Bureau (7 points)
18. Devorah's aide (and a Jewish military leader) stars in an animated show with his pal Zorak (6 points)
19. Airborne Jewish fringes that cause African trypanosomiases and feed on the blood on vertebrates (4 points)
20. Get something back to a Beit Midrash lectern, as stamped by the post office (3 points)

Total Points: 100

Good luck.

Also, the Tenth of Tevet, a fast marking the beginning of the seige of Jerusalem, is tomorrow. Here's hoping that you have an meaningful fast.