The Power Broker
The person Robert Moses was most influenced by during his formative years.
Who is Bella Moses, his mother?
An organic compound that consists of carbon, hydrogen, and oxygen. It is used in the body for short term energy.
What is a carbohydrate?
The full name of the curly headed Stooge.
What is Larry Fine?
Music group named for a penalty in hockey.
Who are 5 for Fighting?
This is what a pen knife sharpened originally.
What is a quill?
Used for political favors, complimentary boxing tickets were differentiated from paid tickets by hole punches that resembled bullet holes, leading them to be nicknamed for this Wild West Show star.
Who is Annie Oakley?
Large organic compounds made of amino acids arranged in a linear chain and joined together by peptide bonds.
What are proteins?
This comedy super star said the greatest thing she learned from working with The Three Stooges on the Three Little Pigskins film was, "How to duck". Wonder if it helped with Ricky?
Who is Lucille Ball?
Group named for the 3 elements in drummer Maurice White's astrological sign.
What is Earth, Wind and Fire?
A person who made knives in olden times, using the Old English word “seax,” which was a type of knife.
What is a sexsmith?
Kike, a derisive term for Jews, originated from this ethnic group in New York City.
Who are Jews?
Prepared by physically, enzymatically, or chemically treating native starch to change its properties.
What are modified starches?
This dictator put the Stooges on his death hit list for mocking him in a 1940 short film, probably didn't help that they were Jewish...
Who is Hitler?
Pop duet named using brother Richard and sister Karen's last name.
Who are The Carpenters?
The sgian-dubh, which is old Scottish Gaelic for a type of knife that is worn as part of the Highland dress (yes, the one with the kilt). The sgain-dubh is traditionally kept here.
What is in the sock?
Although Robert Moses called his ensuing bosses by their names, he never used Al Smith's name, but instead called Him this.
What is governor?
It's created when sugar is fermented by a type of bacteria called Xanthomonas campestris.
What is xanthan gum?
Fill-in Curly Joe insisted his contract contain language prohibiting him from being abused to excess, including anything pastry-related. “I never was the type of comic to be hit by _______,”
What is a pie?
This group was named in honor of a high school gym teacher/nemesis named Leonard Skinner.
Who was Lynyrd Skynyrd?
In ancient Java, the Kris knife – made from this space object, just like King Tut’s – was believed to have magical powers. Even the patterns carved into the blade were believed to ward off bad luck and protect whoever was wielding the knife.
What is a meterorite?
Originally named “The Administration Building,” the Robert Moses Building was completed in 1937, and can be found today next to the Triborough Bridge on this island.
What is Randal's island?
A substance that acts as a catalyst in living organisms, regulating the rate at which chemical reactions proceed without itself being altered in the process.
What is an enzyme?
Brothers Moe, Curly and Shemp's last name...AT BIRTH.
What is Horwitz?
This group was named for the tenth novel by German-Swiss author Hermann Hesse, written in 1927.
Who is Steppenwolf?
This line from Monty Python's The Holy Grail, "you can't expect to wield supreme, executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you.", referred to this.
What is Excalibur?