In 1986, a Dallas exterminator ran a contest to find the largest one of these insects in the city
a cockroach
Course of a meal during which a Spaniard would eat flan
dessert
Proper number of horses needed to pull a Russian troika
3
Sport featured in "Popular Lures"
fishing
Of the 6 Day War, the 30 Years' War, & the 100 Years' War, one which lasted the longest
the 100 Years' War
At the end of Linda Ronstadt's "When You Wish Upon A Star" video, he makes a cameo appearance
Jiminy Cricket
"Potage volaille a la Reine" is a fancy version of this sickroom standard at Aunt Esther's
chicken soup
It's how George Higgs escaped from Erewhon & the Wizard left Oz
by balloon
Even though it's now a monthly, "GQ" stands for this
Gentlemen's Quarterly
Air France is not the national airline of this country
Great Britain
1915 story in which Gregor Samsa awakes one morning to find he has changed into a giant insect
the Metamorphosis
19th c. English nutritionist for whom the seasoned beef patty in TV dinners is named
(J.H.) Salisbury
In June 1966, Arthur Godfrey did it in 86 hours, 9 minutes, 1 second
travel around the world
This magazine's associate publisher is Rod's widow, Carol Serling
The Twilight Zone Magazine
Exact title of the following, it's not the same as the Gershwin tune: "It's summertime summertime sum sum summertime / Summertime summertime sum sum summertime..."
"Summertime, Summertime"
It's made from a substance given off by lac insects
shellac
Swedish for "bread & goosefat served on a table"
smörgåsbord
In trucking, "semi" is a short form of this word
semi-trailer
Magazine which shares its title with a classic William Makepeace Thackeray novel
Vanity Fair
Color of the lettering in the credits of the 1985 Spielberg film starring Whoopi Goldberg
The Color Purple
World Book says these are the 2 things most insects spend most of their time doing
eating & reproducing
Cooked lobster meat mixed with a cream sauce, put in its shell, topped with cheese & browned
lobster Thermidor
Its full name is the "Chemin de Fer Metropolitain"
the Metro (the Paris subway system)
Though they call Pleasantville, N.Y. home, their headquarters are really in the next town over, Chappaqua
the Reader's Digest
Recently, 1,000,000 Cheerios boxes each contained this premium which cost General Mills $1 each
a dollar bill