U.S. CITIES
William Penn's design for this city made it the1st in the U.S. to use a grid pattern for the streets
Philadelphia
It was a complaint by this "good" group that got Pontius Pilate recalled to Rome
the Samaritans
Paraphrasing Matthew 12:25, Abe Lincoln said this kind of house "cannot stand"
a house divided against itself
He told those signing this, "We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately"
the Declaration of Independence
The largest one ever made contained 36,000 heads of lettuce & was tossed in a swimming pool
salad
Michigan city that's nationally known for its cereals
Battle Creek
To make this, an Egyptian took a river reed, split the pith into strips & pounded & rubbed it smooth
paper (papyrus)
Michael Keaton played one of these in "Mr. Mom"
a househusband
The one Franklin invented gave more heat & used less fuel than others of the time
a stove
The most heavily used subway system in the world is in this communist capital, not New York
Moscow
Point Loma & Coronado Peninsulas shelter a natural deepwater harbor for this naval port city
San Diego
This river flowed through the city of Babylon but has since shifted its course
the Euphrates
"Are you now or have you ever been" is a phrase that was associated with this body
the House Committee on Un-American Activities
One of his last public acts was signing a petition to Congress in favor of abolishing this
slavery
Walter Cavanagh is known as "Mr. Plastic Fantastic" because he has about 2,000--& they're all valid
credit cards
Many encyclopedias say the rapid, post-WWII growth of Phoenix can be credited to this invention
air conditioning
The book "Ancient World" calls these seagoing trading people the 1st middlemen
the Phoenicians
Nursery rhyme that includes the line "This is the farmer sowing the corn..."
"The House that Jack Built"
Value of the Federal Reserve note with Franklin's picture on the front
a $100 bill
Maxwell J. Beck was covered with about 70,000 of these insects at a 1985 convention
bees
The Smith brothers first made their cough drops in this N.Y. State city, home to Vassar
Poughkeepsie
The Palace of Knossos on this Mediterranean island even had bathrooms
Crete
A Quakers "house" of worship
a meeting (a meeting house)
Ben Franklin was apprenticed to his older brother to learn this trade
printing
Good "Lord", he was Poet Laaureate of England for almost 42 years, longer than anyone else
(Alfred Lord) Tennyson