COLORFUL BOOKS
Fannie Flagg’s 1987 novel took its title from this dish served at the Whistle Stop Café.
Fried Green Tomatoes
Baby doctor.
Pediatrician
Winnie-the-Pooh
Bear
DOT’s mission is to “serve the American people and economy through the safe, efficient, sustainable, and equitable movement of people and goods.”
Department of Transportation
This future director, who pioneered the concept of the summer “blockbuster” film with Jaws (in 1975), celebrated his bar mitzvah in 1960 in Phoenix, Arizona.
Steven Spielberg
Billie Holiday’s 1956 autobiography: Lady Sings ______________.
… The Blues
All of the words (or a set of words) contained and used in a language.
Vocabulary
Bullwinkle
Moose
The FDA ensures the safety of cosmetics, vaccines, and dietary supplements.
Food and Drug Administration
This future actor, who rose to fame playing the Italian-American Arthur Fonzarelli on the sitcom Happy Days, celebrated his bar mitzvah in Manhattan in 1958.
Henry Winkler
Oscar Wilde’s 1890 novel: The Picture _________________.
… of Dorian Gray
A person who devises dances and/or teaches dancing.
Choreographer
Curious George
Monkey
DOI is “responsible for the management and conservation of most federal lands and natural resources.”
Department of the Interior
This future Secretary of State had his bar mitzvah in 1936 in his native Germany. His family fled to the United States two years later.
Henry Kissinger
The narrator of this 1887 “autobiography” is the titular horse who was born on an English farm, but lived a hard life pulling cabs in London.
Black Beauty
The energy that powers the modern world, from lighting, heating, machinery and everything in between.
Electricity
Stuart Little
Mouse
NEA offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.
National Endowment for the Arts
This future singer-songwriter, a major counter-culture figure over his 69-year career and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature for ”having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition,” had his bar mitzvah in Hibbing, Minnesota in 1954.
Bob Dylan (born Robert Zimmerman)
Sherlock Holmes first appeared in this 1887 detective novel by Arthur Conan Doyle: A Study _______________
… in Scarlet
Urbane; refined; cosmopolitan.
Sophisticated
Charlotte (from Charlotte’s Web)
Spider
NOAA is tasked with forecasting weather, charting the seas, conducting deep-sea exploration, and managing fishing and protection of marine mammals and endangered species.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
This future comedian and host of Deal or No Deal had his bar mitzvah in Toronto in 1968.
Howie Mandel