State Capital Nicknames
The City of Paul Revere
Boston (Massachusetts)
A Maui food feast
Luau
German gave us this word for a child prodigy
Wunderkind
"Quicksilver... extensively used as medicines. The preparation called calomel, is a most efficacious deobstruent"
Mercury
What do you call fake spaghetti?
An im-pasta
Broncoville
Denver (Colorado)
These 2 words that fit the category precede "amber waves of grain" in song
Beautiful & Spacious
From the Arabic for "zero", it can mean zero or a coded message
Cipher
"The doctrine or science of the structure of the... terraqueous globe, and of the substances which compose it"
Geology
What does corn say when it gets a complement?
Aw, shucks!
The Gateway to Glacier National Park
Juneau (Alaska)
Instead of "instead of", you can say "in" this "of"
Lieu
This word for income is from the French for "return"
Revenue
"One versed in the science of government and the art of governing"; also "a man of artifice or deep contrivance"
Politician
What do you call an alligator detective?
An investi-gator!
The Queen on the James
Richmond (Virginia)
We're "in line"; Londoners are in one of these, which actually has 4 vowels in a row
Queue
This 5-letter word from the Dutch is sailors' talk for "stop that!"
Avast
"A species of aquatic worm, which is used in the medical art for topical bleeding"
Leeches
Why can't your ear be 12 inches long?
Because then it would be a foot!
The Home of Frontier Days
Cheyenne (Wyoming)
"Bang" & "crash" are examples of this long word, which also has 4 vowels in a row
Onomatopoeia
You don't have to be part of it to know "intelligentsia" is from this language
Russian
"The doctrine, science, or art of sailing in the air, by means of a balloon"
Aeronautics
What kind of dog tells time?
A watch-dog