4-Letter Words
A magician's conjuring rod
A wand
The Crimean War's Siege of Sevastopol resulted in the loss of Russia's main naval port on this sea
The Black Sea
In the 1970s this was rampant, raising prices 14% a year, & the president declared it "public enemy number one"
inflation
Unreal: the town of Godric's Hollow, the final hiding place for Harry Potter's parents before they were killed by this man
Voldemort
Okay, so now we've given nightmares to half of America by showing this colorful carnivore of the deep
a great white
A verb for what you do to make porter, or a noun meaning the resulting drink
brew
After a siege by Nebuchadnezzar, Jerusalem fell to this empire around 586 B.C.
The Babylonian Empire
In 1954, Russian words meaning "committee for state security" got shortened to these 3 letters for an agency
KGB
Real: Humpybong & Burpengary, places in this Aussie "land" that holds its own in odd names
Queensland
The "great" species of this shark with a tool in its name specializes in preying on stingrays
a hammerhead
In our heavenly neighborhood, Ganymede is the largest
moon
The British were under siege from these South Africans at Mafikeng for more than 200 days before reinforcements came
The Boers
On Dec. 3, 1973 Pioneer 10 was within 81,000 miles of its cloud tops & would find this planet to be mostly liquid
Jupiter
Unreal: Mildendo, which must be a small town, as it's the capital of this land in "Gulliver's Travels"
Lilliput
This alliterative type of shark sounds like it uses metal shapes to turn dough into Christmas treats--it bites very uniformly
cookie cutter
Business owners often keep their money in this, the cash drawer in a store
the till
During this 1900 rebellion, a siege of the International Quarter of Peking was broken with the timely help of the U.S. Marines
The Boxer Rebellion
Discovered in 1943, streptomycin was the second major one of these wonder drugs & the first effective against tuberculosis
antibiotics
Unreal: Pandemonium or "All Demons", the capital of hell in this long poem
Paradise Lost
Pores called ampullae of Lorenzini give sharks a sixth sense that helps detect currents of this in the water
electricity
In crossword puzzles, this state bird is often called a "Hawaiian goose"
a nene
In 1864 resistance by this Confederate general saved Petersburg, leading to a near 10-month siege
Beauregard
Each car on the Ferris wheel seen here held an astonishing 60 people at the 1904 World's Fair in this Midwest city
St. Louis
Real: Nether Wallop in England, owned in the 11th century by this earl whose son Harold was once king
Godwin
In a 2018 Jason Statham film, "The Meg" is this giant prehistoric shark
the megalodon