JANUARY HOLIDAYS & OBSERVANCES
"ACK" WORDS
WORLD OF FACTS
JOE PARTY
BASS
100
Burnt offerings in mid-January are part of "Sending Off the Kitchen God Day" for the 1.4 billion folks in this country
What is China?
100
To destructively search a house
What is ransack?
100
This river has been eroding rock for about 6 million years, creating the Grand Canyon
What is the Colorado River?
100
He married off his daughter Eunice to Sargent Shriver in 1953 at St. Patrick's with a cardinal officiating
Who is Joe Kennedy?
100
Sure, there's a hook, but bass are really chasing this four-letter decoy
What is a lure?
200
January 3 is admission day in this state that celebrates being No. 49
What is Alaska?
200
A quarterback sack is also one of these
What is a tackle?
200
Famous in World War II, Tobruk is a Mediterranean port in this North African country
What is Libya?
200
Tom has a party & Jerry tries to stop it in the short "Saturday Evening Puss", directed by William Hanna & him
Who is Joseph Barbera?
200
Open wide & tell us the name of this game fish, the state fish of Georgia & Mississippi
What is the widemouth/largemouth bass?
300
January 20 is Philately Day! Also, it's this big day, thanks to the 20th Amendment
What is Inauguration Day?
300
In the '70s airline cockpits were stocked with maps of the Havana airport in preparation for this crime
What is hijacking?
300
Port Jackson is another name for this harbor, the principal port of New South Wales
What is Sydney?
300
The Victrola plays the tunes in Joseph Moncure March's "The Wild Party", a poem from this decade
What are the 1920's?
300
The markings of the rockfish give it the alternate name -- this bass
What is the striped bass?
400
We bet you know that on Jan, 27, Monte Carlo honors St. Devota, the patron saint of this principality
What is Monaco?
400
It's a book section for an author's thanks to colleagues, family members et al.
What is an acknowledgment?
400
In 1808 Prince John made this New World city the capital of the Portuguese empire
What is Rio de Janeiro?
400
In 1886 this press lord was toastmaster at Delmonico's for a lavish Hungarian-American banquet
Who is Joseph Pulitzer?
400
The markings of the rockfish give it the alternate name -- this bass
What is the Bassmaster Classic?
500
Rice pudding is eaten on Thai Pongal, a January festival of this people of Sri Lanka & southern India
What are the Tamil?
500
To intentionally put 5/8/13 on a document you're writing 3 months later on 8/5/13 is to do this
What is backdating?
500
DAILY DOUBLE! The Gran Sasso D'l'talia ("Great Rock of Italy") contains the highest point in this mountain range
What are the the Apennines?
500
In 2009, the bicentennial of his death, this man who established the symphony form was celebrated all through Austria
Who is (Franz) Josef Hadyn?
500
This "stellar" bass family lends its name to "the most popular recreational sailboat in history"
What is the sunfish?
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