BIRDS
Heavy consumption of these avian writing implements led to invention of steel pens
quills
Latin for "two", Batman & Robin are a dynamic one
duo
After NYC & Washington, D.C., this New Jersey city is most expensive in U.S. to visit
Atlantic City
The oldest portable one, invented about 1837, used soda-acid
fire extinguisher
Prosthetic device 1st made in 1851, Peter Falk & Sammy Davis Jr. account for a pair of them
false eye
An omelette made with 1 of their eggs is equal in size to 1 made with 24 chicken eggs
ostrich
Word cried by the last "little pig" "all the way home"
wee
When hearing this term, almost twice as many people think of the movie as Pres. Reagan's defense plan
Star Wars
It's as old as the code of Hammurabi, which didn't mention what the rates were
fire insurance
The University of Kansas found music in the delivery room shortens this part of the birth cycle
labor
Answer to the children's riddle "Why does a hummingbird hum?"
Because he doesn't know the words
As an acronym it's a tombstone title; as a word it means "tear"
r.i.p.
Of about 5, 25, or 45, percentage of adults in the U.S. who've been on TV
25
Most widespread type of this is performed on embers from a wood fire, as in India
walking on fire
Health insurance financed by 4 Social Security trust funds
Medicare
Mythology says Hera was so fond of these birds she adorned their tails with the eyes of her love, Argus
peacock
A paronomasia, it's a play on similar sounding words
pun
In # of phones per 100 people, the U.S. ranks third, behind these 2 European countries that begin with S
Switzerland & Sweden
To contain a forest fire, it's created by clearing a strip of land ahead of the flames
fire break
Since there was too little to test, this drug of Fleming's sat "undiscovered" for 12 years
penicillin
1/2 an hr. before this song was to be recorded, the title was changed from "Run, Rabbit, Run" to this:
"Fly, Robin, Fly"
Abbreviated "Sn", it's the only 3-letter element
tin
A "Money" magazine survey said people still think this is the best way to get rich
hard work
In this 1983 film, Nick Nolte played a journalist in Nicaragua during the 1979 revolution
Under Fire
In the '40s, Sister Kenny, an Australian nurse, brought her treatment for this disease to the U.S.
polio