Rhyme Time
A thick baseball stick
What is a Fat Bat?
In Super Bowl XLII the 18-0 Patriots were upset by this team when Eli Manning threw a touchdown pass to Plaxico Burress
What is the New York Giants?
Gymnast Viktor Lisitsky won 5 silver medals for this country, but no gold or bronze
What is the the USSR?
A pig's typical exclamation
What is a squeal?
lluminated by thousands of lightbulbs, the building seen here was devoted to this new innovation for the home
What is electric lighting?
A defensive ditch dug in Dijon
What is a French trench?
The U.S. hockey team's upset of the Soviets in the Winter Olympics held in this town is called the "Miracle on Ice"
What is Lake Placid?
In 2010 German Winter Olympian David Moeller injured himself doing this to his silver medal
What is biting?
A division of a government department or a chest of drawers
What is a bureau?
For 50 cents people got a great view of the fair from high atop this amusement park ride that made its debut there
What is a a ferris wheel?
An artificial New York strip or sirloin
What is a fake steak?
Hakeem Olajuwon led this school to the 1983 NCAA title game, where he & his mates fell to underdog North Carolina State
What is the University of Houston?
Michael Phelps first gold medal of his record 23 was at the 2004 Games in this city
What is Athens?
This word for impulsive behavior also begins with "imp"
What is impetuous?
The building at the fair where the Liberty Bell was on display was modeled after this famous building in Philly
Independence Hall
To unsettle cows
What is rattle cattle?
Undefeated for 13 years in this wrestling style, Alexander Karelin was upset by Rulon Gardner at the Sydney Olympics
What is Greco-Roman?
DD
Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games were inlaid with this gem
What is jade?
Completely devoted, religiously
What is pious?
DD
At the fair, people got their first taste of Aunt Jemima pancakes & this beer that won a prize that became part of its name
Pabst Blue Ribbon
Telecommunication device in a river flowing from Switzerland to the Mediterranean
What is a Rhone phone?
On Aug. 13, 1919 a 100-1 shot came in as this horse lost his only race to the fittingly named Upset
What is Man o' War?
Olympic gold medals at the 2008 Beijing Games were inlaid with this gem
What is an olive branch?
French term for a licentious man; 3 of its 4 letters are vowels
a roué
This bestseller by Erik Larson tells the true story of a serial killer who used the 1893 fair to lure his victims
The Devil in the White City