Let's Travel
Middle Initials
Taking a new "SAT" (S-A-T is going to come up in each correct response)
On my Reeding List
I'm Like On Page 1
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In 2016 London's double decker buses, traditionally this color, went green... all-electric, that is

red

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It's the "W." in George W. Bush

Walker

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It's a mythological mixture of goat & human

satyr

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"The Seasons" by Haydn, in which the oboe imitates the crowing of this barnyard bird

rooster

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"I don't feel like going into it", says Holden Caulfield on page 1 of this book; we're off to a great start

The Catcher in the Rye

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The Star of the Republic Museum is devoted to this state's history as an independent republic from 1836 to 1845

Texas

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Stonewall Jackson was the "right arm" of this man, middle name Edward

Robert E. Lee

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Panne & antique are types of this fabric

satin

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Sax man Kenny G's holiday album "Miracles" featuring "Away in A" this

a manger

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This author makes me feel like I'm there, talking of a Hobbit-hole with "a tube shaped hall like a tunnel"

Tolkien

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Visitors to this inventor's New Jersey Lab can hear recordings from his 1890 talking doll, a costly failure

Edison

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This "Empire" actress' middle initial P. stands for Penda, Swahili for "love"; her first name means hope

Taraji P. Henson

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Another term for a moon, or the object seen here 

satellite

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The episode of this show where Telly Monster's friend Richard Stoltzman visits to play clarinet

Sesame Street

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Judy Blume's book about this whale of a nickname says a classroom is hot & stuffy & smells "like this afternoon"

"Blubber"

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DAILY DOUBLE: The 4 sets of sea horses around this city's Buckingham Fountain represent the states that border lake Michigan

Chicago

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Here's the "T"; this educator's middle initial T. is for Taliaferro

Booker T. Washington

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To be labeled "free" of this type of fat, a food must contain less than 0.5 grams of it per serving

saturated fat

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A CD of the 1777 oboe concerto, the only one by this precious composer

Mozart

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He began a book, "I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allen Poe"

(Ralph) Ellison

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A major attraction in Colombia, Tequendama Falls are on this river with the same name as the capital

Bogota

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The middle C. in the name of this "2001" writer stood for Charles

(Arthur C.) Clarke

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Papa's got a brand-new bag--one of these 

satchel

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A piece that shows off the clarinet's range, the wildest of all woodwinds, nearly 4 of these

octaves

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DAILY DOUBLE: Ponyboy says in the first few lines of this classic, "I was wishing I looked like Paul Newman"; don't we all, Ponyboy

The Outsiders

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