This musical genre originated in the Deep South and incorporated African American spirituals and work songs. That accounts for the sad feelings it often evokes.
What is the Blues?
This country located in the South Pacific is also a continent.
What is Australia?
A bandleader and native of Canada, he made Auld Lang Syne the definitive New Year's Eve song.
Who is Guy Lombardo?
This cartoon cat's favorite food is lasagna.
Who is Garfield?
The tallest and heaviest of all penguin species.
What is the emperor penguin?
Hank Williams and Loretta Lynn are two legends from this genre of music.
What is Country and Western?
This South Pacific island's capital is Wellington.
What is New Zealand?
These dolls sported red triangle noses and unruly red yarn hair.
What are Raggedy Ann (and Andy) dolls?
It is the only wild large cat species still found in any significant numbers in New Hampshire.
What is the bobcat?
This wingless bird is known as this by New Zealand natives.
What is the kiwi?
This sub-genre of rock music relies on hard rock with a rough style. Think Metallica and Iron Maiden...
What is Heavy Metal?
This Polynesian island country shares its name with a kind of Girl Scout cookie.
What is Samoa?
He is an American restauranteur who hosts the TV show Diners, Drive-Ins, and Dives.
Who is Guy Fieri?
From Alice in Wonderland, he slowly disappeared until only his smile remained.
Who is the Cheshire Cat?
These mostly solitary and nocturnal animals have feathers adapted for silent flight.
What are owls?
A kind of dance music and lifestyle that emerged in the 1970s. Tony Manero definitely caught this fever, and not only on Saturday Night.
What is Disco?
This WW2 naval battle in the South Pacific is known as "the turning point of the Pacific," as it was a great US victory over Japan.
What is Midway?
This was the first successful talking doll and was on every little girl's Christmas wish list from 1959 until 1965.
Who was Chatty Cathy?
It's the largest of the "big cats," weighing in at 660 pounds and stretching more than 10 feet, nose to tail.
What is the Siberian tiger?
These were used to relay news of the conquest of Gaul to Rome and brought news of Napoleon's defeat at Waterloo to England.
What are carrier pigeons?
This is a Spanish style of music and dance that includes rhythmic stamping of the feet.
What is Flamenco?
These are the only mammals native to the South Pacific.
What are fruit bats?
This French author of the 19th century is thought of as a master of the short-story. His best known is The Necklace.
Who is Guy de Maupassant?
A group of cats is called this.
What is a clowder?
The official state bird of New Hampshire.
What is the purple finch?