Money talks
Also part of any room, it's the area of a stock exchange occupied by the brokers & traders
The floor
Any low, thick bush
Black and white film is coated with light-sensitive halides of this metal suspended in a gelatinous compound
Silver
The world's largest tropical rain forest, it covers parts of 6 countries, including Brazil and Peru
The Amazon forest
It's alphabetically 1st in journalism's 5 W's; you'll probably say it twice as you respond
What
Google held it's annual meeting of these people June 2, 2011; proof of ownership was required
British saloon
A pub
Types of these cards used in digital cameras include MicroSD, SDHC, & CompactFlash
Memory cards
Britain's 4,500-acre Savernake Forest is privately owned by the Earl of this (think sweater)
Cardigan
The 5 rivers of Hell include Cocytus (of weeping) & Acheron (of grief), but this one (of hate) gets all the press
Styx
This type of variable income tax increases as the amount to be taxed increases
A progressive income tax
To treat with contempt by ignoring
Snub
Fewer than 25 authentic photographs survive by this French pioneer who died in 1851
(Louis) Daguerre
The USA's first Natl. Forest Shoshone, was set aside in 1891 as part of the Yellowstone Timberland Reserve in this state
Wyoming
The cast of this late '90s TV drama featured a Fox (Matthew) & a Wolf (Scott)
Party of 5
In a sentence like "I'm getting 8% return on munis," the word "munis" is short for these
Municipal bonds
One has his chin on his palm at the bottom of Raphael's "Sistine Madonna"
A cherub
Types of these lens attachments include polarizing, warming, & neutral density
Filters
At 4,898 feet, Feldberg is the highest point in this German forst known for its mineral springs
In 1991, Russia took over the seat of the old Soviet Union as one of the 5 permanent members of this U.N. group of 15
The Security Council
One judge of a company's worth is this ratio -- it's current cost per sare divided by its profits per share over a 1-year period
The P/E ratio (price to earnings ratio)
Hall of Farmer Ryne Sandberg was one from 1982 to 1997
Called the Vacublitz, the first commercial flashbulb was patented in 1930 & featured foil sealed in this gas
Oxygen
The Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness is within the Minnesota national forest named for this Great Lake
Superior
The first 5 books of the Old Testament are sometimes known as this, from the Greek for "five"
The Pentateuch