MOTHER GOOSE
Old King Cole called for his pipe, his bowl & 3 of these musicians
his fiddlers
In a mining lode, the gangue is the junk & this is the mineral with the good stuff in it
ore
A fruit or a color:
naranja
Orange
The Festival of Federation, celebrated July 14, 1790 honoring an event the year before, is now this holiday
Bastille Day
Arthur Wynne created this; the first puzzle appeared Dec. 21, 1913 with the name "Word-Cross"
the crossword puzzle
In later verses, this title woman goes to the alehouse, the tavern & the cobbler, all for her poor dog
Old Mother Hubbard
Venice is sinking because Italy is actually part of this continent's plate & it's sliding under Europe's plate
Africa
Milk
The League of Schmalkalden was formed in 1531 to defend this German's reformist church
The word origami, the Japanese art of folding paper, comes from words meaning this
paper folding
"Jack Sprat could eat no fat, his wife could eat no" this; together "they licked the platter clean"
lean
It's not just oil -- Saudi Arabia has reserves of over 200 trillion cubic feet of this
It's good in a quesadilla:
queso
Cheese
When Dante died in 1321, he was in his 20th year of exile from this Italian city
Florence
Althing, the name of Iceland's parliament, means this
"Mary, Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow? With silver bells and" these, "and pretty maids all in a row"
cockle shells
Seismographers use the difference in speed between P waves & S waves to locate this point
the epicenter
A lunch meat:
jamon
Ham
In 1620 the Speedwell was found unseaworthy so its passengers were crowded aboard this ship
the Mayflower
Paris Hilton & Tiger Woods were 2 of the people on the cover of this magazine's Dec. 15, 2003 issue
People
Some ocean sediment is radiolarian ooze, made of these parts of tiny protozoans
Skeletons (or Shells)
A basic pair:
pan y mantequilla
bread & butter
To guard his tomb emperor Qin Shi Huang Di made an army out of this material
terracotta
The first line of this novel by Virginia Woolf is "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself"
Mrs Dalloway