CAPTAINS
Captain Merrill Stubing captains this ship
The Love Boat
Pushing up ___________.
Daisies
Bruce, Harper, Gypsy Rose
Lee
This American actor is widely associated with the role of Tevye in Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof—although he didn’t get the role in the 1971 movie.
Zero Mostel. Israeli actor Chaim Topol, known just as “Topol,” was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Tevye in the film.
On the second weekend in May, this country observes National Windmill Day.
The Netherlands (Holland)
Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain, My Captain", is a tribute to this slain president
Abraham Lincoln
A shrinking ___________.
Violet
Jefferson, Miles, Sammy
Davis
Originally, this term was used for the spot where a nuclear bomb exploded. Today, it often refers to a place where something, usually awful, has happened.
Ground Zero
In Pamplona, Spain, the annual Fiesta de San Fermin is celebrated with this event, in which 50 to 100 people are injured each year.
The Running of the Bulls.
Top U.S. air ace in WWI, he later owned the Indianapolis speedway & was president of Eastern Airlines
Eddie Rickenbacker
An ____________ branch.
olive
Vanessa, Robin, Andy
Williams
Weightlessness, as NASA might express it.
Zero Gravity
In 1999, New Hampshire was the last US state to make this January day a paid state holiday.
Martin Luther King Day
In January of 2009, this Captain miraculously landed his aircraft on the Hudson River
Sully Sullenberger
Gild the __________.
Lily
Mary, Steve, Dean
Martin
This is the lowest temperature that is theoretically possible.
Absolute Zero
Surprisingly, Congress made this an official holiday in 1938, though it marks an event that occurred 162 years earlier.
Independence Day, which commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
This Captain is Peter Pan's arch nemesis
Captain Hook
___________ roots.
Grass
Anita, Faith, Benny
Hill
In the 1960s, this term was coined to describe a system in which the number of babies born is limited to only the number needed to replace the existing people.
Zero Population Growth (ZPG)
Eid ul-Fitr (EED AL FIT•ter) marks the end of this month of fasting for Muslims.
Ramadan