THE 1940s
$90 down & $58 a month for 25 years bought one of these in Levittown
a house
Name under which John Anthony Burgess wrote "A Clockwork Orange"
Anthony Burgess
At 5' 3", Tyrone "Muggsy" Bogues is this pro league's shortest player ever
NBA
Facts on File says the 1st of these were probably bone splinters & sharp sticks; screwdrivers came later
tools
In the film "Our Wife", cross-eyed Ben Turpin married Oliver Hardy to this co-star
Stan Laurel
Musical which opened on Broadway April 7, 1949 & gave us the following song:
"Some enchanted evening...."
South Pacific
Ford Hermann Hueffer used this pen name, perhaps because his grandfather was the artist Ford Madox Brown
Ford Madox Ford
In December 1987, Ron Hextall became the 1st NHL goalie ever to do this all by himself
score a goal
Evolutionist Ernst Haeckel coined the term Pithecanthropus for the missing link between these
apes & man
An Elvis impersonator officiated when this "Divine Miss M" became divine Mrs. von Haselberg
Bette Midler
From mid 1948-late 1949, an average of 4,000 tons of provisions a day were being flown into this city
He dropped the "E" from his last name in 1786, when he published his 1st book of Scottish poetry
Robert Burns
To reach this governing body, write to the Chateau de Vidy, CH-1007, Lausanne, Switzerland
International Olympic Committee
A new find shows man may have reached these continents 30,000 years ago, 20,000 earlier than thought before
(clue: Were standing in one right now)
the Americas
Wedding member whose original task was to provide backup muscle while the groom kidnapped the bride (in case parents disagreed)
the best man
In June 1948, Stalin broke diplomatic ties with this European Communist country
Yugoslavia
British sisters who published a book of poems under the names Currer, Ellis & Acton Bell
the Bronte sisters
In 1978 he became the last person Muhammad Ali beat to win the WBA heavyweight championship
Leon Spinks
France
This book of the Old Testament may be a collection of folk songs originally sung at wedding
Song of Solomon
They were discovered in 1947 by a Bedouin boy looking for a missing goat
the Dead Sea Scrolls
Sometimes this Maine poetess wrote under the name Nancy Boyd, 2 words shorter than her real name
Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Chiefs were the 1st in 1967, followed by the Raiders in '68, then the Colts, then the Vikings
to lose the Super Bowl
The Australopithecus afarensis skeleton found in 1974 in eastern Africa was "Desi"gnated this
(CLue: I love BLANK the show)
Lucy
Mozart opera in which Marcellina plots to marry the title character until she finds out he's her son
The Marriage of Figaro