Its Mormon founders called it Deseret
Utah
"The mother of invention"
necessity
You can call me "merry" or you can call me "hairy" but you doesn't have to call me "Santa"
Saint Nicholas (or Saint Nick)
A 1939 college baseball game was the first sports event shown on this medium
television
They "rush in where angels fear to tread"
fools
The only state beginning with "A" that does not end in "A"
Arkansas
Country credited with invention of pasta, porcelain, & paper
China
This Backstreet Boy was offered a $50,000 contract with the Mickey Mouse Club, which he turned down
Nick Carter
The Metropolitan Museum of Art has 200,000 of them
baseball trading cards
Some of the badges she can earn are: Horse Lover, Dabbler & Ms. Fix-it
a Girl Scout
The only state to touch 4 of the Great Lakes
Michigan
Tissue originally used as a WWI gas filter, but now literally something to sneeze at
Kleenex
Things are never "hoop" less for this Manhattan team
the New York Knicks
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1 of 3 Major League Baseball teams with state rather than city names
Hemingway wrote the book, Rogers & Parton sang the song:
"Islands in the Stream"
1 of 4 states that's officially a commonwealth
Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Virginia or Kentucky
1st developed for the blind, they've become the most widely used business machine
the typewriter
He was Eddie Murphy's partner for 48 hours
Nick Nolte
Ironically, ex-con Ron LeFlore led the N.L. in these in 1980
stolen bases
If the item is colored yellow & you use a red dye, the resulting color is this
orange
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Its state flower is the hibiscus
Printing press inventor associated with the world's most valuable book
Gutenberg
When John Wayne always arrived with the cavalry
In the nick of time
To help their owner pay off gambling debts, the 1920 Red Sox sold him to the Yankees
Babe Ruth
Football's imaginary plane which neither team may cross until the ball is snapped
the line of scrimmage