Invention Abbreviations
DVD
Digital Versatile Disc
British writer and physician known for creating the world's most famous detective.
This woman, born in 1884, was the longest serving first lady in the United States.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thoughtful or compassionate.
Considerate
North by Northwest, To Catch a Thief, Houseboat.
Cary Grant
WWW
World Wide Web
This fictional character from a 1970s TV show is easily recognized by his leather jacket and thumbs up gesture.
This first ever window of an assassinated president, this woman was later institutionalized for a psychiatric disease.
Mary Todd Lincoln
A donation or offering.
Contribution
True Grit, Rio Bravo, Stage Coach.
John Wayne
SMS
Short Message Service
English actor and dancer who appeared in Mary Poppins and four Shirley Temple films.
Arthur Treacher
This first lady (or should I say second) urged her husband to "remember the ladies" in a letter sent in 1776.
Abigal Adams
An encounter or dispute.
Confrontation
Rear Window, The Philadelphia Story, It's a Wonderful Life.
James Stewart
MP3
Moving Picture Experts Group
One half of the popular folk rock duo, known for its song which begins with a greeting to the darkness.
Arthur Garfunkel
An international fashion icon, this first lady was responsible for giving popularity to the pill box hat.
Jackie Kennedy
Regularity or steadiness.
Consistency
An American in Paris, Brigadoon, Singing in the Rain,
Gene Kelly
The decade in which all the previous responses were invented.
1990s
Although historians still can't prove he actually existed, this man led the defense of Britain against invaders in the 5th and 6th century.
King Arthur
This woman refused to leave the White House (which was on fire at the time) until a portrait of George Washington could be removed from its unremovable frame and saved it from destruction during the War of 1812.
Dolley Madison
To be self-assured or assertive.
Confident
Funny Face, Easter Parade, Top Hat.