The "A" List
The word embassy comes from this job of working in an embassy.
What is an ambassador?
Glossophobia: This, especially in public.
What is speaking?
What a romantic partner might make during a nice anniversary dinner, or a business partner might make during a conference.
What is proposal?
Bill Shakespeare here! Prithee complete my line, "Shall I compare thee to" this?
What is a summer's day?
A 2022 population estimate by the Census Bureau lists this Lone Star capital as the 10th-largest U.S. city.
What is Austin?
It's the absence of any form of political authority.
What is anarchy?
Coulrophobia: These performers, and please don't send them in.
What are clowns?
An introduction to a literary work.
What is a prologue?
In Robert Frost's "The Road Not Taken," "I took the one" that was this.
What is less traveled by?
Over one third of the population living in this New York City borough were born in another country.
What is Brooklyn?
These insects, also known as plant lice, are captured & milked by many ants for the honeydew liquid they produce.
What are aphids?
Chorophobia: This activity, which will make prom more difficult to enjoy.
What is dancing?
A warning of the future that is often unheeded by the populace.
What is a prophecy?
I am the "I" in "I Felt a Funeral, in My Brain," and what do you mean, I'm obsessed with death?
Who is Emily Dickinson?
It's in Nebraska and home to Tyson Foods' largest beef production factory.
What is Dakota [City]?
The name of this refractive defect of the eye comes from the Greek.
What is astigmatism?
Samhainophobia: This holiday.
What is Halloween?
An expert who uses behavioral knowledge to identify suspected criminals.
What is a profiler?
It's Billy Shakes again! Prithee tell me the name of this character who said, "To be or not to be, that is the question."
Who is Hamlet?
It's the home city of Phil Knight, who founded Nike in 1964 with his U of O track coach, Bill Bowerman.
What is Eugene?
You can control light entering a camera by varying the diameter of this, which acts like the iris in the human eye.
What is an aperture?
Porphyrophobia: This, literally, also the title of a 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel.
What is the color purple?
A prominent nose, or an elephant's trunk (bugs sometimes have this, too).
What is a proboscis?
Aye, I did write Paradise Lost and many other works. Shame I went totally blind by 1652!
Who is John Milton?
Despite the fact that it's the smallest city in Massachusetts, it is still the second most densely populated city in the state.
What is Chelsea?