HOUSE STANDING COMMITTEES
There's a committee for this size of business
what is a small business?
The first touch-tone one of these was placed in service in 1963
what is a telephone?
The stars on over 50 national flags, including ours, have this many points
What is 5?
Jerry Seinfeld &
Jerry Stiller
The first success for the theater of the Absurd, a 1952 Samuel Beckett play is about this title figure
What is Godot?
Transportation & Infrastructure is one committee; this & Means, another
What is Ways?
Gymnast George Nissen invented the first modern one of these in 1936; some called it a bouncing net
What is a Trampoline?
Color of the left hand stripe on the flag of Italy; it's not a color in Neapolitan ice cream
What is Green?
Count Basie &
Bruce Springsteen
What is New Jersey?
The first snorkels were used by submarine crews of this nation to get air to their engines without surfacing
What is Germany?
There's a Permanent Select Committee on this headed by Porter Goss; how smart!
What is Intelligence?
Not named when it steamed up the Hudson river in 1807, it was later named for the estate of Fulton's backer
What is the Clermont?
An international organization whose flag is seen here (Blue flag with a white compass in the middle).
What is NATO?
Mark Twain &
Jesse James
What is Missouri?
Excluding noncopyrighted works, this book first published in 1955 is the bestselling book in the world
What is The Guinness Book of World Records?
The name of a small committee says it covers the "standards of official" this for House members
What is conduct?
In 1824 British bricklayer Joseph Aspdin invented the Portland type of this
What is cement?
Richard III had a white boar on his flag; Louis XII, a porcupine; & Louis XIV, a radiating one of these
What is a sun?
Abraham Lincoln &
Jefferson Davis
What is Kentucky?
The 2-man capsules of this program were propelled into orbit by Titan II rockets
What is Gemini?
C.W. Bill Young has a tendency to pass out (money) as chairman of this committee
What is Appropriations?
In 1868 Christopher Sholes & 2 others patented the typewriter; in 1873 this gunmaker got the contract to market it
What is Remington?
After Rama IV of Siam saw his flag with this animal flown upside-down, he switched to a striped flag
What is Elephants?
Andy Warhol &
Andrew Wyeth
What is Pennsylvania?
The 1983 invasion of this country inspired the plot of the film "Heartbreak Ridge"
What is Grenada?