Restaurant Options
Ellie’s Facebook
CNN.com
USFG Acronyms
NY / DC Connections
100
No Rob, you can’t order there they’ll screw up your order of this.
What is pita.
100
Sublet Ellie’s room in this part of NY and you can visit the co-op.
What is Park Slope?
100
Eric and Ellie wrote about bodies found after Massachusetts police tried to stop a man for this minor traffic violation.
What is a broken tail light?
100
GSA
General Services Administration
100
This New York based civil engineer first designed the street plan for Washington DC.
Who is Pierre L’Enfant?
200
Ellie says this restaurant is one of the only things in Turnstyle open on the 4th of July.
What is Poke Bowl?
200
Who has the most Facebook friends? Ellie, Sarah Jorgensen, Kwegyirba Croffie, Julia Jones or Rob Frehse.
Who is Julia Jones with 1,624 (Ellie has 1,323, Sarah Jorgensen 1,431, Kwegyirba Croffie 1,169, and Rob Frehse 1,320.)
200
The first CNN.com write by Ellie that I can find is about the death of Suzanne Wright, the founder of this Autism organization.
What is Autism Speaks?
200
FRA
Federal Railroad Administration
200
Kind of like Ellie, this man started in New York (as vice-president) but then went to DC (as president.)
Who was John Adams?
300
Ellie, Evan wants to order this for dinner.
What is Pizza?
300
According to an April 28 photo, who came in second to Ellie at the Bronx Zoo Run for the Wild.
Who is Lauren del Valle.
300
According to Ellie’s CNN.com profile page she graduated from College with two degrees. This is one of them. (Neither are journalism.)
What is English Literature and Hispanic Studies.
300
FERC
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
300
Driving from the NY bureau to the DC bureau you find this fast food restaurant marooned in the middle of a traffic circle on New York Ave.
What is the Dave Thomas Circle Wendy’s.
400
Don’t tell this group of people that Ellie is ordering dinner.
What are the producers?
400
Ellie’s Cat’s name. I wonder if it likes Rubber Duckies?
Who is Ernie?
400
This person’s ashes were sold at auction (not at Tiffany’s) in 2016 for 45,000 dollars.
Who was Truman Capote?
400
GPO
Government Publishing Office
400
This man performed in Julius Caesar (not as Brutus) at the Winter Garden Theater to raise money for the Central Park Shakespeare statue. But he went down in history a year later in a DC theater.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
500
The real name of the “Smelly Deli” in the DC bureau.
What is the Station Café?
500
In the oldest post I can find on her Facebook page, a 13-year-old Ellie is wearing an evening gown and this on her head.
500
“Chinese authorities are livid over the theft of a thumb” Ellie wrote in February. It was this thumb that was stolen.
What is a terracotta warrior’s thumb?
500
ONDCP
Office of National Drug Control Policy
500
It was on its way to New York when disaster struct, but was famously investigated by the Senate in the “new” Senate Office Building. Now there is a memorial to it in an obscure part of SE DC.
What is the Titanic?