How Many Years?
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WASHINGTON YESTERDAY
100
Tricentennial
What is 300 years?
100
On this state! Specifically, on this state's northeastern border, it's Michigan's Upper Peninsula!
What is Wisconsin?
100
The first paragraph of this Dickens work says, "Old Marley was dead as a door-nail".
What is A Christmas Carol?
100
You can drink from the "water" one at your school, but probably not the one at the mall with the coins at the bottom.
What is a fountain?
100
In 1842 this "Sleepy Hollow" author was appointed U.S. minister to Spain.
What is Washington Irving?
200
Biennial
What is 2 years?
200
Hannah's leaving Montana heading east into this state that borders Canada.
What is North Dakota?
200
Liesel Meminger steals "The Gravedigger's Handbook" & other tomes in this WWII-set novel narrated by Death.
What is The Book Thief?
200
More overcast than yesterday's weather.
What is overcast?
200
Among products this man derived from the sweet potato was postage stamp glue, & that's not just peanuts!
What is George Washington Carver?
300
Milenial
What is 1,000 years?
300
Heading over Delaware's southern border? See you in this state.
What is Maryland?
300
Jean Louise Finch is the real name of the girl with this nickname in "To Kill a Mockingbird".
What is Scout?
300
The person to whom apartment dwellers pay rent.
What is a landlord?
300
It spans the Hudson River, contains 107,000 miles of wire & has 2 levels, each with 12 traffic lanes.
What is the (George) Washington Bridge?
400
Quincentennial
What is 500 years?
400
By the time you get to Phoenix, & then go over Arizona's northern border to this state, you've driven a long way?
What is Utah?
400
This H.G. Wells story says the title figure has "goggling spectacles and (a) ghastly bandaged face".
What is The Invisible Man?
400
A popular military motto is "death before" this, loss of respect or reputation.
What is dishonor?
400
Sidney Poitier was the first African American to win the Oscar for Best Actor; he was the second.
What is Denzel Washington?
500
Sesquicentennial
What is 150 years?
500
A majority of Wyoming's western border is with this state.
What is Idaho?
500
12-year-old Jonas is the receiver of memories in this novel by Lois lowry.
What is The Giver?
500
This term for someone hired to do small jobs around the house contains a body part.
What is a handyman?
500
n 1983 Harold Washington became the first African-American mayor of this midwestern city.
What is Chicago?
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