house standing committees
inventions
let's run it up the flagpole
states' men
"G" whiz
100
there's a committee for the size of business.
What is a small business?
100
the first touch-tone one of these was placed in service in 1963.
What is a telephone?
100
the stars on over 50 national flags, including ours, have this many points.
What is 5?
100
jerry seinfeld & jerry stiller.
What is new york?
100
the first success for the theater of the absurd, a 1952 samuell beckett play is about this title figure.
What is godot?
200
transportation & infrastructure is one committee; this & means, another.
What is ways?
200
gymnast george nissen invented the first modern one of these in 1936; some called it a bouncing net.
What is a trampoline?
200
color of the left hand stripe on the flag of italy; it's not a color in neapolitan ice cream.
What is green?
200
count basie & bruce springsteen.
What is new jersey?
200
the first snorkels were used by submarine crews of this nation to get air to their engines without surfacing.
What is germany?
300
there's a permanent select committee on this headed by porter goss; how smart!
What is intelligence?
300
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?
300
international organization whose flag is seen here.
What is NATO?
300
mark twain & jesse james.
What is missouri?
300
excluding noncopyrighted works, this book first published in 1955 is the bestselling book in the world.
What is the guiness book of world records?
400
the name of a small committee says it cover the "standards of official" this for house members.
What is conduct?
400
in 1824 british bricklayer joseph aspdin invented the portland type of this.
What is cement?
400
richard lll had a white boar on his flag; louis Xlll, a porcupine; & louis XlV, a radiating one of these.
What is a sun?
400
abraham lincoln & jefferson davis.
What is kentucky?
400
the 2-man capsules of this program were propelled into orbit by titan ll rockets.
What is gemini?
500
C.W. bill young has a tendency to pass out (money) as chairman of this committee.
What is appropriations?
500
in 1868 christopher sholes & 2 others patented the typewriter; in 1873 this gunmaker got the contract to market it.
Who is remington?
500
after rama lV of slam saw his flag with this animal flown upside-down, he switched to a striped flag.
What are elephants?
500
andy warhol & andrew wyeth.
What is pennsylvania?
500
the 1983 invasion of this country inspired the plot of the film "heartbreak ridge".
What is grenada?
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