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Varieties are pikes, tucks, and swans.
What are dives?
In mid-1985, you got over 1,500 of this Italian currency for a dollar.
What is a Lira?
Some call this beaded counting tool the first calculator.
What is an abacus?
The adult size of this J-shaped organ can hold about a quart of chop suey.
What is the stomach?
In 1922, she wrote, “Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics, & at Home”.
Who was Emily Post?
A kick aimed for the “coffin corner”, or a boat pushed with a pole.
What is a punt?
Of the America, Canadian, & Australian dollars, the 1 that’s worth the most.
What is the American dollar?
The “Great Emancipator”.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 24-bone chest enclosure houses the heart & the lungs.
What is the ribcage?
An alternate delegate to U.N. in 1958, she was 1st Black opera singer at the Met.
Who was Marian Anderson?
A strong hockey stroke to the net.
What is a slap shot?
Of the French, the Swiss, & the Belgian francs, the 1 that’s worth the least.
What is the Belgian franc?
Portable keyboard instrument that inspired the bumper sticker, “Play an ---, go to prison”.
What is an accordion?
Connected to the nasal area, these 4 sets of empty cavities make us all “airheads”.
What are the sinus cavities?
Her book, “Science & Health” was in its 382nd edition at her death in 1910.
Who was Mary Baker Eddy?
Sport in which you engage in trapping, dribbling, & heading the ball.
What is soccer?
“Krona”, the name of the local currency in Scandinavian countries, means this in English.
What is crown?
Virgil’s epic poem of the destruction of Troy.
What is Aenid?
Area most sensitive to touch, it’s the figurative place where Jeopardy questions can get stuck.
What is the tip of the tongue?
President of Playboy Enterprises, she’s no dumb bunny.
Who is Christie Hefner?
A football term for an illegal block on the back of an opponent’s legs.
What is a clip?
The zloty.
What is the currency of Poland?
It took two rivers & a mythological strongman to clean them.
What are the Augean Stables?
Though lacking tails, we don’t lack this, anatomically called a coccyx.
What is a tailbone?
She began her beauty empire behind a red door on 5th Ave.
Who was Elizabeth Arden?