U.S. History
Spanning from Rock Island, IL to Davenport, IA, 1st railway bridge over this river opened 5/21/1856.
What is the Mississippi River?
Cape Morris Jesup, northernmost point of North America, is part of this huge island.
What is Greenland?
Number of potential royal flushes in a standard deck.
What is 4?
This inventor's deaf wife & mother could not hear his famous device.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
As fishnet lost the fashion edge, clover leaf & patterned lace became the latest in these.
What are stockings?
After a series of sit-down strikes at plants in 1936-37, GM agreed to recognize this union.
What are United Auto Workers?
Of Africa or South America, the one that's longest from north to south.
What is Africa?
Type of professional whose opening line might be "Pick a card, any card".
What is a magician?
1 oz. creme de cacao, 1 oz. brandy, 1 oz. cream.
What is Brandy Alexander?
The target in golf, most are drained so that they don't "runneth over" after rainstorms.
What is a cup?
While FDR served the longest term, 12 years, this president served the shortest, 1 month.
Who is William Henry Harrison?
The driest of all continents, it's home to the Gibson, Great Sandy & Great Victoria Deserts.
What is Australia?
Of poker, pinochle or bridge, the 1 whose name came over from Russia.
What is bridge?
He founded a city on a battle-site in India to honor his horse Bucephalus.
Who is Alexander the Great?
Just before Lenin died, he urged that this tyrant be deposed as Communist Party secy.-gen.
Who is Stalin?
This Confederate Civil War song became a hit single for Mitch Miller in 1955.
What is “The Yellow Rose of Texas”?
Of the 7, number of continents that lie both north & south of the equator.
What is 3 (What is Asia, Africa, & South America)?
The term "trump" is a variation of this word for "win".
What is triumph?
In 1979, he left the Bolshoi; in 1986's "The Money Pit" Shelley Long left him.
Who is Alexander Godunov?
NYC's Central Park is almost twice the size of this country on the Mediterranean.
What is Monaco?
French for "the narrows", this city was founded in 1701 on river between Lake Huron & Lake Erie.
What is Detroit?
Continent which, after Africa, has recorded the highest temperature, 134 degrees.
What is North America?
In French, this suit is "trefle"; in German, "treff"; & in Spanish, "bastos".
What is clubs?
This poet penned his mock-epic to stop an actual family feud over a "ravish'd" lock of hair.
Who is Alexander Pope?
You'd consume 3000 of these eating 15 oz. of butter or 1500 radishes.
What are calories?