THE EMERALD ISLE
BLUE LITERATURE
THE WHITE HOUSE
BLACK AMERICANS
GRAY MATTERS
200
'Birnbaum's says there are over 10,000 of these in Ireland & 2,000 more in the north, a lot to "crawl" through'
Pubs
200
'This detective solved 1892's "The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", but didn't have the guilty party arrested'
Sherlock Holmes
200
'James Hoban, the original architect, supervised the rebuilding of the White House after this war'
War of 1812
200
'This one-time black Muslim leader was assassinated February 21, 1965 in New York City'
Malcolm X
200
'Neurons & glia are the brain's 2 main types of these basic biological units'
Cells
400
'Handel's "Messiah" had its premiere in this city that held its millennium celebration in 1988'
Dublin
400
'"Any Woman's Blues" was a 1990 novel by this "Fear Of Flying" author'
Erica Jong
400
'The South Lawn once contained a tree house where she played while her father was president 1977-1981'
Amy Carter
400
'This orator was born in 1817 in Tuckahoe, Maryland, the son of slave Harriet Bailey'
Frederick Douglass
400
'Boron neutron capture therapy is an experimental treatment for these growths in the brain'
Tumors
600
'3rd-largest city in Eire/Of its sites we never tire/Just walk around/& you'll be bound/To see it in its entire'
Limerick
600
'1873's "A Pair Of Blue Eyes" was the first novel he put his name on; "Far From The Madding Crowd" was second'
Thomas Hardy
600
'The Treaty Room, which Andrew Johnson used as his cabinet room, is next to this famous bedroom'
Lincoln Bedroom
600
'This former surgeon general interned at the University of Minnesota Hospital'
Jocelyn Elders
600
'This hemisphere of the brain generally governs musical & artistic creativity'
Right
800
'Most tourists come to this city to tour its glassworks; the original factory was founded in 1783'
Waterford
800
'"To The Far Blue Mountains" was one of this western author's Sackett sagas'
Louis L\'Amour
800
'A sofa once owned by this Massachusetts orator is in the Green Room; speak of the devil....'
Daniel Webster
800
'In 1988 this novelist won a Pulitzer Prize for her book "Beloved"'
Toni Morrison
800
'This "cerebral" layer has sensory, motor & associative areas, the latter helping you play "Jeopardy!"'
Cortex
1000
'There's a cycle of stories from this ancient province that includes tales of heroes like Cu Chulainn'
Ulster
1000
'"The Weary Blues" is a collection of verse by this Harlem Renaissance poet'
Langston Hughes
1000
'This president lived in Blair House for 4 years while the White House underwent a $5.8 million renovation'
Harry S. Truman
1000
'This winner of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize was a star on UCLA's basketball team in the 1920s'
Ralph Bunche
1000
'To move messages around the brain, chemicals called neurotransmitters jump these 1/10,000,000-inch gaps'
Synapses
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