BUSINESS & INDUSTRY
OLD MAN HOMER HAD A FARM
SCIENCE
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS
NAME THAT FAMOUS MOTHER
200
'In the late 1940s, this firm began the practice of selling underwear in cellophane bags, 3 to a bag'
Fruit of the Loom
200
'This one-eyed monster had some sheep, E-I-E-I-O, but he preferred to dine on Odysseus' men'
Cyclops (Polyphemus)
200
'From the surface of this innermost planet, the sun appears 2.5 times as large as it does from Earth'
Mercury
200
'This "Lullaby" composer was instrumental in getting Dvorak's "Moravian Duets" published'
Johannes Brahms
200
'Cody,
Cassidy'
Kathie Lee Gifford
400
'On July 19, 1970, after 70 years of business, this chocolate company ran its first consumer ad'
Hershey\'s
400
'E-I-E-I-Ouch! On a hunting trip, young Odysseus was scarred by one of these tusked terrors'
Boar
400
'The name of this element comes from iris, "rainbow", & refers to its multi-hued compounds'
Iridium
400
'3 of his most famous works, "Rigoletto", "Il Trovatore" & "La Traviata", were published between 1851-1853'
Giuseppe Verdi
400
'Rumer,
Scout,
Tallulah Belle'
Demi Moore
600
'In 1992 Playskool overhauled this toy by replacing its wooden rods & spools with plastic parts'
Tinkertoys
600
'Old King Priam had this wooden animal, E-I-E-I-O, & it was full of trouble'
Trojan Horse
600
'In computers or audio amplifiers, it's the process in which part of the output returns to the input'
Feedback
600
'This "Rite Of Spring" composer was commissioned to write the "Circus Polka" to be danced by circus elephants'
Igor Stravinsky
600
'David,
Ricky
(whose real name was Eric)'
Harriet Nelson
800
'In 1949 this German small appliance firm introduced the world's first electric foil shaver'
Braun
800
'Soldiers couldn't see the heron this wise goddess sent for luck, but heard it squawk here & squawk there'
Athena
800
'This basic aerodynamic force acts on a wing, putting greater pressure on its lower surface than on its upper'
Lift
800
'When this composer's opera "La boheme" premiered in Turin, Arturo Toscanini conducted the orchestra'
Giacomo Puccini
800
'Beatrice Elizabeth Mary,
Eugenie Victoria Helena'
Sarah Ferguson
1000
'This athletic shoe company was named for an African gazelle admired for its swiftness'
Reebok
1000
'On this sorceress' island, Aeaea, it was here a pig, there a pig, everywhere a pig, pig'
Circe (turned all the men into swine)
1000
'The 3 basic bacterial types are the coccus, the spirillum & this type that causes TB'
Bacillus
1000
'From 1835 to 1863 this "Symphonie Fantastique" composer wrote music criticism for "Journal des Debats" ("Journal of Debates")'
Hector Berlioz
1000
'Christina,
Christopher,
Cynthia,
Cathy'
Joan Crawford
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