THE LIBERTY BELL
AMERICAN POETRY
FOREIGN FUNDS
1998 DISCOVERIES
ROCK & ROLL RHYME TIME
200
'This frontiersman "Went off to Congress and served a spell...an' patched up the crack in the Liberty Bell"'
Davy Crockett
200
'This ebony bird was "Perched upon a bust of Pallas just above my chamber door"'
The Raven
200
'With no birrs to spend, it'll be adios ababa for you in this country'
Ethiopia
200
'In 1998 biologists in Hawaii said they had cloned over 50 of these lab animals'
Mice
200
'Iggy's policemen'
Pop\'s cops
400
'The Roman numerals MDCCLIII on the bell's waist denote that it was cast in this year'
1753
400
'In 1890, 4 years after her death, the first volume of this "Amherst Nun's" poetry was published'
Emily Dickinson
400
'To buy 16 ounces of cookies in Cairo, you'll need the Egyptian this'
Pound
400
'APHS, a chemical compound that won't irritate the stomach, was created as an alternative to this'
Aspirin
400
'Rawls' loafers'
Lou\'s shoes
600
'It's thought that the Liberty Bell rang out to announce the arrival of this Frenchman in September 1824'
Marquis de Lafayette
600
'"Priscilla" was the original title of Longfellow's poem about "The Courtship of" this Puritan captain'
Miles Standish
600
'The Vatican cuts its checks in its own version of this currency'
Italian Lira
600
'Ken Karsmizki discovered a campsite near Great Falls, Mt., dating back to 1805, that may have been this pair's'
Lewis and Clark
600
'Idol's flowers'
Billy\'s lilies
800
'The striking of the bell was broadcast to the nation on this day when the Allies landed at Normandy'
D-Day (June 6, 1944)
800
'Robert Frost wrote that "Good fences make" these'
Good neighbors
800
'In Montevideo you may go Uruguay & I'll go mine, but we'll both spend these'
Pesos
800
'Divers found the lost island of Antirhodos, where Cleopatra once lived, sunken off this city'
Alexandria
800
'Sheryl's pedal digits'
Crow\'s toes
1000
'The bell consists of about 70% this metal, 25% tin & smaller amounts of zinc, lead & silver'
Copper
1000
'He wrote "Old Ironsides" while a law student'
Oliver Wendell Holmes
1000
'You'll need money named for this explorer to buy a shipload of canal supplies in Panama'
Vasco de Balboa
1000
'Microbes found 2,800' below the sea floor off New Guinea extended this region of the Earth that can support life'
Biosphere
1000
'Morrison's skinny-dippings'
Jim\'s swims
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