AT THE "Y"
JOHN BOY
MOUNTAIN
TECHNOLOGY
PLAYING PRESIDENT
200
'A "cowardly" variety of sapsucker'
Yellow-bellied
200
'Designed by John Roebling, when it opened in 1883, it was the world's longest suspension bridge & not for sale'
Brooklyn Bridge
200
'An 1852 survey by the government of India said it was the tallest mountain in the world'
Mount Everest
200
'The Oxford Illustrated Encyclopedia says this tool has largely replaced the axe in forestry'
Chainsaw
200
'1939:
Henry Fonda'
Abraham Lincoln ("Young Mr. Lincoln")
400
'It can be a restrictive burden or a wooden frame for harnessing draft animals'
Yoke
400
'In 1608 he became president of Jamestown'
John Smith
400
'In 1760 Horace Benedict de Saussure of Geneva offered a prize to the first to scale this Alpine peak'
Mont Blanc
400
'The "tracks" on a printed circuit board are made of this metal'
Copper
400
'2000:
Jeff Daniels'
George Washington (in "The Crossing\')
600
'From the Sanskrit for "joining", it's a Hindu discipline aimed at training the mind & body'
Yoga
600
'He went from working in a coal mine, working up, up, up to become UMW president from 1920 to 1960'
John L. Lewis
600
'The Virunga Range is renowned as the habitat of these vegetarian primates'
mountain gorillas
600
'Without this Wallace Carothers invention, WWII G.I.s would have had only chocolates to offer women'
Nylons
600
'1995:
Nick Nolte'
Thomas Jefferson
800
'Paul Williams wrote the music for this "worldly" Helen Reddy Top 10 hit'
"You and Me Against the World"
800
'In 1638 this non-ordained minister left half his fortune & his library to a college in New Towne, Mass.'
John Harvard
800
'Israel, Lebanon, Syria & the U.N. all have presences around Mount Hermon, the highest peak on these heights'
Golan Heights
800
'This lifesaving device had its first live test in 1946 from a Gloster Meteor aircraft'
Ejection seats
800
'1974:
William Devane'
John F. Kennedy
1000
'As in Anno Domini 2000, it's what Anno Domini means in English'
The Year of Our Lord
1000
'In 1842 he mapped most of the Oregon Trail; 8 years later he was a California senator'
John C. Fremont
1000
'It's the famous pass in the Safed Koh Range of northeastern Afghanistan'
Khyber Pass
1000
'If you're using a GPS device to get around, you should know GPS stands for this'
Global Positioning System
1000
'1997:
Anthony Hopkins'
John Quincy Adams
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