RHYMES WITH RAIN
WHAT'S THE FREQUENCY?
STATE CAPITALS
DEBT
WEIGHTS & MEASURES
200
'Hamlet, or Hans Christian Andersen'
Dane
200
'Leap Day
(usually)'
Once every 4 years
200
'In 1977 this Florida city replaced its old capitol building with a new high-rise capitol'
Tallahassee
200
'Repo, as in "They can't repo my car because I owe ten lousy payments!", is short for this'
Repossess/repossession
200
'Computer hard drives are usually measured in GBs, which are these'
Gigabytes
400
'State where you'll find the lighthouse seen here'
Maine
400
'Twelfth night'
Once a year
400
'The name of this Southwestern capital is Spanish for "holy faith"'
Santa Fe, New Mexico
400
'Insert 1 letter in "debt" to get this, a bookkeeping entry for money you owe'
Debit
400
'This metric unit is equivalent to 1.056 quarts'
Liter
600
'Whoop-ee! The tallest bird native to North America is a species of this'
Crane
600
'The Venice Biennale Art Exhibit'
Every 2 years
600
'Abraham Lincoln moved to this capital city in 1837'
Springfield, Illinois
600
'These popular student loans are named for a Vermont senator'
Stafford loans
600
'The symbol for this unit of electrical resistance is the Greek letter omega'
Ohm
800
'It's the opposite of wax, when referring to phases of the moon'
Wane
800
'Mr. Spock of "Star Trek" feels the urge to mate'
Once every 7 years
800
'America's oldest public art museum, the Wadsworth Atheneum, is in this city whose name contains the word "art"'
Hartford
800
'A time during which late payments aren't penalized, or the years 1956-1982 in Monaco'
Grace period
800
'Subtract an "E" from 1,760 yards & you get this measurement for one-thousandth of an inch'
Mil
1000
'It means to fabricate or imitate, or to pretend, as ignorance'
Feign
1000
'An ordinary jubilee year in the Roman Catholic Church'
Every 25 years
1000
'In 1957 this city's Central High was at the center of a desegregation battle'
Little Rock, Arkansas
1000
'This partner of "forget" is what Bono wants Western nations to do with Third World debt'
Forgive
1000
'The name of this system of weights & measures comes from the Old French for "goods of weight"'
Avoirdupois
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