19th CENTURY AMERICA
FAIRBURY, NEBRASKA
2-DRINK MINIMUM
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
B MINUS
200
'Built by the Franciscans around 1718, it was captured by Mexicans in 1836'
the Alamo
200
'Fairbury is the seat of this county named for the U.S. president known as the "Sage of Monticello"'
(Thomas) Jefferson
200
'2 of the flavors in names of Diet Coke varieties in the U.S.'
(2 of 4) cherry, vanilla, lemon & lime
200
'Madonna could have gone to Madonna Univ. in Livonia but instead attended this bigger school in Ann Arbor'
University of Michigan
200
'Strip the "B" off a South American country & you're left with her, Ms. Newton-John'
Olivia (from Bolivia)
400
'You can tour this general's 1807 Virginia birthplace, Stratford Hall'
Robert E. Lee
400
'On April 4, 1860 Jack Keetley became the first to change mounts at Rock Creek Station in this new mail service'
the Pony Express
400
'The 2 basic numerical types of lowfat milk'
1% & 2%
400
'This university's Sanders-Brown Center on Aging is named in honor of Colonel Sanders & John Y. Brown Sr.'
University of Kentucky
400
'After losing a "B" the UCLA football team was in these'
ruins (from Bruins)
600
'California's first state prison, it was built with convict labor in 1852'
San Quentin
600
'In 1861 this great-great-grandfather of astronaut Bruce McCandless was killed by this "Wild" gunslinger near Fairbury'
Wild Bill Hickok
600
'The 2 basic types of vermouth; one usually goes in a martini, the other in a Manhattan'
sweet & dry
600
'62% of the undergrads at Charter Oak State College are from this state'
Connecticut
600
'Groups of Native Americans have to drop a "B" in order to make these attempts'
tries (from tribes)
800
'Born in 1800, he believed God had chosen him to lead his fellow black slaves to freedom'
Nat Turner
800
'Passenger railways serving Fairbury through the years included the Union Pacific & this one mentioned in the song heard here'
the Rock Island Line
800
'Rhyming words for German dark beer & German white wine'
bock & Hach
800
'John Carroll, America's first Roman Catholic bishop, founded this Washington, D.C. university'
Georgetown
800
'Do a "B"-ectomy on an automated non-human auto plant worker & you get this potted plant part'
root (from robot)
1000
'From 1831 to 1865 William Lloyd Garrison published this crusading journal'
The Liberator
1000
'In 1933 the First National Bank was robbed by a gang that included Alvin Karpis & 2 sons of this female gangster'
Ma Barker
1000
'The 2 nationalities that precede "breakfast" in Peet's Favorites tea sampler'
English & Irish
1000
'President Taft's daughter Helen was a longtime history professor & dean of this women's college in Pennsylvania'
Bryn Mawr
1000
'After being called to dinner, what we were eating on lost a "B" & all I had left was this story to tell'
tale (from table)
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