WE WERE SOLDIERS
ROCK BAND DRUMMERS
WORD ORIGINS
DO IT LIKE THE EUROPEANS
THAT'S SO "CONTINENTAL"
200
'For General John Bell Hood this war cost him an arm & a leg (literally) at Gettysburg & Chickamauga'
the Civil War
200
'In the beginning of Phil Collins career was a stint as the drummer of this band'
Genesis
200
'The English borrowed this Tongan word for "forbidden" & made it a noun referring to the prohibition itself'
taboo
200
'Europeans know this Louvre attraction as "La Giocanda"'
The Mona Lisa
200
'It met for the first time in at Carpenter's Hall in Philadelphia on September 5, 1774'
Continental Congress
400
'In early 1944, George Patton assumed command of this army & planned a French campaign'
the Third Army
400
'I'll be a believer when you ID this band for whom Micky Dolenz tapped the toms'
The Monkees
400
'The name for this type of worker comes from the Latin for "lead worker"'
plumber
400
'A museum in Silves, Portugal is devoted to this natural product important to Portugal's wine industry'
cork
400
'Its main hub cities are Newark, Cleveland & Houston'
Continental Airlines
600
'This 5-star general was the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff 1949-1953'
Bradley
600
'Keith Moon bashed the skins for this band with lunatic abandon'
The Who
600
'This word used in Roman Catholic theology comes from the Latin for "edge" or "border" not "dance"'
limbo
600
'This 15th-century European staked his claim to fame by inspiring a classic horror movie character'
Vlad the Impaler
600
'Abbreviated CBA, it includes teams called the Yakima Sun Kings & the Gary Steelheads'
the Continental Basketball Association
800
'A fort & a Tennessee city are named for this general who was also our nation's first Secretary of War'
(Henry) Knox
800
'John Densmore rode out many a storm as this band's drummer'
The Doors
800
'(Sarah of the Clue Crew reports from Naxos, Greece.) Ostraka, broken pieces of pottery used as ballots to recommend exile gave us this word for banishment'
ostracism
800
'Leks, levs & lats are all types of these still used in Eastern Europe'
currency
800
'The theory of the slow tectonic movement of plates across the Earth'
continental drift
1000
'Later a Hollywoord actor, he was the most decorated American soldier of World War II'
Audie Murphy
1000
'Mick Fleetwood of Fleetwood Mac risked combusting spontaneously in 2000, appearing with this band on VH1's "The List"'
Spinal Tap
1000
'This word for a prolonged state of sadness comes from the Greek for "black bile" (once thought to be it's cause)'
melancholy
1000
'Chartered in 1789, the town of Hammerfest in this country is the northernmost town in Europe'
Norway
1000
'To cartographers, it's known as CONUS'
the Continental United States
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