CONNECT UP WITH CONNECTICUT
3-LETTER WORDS
BEAR STUFF
THE 2005 GREENSBORO MAYORAL RACE
RESTAURANTS
200
'It's the spice in Connecticut's state nickname that you might sprinkle into your eggnog on a cold Connecticut night'
nutmeg
200
'Honey-making hive homey'
bee
200
'Track 7 on his "30 No. 1 Hits" album is "(Let Me Be Your) Teddy Bear"'
Elvis
200
'Vote did he get, this 900-year-old "Star Wars" character'
Yoda
200
'An inexpensive establishment of dubious hygiene is known as a "greasy" this utensil'
a spoon
400
'Connecticut's official state hero is this native son who was executed by the British in 1776'
Nathan Hale
400
'Wynken & Blynken's buddy'
Nod
400
'In 2002 the teddy bear, or as it was originally called, Teddy's Bear, celebrated this anniversary'
its 100-year anniversary
400
'AKA Forsythe Pendleton Jones in the "Archie" comics series, he got a vote'
Jughead
400
'If Giuseppe is a trattore, or restaurateur, this is the type of Italian restaurant he runs'
a trattoria
600
'Bridgeport, Connecticut has a P.T. Barnum museum & a statue of this tiny "General"'
Tom Thumb
600
'A large, unruly crowd of people, perhaps headed by Lucky Luciano'
mob
600
'American Greetings turned these into a card line, a stuffed animal line & an animated film series'
the Care Bears
600
'This "everyman" name, also the bassist/vocalist of the punk band X, got 4 votes'
John Doe
600
'At a sushi bar, spice wimps should learn the word "sabinuki", or "no" this'
wasabi
800
'Joe Lieberman & this man are Connecticut's U.S. Senate team'
(Christopher) Dodd
800
'A beam of light, or Mr. Charles'
ray
800
'Subject of a 1930s novelty song; in 1993 9,750 bears & their owners attended one set up in New Zealand'
teddy bear\'s picnic
800
'1 vote for this Missouri-born talk show host whom Al Franken called "a Big Fat Idiot" in a 1996 book'
Rush Limbaugh
800
'Buca dell'Orafo is in the cellar of what was once a goldsmith's shop near the Ponte Vecchio in this city'
Florence
1000
'New London, Connecticut is the home of this U.S. military academy'
the Coast Guard Academy
1000
'Top-fermented beer relative'
ale
1000
'An old stuffed bear from this German company sold at auction in 1994 for a lot of the green stuff--$158,000'
Steiff
1000
'3 votes went to this Disney character who debuted in "The Wise Little Hen" in 1934'
Donald Duck
1000
'When Hiltl opened in Zurich in 1898, its customers were called Grasfresser, as it's this kind of restaurant'
a vegetarian restaurant
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