THE POLITICS OF BEFORE & AFTER
RHYME SPR"EE"
MATH
LEGENDS OF SPORT
WORLD HERSTORY
200
'Johnny Cash song lyric that gives the power to nix individual items in tax bills'
Walk The Line Item Veto
200
'A larch'
tree
200
'It's a statement that can be proved; there are binomial & exponential ones'
theorem
200
'In 1968, while still in the army, this future hall of fame tennis player became the first Black male to win the U.S. Open'
(Arthur) Ashe
200
'This famous water bearer fired cannon during the Battle of Monmouth'
Molly Pitcher
400
'Any Western New York NFL player who's actually the first 10 amendments to the Constitution'
Buffalo Bill of Rights
400
'Gloatingly jubilant joy'
glee
400
'Pierre de Fermat invented the differential type of this branch of math'
calculus
400
'Older than his classmates, Cornell football player & future coach Glenn Warner got this nickname'
Pop
400
'In 1429 she led Charles VII & his military escort through enemy territory so that he could be crowned at Reims'
Joan of Arc
600
'Walt Whitman lobbied hard for this 1855 work that he hoped would inspire people to action at a local level'
Leaves of Grassroots
600
'The side of a ship away from the wind'
lee
600
'This trigonometric function is abbreviated sec'
secant
600
'In 1922 this future movie Tarzan became the first to swim the 100-meter freestyle in under 60 seconds'
Johnny Weissmuller
600
'In 1983 she returned to Manila to arrange her husband's funeral; 3 years later, she was president'
(Corazon) Aquino
800
'Spending for a congressman's local interests, like say a Hasbro simian container game'
Pork Barrel of Monkeys
800
'An archaic form of "you", as used in "Sonnets from the Portuguese"'
thee
800
'In the expression 5x, the constant 5 is this, meaning a multiplying factor'
numerical coefficient
800
'Having overcome childhood polio that crippled a leg, she won 3 sprint gold medals in the 1960 Olympics'
(Wilma) Rudolph
800
'She was twice widowed prior to marrying Henry VIII & was then widowed again when Henry died in 1547'
(Catherine) Parr
1000
'Media consultant ensuring that speeches by Pasternak's physician get the best possible play in the press'
Spin Doctor Zhivago
1000
'The largest Indian tribe of Canada'
Cree
1000
'This adjective that can mean exaggerated is also found in the name of a branch of non-Euclidean geometry'
hyperbolic
1000
'In 1962 this shortstop broke the single-season record by stealing 104 bases; it's still the Dodger record'
(Maury) Wills
1000
'On June 16, 1963 she became the first person to achieve Earth orbit who had never been a test pilot'
(Valentina) Tereshkova
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