1957
U.S. STATE NAMES
BODIES OF WATER
THAT'S SOME OF YOUR BUSINESS
SPEED HAMLET
200
'The October 4 launch of this made Americans doubt their country's technological superiority'
Sputnik
200
'Lots of folks must wear glasses in this state; it's the only one with 4 "i"s'
Mississippi
200
'In 1875, Sir Henry Morton Stanley circumnavigated this largest African lake'
Lake Victoria
200
'Where else would Ty Pennington go for appliances by Kenmore but this chain, founded in the late 1800s'
Sears
200
'The king's jester; alas, do you know him?'
Yorick
400
'In March Egypt reopened this waterway after a 4-month blockage'
Suez Canal
400
'Its name includes the name of another state that was named for a ruler born in 1533'
West Virginia
400
'This arm of the Mediterranean separates Italy from Croatia & Albania'
Adriatic Sea
400
'The logo for this shoe retailer founded in 1974 is seen here'
Foot Locker
400
'In a sense, this queen drinks herself to death'
Gertrude
600
'In 1957 Melville Bell Grosvenor became Editor in Chief of this "national" mag., a position his father held for 51 years'
National Geographic
600
'Land's sakes! The only 2 states with "land" in their names'
Maryland & Rhode Island
600
'The Gulf of Finland & the Gulf of Bothnia both extend from this sea'
Baltic Sea
600
'After Prohibition, this Kentucky bourbon maker, at age 70, rebuilt his family's distillery, by hand, in 120 days'
Jim Beam
600
'Exeunt these 2 "formerly fellow-students with Hamlet"; they are dead'
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern
800
'Jack Kerouac published "On The Road", & Nevil Shute wrote "On The" this'
Beach
800
'This state's name is a homophone for a word that means "principal"'
Maine
800
'This Arctic sea is named for the British naval officer who devised a wind scale'
Beaufort Sea
800
'"Rain Man" didn't have a very high opinion of this retail chain that filed for bankruptcy in January 2002'
Kmart
800
'Polonius' kid, he gets the poisoned point'
Laertes
1000
'On July 29, 1957 this "explosive" organization, the IAEA, was established'
International Atomic Energy Agency
1000
'The names of this state & its state capital both end with the letters "na"'
Montana
1000
'It sounds servile, but this 11,000-square-mile Canadian lake is actually named for a tribe of Native Americans'
Great Slave Lake
1000
'In 1971 this company brought out the 4004, the world's first commercial microprocessor'
Intel
1000
'He's the Fresh Prince of Norway'
Fortinbras
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