NIXON'S CABINET
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES
I KNOW THAT SONG
CLASSIC TOYS
"D" IN SCIENCE
200
'In 1973 William Rogers was replaced in this post by a German import'
Secretary of State
200
'If a Frenchwoman receives a billet-doux, she's gotten one of these'
a love note or letter
200
'"Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jack, I don't care if i never get back" in this song'
"Take Me Out to the Ball Game"
200
'A Hungarian inventor is famous for this puzzling cube'
the Rubik\'s Cube
200
'Children with this genetic disease have 3 no. 21 chromosomes instead of the usual 2'
Down syndrome
400
'Nixon went through 4 of these; the last was William Saxbe'
Attorney General
400
'This rhyming Chinese word for acting in a servile manner literally means "knock one's head"'
kowtow
400
'Song that starts, "When the night has come / and the land is dark / and the moon is the only light we'll see"'
"Stand By Me"
400
'Peter Hodgson Sr. saw the appeal of synthetic rubber that bounced & sold it in a plastic egg under this name'
Silly Putty
400
'This chemist discovered several elements, including magnesium, & also invented a miner's safety lamp'
Sir Humphrey Davy
600
'George Shultz didn't work for peanuts as Secretary of the Treasury or as Secretary of this in Nixon's cabinet'
Secretary of Labor
600
'Meaning "double point", the German doppelpunkt refers to this mark of punctuation'
the colon
600
'In the lyrics of "Where It's At", Beck said, "I got" this setup'
two turntables and a microphone
600
'"What walks down stairs, alone or in pairs... Everyone loves" this wonderful toy'
Slinky
600
'Sharks first inhabited the waters during this period of the Paleozoic era named for an English county'
Devonian
800
'The only Melvin to serve in a cabinet post in the 20th century was this man as Nixon's Secretary of Defense'
Melvin Laird
800
'This other name for the Lord's Prayer comes from the Latin for "Our Father"'
Pater Noster
800
'"When I dance they call me" this, "and the boys they say que soy buena, they all want me, they can't have me"'
the "Macarena"
800
'For many adults, the scent of this soft Hasbro modeling compound is the smell of childhood'
Play-Doh
800
'Named for a German mathematician, it's a process for eliminating or neutralizing a magnetic field'
degaussing
1000
'As head of this department, Robert Finch had his attention pulled in 3 separate directions'
Health, Education & Welfare
1000
'In English, a recorder can make a racket; in French, "recorder" means to do this to a racquet'
restring
1000
'Five For Fighting flew high with this song that says, "I'm more than a bird, I'm more than a plane"'
"Superman"
1000
'This doll first came out way back in 1915; Andy soon followed'
Raggedy Ann
1000
'The atomic mass unit is also called this, after a 19th century British scientist'
the dalton
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