ODD ALPHABETS
IDAHOANS
AVIATION
POTPOURRI
SHAVIAN CHARACTERS
200
'In alphabet radio code, "B" is Bravo and "F" shares its name with this dance'
Foxtrot
200
'"Encyclopedia Americana" says this guide of Lewis and Clark lived to about one hundred while the "Britannica" says she died at twenty-six'
Sacajawea (Bird Woman)
200
'On October 1, 1986, Northwest Airlines took this word out of its name'
Orient
200
'In October, 1986, the U.S. mint issued the first of these in more than fifty years'
Gold Coin
200
'In Shaw's play about her, this Russian empress rhapsodizes about Voltaire, who historically was her pen pal'
Catherine the Great
400
'Edible letters produced by Post'
Alpha-Bits
400
'Idaho's highest point, Borah Peak, is named for William E. Borah, who held this office for thirty-three years'
U.S. Senator
400
'To serve as Air Force One, two of this model are currently on order from Boeing'
747
400
'Iva D' Aguino, who in 1977 received a presidential pardon, was better known by this nickname'
Tokyo Rose
400
'Performances of "Mrs. Warren's Profession" were banned because this was Mrs. Warren's profession'
Prostitution
600
'In ASCII, this kind of computer code, A is 01000001'
Binary Code
600
'It's where you'd go to see Idaho-born sculptor Gutzon Borglum's most famous work'
Mount Rushmore (South Dakota)
600
'One of the two biggest makers of commercial jet aircraft engines in the United States'
Pratt and Whitney & GE
600
'Guinness says the greatest number of people saved by one man from death were saved by him in 1944-45'
Raoul Wallenberg
600
'Heroine who says, "My voices have deceived me....but only a fool will walk into a fire"'
St. Joan
800
'In the sign-language alphabet, it's the first letter whose sign resembles it'
C
800
'"The poet's poet," his writings were far more influential than his World War II broadcasts from fascist Italy'
Ezra Pound
800
'Its acquisition of People Express, Frontier, Continental, and Eastern have made it the biggest U.S. air company'
Texas Air
800
'He won a lifetime membership in the U.S. Duffers Association after missing the first golf ball he swung at on the moon'
Alan Shepard
800
'This play has characters named Snobby Price, Rummy Mitchens, and Barbara Undershaft'
Major Barbara
1000
'Representing the sound of the "a" in "about", a small "e" turned upside down is called this'
Schwa
1000
'This former Bendix executive and his wife, Mary Cunningham, now run their own venture capital firm'
William Agee
1000
'Some claim that the Wright brothers made only a power glider and that this Brazillian really invented the airplane'
Albert (O.) Santos-Dumont
1000
'Once denied a driver's license, this general secretary of the U.S. Communist party is usually driven to work'
Gus Hall
1000
'Of all his characters, Captain Shotover of this title domicile may be the most like Shaw himself'
Heartbreak House
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