The 50 States
Created to serve the former Northwest Territory, Northwestern University is in Evanston in this state
Illinois
Severus Snape is the "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher at this school that Harry Potter attends
Hogwarts
These very delicate noodles go by the name of this delicate & see-through material
Glass Noodle
"To make four times as much", like one's money in an investment... a really, really good investment
quadruple
Bank of America has about 16,000 of these
ATM
Connecticut is bordered to the west by New York & to the east by this, another 2-word state
Rhode Island
He's the evil dictator who's "watching you" in "1984"
Big Brother
These long ribbons of pasta get their name from a word meaning "little tongue"
linguini
"A lower room in the keep of a castle... a close dark prison... commonly underground"
a dungeon
In 2022 Congress gave this agency an additional $45 billion for enforcement, so double-check those deductions
The IRS
This former U.S. president was born in Hope, Arkansas
Bill Clinton
DAILY DOUBLLEEEE
Peter Pevensie is one of the children who come to reign over this land created by C.S. Lewis
The English word "noodle" comes from this language
German
Near the end of the alphabet: "any of various large raptorial birds... that subsist...on carrion" or a "predatory person"
a vulture
If you get this degree from Harvard, first given in 1873, you can call yourself doctor but don't try to diagnose me
PHD
This state has been nicknamed "The Sunflower State"
Tiny Tim is a sickly boy in this Dickens classic with an alliterative title
A Christmas Carol
National Pasta Day takes place in this month
October
"A unit of fineness... for gold equal to 1/24 part of pure gold in an alloy"
karat
It was once largely a military abbrev. helping coordinate operations; now it means "when I think I'll make it to the kegger
an ETA
The only two-sided state flag belongs to this state
Oregon
Billy Bibbit & Charles Cheswick are fellow inmates with Randle McMurphy in this Ken Kesey novel set in a mental hospital
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
This tech company establish in 1938 originally sold noodles, vegetables, dried fish, and other goods
samsung
"Favoritism shown to... relatives (as by giving them positions because of their relationship rather than on their merits)"
nepotism
A tear of this ligament that prevents the tibia from sliding out in front of the femur has ended many a pro athlete's season
ACL