POPE-POURRI
COVERINGS
FEMALE FIRSTS
A VISIT TO THE "E.R."
THE HENRY WHO...
100
Of Abraham V, Martin V or John V, the one who was not a pope
Abraham V
100
"On top of Old Smokey, all covered with" this, "I lost my true lover..."
snow
100
In 2006 this Caribbean country made history by swearing in its first wo-mon prime minister, Portia Simpson Miller
Jamaica
100
Wedding websites say the "3 months' salary" figure for these isn't realistic; buy what she likes
an engagement ring
100
...was the American statesman known as "The Great Compromiser"
Henry Clay
200
In Manila on Jan. 15, 1995 the Pope honored World Youth Day by celebrating this with over 4 million people
a mass
200
The current U.S. penny is zinc covered in this
copper
200
In May 1970 Diane Crump became the first female jockey to ride in this race; she finished 15th aboard Fathom
the Kentucky Derby
200
Who doesn't love plum sauce with these Chinese appetizers?
egg rolls
200
...wrote the line "The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation"
Thoreau
300
Pope Urban II told the crusaders to fight not for honor or money but for this act of religious self-punishment
penance
300
The baseballs the Harwood Factory made in 1858 were covered not in cowhide but in this, sewn in a figure-eight stitch
horsehide
300
In 1944 Lt. Cordelia Cook became the first woman to win both the Bronze Star & this award for her war wounds
the Purple Heart
300
One of these is seen here from the 1940s, in Chicago
an elevated railway
300
...beginning in the 1950s was ambassador to the U.N., to South Vietnam & to West Germany
Henry Cabot Lodge
400
A Bolivian disguised as a priest attempted to assassinate this pope in 1970
Paul VI
400
They're the main machines covered by the domes seen here; the nude beach is farther down shore
nuclear reactors
400
In 1995 Roberta Cooper Ramo, an Albuquerque attorney, became the first woman president of this organization
the American Bar Association
400
1 U.S. dollar equals 1.13 Canadian dollars, for example
an exchange rate
400
...presumably made his greatest discovery November 10, 1871 at the town of Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika
Henry Stanley
500
In 1376 St. Catherine of Siena helped convince Pope Gregory XI to end this "captivity" & return to Rome
the Babylonian Captivity
500
The origin of the name of this rooflike canvas covering for a deck on your house is unknown
an awning
500
In 1933 FDR appointed Ruth Bryan Owen, daughter of this politician, the first U.S. woman diplomat
William Jennings Bryan
500
Because it only looks like it works, the verse here...
Oh, Montague, I long to PROVE
How strong and stalwart is my LOVE
...has what's called this two-word term
an eye rhyme
500
...founded Time, Life & Sports Illustrated magazines, among others
Henry Luce