Backronyms
Amateur radio/meat from the upper part of a pig's leg salted and dried or smoked
HAM
The American Revolution began in April 1775 with the battles of these 2 Massachusetts towns
Lexington & Concord
The Godfather: Don Vito, Micheal...
Corleone
An earthquake that follows a larger one & has its epicenter nearby
Aftershock
has produced the most MLB players?
California
Act of Congress that expanded US surveillance rights in response to terrorism/a person who vigorously supports their country and is prepared to defend it against enemies or detractors
PATRIOT
Washington's Continental Army struggled for six winter months at this encampment
The Wire: Avon, D'Angelo...
Barksdale
This class of rock makes up about 75% of all the exposed rocks on land (hint: think of the main three rock classes)
sedimentary
is the only state that starts with L
Louisiana
Sentient test dummy in the novel V. by Thomas Pynchon/a length of cloth or an enveloping garment in which a dead person is wrapped for burial
SHROUD
These soldiers could activated for battle in one minute
minutemen
Tony, Carmela, AJ, Junior
Soprano
The La Brea is a famous example of one of these
completes the word MA-__-LA-ND, meaning the contiguous United States
Indiana (MA-IN-LA-ND)
A targeted air-to-air missile class/to point or direct (a weapon or camera) at a target
AIM
At the end of the Revolutionary War, the Treaty of Paris granted the US the land North to Canada, West to the Mississippi, and South to this state
Florida
Breaking Bad: Hector, Tuco
Salamanca
Speleology is the study of these
Caves
is the "Sooner State"
A high-level programming language developed by Larry Wall/a hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-gray, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusk and highly prized as a gem
PERL
A crustacean name for a British soldier; so-called because of his red coat
lobsterback
Twin Peaks: Jaques, Jean, Jean-Jacques
Renault
This radioactive isotope is used to date rocks from 100 to 50000 years old
Carbon-14
is a mathematical entity that provides a probability distribution for the outcomes of each possible measurement on a system
Quantum state