Wizards
This scientist who laid down the laws of motion and gravity was president of the Royal Society of London in 1703. Do you think they served fig cookies?
(Isaac) Newton
One who tells falsehoods.
LIAR
The Long Winter recounts seven months of blizzards that snowed in this young girl's little house on the prairie in 1880.
Laura Ingalls Wilder
hooves, mane, black and white stripes
zebra
Gag glasses with attached eyebrows, mustache, and nose evoke this comedian, brother of Chico, Harpo, and Gummo.
Groucho Marx
We're still drooling over this bell-ringing scientist who showed how reflexes can be conditioned.
Pavlov
Brand-name insecticide, or a sudden attack.
RAID
Chicago's heaviest snowfall on record came in January of this year, which would later warm up with the Summer of Love.
1967
tentacles, suckers, beak
octopus (squid)
This comedienne's self-titled show gave us gems like the Tarzan yell and the Went With the Wind sketch, where she descends the stairs wearing curtains and says, "I saw it in the window and I just couldn't resist it."
Carol Burnett
Her idea of using punch cards to make a mechanical computer perform custom functions not designed by the engineer makes Ada Lovelace the first to hold this computer job.
programmer
This grocery store chain requires a quarter to unlock the shopping cart.
ALDI
Early heavy snow trapped this band of Oregon Trail migrants in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, an ordeal that only 48 out of the original 87 survived.
Donner (Reed) Party
guard hairs, quills
porcupine
The Spamalot Diaries recounts the tale of Monty Python and the Holy Grail's journey from the silver screen to Broadway, told by this former Python who wrote and sang "Always Look On the Bright Side of Life".
Eric Idle
This German-born physicist used the letter "c" to represent the speed of light in his special theory of relativity.
Albert Einstein
A podium, or the low platform where a throne sits.
DAIS
In early 2011, the Midwest was hit with an extraordinary blizzard that came to be named for this February holiday. Guess he saw his shadow...
Groundhog Day
shell, eyestalks, foot
snail
How-dee! Sarah Ophelia Cannon greeted audiences as down-home Minnie Pearl, wearing a straw hat with the price tag still on it, in this Nashville venue.
The Grand Ole Opry
They called him "the wizard of Menlo Park".
Thomas Edison
Many know Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, who set Somewhere Over the Rainbow and What a Wonderful World to ukulele, by this nickname.
IZ
Dubbed "Storm of the Century", the 1993 blizzard that stretched from Canada to Honduras, set records for this type of barometric pressure reading (high or low?)
low
chin
human being
To hear him tell it, he "don't get no respect."
Rodney Dangerfield