States in Song
It's where I came from with a banjo on my knee
Alabama
Italian-American's have made this their equivalent of St. Patrick's Day
Columbus Day
He invented the Franklin stove
Ben Franklin
Romans called this African beast a "tiger horse"
Zebra
South-of-the-border setting of the '68 Olympics
Mexico City
Game where "dribbling" is "offensive"
Basketball
State ruled by a king, queen or emperor
Monarchy
French crescent rolls now stuffed with everything from Spinach to chocolate
Croissants
According to Beach Boys' hit, state with the cutest girls in the world
California
Though we "love" his "day", he's been taken off calendar of saints
St. Valentine
Detection of gamma rays was 1 of the uses for this 1947 instant picture taker
The only flying mammal
Bat
First visual effects Oscar went to Kubrick's look 33 years into the future
2001: A Space Odyssey
From early practice of pitcher facing west comes this baseball term for lefty
Southpaw
From the Greek, it means "the people rule"
Democracy
Inspired by Spielburg hit, these dolls come both cuddly & creepy
Gremlins
State where you'd find Elvis' rain & Diamond's woman
Kentucky
The eve of All Saints' Day
2,160 people at a time could ride on this at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair
A Ferris Wheel
A black panther is really the black version of this cat
A leopard
Camelot "ended" when Jackie married him
Aristotle Onassis
Football's imaginary plane which neither team may cross until the ball is snapped
The line of scrimmage
According to Marx, under this system, government is supposed to wither away
Communism
Sought-after Canadian board game that places mind over minutia
Trivial Pursuit
The alternate lyrics to "I've Been Working On The Railroad"
In colonial Massachusetts, Puritans made this Christian holiday illegal
Christmas
Edison suggested it be used to record phone calls & make clocks talk
A phonograph
Plays dead to escape predators, but one was close friends with an alligator
Opossum
He broke S. Africa's race barrier by transplanting black man's heart into white body
Christiaan Barnard
World's fastest sport, free-fall speeds of 614 MPH have been recorded in this
Skydiving
The one who's in charge under anarchy
No one
To use one, stick your floppy in your disk drive & boot
Your computer
Patti Page hit that is official song of a southern state
The Tennessee Waltz
Several Southern states celebrate his June 3rd birthday instead of Lincoln's
Jefferson Davis
The first patent pool was for this invention by Howe, Hunt & Singer
The sewing machine
Weighing 1½ tons per foot, this mammal generates up to 500 H.P. with its tail
The Blue whale
After 11 months in captivity, crew of this ship was released by N. Koreans
The Pueblo
'50s middleweight champ some say was pound-for-pound the best boxer ever
Sugar Ray Robinson
In a theocracy, those thought to be his representatives rule
God
Swimwear that lets you tan all over without taking it all off
The unsuit