Insect Pests
This common household insect can transmit 30 diseases to humans.
What is the common fly?
From Latin for “to care”, the director of a museum.
What is the curator?
Counting its chirps in 14 seconds & adding 40 should give you the current temperature, by Jiminy.
What is a cricket?
“Circus” is Latin for these, of which most large American circuses have 3.
What is a circle (rings)?
Until Emma Nutt said “Number, please” in 1878, it was a men-only occupation.
What is a telephone operator?
Malaria, Yellow fever & Lymphatic filariasis are diseases given by these.
What are mosquitoes?
You can’t hold a candle to her London Chamber of Horrors.
Who is Madame Tussaud?
To replace “it looks like a big duck”, in 1803 Luke Howard classified them as cirrus, stratus, etc.
What are clouds?
1982 audiences flipped, flipped, flipped, flipped over 1st person to complete this trapeze feat.
What is a quadruple flip/somersault?
Sadie Orchard was one of the few women drivers of this old transport.
What is a stagecoach?
This tiny pest, Pulex irritans can jump 130 times its own height.
What are fleas?
Of history, art, & science museums, the type that’s most numerous.
What are history museums?
Formed by refraction & reflection of light by water droplets, 2 people can never see the same one.
What is a rainbow?
In 1826, Howe & Turner were 1st to present their shows in one of these.
What is a tent?
NYC’s Lorna Kelley was 1st female art auctioneer for this London-based auction house.
What is Sotheby’s?
Bees & wasps kill more people yearly than this much-feared reptilian encounter.
What are poisonous snakes?
This billionaire’s art museum is a reconstruction of a Roman villa buried by Vesuvius.
Who is J. Paul Getty?
Gallegos, Santa Anas, & cockeyed bobs for example.
What are winds?
As a funambulist, this performer needs a well-balanced disposition.
What is a tightrope walker?
In 1876, Juliet Corson opened 1st American school to teach this domestic art.
What is cooking?
Possums help reduce Lyme disease by eating these blood sucking Parasitiformes.
What are ticks?
This “Museum’s” board of regents includes the Chief of Justice & the Vice President of the U.S.
What is the Smithsonian?
About 1/3 of all lightning victims lose their lives when seeking shelter under these.
What are trees?
Though winter quarters have moved to Venice, Fl., this site of Ringling Museum is still “Circus City”.
What is Sarasota?
1920’s “Winnie Winkle” was 1st of these to feature a career-girl as central character.
What is a comic strip?