Chewing Gum
1st produced in 1928, manufacturers blew their wad making it.
What is bubble gum?
He insisted on repaying $1,100 debt though it took years to earn him this nickname.
What is Honest Abe?
Deep Throat provided Woodward & Bernstein with secret info about this scandal.
What is Watergate?
He was their guru.
Who is the Maharishi (Manesh Yogi)?
The pickled pepper Peter might have picked for stuffing green olives.
What are pimentos?
Once kicked out of school, this “chewing gum king” eventually captured 70% of the gum market.
Who is Wrigley?
Because biographers say she made his life a hell on earth some consider her the worst first lady.
Who was Mary Todd Lincoln?
Trying to move MOVE police in this city burned down 61 houses.
What is Philadelphia?
In 1971 he organized 2 concerts for Bangladesh at Madison Square Garden.
Who is George Harrison?
Often called a cross between a plum & a peach, it’s actually an unfuzzy variety of peach.
What is a nectarine?
Title question asked in this Lonnie Donegan song: “Hallelujah, the question is peculiar/I'd give a lot of dough/If only I could know/The answer to my question/Is it yes or is it no”.
What is “Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavor?
In the election of 1860 he won none of this, his native state’s, electoral votes.
What is Kentucky?
1980 scandal where congressmen were caught taking bribes from bogus sheiks.
What is ABSCAM?
Though “Love Me Do” was their first hit single in Britian, this song was their first to top the U.S. chart.
What is “I Want To Hold Your Hand”?
The Chinese consider it good luck to receive gifts of this tiny orange-like fruit.
What are kumquats?
A WWII morale booster for Filipinos was gum printed with this famous promise.
What is I shall return?
1 of 3 Democrats who ran against him for president.
Who was (1 of) John Breckinridge, Douglas, or George McClellan?
Claiming fraud & exploitation she sued Tom Chiapel & Bob Guccione’s magazine for a reported $400 million.
Who is Vanessa Williams?
He was The Beatles drummer before Ringo.
Who is Pete Best?
Once considered an aphrodisiac, it’s now the pale unpopular cousin to the carrot.
What is a parsnip?
A primary part of gum base, it’s the natural gum of the sapodilla tree.
What is chicle?
Lincoln was a member of this political party until it dissolved in 1856.
Who are the Whigs?
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall took the fall in this 1920s scandal.
What is the Teapot Dome Speacial?
The last Beatle to get a Divorce.
Who is Paul McCartney?
Cousin to the cabbage that’s an essential ingredient in chicken Divan.
What is broccoli?