The Confederacy
Of population, wealth, or quality of commanders, the one advantage the South had.
What is the quality of commanders?
The kangaroo’s diminutive cousin.
What is the wallaby?
Condition of Othello, Macbeth, Hamlet, & Romeo & Juliet at the end of their plays.
What is dead?
Winds reach over 900 MPH on this giant neighbor of Jupiter.
What is Saturn?
Cher said her 1st reaction to him was “That’s the weirdest looking man I’ve ever seen”.
Who is Sonny?
D.W. Griffith classic which told of war & aftermath from Southern point of view.
What is “The Birth of a Nation”?
A performance or a punch can “pack” one.
What is a wallop?
His big line is “Beware the Ides of March”, not “Forsooth”.
What is the soothsayer?
Most meteors are bits of debris left by these passing by.
What are comets?
A. Carnegie, A.G. Bell, & R.L. Stevenson were all born in this country.
What is Scotland?
The number of years the Confederacy was in existence.
What is 4 (5 accepted also)?
It’s been labeled “the wall of shame”.
What is the Berlin Wall?
He huffs & puffs & yells “Blow, winds, & crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow!”.
Who is King Lear?
Energy the sun emits in this time unit is 13 million times the energy used in the U.S. daily.
What is one second?
In a recent survey of women, 36% of them carrying this cancer-causing item.
What are cigarettes?
To court aid & recognition from England & France, the Confederacy offered this “white gold”.
What is cotton?
To engage in obstructive parliamentary debate or delaying tactics.
What is stonewalling?
After England, this country is the setting for the most Shakespeare plays.
What is Italy?
Since 1979, this planet, not Pluto, is furthest from the sun.
What is Neptune?
A man wearing dark clothes & aftershave at dusk in June is most likely to be bitten by them.
What are mosquitos?
In 1862, fearing collapse of armies, the Conf. Congress passed 1st law of this kind in American history.
What is the draft?
A picture or design displayed on the background of your cell phone.
What is wallpaper?
“Henry VIII” ends with wife #2 giving birth to her.
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
It would take Appollo spacecraft over 100,000 years to reach this nearest star to the sun.
What is Alpha Centauri?
Iowa feminist remembered for the Turkish pantaloons she wore but didn’t invent.
What was Amelia Bloomer?