Textiles
Plant which accounts for about 95% of the natural fiber used in the U.S.
What is cotton?
Atlantis, or Mu.
What are lost continents?
Both Jefferson Davis & Abraham Lincoln were born in this state.
What is Kentucky?
From Latin for "wall", it's a painting put on one.
What is a mural?
Deep narrow bays that can penetrate 100 miles into the land, you can sail them in Norway.
What are fjords?
The Chinese began cultivating these "textile insects" about 2700 B.C.
What are silkworms?
What you're pursuing if your plans are sure to be defeated.
What is a lost cause?
W.V. actress Belle Boyd later admitted she spent much of the Civil War engaged in this crime.
What is spying?
Up to 100 tons of these parasitic crustaceans can collect on bottom of a steamship in a year.
What are barnacles?
Minimum number of panes needed to glaze a bay window.
What is 3?
Much to Sleeping Beauty's regret, this came into use in Europe by the 13th century.
What is a spinning wheel?
Naphtali, Gad, Zebulon, Simeon, Asher, Issachar, Reuben, Ephraim, Manasseh & Dan.
What are the lost tribes of Israel?
More than 1,000 people were killed or wounded in 1863 anti-draft riots in this Northern city.
What is New York City?
Islamic prayer rugs have an "arrow" to tell head from foot of rug so they will always face toward here.
What is Mecca?
A fragrant, soothing lotion from the West Indies widely used in barbershops.
What is bay rum?
2 of 3 adjacent southern states which are the 3 leading textile producers.
What is (2 of) North Carolina, South Carolina, & Georgia?
Only Shakespearean play that fits this category.
What is “Love’s Labour’s Lost”?
A career Navy man, this Southerner was highest ranking officer in the Union Navy.
Who is Farragut?
Doctors call this organ the body's detox center.
What is the liver?
Important seaports on this bay are Rangoon, Madras, & Calcutta.
What is the Bay of Bengal?
A 1733 invention that led to mechanizing looms, or the "Columbia", when airborne.
What is a flying shuttle?
1987 film where Dianne Wiest’s sons find a crowd of misfits that turn out to be actually vampires in this supernatural teen horror.
What is “The Lost Boys”?
Southerners who allied themselves with Reconstruction era "carpetbaggers" were called this.
What are scalawags?
The name of this green soap comes from the oils 1st used to make it.
What is Palmolive?
River valleys submerged by the sea, the Chesapeake & Delaware bays are technically these.
What are Estuaries?