State Mottoes
"Live Free or Die"
What is New Hampshire?
1902: This organization is founded in Chicago to promote safe roads; it still helps drivers today
What is AAA?
A Japanese-style grill (7)
What is hibachi?
"Against", as in a lawsuit
What is versus?
"The Surveyor President" (first)
Who is George Washington?
"Sic Semper Tyrannis (Thus Always to Tyrants)"
What is Virginia?
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1789: This document goes into effect
A plant eater (9)
What is a herbivore?
"For the time being", like a senator presiding over the Senate
What is pro tem?
"The Illinois Baboon" & "The Martyr President" (sixteenth)
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
"Eureka! (I Have Found It!)"
What is California?
1845: He is inaugurated as the 11th president
Who is Polk?
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A fraud or a fake (4)
"By each head", in a country
What is per capita?
"Red Fox" & "The Scribe of the Revolution" (third)
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
"Excelsior (Ever Upward)"
What is New York?
1933: 5 years before the Anschluss, Prime Minister Dollfuss dissolves this nation's parliament
What is Austria?
A pagan (7)
What is a heathen?
"Elsewhere"-In English, it means an excuse
What is alibi?
Herbert Hoover, for whom the dam is named, was known as "The Great" This, was his pre-political profession
What is an engineer?
"Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers are Always Free)"
What is West Virginia?
1887: When Benz is still a competitor, this man unveils his first car
Who is (Gottlieb) Daimler?
Excessive arrogance or pride (6)
What is hubris
"By the fact itself"
What is ipso facto?
"The Schoolmaster in Politics" (twenty-eighth)
Who is Woodrow Wilson?