Animals
Direction of wart hog’s tail points when running.
What is straight up?
The Concertgebouw Orchestra is located in this Dutch city.
What is Amsterdam?
He won 1980 Pulitzer fiction prize for his “nonfiction” novel “The Executioner’s Song”.
Who was Norman Mailer?
Oppenheimer’s deadly “toy”.
What is a bomb?
Domesticated in 2000 B.C., its ancestors only laid about 12 eggs a year.
What is the chicken?
Besides hearing, 1 of 2 other main functions of the elephant’s huge ears.
What is fanning away insects or regulating body temperature?
Richard Strauss wrote a tone poem about this legendary lover.
Who is Don Juan?
3 Unauthorized bios of this king of pop singer placed 3rd, 5th & 6th, on a March 18, 1984 N.Y. Times best seller list.
Who is Michael Jackson?
Land or sea bomb that’s not yours or ours but belongs to me.
What is a mine?
Cattle, corn & this legume is the U.S. top 3 farm products.
What is a soybean?
Only wild sheep in Western North America, it’s sometimes called the Rocky Mountain sheep.
What is the bighorn sheep?
At 85, Toscanini conducted Beethoven’s 9th his last time with this network’s symphony.
What is NBC?
Funk & Wagnalls says this Bible book of saying was written for ancient “yuppies”.
What are Proverbs?
A stout cudgel made of oak named for an Irish town known for its oaks.
What is a shillelagh?
In parts of the world, this beverage is from yaks, zebras, or camels.
What is milk?
The 2nd largest bird in the world is this Australian native.
What is the emu?
From German for “song”, they’re German art songs.
What is lieder?
In the Thomas Hardy novel, Tess was arrested at this ancient British landmark.
What is Stonehenge?
The prosecution claimed it was a weapon for the murder attempt in the von Bulow trials.
What is a syringe?
Most widely grown earth vegetable, it isn’t a root but a modified stem.
What are potatoes?
One of the few tool-using animals, this ocean mammal opens mussels by using stones as “anvils”.
What is the sea otter?
Better known title of Benjamin Britten’s “Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Purcell”.
What is “The Young Person’s Guide To The Orchestra”?
“Swann’s Way” is its 1st of 7 parts, “Time Regained”, the last.
What is the Remembrance of Things Past?
Homemade pistol consisting of a pipe on a block of wood with spring activated firing pin.
What is a zip gun?
The tropical cereal is an indispensable food about for about ½ the world’s population.
What is rice?