"F" Words
A Broadway bomb, or a companion of flip.
What is a flop?
This Greek city was named for the goddess of wisdom.
What is Athens?
When his trumpet got bepop bopping, John Birks Gillespie got this nickname.
What is Dizzy?
Part of the body on which you might get enamel bonding.
What are your teeth?
As of Feb. 7, 1943, these were rationed to a limit of 3 leather pairs per civilian per year.
What are shoes?
Though its name comes from Italian, it's a type of Greek goat cheese.
What is feta?
Known to the Romans as Caledonia, it became a kingdom in 844 under Kenneth MacAlpin.
What is Scotland?
Trumpet player Navarro & "Ain't Misbehavin'"s Waller share this nickname.
What is Fats?
Marilyn Monroe's breathiness & John Wayne's slow speech were, says 1 expert, ways to correct this.
What is stuttering?
Mass inoculations against this disease started in Pittsburgh on Feb. 23, 1954.
What is polio?
Latin for "let it be done", it could be a decree to repair an Italian car.
What is a flat?
Northern European country whose name means "the low countries".
What is the Netherlands?
A flashy Jazz Age suit, or tenor sax man Jack Sims.
What is zoot?
The technical term for it is "alopecia", & one of the remedies is a "rug".
What is baldness?
Day colonists founded Savannah in 1733, & birthday, in 1809 of the 16th president.
What is February 12th?
In soldering, a substance used to clean surfaces & free them from oxide.
What is flux?
According to the Britannica, geographic distinction of the city of Ushuaia, Argentina.
What is the southernmost city in the world?
New Orleans pianist Ferdinand Morton took this nickname, but not for love of donuts.
What is Jelly Roll?
They're masses of protective lymphoid tissue located above tonsils in lining of the nasopharynx.
What are the adenoids?
The next one will be in 2028.
What is leap year?
A contraction of "fliegerabwehrkanone", you might get lots of this trying to pronounce the whole thing.
What is flak?
Resort & tea producing center, this city in India's name is from Tibetan for "town of the thunderbolt".
What is Darjeeling?
Though he's not dad to dancers Gregory and Maurice, he's "Fatha" to everyone.
Who is Earl "Fatha" Hines?
Name for the body's largest nerve, it runs from the spinal cord- through the lower body & legs.
What is the sciatic nerve?
New word coined after Governor Elbridge Gerry redistricted Essex County, Massachusetts on Feb. 11, 1812.
What is Gerrymander?