Rhyme Time
Almost ale
What is near beer?
St. Barbara watches over these souls at such places as San Quentin
What are prisons?
In the game Chutes & Ladders, direction you travel on any chute
What is down?
Machine you might have around the house that has a feed dog, a design cam, & a bobbin winder
What is the sewing machine?
This 4-letter Gaelic word for poet is often used to describe Shakespeare
What is a bard?
A towering partition
What is a tall wall?
St. Jerome managed to become their patron saint, even without knowing the Dewey Decimal System
Who are librarians?
In tetherball, the object of the game is to do this
What is get the ball, get the rope wrapped all the way around the pole?
Of 1943, 1963, or 1983, the last year Maytag made wringer-type washers
What is 1983?
No matter what she does, poor Lady Macbeth can't get this off her hands
What is blood?
A deceased cranium, especially that of a Jerry Garcia fan
What is a dead head?
St. Nicholas is the patron saint of these cooks, who are usually rolling in dough
Who are pastry cooks (bakers)?
In the card game Crazy Eights, eights can be used to do this
What is change the suit or the number?
Type of engine credited with making the Industrial Revolution possible
What was a steam engine?
In the play-within-a-play in "A Midsummer Night's Dream", he played Pyramus
Who was Nick Bottom?
What you might call the leg joints of a flying social insect
What are the bee's knees?
He's patron against poisoning, & his twin sister Scholastica was 1st abbess of the Benedictine nuns
Who is St. Benedict?
At the end of the last verse in "Farmer in the Dell", run--or this edible will catch you
What is the cheese?
One type of atomic clock is based on the actions of molecules of this Windex ingredient
What is ammonia?
"This was the noblest Roman of them all"
Who is Brutus?
A "minyan", the number of males needed for a Orthodox Jewish service
What are ten men?
Since his name derives from Latin for "wine", it's appropriate he's the patron of winemakers
Who is St. Vincent?
The "scotch" in hopscotch has nothing to do with Scotland, but refers to these
What are lines?
A computer, rating this 1863 speech for "strength of delivery", gave it an overall--zero
What was The Gettysburg Address?
"I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me," said she to Benedick
Who is Beatrice?