Ancient America
5-Letter Words
Music
Middle Names
Birds
100
These equines disappeared from N. America some 8000 years ago & were brought back by white explorers
What are horses?
100
Her close ties to this really burned up Joan of Arc
What is a stake?
100
Number of beats to the bar in music marked 3/4 time
What is 3?
100
Moses' brother & Elvis Presley's middle name
What is Aaron?
100
Storks, pelicans & some vultures couldn't win a warbling contest since these species lack this
What is a voice box?
200
At height of glaciation, the amount of ice in N. America exceeded that on this icy continent today
What is Antarctica?
200
The 1st ordinal number with 5 letters
What is first?
200
An important part of this country's classical music is the raga
What is India?
200
Leslie Stainer used this, his middle name, as his last in such films as "Gone With the Wind"
What is Howard?
200
In many birds, the powerful muscles for this task account for up to 40% of body weight
What is flying?
300
As far back as 5000 B.C., this was the most important crop grown in what is now Mexico
What is maize (corn)?
300
Webster's calls it "a color whose hue is somewhat less yellow than that of growing fresh grass"
What is green?
300
A flourish of trumpets, it sounds like the price charged for a baseball booster to board a bus
What is fanfare?
300
Middle name of Harry Lewis, author of "Dodsworth"
What is Sinclair?
300
Around October 22, the swallows leave Capistrano to winter in this country, so don't cry for them
What is Argentina?
400
Mayans played a sacred game on special courts using a ball made from this substance unknown in Europe
What is rubber?
400
According to ungrammatical Sam Harris song, this "Don't Bite"
What is sugar?
400
From Italian diminutive of "book", the book of an opera or musical company
What is libretto?
400
Joe Barrow dropped his last name & used this, his middle name, when boxing
What is Louis?
400
Since 1972, almost all U.S. uses of this insecticide have been banned to protect endangered birds
What is DDT?
500
Since Aztec p.o.w.s were sacrificed to the gods, their method of warfare was meant to do this, not kill
What is capture?
500
Navigational device that Captain Kidd wouldn't call a "map"
What is a chart?
500
A koto is a Japanese zither with strings made of this
What is silk?
500
"Elton John" took this middle name, though he never killed a hydra or cleaned the stables of Augeas
What is Hercules?
500
Bird mentioned in the title song of the musical "Oklahoma!"
What is hawk?
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