Nature
Like a tree, you can tell the age of a fish by counting these on its scales.
What are rings?
Lawman William Barclay Masterson's nickname.
What is Bat Masterson?
If its royal family has no male heir, Monaco will become part of this country.
What is France?
Shortest on record lasted 38 minutes in 1896 & involved the United Kingdom and Zanzibar.
What is the shortest war?
According to Barry Manilow, the Copacabana was "the hottest spot north of" there.
What is Havana?
This bodily feature makes birds different from all other animals.
What are feathers?
It's ad read, "Young, skinny fellows not over 18, must be expert riders & willing to risk death daily...".
What is The Pony Express?
Discoverers of these South Sea islands named them for wise Biblical king whose wealth they sought.
What are the Solomon Islands?
Shortest valid one of these in record reads "Vse zene" Czech for "All to wife".
What is the shortest will?
"I found my April dream" in this country "with you".
What is Portugal?
It's the direct result of rapid expansion & contraction of air in path of a lightning bolt.
What is thunder?
Doc Holliday's mistress: Dean Martin & John Wayne were among her movie sons.
Who is Katie Elder?
As co-sovereign of this Pyrenees land, the Bishop of Urgel, Spain is paid about $6.87 semi-annually.
What is Andorra?
America's shortest-lived major TV network, it brought us Capt. Video until its demise in 1955.
What is the DuMont Network?
"The kids in" this Pennsylvania town "are sharp as a pistol when they do" this "Stomp".
What is “The Bristol Stomp”?
Sunlight reflected by the earth that illuminates the dark part of the moon.
What is Earthshine?
"Half horse, half alligator", he was a famous fighting keelboater & marksman of early 1800s.
Who is Mike Fink?
A problem for this African country is that much of its mail is mistakenly sent to Switzerland.
What is Swaziland?
Shortest scheduled flight takes just 2 minutes in this country's Orkney Islands.
What is the United Kingdom (Scotland)?
Married "in a fever", N. Sinatra & L. Hazlewood were ready to go there "ever since the fire went out".
What is Jackson?
Colorful term that refers to the gradual heating of Earth's atmosphere by carbon dioxide in the air.
What is the Greenhouse effect?
The Great Plains, last great frontier to be exploited, was opened up by this Act of 1862.
What is the Homestead Act?
80% of San Marino's gross national product comes from tourism & the sale of these.
What are stamps?
At 5'4" & weighing 100 lbs., he was our shortest president.
Who is James Madison?
When "Big Sam left Seattle in the year of '92" he was headed there.
What is “North To Alaska”?