In This State
The 1980 Winter Olympics were held in Lake Placid, in this northeastern U.S. state.
New York
This country’s flag is known as the “Stars and Stripes.”
USA
This Richard Adams novel details the exploits of a group of rabbits, including Fiver, Hazel, and Bigwig.
Watership Down
“Hope springs” this
eternal
) Z is one of the two letters with the highest number of points, and this is the other one.
Q
In a national tragedy in 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in this southern state.
Texas
This country’s capital city is Cairo.
Egypt
This 1970 Roald Dahl story details a clever wild canine stealing from neighboring farms to feed his family.
Fantastic Mr. Fox
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, and hope for” this.
tomorrow
Scrabble playing pieces are called this.
tiles
The historic launch of Apollo 11 took off from this state’s Cape Kennedy (now Cape Canaveral).
Florida
This country, which lies at the crossroads of Europe and Asia, has a “cotton castle.”
Turkey
The titular seabird of this 1970 novel struggles to fit in with his flock and embarks on a spiritual journey.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Hope for this and expect that.
worst
This is the publisher of the Official Scrabble Players Dictionary.
Merriam-Webster
This state’s university in Tuscaloosa was integrated in 1963 with the admission of three African American students.
Alabama
This Pacific Rim country has 20 percent of the world’s earthquakes that measure 6.0 or higher on the Richter scale.
Japan
In this children’s book, a needy rodent requests (among other things) a glass of milk, a straw, and a mirror.
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie
He took his show on the road to entertain American troops around the world.
Bob Hope
You can swap your tiles by doing this.
giving up a turn
On March 28, 1979, the Three Mile Island accident took place in this state.
Pennsylvania
During the 1960s, the CIA attempted to spy on this adversary with spy cats.
Russia
This country veterinarian and author of All Creatures Great and Small began writing at the age of 50.
James Herriot
When playing bridge, you hope for this card in the trump suit.
ace
A square of this color on the game board indicates that the entire word will earn a triple score.
Red