Uno SERIES PREMIRED! R1

First Ladies

1

She volunteered as a nurse at Union hospitals & toured Union army camps with her husband

Mary Todd Lincoln

2

During the 1960 presidential campaign, she wrote a weekly newspaper column called "Campaign Wife"

Jackie Kennedy

3

Art history:
The soup cans by this artist were huge in 1962 but his wooden replicas of Brillo soap pad boxes got ink, too

Andy Warhol

4

WILD!

This wife of Rutherford B. Hayes came from a slave-owning family but she & her parents were abolitionists

Lucy Hayes

5

This First Lady's final acting role was in "The Sam Darland Story", a 1962 episode of the TV series "Wagon Train"

Nancy Reagan

Parts of Speech

1

Does my posterior look big in these pants?:
big

adjective

2

What...? Who? Her!:
All of the above

Pronouns

3

Her uncle Teddy walked her down the aisle when she married a future president in 1905

Eleanor Roosevelt

4

Ahoy! Surrender your vessel or be boarded by Pirate Pete!:
ahoy

an interjection (or exclamation)

5

Here's a very, very, very good clue from our non-lazy, Emmy-winning writing staff:
very

an adverb

Remember Your Music Lessons

1

Once I learned to embrace this centuries-old clicking practice device, my drumming skills took off

a metronome

2

With the violin I always have to remember to use the proper amount of this substance on my bow before playing

rosin

3

It's difficult fingering, but mastering barre these on my guitar really paid off

chords

4

Vocal teachers often try to get their students to sing more powerfully by generating a controlled flow of air from this muscle, located just beneath the lungs

the diaphragm

5

Sustain & soft are these parts of a piano

the pedals

TV Networking

1

"Big Cheese",
"Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives",
"Kitchen Inferno"

Food Network

2

"Frontline",
"Nova",
"Nature"

PBS

3

"Vice Principals",
"Room 104"

HBO

4

"The Walking Dead",
"Better Call Saul"

AMC

5

"The Magicians",
"The Expanse"

SyFy

Spring Break

1

"Spring forward" is half a mnemonic used to remember this, which in the U.S. actually begins still in winter

Daylight Savings Time

2

This U.S. federal holiday is the only one in the spring

Memorial Day

3

In March on the 1st day of spring at this spot, see the sun skim the horizon to begin 6 months of near-total daylight

the North Pole

4

Before "spring" the season was called this, like a religious fasting period

Lent

5

In Greek myth, spring was marked by the return from Hades of this daughter of the goddess of agriculture

Persephone