FLORIDIANS
The light bulbs in his Ft. Myers home have burned 12 hours a day since he installed them & they still work
Edison
Station WGY in Schenectady, NY began regular test broadcasts in this medium
TV
The shoe is named for this city; the cloth is named for the university there
Oxford
A retirement city in Florida, or a retired capital of Russia
St. Petersburg
Part of its body where you'll find a warthog's warts
its face
In the '50s, this Jacksonville-born singer was known as "the kid with the white bucks"
Pat Boone
The British reduced the age for women voters from 30 to this
21
It's the color that's sort of reddish brown...or maybe brownish red
oxblood
This part of the United Kingdom is called "Cymru" in its native language
Wales
Owls are among the few birds to have these on the front of their heads
their eyes
This Oscar-winning actor was born in Miami when his Bahamian parents went there to sell tomatoes
Sidney Poitier
The Pacific was crossed from California to Australia for the 1st time by this method
air, airplane
Iron rust, Fe2O3, & CO2 are forms of this
oxide
2 of the 5 countries that border Romania
Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, and Hungary
Most lampreys live by attaching themselves to these
other fish
In '78, he thought he'd give Bruce Springsteen a break & invited him onstage to join in the following: "Don't you know that I danced, I danced till a quarter to three / With the help, last night, of Daddy G / He was swingin on the sax like a nobody could / And I was dancin' all over the room / Oh, don't you know the people were dancin' like they were mad
Gary U.S. Bonds
Opened 11/13/28, this 1st U.S. twin-tube underwater traffic tunnel linked Manhattan & N.J.
Holland Tunnel
Deafening silence & jumbo shrimp are examples of this contradiction in terms
oxymoron
Capital of Malaysia, it was once a Chinese tin-mining camp
Kuala Lumpur
When grasshoppers or other Orthoptera are stridulating, they're producing this
a song (or a sound)
In 1925, he founded the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters which he headed for the next 43 years
Philip Randolph
This Scandinavian explorer was lost while trying to rescue an Italian explorer
Roald Amundsen
Common term for what occurs in physical activity when the heart & lungs can't supply enough "air" to muscles
anoxia (hypoxia or oxygen debt)
Avarua is the capital of these Pacific islands, which were named for an English captain
The Cook Islands
Varieties of these insects include bee, soldier, flower, blow & fruit
flies