Please Mr. Postman
Funny Hats
Stuck in the Middle
Horse Cents
Giraffes
100

The Netpost mailing service features Christmas cards with this 3-word wish for the globe.

What is PEACE ON EARTH?

100

This Grand Ole Opry comedy star used to wear a straw hat with the $1.98 price tag still attached.

Who was MINNIE PEARL?

100

Dial down the middle is this vegetative comedian's mantra for making collect calls.

Who was CARROT TOP?

100

A Bermuda 10-dollar coin features one of these horses actually a pipefish relative.

What is a SEAHORSE?

100

With one of these a giraffe can not only kill but decapitate a person.

What is a KICK?

200

In an April Fools' joke National Public Radio reported that the Postal Service would soon let you keep this no matter where you moved.

What is YOUR ZIP CODE?

200

Featured in the Harry Potter movies this hat takes its name from its function at Hogwarts School.

What is the SORTING HAT?

200

It's the color of the middle stripe on the U.S. flag.

What is RED?

200

Cameroon produced a commemorative 500-franc Happiness coin in the shape of one of these with a 4-leaf clover on the back.

What is a HORSESHOE?

200

These sharp protective items on acacia trees are no match for giraffe molars.

What are THORNS?

300

This privilege allows members of Congress to send out official mail without paying postage.

What is FRANKING?

300

Goya liked to paint at night so he wore a hat rimmed with these.

What are CANDLES?

300

Better-known middle name of media mogul Keith Murdoch.

Who is RUPERT?

300

A bronc tries to buck a rider on a 2012 Canadian coin commemorating 100 years of this Calgary event.

What is the STAMPEDE?

300

What we think of as these on giraffes are technically ossicones covered with skin.

What are HORNS?

400

Formerly called book rate this type of mail lets you send books videos CDs & DVDs at a slower reduced rate.

What is MEDIA MAIL?

400

The name of this often brimless hat popular in the 1920s is French for bell after the shape of the hat.

What is a CLOCHE?

400

The oval window is a membranous opening between the middle & the inner parts of this.

What is THE EAR?

400

A 1902 Australian 2-pound coin depicts St. George on horseback on the reverse & this newly minted king on the obverse.

Who was EDWARD VII?

400

If a human baby has done this he's positioned for birth; if a giraffe baby has done it 6' to the ground he's been born.

What is DROPPED?

500

To stamp collectors FDC stands for this.

What is FIRST DAY COVER?

500

In Wagner's operas this eldest Valkyrie is stereotypically dressed in a horned helmet & breastplate.

Who is BRUNHILDE?

500

Linus Pauling discovered there's a middle ground between the distinct ionic & covalent types of these.

What are CHEMICAL BONDS?

500

A 1960s Austrian 5-schilling coin featured one of these renowned horses from the Spanish riding school.

What is A LIPIZZANER?

500

Geoffrey the Giraffe is the mascot of this store.

What is TOYS R US?