HOBBIES & PASTIMES
To start a chess game, it's the only piece that can pass over others to reach a new destination
the knight
Used to collect medical waste, these trays bear the name of the body organ they sort of resemble
kidney
Many tourists in Palau are there for this activity, like among the reefs of Blue Corner
snorkeling (diving)
At Woodstock, Filippini's Pond was where concertgoers shed clothes & inhibitions in this pastime
skinny dipping
On April 1, Ronald Wayne & these 2 guys founded Apple Computer; days later Wayne gave up his interest in the co. for $800; whoops!
Jobs & Wozniak
Sometimes more valuable than uncirculated coins, this 5-letter type of coin set is struck with special dies
proof
Today meaning a stretcher on wheels you'll see at a hospital, it once referred to a kind of taxicab
gurney
The symbol of France's national soccer team Les Bleus is fittingly this animal, coq gaulois
the rooster
This folksy word for a diploma comes from an old type of parchment
sheepskin
On July 20 in Milwaukee, he hammered home his 755th & final home run
(Hank) Aaron
A few new articles of clothing may be in order if you take up apiculture, this hobby
beekeeping
You've seen the external type of this device that goes with shouts of "code blue!"; an ICD is an implanted one for arrhythmia
a defibrillator
This French exclamation is the title of Christopher Moore's novel about a mysterious blue paint color
Sacré Bleu
A 1763 play described a character as "an old miserly good for nothing" this
skinflint
Later pardoned, this heiress was sentenced to seven years in prison for her role in an armed bank robbery
Patty Hearst
A 1960s innovation in archery, this type of bow uses a series of cables & pulleys to make it easier to draw
a compound bow
The modern version of this process to set the order of ER services is said to have been invented by a Napoleonic era field surgeon
triage
In Culiacán, a suburb of Mexico City, Frida Kahlo lived, laughed & loved in the Blue House, called this in Spanish
Casa Azul
This exponent of behaviorism topped an APA list of the most eminent psychologists of the 20th century
(B.F.) Skinner
Prepare ye theatergoers for June 22, when this musical based on the gospel according to St. Matthew made its Broadway debut
Godspell
Pressure & boiling water bath are the 2 main methods in this food preservation hobby
canning
An element & kitchen attire make up this 2-word item used to protect your organs from ionizing radiation during X-raying
lead apron
In 2002 this country standardized the shade of its flag's light blue as well as how its "Sun of May" should look
Argentina
This title of a Pulitzer Prize play about a family evading disasters ends the dentally wrong cliché "We escaped by..."
The Skin of Our Teeth
1976 saw the first identified outbreak of this illness, during a convention of veterans at a hotel in Philadelphia
Legionnaires' disease