HISTORIC QUOTES
In a 1939 radio broadcast, Churchill called this country "A riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma"
Russia
Abbreviated "c.", it's used before approximate dates
circa
Folk songs written by this performer include "Times They are A-Changin'" & "Mr. Tambourine Man"
Bob Dylan
As an adjective, it's slang for tipsy; in the name of a game, it precedes "winks"
tiddly
Dutch colonists in South Africa gave the gnu this name meaning "wild beast"
wildebeest
Around 1850 Horace Greeley suggested, do this "and grow up with the country"
"Go west, young man"
This term for a big spoonful of whipped cream may come from the Icelandic dolpur, meaning "fat man"
dollop
In this song, "He's gonna get caught, just you wait & see, 'why is everybody always pickin' on me?'"
"Charlie Brown"
An inhabitant of the Palmetto State, the Tar Heel State or the Caroline Islands
Carolinian
Although its neck can be 6 feet long, it often has 7 bones -- the same as humans
giraffe
In 1913 he proclaimed, "We demand that big business give the people a square deal"
Theodore Roosevelt
Elastic-sounding word that's slang for a term of imprisonment
stretch
Of Crosby, Stills, Nash or Young, the one born in England
Graham Nash
A flexible tube found in your garden, or flexible coverings found on your legs
hose
A popular activity in Thailand is watching these quarrelsome fish attack each other
Siamese fighting fish
In 1944 this GOP presidential candidate campaigned on the slogan, "It's Time for a Change"
Thomas Dewey
A cloth emblem on a uniform sleeve, or a small field of pumpkins
patch
Juice Newton peaked at No. 2 with this song named after a playing card
"Queen of Hearts"
A natural or acquired ability or a unit of weight & money, used in ancient Greece
talent
The name of this deadly snake of tropical North & South America is French for "lance head"
fer-de-lance
According to Charles Evans Hughes, this document "Is what the judges say it is"
the Constitution
From the Latin for "separate" or "distinct", it means a few, more than 2, but not many
several
This record by Kyu Sakamoto is the only Japanese language song to reach No. 1 in America
"Sukiyaki"
From the Latin meaning "suffering", it often refers to Christ's suffering
passion
One species of this long-snouted piglike South American mammal wasn't discovered until the 1820s
tapir