SLOPPY JOE
TO THE "NTH" POWER

POETRY FOR THEE
I'LL REMEMBER LATE APRIL

DESCRIBING THE SONG
400

Michael Jordan, Lebron James, and David Beckham share this number. Coincidentally, this number is also Joseph's age

23

400

It's a square block serving as a base to a sculpture

plinth

400

Whitman got tired of this somewhat cheesy 1865 elegy for Lincoln & wrote another, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

O Captain! My Captain!

400

On April 29, 1945 the 45th Infantry Division of the U.S. 7th Army arrived to liberate this concentration camp near Munich

Dachau

400

Biz Markie finds out a girl named "Blah-Blah-Blah" is, in fact, having more than a platonic relationship with another man

Just a Friend

800

"We love the ____! It's all about the _____! Hit a homerun!" Joseph won the little league championship while playing for this national league east team

the Mets

800

This compound obtained from peppermint oil can be used as a topical ointment

menthol

800

Words that rhyme in this poem include bore, shore, implore, Lenore & door, & there is at least one "-more"

the Raven 

800

Soviet victims of radiation accidents are remembered every April 26, the day of the meltdown at this site

Chernobyl

800

Michael Jackson warns about evil "lurking in the dark" & Vincent Price waxes poetic about grisly ghouls

Thriller

1200

I've lost my appetite! Joseph was in this restaurant's drive-thru when Maeve slapped him so hard he cried

Jack in the Box

1200

On this type of schedule, you usually get paid on the 1st & 15th

bimonthly

1200

Xanadu, your neon lights will shine for you as the location of this ruler's "stately pleasure-dome"

Kublai Khan 

1200

Centuries after Europeans named it, then with no "I" in "Serra", this country became independent April 27, 1961

Sierra Leone

1200

Drake remembers an ex who used to call him all the time but now is living her best life "running out of pages" in her passport

Hotline Bling

1600

We're halfway there! Joseph butchered this star's hit song in front of him whilst in the stands in South Bend

Bon Jovi 

1600

This structure at Chartres Cathedral once bore an image of Theseus

the Labyrinth 

1600

It's kind of a shame Lewis Carroll is not alive to rewrite this piece & rhyme "bandersnatch" with "Cumberbatch"

Jabberwocky

1600

This Swiss-based superlab released the World Wide Web free to all April 30, 1993, having considered charging a user fee

CERN

1600

Various people who live lives of quiet desperation, like Davy in the Navy, yell at Billy Joel to sing at a watering hole

Piano Man 

2000

You're in danger! This numbered highway was the route that added an additional hour to the trip home from Big Sur

the 78

2000

We thought all these fishy fellas were dead until Marjorie Courtenay-Latimer found one by the harbor & took it to her lab by cab

a coelacanth 

2000

Ginsberg "saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness" in this primal scream of a poem

Howl

2000

This organization was founded 80 years ago on April 25 to benefit institutions including Howard & Morehouse

the United Negro College Fund

2000

Warren G has some trouble with the local roughs until Nate Dogg saves him; together they help some ladies with car trouble

Regulate