TOYS & GAMES
How you pay for your "stamps" in the game of post office
Kisses
Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters are two of the more than 50 films made by this screenwriter/director/actor.
Woody Allen
Heisman Trophy
Outstanding college football player
Ronald Reagan was called “The _________ President” because criticism and blame never seemed to stick to him.
Teflon
His nickname, “The Wizard of Menlo Park,” came from the location of his New Jersey laboratory.
Thomas Edison
Another name for a firefly, or Hasbro's toy that lights up when you hug it
Glowworm
This author of Tender is the Night and The Great Gatsby was an uncredited screenwriter on 1939’s Gone With The Wind.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Stanley Cup
National Hockey League playoff winning team
Brillo or SOS pads are basically made of this material infused with soap.
Steel Wool
This British author of classic children’s literature invented many new words, such as mimsy (a combination of miserable and flimsy); chortle (a combination of chuckle and snort); and jabberwocky, which came to mean “nonsensical speech or writing.”
Lewis Carol
"Pong"s creator began this video game co. & named it for a Japanese word for "a winner"
Atari
The screenplay for the 1971 film Beyond the Valley of the Dolls was written by this late partner of the late Gene Siskel.
Roger Ebert
Davis Cup
International tennis champion
Old phonograph records are made of this material.
Vinyl
Philadelphia pharmacist and Quaker Charles Hires invented this beverage in the late 1800s as an alternative to alcohol.
Root Beer
It's a playing piece in Chinese checkers
Marble
He wrote some of the funniest movies ever made, including The Producers, Blazing Saddles, and Young Frankenstein.
Mel Brooks
Vince Lombardi Trophy
Winning team of the Super Bowl
This wool-based material, which is one of the world’s oldest textiles, can be found in musical instruments (to damper sound); in industrial machinery (for cushioning moving parts); on tennis balls; in boot and shoe linings; and topping a pool table.
Felt
Only ten of these machines were built in 1954, and among the original purchasers was the Boston Bruins hockey team.
Zamboni
2 of the 3 chess pieces that can move up to 7 spaces in one turn
Rook, Bishop or Queen
Warren Beatty earned Academy Award nominations for Best Actor, Director, and Screenwriter for this 1981 film about the radical American journalist John Reed during the Russian Revolution
Reds
America’s Cup
Yacht racing
Dale Chihuly is a master sculptor who works, almost exclusively, with this material — as did Louis Comfort Tiffany in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Glass
According to Voltaire, the 18th century French philosopher, "If ________ did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him.”
God