SANDWICHES
Traditionally, this type of sandwich has three slices of bread and includes bacon.
Club sandwich
Bob Hope gave thanks for rainy afternoons, swingy Harlem tunes, and … this.
Memory
The whole world watched when this superstar was inducted into the army in 1958 – especially when he got his regulation haircut.
Elvis Presley
100 – X = the value of the letter “E” in Scrabble.
99
This city, just north of Manhattan, is the fourth largest city in the state of New York … and much of Hello, Dolly! is set there.
Yonkers
When Arby’s first opened in 1964, this was the only sandwich on their menu.
Roast beef
In 1958, Maurice Chevalier (she•VAHL•yay) sang this song, which opened and closed the film Gigi.
“Thank Heaven for Little Girls”
Before he was “The Man in Black,” he was a man in Air Force blue. He bought a guitar with his military pay.
Johnny Cash
36 ÷ X = the number of inches in a foot.
3
This is the only major US city (population over 100,000) that ends in the letter X.
Phoenix
This cold cut is similar, but a little spicier, than corned beef.
Pastrami
Wayne Newton had a big hit in 1970 with this song, whose title means “Thank you very much” in German.
“Danke Shoen”
Known for playing the title role on TV’s Maude and later for her role on The Golden Girls, this actress drove trucks for the US Marines from 1943 to 1945.
Bea Arthur
6 x X = one dozen.
2
Name the two US National Parks that start with the letter Y.
Yellowstone or Yosemite
Often a side dish, this fermented cabbage is an ingredient in a Reuben sandwich.
Sauerkraut
This is what the TGI stands for in the name of the restaurant chain TGI Fridays.
Thank God/Goodness It’s …
At 6’2”, she was too tall to join the WACs or WAVES, so she joined the OSS, which was the forerunner of today’s CIA. She went to cooking school after WWII.
Julia Child
41 – X = Blackjack!
20
The city of Jerusalem is built on this mountain, which is also used as a metaphoric term for the whole nation of Israel.
Zion
This classic sandwich is sometimes called a GAC.
Grilled American Cheese
This Shakespearian king knew what he was talking about when he said, “How sharper than a serpent’s tooth it is to have a thankless child.”
King Lear
After surviving the holocaust, she was wounded in action during the Israeli War of Independence in 1948. Two years later, she was in college in France and on her way to advanced degrees and a career in human sexuality counseling
Dr. Ruth Westheimer
25 + X = the number of US senators.
75
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, this “Y” country splintered into several new nations, including Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Serbia, Macedonia, Kosovo, and Slovenia.
Yugoslavia