CAPTAINS
PLANT IDIOMS
WHAT’S THEIR LAST NAME?
ZERO
HOLIDAYS
100

Captain Merrill Stubing captains this ship

The Love Boat

100

Pushing up ___________.

Daisies 

100

Bruce, Harper, Gypsy Rose

Lee

100

This American actor is widely associated with the role of Tevye in Broadway’s Fiddler on the Roof—although he didn’t get the role in the 1971 movie.

Zero Mostel. Israeli actor Chaim Topol, known just as “Topol,” was nominated for an Academy Award for his role as Tevye in the film.

100

On the second weekend in May, this country observes National Windmill Day.

The Netherlands (Holland)

200

Walt Whitman's poem, "O Captain, My Captain", is a tribute to this slain president

Abraham Lincoln

200

A shrinking ___________.

Violet

200

Jefferson, Miles, Sammy

Davis

200

Originally, this term was used for the spot where a nuclear bomb exploded. Today, it often refers to a place where something, usually awful, has happened.

Ground Zero

200

In Pamplona, Spain, the annual Fiesta de San Fermin is celebrated with this event, in which 50 to 100 people are injured each year.

The Running of the Bulls.

300

Top U.S. air ace in WWI, he later owned the Indianapolis speedway & was president of Eastern Airlines

Eddie Rickenbacker

300

An ____________ branch.

olive

300

Vanessa, Robin, Andy

Williams

300

Weightlessness, as NASA might express it.

Zero Gravity

300

In 1999, New Hampshire was the last US state to make this January day a paid state holiday.

Martin Luther King Day

400

In January of 2009, this Captain miraculously landed his aircraft on the Hudson River

Sully Sullenberger

400

Gild the __________.

Lily

400

Mary, Steve, Dean

Martin

400

This is the lowest temperature that is theoretically possible.

Absolute Zero

400

Surprisingly, Congress made this an official holiday in 1938, though it marks an event that occurred 162 years earlier.

Independence Day, which commemorates the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.

500

This Captain is Peter Pan's arch nemesis 

Captain Hook

500

___________ roots.

Grass

500

Anita, Faith, Benny

Hill

500

In the 1960s, this term was coined to describe a system in which the number of babies born is limited to only the number needed to replace the existing people.

Zero Population Growth (ZPG)

500

Eid ul-Fitr (EED AL FIT•ter) marks the end of this month of fasting for Muslims.

Ramadan