History Potpourri
Money Talks
Blue Art
5 Letter Words
Weather
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A 49-star U.S. flag was unveiled after this state got admitted in 1959
Alaska
100
In an alliterative phrase to get this for your buck means to maximize value received.
More Band For Your Buck
100
He chose a nice blue hat to cover the bandage over his ear for the 1889 painting seen here
Van Gogh
100
A midwife is a medical worker who's there for the birth; this is a supportive counselor before during & after it
a Doula
100
Doppler weather systems use this type of technology to detect weather patterns
Radar
200
This rigid airship made its first Atlantic crossing in May 1936 & its last in 1937
The Hindenburg
200
Traditionally to put in this amount is to give your opinion on an issue
Two Cents
200
Crouching Woman & Blind Man's Meal are paintings from his blue period
Picasso
200
Sometimes including insults to do this other 5-letter T word is meaner than just to tease
Taunt
200
One of these can travel at a third the speed of light & heat the air in its path to more than 50000 degrees
Lightning Bolt
300
In 1227 this Asian conqueror was buried in a secret & still unknown location
Genghis Khan
300
In a sentence like I'm getting 8% return on munis the word munis is short for these
Municipal Bonds
300
Thomas Gainsborough set the tone with the portrait seen
The Blue Boy
300
The baker's one is actually 13
Dozen
300
Brazil's highest peak is 9800-foot Pico da Neblina. Neblina being this weather condition that surrounds the summit
Fog
400
the 6000-mile journey known as this taken by China's Red Army in 1934-35 in order to avoid the pursuit of the Chinese Nationalist Party
The Long March.
400
Also part of any room it's the area of a stock exchange occupied by the brokers & traders
The Floor
400
The Japanese artist Hokusai was adept at using the dye of blue named for this onetime European kingdom
Prussian Blue
400
A bedsheet or tablecloth
Linen
400
A Category 4 hurricane hitting a wide & shallow continental shelf can produce a 20-foot this alliterative phrase
Storm Surge
500
On April 12 1961 this Soviet pilot made a single hour & a half orbit of Earth
Yuri Gagarin
500
On a penny since 1909:E ____ ____
Pluribus Unum
500
Ultramarine was essential to this Dutchman's Woman Reading a Letter.
Vermeer
500
An acronym for a confusing situation its first 2 letters stand for situation normal
SNAFU
500
In 1919 Norwegian meteorologist Jacob Bjerknes announced the discovery of these zones where air masses meet
Fronts