THE PRESIDENCY
PROFESSIONS
1949
MUSIC TRIVIA
COMMON BONDS
100

This agency began protecting the president after the McKinley assassination in 1901

The Secret Service

100

A cookbook is associated with chefs, but the term "cook the books" is associated with this profession

Accountancy

100

On January 31 the U.S. formally recognized Transjordan & this country

Israel

100

A scale that's played rapidly, or what you don't want to get in your pantyhose

A run

100

May, North, greased

Poles

200

This presidential retreat is perched on the highest point in Catoctin Mountain Park

Camp David 

200

An etymologist studies the history of these

words

200

There were about 40,000 horologists making these in the U.S.

clocks (watches)

200

Her “My Heart Will Go On” went on the Billboard charts in February 1998 & stayed on for another 20 weeks.

(Celine) Dion

200

Gold, hay, cat-scratch

Fevers 

300

Which president served two non-consecutive terms?

Grover Cleveland

300

Louis Agassiz, Charles William Beebe & Charles Darwin are classified as these; Darwin was the Beagle's

Naturalists

300

The cornerstone for its headquarters was laid October 24, 1949

the United Nations

300

This woodwind is sometimes called a blackstick

Clarinet

300

Fish, detective, ghost

stories

400

This president gave a TV tour of the White House in 1952, long before Jackie Kennedy

Truman 

400

From Late Latin for "shopkeeper", it's an old term for a druggist

Apothecary

400

2 women fined & jailed for their WWII broadcasts were Iva D'Aquino, Tokyo Rose, & Mildred Gillars, known as this

Axis Sally

400

Its tune may have come from a song with a similar title, "Britannia, The Pride Of The Ocean"

"Columbia, The Gem Of The Ocean"

400

Beer, truck, rose

Gardens

500

His wife, nee Julia Dent, was the first presidential wife called "The First Lady of the Land"

Ulysses S. Grant

500

Cars are driven by chauffeurs & these are driven by mahouts

elephants

500

In February Jozsef Cardinal Mindszenty was sentenced to life imprisonment in this country

Hungary

500

"Moritat" was the original German title of this song from "The Threepenny Opera"

"Mack The Knife"

500

Beach, gum, masked

Balls