Georgia On Our Mind
We Have Laws
April 8, 2016
(April 9 was a Saturday)
(April 9 was a Saturday)
Women's Studies
Famous Spencers
400
Let's go nuts with this pie staple, a hickory genus member grown in Georgia with a fat content of over 70%
Pecan Pie
400
Massachusetts law largely bans the sale of booze on Sundays, legal holidays & this day of democracy in action
Election Day
400
BRING YOUR "B" GAME
Each player's fleet includes a submarine & a destroyer in this classic board game
Battleship
400
In 1970 San Diego State established the first of many departments called this
Women's Studies
400
Finding that a nearby magnetron had melted a candy bar in his pocket led Percy Spencer to invent this
Microwave
800
This founder's name is on the Girl Scout National Center in Savannah
Juliette Gordon Low
800
Rhode Island warns that biting off someone's leg will get you 1 to 20 as this offense, a variation of the word "maim"
Mayhem
800
THEY SING, THEY ACT
"Evergreen", "Yentl"
Barbara Streisand
800
In a feminist move the women's social & political union insisted on saying this word with a hard "G", as in "We'll get the vote"
Suffragette
800
It was philosopher Herbert Spencer, not Darwin, who coined his 4-word phrase that sums up natural selection
Survival Of The Fittest
1200
Georgia has 2 official state nicknames-- "Empire State of the South" & this fruity one
The Peach State
1200
Vancouver, Canada bans these in new housing; levers are easier on the arthritic hands of an aging populace
Doorknobs
1200
WORLD LANDMARKS
Around 1400 B.C. Thutmose IV ordered a team to dig out the buried front paws of this landmark
The Sphinx
1200
An 1848 declaration said these institutions were unjustly closed to women; today women are the majority there
Colleges
1200
Once Tommy Mullaney on "L.A. Law", John Spencer then played White House chief of staff Leo McGarry on this series
The West Wing
1600
This pianist may have had "Georgia On My Mind" but the post office named for him is in Los Angeles
Ray Charles
1600
Louisiana law bans cursing these people, volunteer or not, in the performance of their duties
Firemen and Firewomen
1600
"GET" GOING
A lump of something, perhaps gold
Nugget
1600
The 1848 feminist "Declaration of Sentiments" adds these 2 words to 1776's "All men are created equal"
"and women"
All men and women are created equal
1600
In 1981 the bells were ringing for Prince Charles & Diana Spencer, married in this cathedral
St. Paul's
2000
Georgia's First City
Savannah
2000
N.Y. penal law, Section 255.17, says this act, spousal infidelity, is a Class B misdemeanor
Adultery
2000
BIRD WORDS AND PHRASES
The most direct route is straight as this bird flies
The Crow
2000
The League of Women Voters was founded in this year in which women first voted nationally for president
1920
2000
The patriarch in 1967's "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner"
Spencer Tracy