"B" and "B"
Whether preceding "plague" or not, it refers to inflammatory swelling, especially around your unmentionables
What is bubonic?
It's often noted that you don't need a valid state one to compete in a NASCAR race; officer, here's my Rusty Wallace novelty one
What is a driver's license?
A part of speech is in this word for long-winded
What is verbose?
In 1928 Donald Duncan had the idea to market this toy & saw its popularity explode
What is a yo-yo?
In the Bible his "height was six cubits and a span", which some estimates peg at 9 or 10 feet tall, but the bigger they come...
Who is Goliath?
Lynx rufus is the scientific name of this North American creature that can leap up to 10 feet
What is a bobcat?
Based on a 1936 decision, the first 3 of its 9 digits dealt with geographical coding
What is your social security number?
In 1906 this compound word for an incessant talker was considered a disease that "may stop kissing while on auto trips"
What is a motormouth?
Toulouse-Lautrec immortalized Jane Avril doing a high kick of this dance
What is the can-can?
Here's this 7'6" ex-NBA star in 2024, taking in a session of the 14th National People's Congress of China
Who is Yao Ming?
A Christmas story set in Russia tells of one of these, "granny" in Russian, who meets 3 wise men
What is a babushka?
In 2023 Alan Alda auctioned off these identifiers he wore around his neck on "M*A*S*H"
What are dog tags?
"Colloquial", "eloquent" & this word that means talkative all derive from Latin for "to speak"
What is loquacious?
The French author Colette created this title girl whose story was turned into an Oscar-winning film in 1958
Who is Gigi?
Claiming to be 8'7", Clifford Thompson from Marquette Law School in this city, became the long arm of the law when sworn into the bar
What is Milwaukee?
It's a statistical measure of how likely it is that some event will occur
What is probability?
In 1933 a blindfolded kidnap victim deliberately left these all over the cabin where he was held by Machine Gun Kelly
What are fingerprints?
It means rambling nonsense with or without "skite" added
What is blather?
Dorado can also be called dolphinfish, or this Hawaiian name
What is mahi-mahi?
Big Ser, actually! This author wrote, "Ser Gregor Clegane, the Mountain That Rides, thundered past them like an avalanche"
Who is George R.R. Martin?
This Arabic slang word means "my love" or "my darling"
What is habibi?
In 1935 a criminologist & an ophthalmologist used the pattern of blood vessels in this eye part as an identifier
What is the retina?
"Tristram Shandy" calls these tangential departures from the main subject "the sunshine... the life, the soul of reading"
What are digressions?
The repeating name of this island in French Polynesia comes from words meaning "first born"
What is Bora Bora?
Known for his controversially casual wardrobe at work, this senator who was elected in 2022 stands 6'8"
Who is John Fetterman?