3 letter words
Cartographer's creation
What is a MAP?
The longest of these songs is number 119, with 176 verses
What are PSALMS?
Cupid, Dancer, Prancer
What are REINDEER?
Johnny Cash once recorded a live album just east of Sacramento at this prison
What is FOLSOM PRISON?
While these small bread cubes often top salads, larger versions can be used to catch drippings
What are CROUTONS?
In biology it's a finger. In mathematics its a number, like one.
What is a DIGIT?
To turn the light down
What is DIM?
Created from the earth, this man's name in Hebrew means "red earth"
Who is ADAM?
Surgical, boxing, fingerless
What are GLOVES?
In 1986 this New York capital celebrated the 300th anniversary of its charter as a city
What is ALBANY?
Broccoflower, a relatively new vegetable, is a cross between broccoli & this
What is CAULIFLOWER?
This fossilized resin from prehistoric pines can preserve an insect forever, and was a major plot point in Jurassic Park
What is AMBER?
To strike someone, or a successful song or show
What is a HIT?
Of 40, 100 or 400, the one closest to the total years the Israelites were in captivity in Egypt
What is 400?
The hustle, the funky chicken, the rhumba
What are DANCES?
Known for its Victorian homes, Cape May in this state celebrates Victorian Week every October
What is NEW JERSEY?
The cheese steak sandwich is said to have originated in this eastern city in the 1930s
What is PHILADELPHIA?
An EEG records the electrical activity of this organ
What is the BRAIN?
A sacred sister
What is a NUN?
"The sun and the moon shall be darkened" is the forcast of Joel, one of the 12 minor these
What is PROPHET?
A subpoena, a tennis ball, dinner
What are THINGS THAT ARE SERVED?
On its north, this state borders Tennessee; on its east, the Atlantic Ocean
What is GEORGIA?
This celebrated blue cheese is aged in limestone caves in Southwestern France
What is ROQUEFORT?
The sun is 333,000 times as massive as the Earth but only 1,047 times as massive as this planet
What is JUPITER?
As a verb, you do it with your hands to get a drink; as a noun, it's something you drink from
What is a CUP?
This first Christian martyr saw "the heavens opened" right before he was stoned to death
Who was STEPHEN?
A rainbow, a horseshoe hung above a door, a 4-leaf clover
What are LUCKY CHARMS?
This city's budget is always done by congress and was incorporated as a city May 3, 1802 with its mayor to be appointed by the president
What is WASHINGTON DC?
It's an Italian version of an omelet, served pancake-style
What is FRITATA?
Sound Navigation and Ranging, is helpful for exploring and mapping the ocean because sound waves travel farther in the water than do radar and light waves. It is better known as this 5 letter acronym
What is SONAR?
In the title of an Aesop fable, this insect shared billing with a grasshopper
What is an ANT?
Dating from the 300s A.D., one of the oldest bibles is a codex that's been in this library since at least 1481
What is the VATICAN?
Bunk, twin, flower
What are BEDS?
Literary magazine edited by O. Henry in 1894, or rock magazine founded in 1967
What is ROLLING STONE?
The Belgian type of this battercake is served for breakfast or for dessert
What is a WAFFLE?
This green pigment gives plants its color and is also found in algae & in some bacteria
What is CHLOROPHYLL?
It can mean the daily record of a ship's progress or the act of recording that progress
What is LOG?
When morning arose, 2 of these beings warned Lot to leave Sodom quickly with his wife & daughters
What are ANGELS?
A piano, a typewriter, Florida
What is THEY ALL HAVE KEYS?
They advise "Be all you can be"
Who is the US ARMY?
Name shared by an ice cream containing ground nuts or macaroons & a rich, creamy shellfish soup
What is a BISQUE?
The largest yolk in an egg is the 3-inch diameter yolk of this bird's egg
What is an OSTRICH?
Although roosters crow, crows emit this sound
What is CAW?
The Old Testament was originally mostly written in Hebrew, with a few passages in this language
What is ARAMAIC?
The Pledge of Allegiance, the queen when she enters the room, your rights
What are THINGS YOU STAND FOR?
In southern Florida, the "queen" type of this large sea snail is often found in chowder
What is CONCH?
A raw egg yolk usually accompanies this raw meat dish
What is STEAK TARTARE?
The 2 lines of latitude lying 23 1/2 degrees north & south of the Equator are referred to the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of this
What is CAPRICORN?
Nautically speaking, if you don't like the look of someone, you don't like "the cut of his" one of these
What is a JIB?
This many friends of Daniel were thrown into the fiery furnace but saved by God
What is THREE?
A shoulder, a keg of beer, a telephone wire
What are THINGS YOU TAP?
Appropriately, tar was one of the first products made in this "Tar Heel State"
What is NORTH CAROLINA?
Tahini, a thick paste used in Middle Eastern cooking, is made from these ground seeds
What are SESAME SEEDS?
These respiratory organs of aquatic animals occur in oysters & some insect larvae as well as in fish
What are GILLS?
Slang for impudent talk, your parents didn't want you to give them any
What is LIP?
The Jewish scriptures are the Ketuvim, or "writings"; Nevi'im, or "prophets"; & this, meaning "law"
What is the TORAH?
Staple, Tommy, hot glue
What are GUNS?
The District of Columbia's flag is based on this man's coat-of-arms
Who is GEORGE WASHINGTON?
When he returned to Venice from the Far East, he introduced the idea of fruit flavored ices
Who was MARCO POLO?
The acceleration of falling objects varies from place to place because of variations in this force
What is GRAVITY?