Animals in Italian
Avoid the sting as you tell us that un’ape is this insect.
What is a bee?
Jazz musicians & jockeys helped give New York City this nickname.
What is the big apple?
Nabokov’s novels all began on 3×5 these, which he kept under his pillow in case of inspiration.
What are index cards?
The first of his cowboy hats was called the boss of the plains; Carlsbad, the most popular model, followed.
What is Stetson?
The Power and the ___ Daze.
What is Glory?
If you’re called un asino, you’re either a fool, or this animal.
What is a donkey?
If you’re under this, you’re at the circus.
What is the big top?
In 2009 this, on which Cormac McCarthy produced 5 million words, sold for over $250,000 at auction.
What is a typewriter?
The act of herding cattle; death was sometimes called “the last” one.
What is roundup?
The Confessions of Nat ___ and Hooch.
What is Turner?
That’s the scariest ragno, one of these, I’ve ever seen! Don’t tell Signorina Muffet.
What is a spider?
Digit also known as the hallux.
What is the big toe?
At London’s Charles Dickens museum, visitors can handle Dickens’ own pen of this type.
What is a fountain pen?
In 1859 this Nevada town sprung up virtually overnight with the discovery of the Comstock Lode.
What is Virginia City?
The Confessions of Nat ___ and Hooch.
What is bird?
Un cane is this; ready for walkies.
What is a dog?
In France this feature of the night sky is known as “le casserole”.
What is the Big Dipper?
Raymond Chandler composed screenplays by talking into this machine, a brand name copyrighted in 1907.
What is a dictaphone?
In 1867 Joseph McCoy set up a shipping yard in Abilene, Kansas to hold Texas cattle arriving on this trail.
What is the Chisolm Trail?
Vanity ___ Game.
What is Fair?
It really gets me that una capra is one of these farm animals.
What is a goat?
Rhyming nickname of Boston’s Interstate 93 construction project.
What is the big dig?
Steinbeck was obsessed with these; the Mongol 2 3/8 model came closest to the perfect point.
What is a pencil?
As the result of an injury suffered in his first gunfight in 1876, he began using a cane & often used it as a weapon.
Who is Bat Masterson?
The Red and the ___ Knight.
What is Black?