AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE
POETICA BOTANICA
YE OLDE SCIENCE
ALPHABETICALLY FIRST
2020 VISION
AROUND LOS ANGELES
400

Returning to the Senate in 1875, he served with senators who had voted "Guilty" at his impeachment trial

Andrew Johnson

400

Asked if these title seasonal objects were for sale, Robert Frost doubted he'd "sell them off their feet to go in cars"

Christmas trees

400

Transmutation was a key goal of this science, whether from old age to youth or base metal to gold

alchemy

400

Of NBA franchises by team name, not city, they won the championship in 2021

the Milwaukee Bucks

400

The first nest found in the U.S. of the 2-inch insects with this scary name was discovered in October

murder hornets

400

Olympic Boulevard may be the most appropriate route to this venue that has hosted 2 Olympics

the Los Angeles Coliseum

800

In 1841 he represented the Amistad mutineers before the Supreme Court

John Quincy Adams

800

Robert Burns compared his love to "a red, red" this "that's newly sprung in June"

rose

800

Phrenology was based on the idea that a person's character could be determined by feeling the shape of this body part

skull

800

Of the Great Lakes, it's the fourth-largest & drains out through the Niagara River

Erie

800

Taking a leap on Leap Day to support low-income people, this grand duchy became the first nation with free public transport

Luxembourg

800

The Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport opened in this decade

the 1960s

1200

He continued to support the political career of protege James "Young Hickory" Polk

Andrew Jackson

1200

A couplet from this poet goes, "A tree that may in summer wear / A nest of robins in her hair"

Joyce Kilmer

1200

The ancient Greeks believed all matter was composed of these 4 classical elements

earth, air, fire & water

1200










Of the first 10 ordinal numbers

eighth

1200

This Foo Fighters frontman got in a drum battle with a 10-year-old, lost, then wrote a song about her

David Grohl

1200

This valley "city" gets it name from the type of facility once used by Mack Sennett & still used by CBS

Studio City

1600

Although he "crashed" in the election of 1932, he later led 2 commissions to reorganize the executive branch

Herbert Hoover

1600

This Welshman wrote "Fern Hill" & name-dropped daisies in a 1933 poem

Dylan Thomas

1600

Aristotle thought the orbits of the Sun, Moon & planets formed a concentric series of these 3-dimensional shapes

spheres

1600

Of the 5 books of the Pentateuch, it's written in the form of a farewell address by Moses

Deuteronomy

1600

Ex-Space Shuttle commander Mark Kelly defeated Martha McSally to become a senator for this state

Arizona

1600

This building is named for a place you can buy rubber bands and file folders

Staples Center

2000

In 1984 Jimmy Carter worked his first building project for this international organization

Habitat for Humanity

2000










Poetically "Under" this tree, Shakespeare wrote, "Come hither, come hither"; Thomas Hardy liked it in a novel title

"the Greenwood Tree"

2000

18th century scientists believed all combustible materials contained a substance they called this, from Greek for "burned"

phlogiston

2000

Of the 11 national battlefields, this one 10 miles from Hagerstown, Maryland

Antietam

2000

In August an estimated 100,000 demonstrators took to the streets to protest against Pres. Lukashenko of this nation

Belarus

2000

Jim Morrison, Errol Flynn & Frances McDormand have all partied in this canyon--Frances, in the movie

Laurel Canyon