Bowling
To get around the law banning 9-pin bowling, enterprising early Americans did this.
What is bowl with 10 pins?
While tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835, it cracked.
What is the Liberty Bell?
The word "zoo" is short for this phrase.
What is zoological garden?
It's said walking out into this season's humid weather in D.C. is like "stepping into the breath of a large dog".
What is summer?
Your head line is found not on a newspaper but here, near the phalanges.
What is (the palm of) your hand?
Various approaches to this line include the 4-step & 5-step.
What is the foul line?
Popular reading materials of 19th century were 2-cent newspapers & trashy "novels" at this price.
What is a dime?
Saying real ones "tend to die", the Houston Zoo admitted their coral snake was really made of this.
What is rubber?
This best-known composer of patriotic marches was, fittingly, a D.C. native son.
Who is John Philip Sousa?
Lenses of this shape correct farsightedness.
What is convex?
Initials of org. which sets rules for men's bowling or a network telecast.
What is ABC?
It was the 1st state admitted to the Union after the land purchase from France in 1803.
What is Louisiana?
Prize exhibit of the zoo in Barcelona, Spain is "Snowflake", only captive gorilla of this type.
What is an albino gorilla?
Its museums' collections include Charles Lindbergh's plane & George Washington's false teeth.
What is the Smithsonian?
Of the ear bones called "hammer", "anvil" & "stirrup", the one that looks most like its namesake.
What is stirrup?
This occurs when a player knocks down all ten pins in a frame using both of their attempts, or a plea for mercy.
What is a spare?
Levi jeans seem to be more of a fashion trend today, but in the 19th c. they were invented for this purpose.
What is to make work pants durable?
In 2016 a young boy broke into Harambe’s exhibit, which was this kind of animal.
What is a gorilla?
Main N/S streets are numbered, E/W streets lettered, & diagonals named for these.
What are the states?
A femoral artery is found in this part of the body.
What is thigh?
Number of finger holes in a duckpin bowling ball.
What is zero?
They're said to be the last words of the Chesapeake's commander James Lawrence, June 1, 1813.
What is “don’t give up the ship!”?
This city's zoo features a platypusary & the world's best collection of marsupials.
What is Sydney, Australia?
In 1974, for 1st time in over 100 years, D.C. residents were allowed to vote for this.
What is a city government?
The heaviest human organ (besides the skin), it gets its blood from both an artery & a vein.
What is the liver?