Flowers
State flower of Kentucky, this yellow wildflower sounds like it's 14K & 16 1/2 feet long.
What is a goldenrod?
Though it's neighboring Stanford that's famous for transplants, Tony Bennett sang this in 1962.
What is I Left My Heart in San Francisco?
In the early 1500s, this 14-line form of poetry was introduced from Italy.
What is a sonnet?
It's what a chronometer measures.
What is time?
James Marshall's California discovery of January 24, 1848; it wasn't just a flash in the pan.
What is gold?
The only garden flower under "Z" in the World Book is this hairy-stemmed favorite.
What is a zinnia?
Cardialgia, often followed by "Plop, plop, fizz, fizz".
What is heartburn?
Only 24 of these 120 proposed stories exist, since author & friends never made it back to the Tabard Inn.
What are the Canterbury Tales?
Ridges called eskers & oval hills called drumlins are formed by these icy phenomena.
What are glaciers?
This free state was established in January 1922--Erin go Braugh.
What is the Republic of Ireland?
The color of the actual Poinsettia flower.
What is green (or yellow)?
Lewis Carroll character booked for tart theft.
Who is the Jack/Knave of Hearts?
Victorian novelist who often set his gloomy tales in "Wessex County".
Who is Thomas Hardy?
Umbras & penumbras can be parts of a sunspot or types of these.
What are shadows?
In 1967, the U.S. signed a pact banning these in Earth's orbit.
What are nuclear satellites?
From Turkish word "tulbend", meaning turban, comes name of this flower whose blossoms resemble turbans.
What is a tulip?
Alabama's nickname.
What is “Heart of Dixie”?
Until the late 800s, most prose writers in England wrote in this language.
What is Latin?
The most common compound on the Earth's surface.
What is water?
In January 1965, Albert Schweitzer celebrated his 90th birthday, but this great statesman, also 90, died.
Who is Winston Churchill?
The flower is the part of a seed plant that contains this type of organ.
What are the reproductive/sexual organs?
Blondie hit which shattered the charts in 1979.
What is Heart of Glass?
Themes of violence & vengeance dominated Jacobean drama during reign of this 17th c. king.
Who is King James?
Fahrenheit & centigrade readings are identical at this temperature.
What is minus 40?
Team which lost the first Super Bowl in 1967 but won the 4th in 1970.
Who are the Kansas City Chiefs?