This large black & yellow bee can often be found at higher altitudes than other bees
Bumblebee
The Chicago version of this Italian-American dish is made in a 2-inch-deep pan
Pizza
Lillian Gish described this cinema city as "an emotional Detroit"
Hollywood
Some states have debated removing the X-shaped design of this battle flag from their own flags
Confederate Flag
Ombrophobia is the fear of this; better get a big umbrella
Rain
One type of this insect can tell you the temperature; add 40 to the number of chirps in 15 seconds
Cricket
Onions preserved this way can be eaten within days; okra should mellow for a few weeks
Pickling
Philip Sheridan once said, "If I owned" this big state "and hell, I would rent out" the state "and live in hell"
Texas
After a real estate boom, one of these events struck Florida in 1926, 3 years before the "great" one
Depression
If you have phasmophobia, fear of these, stay out of haunted houses
Ghosts
Species of this insect include ctenocephalides canis & ctenocephalides felis
Flea
This sandwich named for its meat & dairy filling is a Philadelphia treat
Philly Cheesesteak
To Ausonius it was "First among cities, home of the gods"
Rome
In 1982 a court struck down an Arkansas law forcing schools to teach this divine event as science
Creation
People with severe ichthyophobia can't eat these or even look at pictures of them
Fish
The many stag species of this insect get their name from the males' jaws, which resemble antlers
Beetles
Pasta Fazool is an American colloquialism for pasta e fagioli, pasta & these
Beans
John H. Wilson called it "At once London's highroad and its sewer"
The Thames River
In the Black Patch War of 1906-09 growers tried to break monopolies of this product
Tobacco
Because pteronophobics fear these, they should avoid chicken coops & fan dancers
Feathers
Ants can communicate by releasing these chemicals from glands located throughout the body
pheromones
A NYC specialty, it's made with seltzer water, milk & syrup, not with the foods in its name
Egg Cream
Oliver Wendell Holmes claimed this city "Is the thinking center of the continent, and therefore of the planet"
Boston
This New Orleans D.A. unsuccessfully prosecuted Clay Shaw as a JFK assassination conspirator
Jim Garrison
Some people may have uranophobia, fear of this place, because they fear being judged there
Heaven