CATCHING SOME Z'S
This state is the only one with a city beginning with every letter of the alphabet, including Zanesville.
What is Ohio?
David, Alexander, Charlemagne and Augustus are represented by these playing cards.
What are kings?
This professor was Sherlock Holmes’ arch enemy.
Who is Moriarity?
This Beaver Falls native brashly predicted that his New York Jets would win Super Bowl III.
Who is Joe Namath?
This “bright” inventor is credited with nearly 1,100 patents.
Who is Thomas Edison?
Don Diego de la Vega is the real name of this swashbuckling hero.
Who is Zorro?
Playing cards were invented in this nation that also gave us gunpowder and printing.
What is China?
It’s the first name of Holmes’ companion Dr. Watson.
What is John?
Among this right-hander’s 5,714 strikeout victims were seven pairs of fathers and their sons.
Who is Nolan Ryan?
Zacharias Janssen invented this magnifying instrument that is a staple of every science lab.
What is a microscope?
This author of Westerns was a favorite of the Colonel Potter character on MASH.
Who is Zane Gray?
The ace of clubs, ace of spades and these two cards make up the “dead man’s hand.”
What are the 8 of spades and 8 of clubs?
If you wanted to send Holmes a letter, you would send it to this street address.
What is 221B Baker Street?
Long before the Williams sisters, she was the first Black female to win a major tennis title.
Who is Althea Gibson?
This man, who discovered the existence of multiple galaxies, has his name on a famous telescope.
Who is Edwin Hubble?
This Frenchman was named the world’s best soccer player three times in his illustrious career.
Who is Zinedine Zidane?
Because he appears to be putting his sword through his head, the king of hearts is sometimes known as this.
What is the suicide king?
Holmes employed a gang of street boys to gather intelligence for him, and he called them by this name.
Who are The Irregulars?
The NFL franchise that began as the Decatur Staleys has gone by this name since 1921.
What is the Chicago Bears?
In 1543, he developed a model of the galaxy that was sun-centered, a radical idea at the time.
Who is Copernicus?
From 1971-1997, this African nation was known as Zaire.
What is Democratic Republic of the Congo?
One clubs is the lowest bid and seven no trump is the highest in this game.
What is bridge?
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle invented Sherlock Holmes, but this famous author is credited with inventing the detective story genre.
Who is Edgar Allan Poe?
In 1992, this hockey player became the first woman to play with a North American men’s pro team.
Who is Manon Rheaume?
Polonium is one of two radioactive elements discovered by Marie Curie. This is the other.
What is radium?