BIRTH OF A SALESMAN
Born Oct. 5, 1902, Ray Kroc sold paper cups & blenders before making it big with this fast food chain
McDonalds
Host of the 2008 Summer Games, this city is set to host the 2022 Winter Games, becoming the first city to host both
Beijing
AA is a quality rating for corporate or municipal these
Bonds
Lord Byron rhymed, "Sanctuary and home / Of art and piety--Pantheon!--pride of" this city
Rome
Like a car or plane, a swing set can have these kind of seats for safety--I don't think the car has leg holes, though
bucket seats
Clement Stone, b. 1902, began his fortune with cold calls (he called them gold calls) for these policies, the casualty type
insurance
Appropriately, the modern Olympics began with the 1896 Games in this city
Athens
AAM stands for this type of missile, likely shot by a plane at a plane
air to air missile
An old British sailor's song says to the "ladies of" this country, "We hope in a short time to see you again"
Spain
Monkey bars are also known by this tropical name
monkey bars
Born in 1859 in Mass., Horace Hooper sold dictionaries until a London visit led him to upgrade to this encyclopedia
Encyclopedia Britannica
As a 1924 host, Paris was the setting for this film about runners Eric Liddell & Harold Abrahams
Chariots of Fire
"We invented the aluminum industry", says this company, AA on the New York Stock Exchange
Alcoa
The Pretenders' "My City Was Gone" rhymes "malls" with Cuayhoga Falls & "A-O-way to go" with this state
Ohio
Types of these on playgrounds include roller, straight & spiral
slides
Born in 1914 in San Francisco, this fitness marvel & juicing guru swam handcuffed from Fisherman's Wharf to Alcatraz
Jack La Lane
The 1976 Summer Games in this Canadian city were boycotted by 22 African nations
Montreal
"We invented the aluminum industry", says this company, AA on the New York Stock Exchange
Associate of Arts
An 1861 poem said, "Avenge the patriotic gore / That flecked the streets of" this city in riots vs. federal troops
Baltimore
In "Young Frankenstein", the monster inadvertently turns this into a catapult, sending the girl flying
see saw
Operators were standing by to give the news when this Ronco pitchman was born May 3, 1935
Ron Popeil
Lake Placid's hockey arena is now named for this coach who miraculously won gold there
Herb Brooks
Blame it on the AAR, meaning average annual this
rain or return revenue
A Springsteen song rhymes "fix your hair up pretty" with this casino center
Atlantic City
Buckminster Fuller estimated that at one time, half of these domes built were part of playground equipment
geodisc domes