SURPRISE ME!
IN THE BOOKSTORE
FATHER TIME
U.S. STATES
HEALTH AND MEDICINE
WHAT THE BLEEP?
100

If you order a pullet surprise in a restaurant, they'll serve you this type of meat.

Chicken
100

"If you can read, you can cook", she wrote in the introduction to her classic "Mastering the Art of French Cooking".

Julia Child
100

On Dec. 13, 1961 Father Time caught up with this 101-year-old artist with a relative in her nickname.

Grandma Moses
100

Bismarck is the second-largest city in this state.

North Dakota
100

Bacteria in the mouth produce an acid that eats away at this outer part of the tooth & causes cavities.

Enamel
100

A song:
"O beautiful, for spacious skies, for amber waves of bleep..."

Grain

200

On April 1, 1996 newspaper readers were surprised to learn that Taco Bell had bought this historic bell; April Fool's!

The Liberty Bell

200

She's the funny woman behind the book, "Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea".

Chelsea Handler

200

White hair was not a sign of age for Debby, who died in a Winnipeg zoo in 2008 as the oldest living one of these animals.

A polar bear

200

Its dairy industry is the largest in New England.

Vermont

200

"The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine" deals with this 365-body-point technique.

Acupuncture

200

The Miranda warning:
"Anything you say can & will be used against you in a bleep bleep bleep"

Court of law

300

This Washington Irving short story character is surprised to learn he's been asleep for 20 years.

Rip Van Winkle

300

At 1,424 pages, the Penguin Classics Deluxe version of his "War and Peace" is hardly a quick read.

Tolstoy

300

After 144 years of good times & hard time, this Illinois prison where Jake Blues did time closed in 2002.

Joliet

300

Its state vegetables are the chile & frijoles.

New Mexico

300

Conjunctivitis, an inflammation caused by bacteria or a virus, is also known by this colorful name.

Pink eye

300

Churchill:
"We shall bleep on the beaches... we shall bleep in the fields & in the streets, we shall bleep in the hills.

Fight

400

Launched in 1916, the HMS Surprise was a ship in this European country's navy.

Britain
400

Perhaps you'd like to pick up his "Collected Plays: 1944-1961", which includes "The Crucible" & "Death of a Salesman".

Arthur Miller

400



***DAILY DOUBLE***

After 12,000 years staring out over New Hampshire, this senior citizen succumbed in 2003.

400

During the War of 1812 thousands in this state volunteered to enlist, hence its "Volunteer State" nickname.

Tennessee

400

This type of dr. specializes in the kidneys, bladder & ureters, as well as the male reproductive organs.

A urologist

400

Jefferson:
"When in the course of bleep events, it becomes necessary for one people..."

Human

500



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On March 31, 1968 this man surprised many by declaring he would not run for reelection.

500

He wrote books on fishing & hunting, & you might also enjoy his classic "A Farewell to Arms".

Hemingway

500

In 1989 Father Time went to Switzerland to get Franz Josef II, prince of this small neighbor since 1938.

Liechtenstein
500

Appalled by the conditions of debtors in prison in England, James Oglethorpe started this as a debtor's colony.

Georgia

500

Types of this surgical gripping device include gingival, hemostatic & Goldblatt.

Clamps

500

Coleridge:
"From the fiends, that plague thee thus!--why look'st thou so?"--"With my bleep I shot the albatross".

Crossbow