Cowboy Lingo
Poetry Next Line
Sticky Situations
For the Birds
1930's
100

a harness for controlling a horse

Bridle

100

To be or not to be...

…that is the question

100

What a teacher uses for discipline

Hickory stick

100

the only bird that can fly backwards

hummingbird

100

Who’s infant son was kidnapped and later found dead

Charles Lindberg

200

leather trouser for riding a bull  

Chaps

200

I think that I shall never see...

... a poem as lovely as a tree

200

used to measure oil level in a car

Dipstick

200

This bird returns to Capistrano each spring

swallow

200

the banning of alcohol was called

Prohibition

300

Wagon used for cooking in the old west

Chuckwagon

300

Twas the Night Before Christmas…

…and all through the house

300

a person that’s no fun

A stick in the mud

300

this bird is a symbol or peace

dove

300

Jesse Owens won gold medals in 1936 in which sport

Track & field

400

a person who makes horse shoes

Blacksmith

400

I shot an arrow into the air…

… Where it fell I know not where

400

used to eat Chinese food with

Chopsticks

400

a bird that hovers over a carcass

vulture

400

What type of vehicle was the Hindenburg

Blimp

500

a group gathered by the sheriff to track down the bad guys

Posse

500

how do I love thee…

… let me count the ways

500

a child game of skill

Pick up sticks

500

birds that carry a message then return home

Homing pigeon

500

John Dillinger, Baby Face Floyd and BabyFace Nelson were all what

Gangsters