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INVENTIONS

200

'Though he may not have tried it himself, da Vinci designed what is probably the 1st of these "fall-breakers"'

Parachute

400

'Richard Nixon's pal Robt. Abplanalp invented the valve for this type of can'

Aerosol Can

600

'The typewriter was 1st mass-produced in the 1870s by this gun manufacturer'

Remington

800

'In 1960 the FDA approved production of Enovid, the 1st of these'

Birth Control Pills

1000

'Only president granted a patent at any time in his life; he got it in 1849 for a ship flotation device'

Abraham Lincoln

U.S. STATES

200

'Hey, it's the "Bay State"'

Massachusetts

400

'The state that contains the mouth of the Mississippi'

Louisiana

600

'In 1947 British driver John Cobb was 1st to travel over 400 MPH on this state's salt beds'

Utah

800

'It contains both the highest & lowest points in the lower 48 states'

California

1000

'3 of the top 10 U.S. cities in population are in this state'

Texas (Dallas, Houston, San Antonio)

NURSERY RHYMES

200

'A man by this name wears whiskers on his chinnegan'

Michael Finnegan

400

'Higgledy piggledy; it's the color of the hen that lays eggs for gentlemen'

Black

600

'We'll have tea if she puts the kettle on'

Polly

800

'Here comes a candle to light you to bed, here comes a chopper to....uh--oh'

Chop off your head

1000

'"Betwixt", a word you don't often run into, is in line 3 of the rhyme about this man & his eating habits'

Jack Sprat ("could eat no fat, his wife could eat no lean")

ANCIENT GREECE

200

'Carrying news of a Greek victory, Pheidippides ran from this plain to Athens, about 23 miles'

Marathon

400

'When he conquered Thebes, he destroyed every house but the one the poet Pindar had lived in'

Alexander the Great

600

'The Greeks considered this site of the oracles the "Omphalus" or navel of the world'

Delphi

800

'It's very likely that Sophocles & Socrates attended the dedication of this temple in 438 B.C.'

Parthenon/Temple of Athena

1000

'According to Collier's Ency., in the 7th cent. this city-state won most of the recorded Olympic victories'

Sparta

I TV

200

'He was the "I" in "I Love Lucy"'

Desi Arnaz/Ricky Ricardo

400

'We can't tell if the "I" in the title of this series referred to Bill Cosby or Robert Culp'

"I Spy"

600

'He was the "I" in "I Dream of Jeannie"'

Larry Hagman/Tony Nelson

800

'"One Day At A Time" star who was the "I" in the TV film "I Was A Mail Order Bride"'

Valerie Bertinelli

1000

'Daniel Hugh Kelly was the "I" in this 1987-88 series about an architect who wed his Latino housekeeper'

"I Married Dora"