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INCREDIBLE EDIBLES

200

'Australian chefs make soup from the long, muscular tail of this big marsupial'

Kangaroo

400

'Craig Claiborne loves to eat this farm animal's feet; he boils them with celery & onions'

Pig\'s feet

600

'Make sure you remove the thorns before eating nopales, the leaves of the prickly pear type of this'

Cactus

800

'These "soft-shell" animals are sometimes prepared & eaten without removing their eyes'

Crabs

1000

'This "masked" animal is sometimes stuffed with sweet potatoes, though we've never tried it'

Raccoon

AMERICANA

200

'Literary magazine edited by O. Henry in 1894, or rock magazine founded in 1967'

Rolling Stone

400

'Pop Momond called his new comic strip in 1913 "Keeping Up with" this family'

The Joneses

600

'A Confederate camp fire song about "eating" these called them "Goodness how delicious"'

Goober peas/goobers

800

'The first Miss America he crowned was Lee Meriwether in 1954'

Bert Parks

1000

'It was incorporated as a city May 3, 1802 with its mayor to be appointed by the president'

Washington, D.C.

NAME THE ROCKERS

200

'"Please Please Me",
"Rubber Soul",
"Help!"'

The Beatles

400

'"Strange Days",
"L.A. Woman",
"Morrison Hotel"'

The Doors

600

'"Incesticide",
"In Utero",
"Nevermind"'

Nirvana

800

'"Rocket to Russia",
"Road to Ruin",
"Animal Boy"'

The Ramones

1000

'"Colour by Numbers",
"Kissing to be Clever",
"From Luxury to Heartache"'

Culture Club

SECRETARIES OF COMMERCE

200

'Though sworn in 7 months earlier, Lewis Strauss was denied confirmation by this body in 1959'

Senate

400

'Last name of Reagan's commerce secretary Malcolm, or his sister, etiquette expert Letitia'

Baldrige

600

'In 1903 George Cortelyou may have been over"worked" as both Secretary of Commerce & of this'

Labor

800

'He was Secretary of Commerce for most of the 1920s, before he became president'

Herbert Hoover

1000

'Harry Hopkins directed the WPA, this program, before becoming commerce secretary in 1938'

Works Progress Administration or Work Projects Administration

CHILDREN'S LITERATURE

200

'In a folktale, this yummy "man" runs away after he is baked & is later eaten by a sly fox'

Gingerbread Man

400

'In this Hans Christian Andersen story, a child observes, "He has got nothing on at all!"'

"The Emperor\'s New Clothes"

600

'He's the character described in the audiobook heard here
(He liked to sit just quietly & smell the flowers)'

Ferdinand the Bull

800

'Ichabod Crane & Brom Bones are rivals for the affections of Katrina Van Tassel in this story'

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"

1000

'In a 1970 Judy Blume book, this title character asked, "Are you there God?"'

Margaret