STATES' MEN
THE INDY 500
HOUSE STANDING COMMITTEES
LET'S RUN IT UP THE FLAGPOLE
INVENTIONS
200
'Jerry Seinfeld &
Jerry Stiller'
New York
200
'(Sofia of the Clue Crew rides up in an Indy car at the Indianapolis Speedway.) Paved with 3.2 million bricks in 1909, the Indianapolis Speedway has had this nickname ever since'
"The Brickyard"
200
'There's a committee for this size of business'
a small business
200
'The stars on over 50 national flags, including ours, have this many points'
5
200
'The first touch-tone one of these was placed in service in 1963'
a telephone
400
'Count Basie &
Bruce Springsteen'
New Jersey
400
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from inside a car at the Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.) A 1911 Stoddard-Dayton was one of the first of these cars that lead others around the track but don't race'
a pace car
400
'Transportation & Infrastructure is one committee; this & Means, another'
Ways
400
'Color of the left hand stripe on the flag of Italy; it's not a color in Neapolitan ice cream'
green
400
'Gymnast George Nissen invented the first modern one of these in 1936; some called it a bouncing net'
a trampoline
600
'Mark Twain &
Jesse James'
Missouri
600
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from the Indianapolis Speedway.) The tradition of Indy 500 winners drinking this nonalcoholic beverage in victory lane began with 1936 winner Louis Meyer'
milk
600
'There's a Permanent Select Committee on this headed by Porter Goss; how smart!'
Intelligence
600
'International organization whose flag is seen here'
NATO
600
'Not named when it steamed up the Hudson river in 1807, it was later named for the estate of Fulton's backer'
the Clermont
800
'Abraham Lincoln &
Jefferson Davis'
Kentucky
800
'(Jimmy of the Clue Crew reads from the Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.) Behind the wheels of these cars, this driver, known by his initials, became the first 4-time winner of the Indy 500'
A.J. Foyt
800
'The name of a small committee says it covers the "standards of official" this for House members'
conduct
800
'Richard III had a white boar on his flag; Louis XII, a porcupine; & Louis XIV, a radiating one of these'
a sun
800
'In 1824 British bricklayer Joseph Aspdin invented the Portland type of this'
cement
1000
'Andy Warhol &
Andrew Wyeth'
Pennsylvania
1000
'(Sofia reports from the Indianapolis Speedway Hall of Fame Museum.) It was hard keeping up with this 1963 Indy 500 winner, the first driver to turn an official lap here at over 150 miles per hour'
Parnelli Jones
1000
'C.W. Bill Young has a tendency to pass out (money) as chairman of this committee'
Appropriations
1000
'After Rama IV of Siam saw his flag with this animal flown upside-down, he switched to a striped flag'
elephants
1000
'In 1868 Christopher Sholes & 2 others patented the typewriter; in 1873 this gunmaker got the contract to market it'
Remington