Affairs of the Heart
Shortened Words
50 States
Name Your Poison
For the Ladies
100

Technically a fruit, but often used as a vegetable in cooking, this green food is a heart healthy source of fat that is a key ingredient in guacamole. 

What is Avocado?

100

Con, like serving time in prison.

What is Convict?

100

This state leads the U.S. in the production of burley tobacco & bourbon whiskey

What is Kentucky?

100

Jose Cuervo, Don Julio, y Patron 

What is Tequila?

100

Before her early death in 1997, this British woman worked with the International Campaign to Ban Landmines

Who is Princess Diana?

200

The human heart has this many chambers. 

What is Four?

200

Pen, a place full of cons

What is a Penitentiary? 
200

This state has the only non-rectangular U.S. state flag.

What is Ohio?

200

Smirnoff, Titos, & Grey Goose

What is Vodka?

200

Canonized in 2016, this Albanian-Indian Catholic nun founded the Missionaries of Charity

Who is Mother Teresa?

300

True or False: On average, women have faster heartbeats than men.

True!
300

Flu, we hope you don't come down with this

What is Influenza?

300

It's state song includes the words "From hill to hill, from creek to creek, Potomac calls to Chesapeake."

What is Maryland?

300

Buffalo Trace, Bulleit, & Jim Beam

What is Bourbon?

300

In 1850 she began working on the railroad, sneaking into Baltimore to lead her sister & 2 kids to freedom

Who is Harriet Tubman?

400

This is the name of the condition where your heart beats irregularly or too quickly/slowly. 

What is Arrhythmia? 
400

Memo, a short note or reminder

What is Memorandum?

400

Its state university system is based in Las Cruces

What is New Mexico?

400

Hendrick's, Tanqueray, & Bombay

What is Gin?

400

Pre-Red Cross in 1865, she set up a Bureau of Records to help search for missing soldiers

Who is Clara Barton?
500

This type of blood vessel pumps oxygen-poor blood towards the heart.

What are Veins?
500

Pants, the longer word comes from the name of a character in an Italian comedy

What is Pantaloons?

500

Native daughter Helen Keller is on the reverse of the quarter that represents this Southern state

What is Alabama?

500

Malibu, Captain Morgan, & Bacardi

What is Rum?

500

Before becoming Prime Minister of Israel in 1969, she taught school in Milwaukee

Who is Golda Meir?