BOOTS
THE WORLD OF THE 1800s
STOP IT!
WEBSITES
AUTHOR LAST NAME IN COMMON
100

A verb meaning "to walk in water" is in this alternate name for a fisherman's rubber hip boots

Waders

100

Based on a comment by the czar, this declining empire begun by Turkish tribes was known as "The Sick Man of Europe"

The Ottoman Empire

100

You can do this to your dog or your "enthusiasm"

Curb

100

Federal funding covers only about 2/3 of the Smithsonian's expenses, so to ready Neil Armstrong's space suit for Apollo 11's 50th anniversary, the Air and Space Museum raised more than $500,000 via a "Reboot the Suit" campaign on this community funding website

Kickstarter

100

Novelist Henry & playwright Arthur, both Brooklyn boys

Miller

200

Chukka boots are said to get their name from a period in this sport

Polo

D.D.

200

She wrote a letter to Napoleon asking if she could join him at Elba but she died in 1814 before hearing that just couldn't happen

Josephine

200

To fire from a job, or to attempt to kill Sarah Connor, onscreen

Terminate

200

Kenneth Lerer helped found this website to provide a liberal counterpart to the Drudge Report

The Huffington Post

200

Journalist Tom & novelist Thomas, both southern boys

Wolfe

300

Chelsea boots are also called this music group's boots since they popularized them in the 1960s

The Beatles

300

Mocked by other docs, Ignaz Semmelweis used antisepsis to vastly reduce women's death rate during this event

Childbirth 

300

To refuse to proceed, or a pitcher's faux pas

Balk

300

wordpress.com says, "Everyone has a point of view" & their site is "the world's greatest" tool to create these online journals

Blogs

300

Jackie, Suzanne, Wilkie

Collins

400

Familial name for the women's lace-up boots in imitation of a 19th-century style

Granny boots

400

This translation of certain plates was published in 1830; a much, much different version came to Broadway in 2011

The Book of Mormon

400

Legally, sending a this & this letter notifies someone of their misconduct & orders them to cut it out, pronto

Cease & desist

400

To give a more personalized listening experience, this website uses its music genome project

Pandora

400

E.B., T.H. & Australian Nobelist Patrick

White

500

You put these spiky plates on your hiking boots if you don't want to slip in the ice or snow

Crampons

500

In 1845 this 2-word phrase describing the inevitable expansion of U.S. territory was first used regarding Texas' annexation

Manifest Destiny 

500

To not say anything impulsively, or another word for a song's chorus

Refrain

500

Alexis Ohanian was still a student at UVA when he doodled what became the alien mascot for this website that he co-founded

Reddit

500

Henry & Helen, who both wrote about title characters with the last name Jones

Fielding