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This tree isn’t sad; it just looks that way because it is often planted on riverbanks, and its foliage trails downward.
What is a Weeping Willow?
This late bloomer published her first cookbook around age fifty.
Who is Julia Child?
This is the name of Sherriff Andy Taylor’s son, played by Ron Howard for all eight seasons (1960 to 1968)?
Who is Opie Taylor?
To make the most of the present time (literally, “seize the day”).
What is Carpe Diem? (Latin)
A flight that leaves late at night and arrives early the next morning.
What is a red eye?
Lots of important decisions get made in this part of the White House.
What is the West Wing?
At age 77, he became the oldest person to travel into space.
Who is John Glenn?
The show is set in this sleepy town.
Mayberry (North Carolina)
Cooked, but still firm when bitten (literally, “to the tooth”)
What is al dente? (Italian)
A young deer; also, its color.
What is a fawn?
This series of kids’ books challenges the reader to find a man in a red and white striped shirt and hat who is hidden somewhere in the cluttered picture.
What is Where's Waldo?
At age 66, this American lexicographer completed his monumental American Dictionary of the English Language.
Who is Noah Webster?
He is the town drunk who regularly slept it off in the sheriff’s jail.
Who is Otis Campbell?
Complete freedom to act as one wishes (literally, “blank paper”).
What is Carte Blanche? (French)
Term for crimes committed by bankers or businessmen.
What is white collar?
One of the holiest sites in the Jewish faith, this ancient limestone structure is in the Old City of Jerusalem.
What is the Wailing Wall?
Her first book in the Little House on the Prairie series was published when she was 65 years old.
Who is Laura Ingalls Wilder?
In the show opening, Andy and Opie are walking down a country road carrying these.
What are fishing rods?
An apparition or double of a living person; an evil twin (literally, “double goer”).
What is a Doppelgänger? (German)
Type of lawn; also a popular music genre from Kentucky named after it.
What is bluegrass?
This 19th-century American poet’s famous collection Leaves of Grass included both “O Captain, My Captain!" and “I Hear America Singing."
Who is Walt Whitman?
He wrote Don Quixote when he was in his late fifties.
Who is Miguel de Cervantes?
This is how gas station attendant Gomer Pyle left the program.
What is, he joined the Marines (and later starred in Gomer Pyle, USMC)?
A life of pleasure and luxury (literally, “the sweet life”).
What is La dolce vita? (Italian)
Broadway’s nickname.
What is the Great White Way?