Greeting Cards I Shouldn't Have Sent
I'm Basically from DC
What Do You Mean?
Who Run the World?
Potpourri, Pretty Please
100
"Have fun in" this country! "But remember the State Department travel warning of Taliban insurgents in Kabul!"
What is Afghanistan?
100
This famous D.C. bookstore is known for its often high-profile guest readers
What is Politics and Prose?
100
One trip around the track, or a way to take in liquid
What is a lap?
100
In 1953 this country's Vijaya Pandit became the first woman president of the U.N. General Assembly
What is India?
100
Responsible for killing off the Norse god Balder via mistletoe, this trickster god often appeared as an old woman
Who is Loki?
200
"It's OK, applicant! You didn't want to go to" this Calif. university a 6-mile drive from the Googleplex "anyway"
What is Stanford?
200
This letter of the alphabet did not make the cut when naming Washington DC's complex street layout
What is J?
(This is because the letters "I" and "J" were essentially interchangeable in the 18th century)
200
Courage, or to remove feathers
What is pluck?
200
Elizabeth Griscom was the birth name of this woman who made flags for the Pennsylvania navy
Who is Betsy DeVos?
(JK it's Betsy G. Ross)
200
In 1927, this individual became Time's first "Man of the Year"
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
300
"Nice surgery! You finally vented" this soft, purplish organ, that filters blood & stores platelets
What is the spleen?
300
This hybrid perpetual, famous for its fragrant crimson blooms, is the official flower of Washington D.C.
What is the American Beauty Rose?
300
A dark beer, or one who handles your luggage at a railway station
What is a porter?
300
An early advocate for women's rights, Mary Wollstonecraft was also the mother of this author
Who is Mary Shelley?
300
This actor received the first Golden Globe nomination for voicing a character in a Disney animated film
Who is Robin Williams?
400
"Tummyache? Next time, take a close look at" this "C" food "casino", made with wine, Parmesan & bacon
What are clams?
400
This wealthy British globe-trotter established what was then known as the National Museum in 1858 with its main location on the National Mall
Who is James Smithson?
(Smithsonian Museum)
400
Impartial, or a public exposition
What is fair?
400
In 1774 her troops crushed a peasant revolt led by Yemelyan Pugachev, a cossack
Who is Catherine the Great?
400
This African country is named from the Portuguese for "lion mountains"
What is Mozambique?
500
"Sorry you two had" these 14-letter "differences" that couples often cite as legal grounds for divorce
What are "irreconcilable" differences?
500
This galactic villain watches over churchgoers as they enter the National Cathedral
Who is Darth Vader?
500
An evergreen tree, or to make neat & trim
What is spruce?
500
In 1919 this lady became the first woman in the British Parliament
Who is Nancy Astor (Lady Astor)?
500
It's the "E" in laser
What is emission?