Winnie The Pooh in the OED
Museum-Podge
Theories
An Imp of a Rhyme
Whiskey Business
200
Of course, Pooh is cited in the entry for this noun: "he sat down and took the top off his jar of" it
Honey
200
The Witte Museum's collection includes partial busts of Abraham Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt, sculpted by Gutzon Borglum as studies for his execution of this much larger project
Mt.Rushmore
200
The steady-state theory in which the universe has no beginning or end lost ground to this one where everything went kablooey!
the big-bang
200
To spend time making adjustments to one's appearance
primp
200
It's a myth that whiskey labeled "bourbon" must be distilled in this U.S. state, but most of it is
Kentucky
400
In 2018 the OED updated "Bear" to include Pooh's description of himself as "a bear of very little" this
Brain
400
The Vasa, a warship that spent 333 years under the sea, was salvaged & turned into a museum in this capital city
Stockholm
400
The government is up to something--yes, I'm big on these theories, from the Latin for "breathe together"
conspiracy
400
"Snoopy One" was one for Metlife
Blimp
400
Most scotch is distilled twice; this type of whiskey, like Bushmills & Tullamore D.E.W., 3 times
Irish Mystery
600
This Pooh pal's name means "an exuberant, energetic, and cheerful person"
Tigger
600
This Chicago Museum of Natural History bought Sue, the largest & most complete T. rex skeleton, for over $8 mil. in 1997
The field museum
600
The greater fool theory in this activity says don't worry about overvaluation--there's always some dummy who'll buy
The buying stocks
600
6-letter word meaning to economize
scrimp
600
Forbes says India's Officer's Choice is the world's top-selling whiskey; America's is this Lynchburg libation
Jack Daniels
800
Horrible! the OED defines it as "an imaginary creature resembling an elephant"
Heffalump
800
Wisconsin's National Railroad Museum has an exhibit on these porters: "from service to civil rights"
Pullman car porters
800
This Cold War theory said if one country fell to communism, nearby ones would follow
The domino theory
800
Crangon crangon is the scientific name for the common European one
shrimp
800
A small percent of whiskey maturing in barrels evaporates each year, a portion called the "share" of these celestial beings
The Angel's Share
1000
"Pooh-sticks" is defined as "a game in which sticks are thrown into a river from the upstream side of" one of these
bridge
1000
Giorgio Vasari designed it as an office building; later it housed the Medici art collection & then became a museum
Uffizi Gallery
1000
A 1982 theory named for broken these items says small signs of disorder in an area lead to serious crime
windows
1000
To connect 2 wires by squeezing the ends together
Crimp
1000
Seagram's famed numeric brand launched the first National Dive Bar Day--naturally on this date in 2018
July 7th