A CAPITAL IDEA
In the 1920s Norway's parliament voted to change the name of Christiania back to this
Oslo
Peter Schilling's "Major Tom" continues the story of the astronaut in this singer's hit "Space Oddity"
David Bowie
The highest-level church meetings take place in this city founded by Mormons on July 24, 1847
Salt Lake City
The Greeks were using rods as money until they appropriated the idea of these from the Lydians
coins
When it "falls", you're fired
the axe
Empress Taitu chose the name of this Ethiopian capital; it means "new flower"
Addis Ababa
This song covered by the Beatles says, "Deliver the letter, the sooner the better"
"Please Mr. Postman"
Mormons consider themselves this, like about 2 billion others; Southern Baptists don't agree
Christians
Xanthippe's husband, he had his own "method" of asking questions
Socrates
Toothed tool that's half a teeter-totter, see?
a saw
Someone had the bright idea to name this city for a duke even before it became New Zealand's capital
Wellington
This Van Halen tune says, "Think of all the education that I missed" & "My homework was never...like this"
"Hot For Teacher"
The cornerstone for the first of these was laid on July 23, 1833 in Kirtland, Ohio
temple
Hesiod said this group of nine goddesses met him on Mt. Helicon & breathed the gift of song into him
the muses
A sharp twist of your muscle that might make a monkey out of you
a wrench
Abuja, this country's first planned city, was built in the Chukuku Hills to replace Lagos as the capital
Nigeria
According to the lyrics, "I swear" it's the reason "I Shot The Sheriff"
In self-defense
Though challenged by Sidney Rigdon, he became leader of the church in 1844
Brigham Young
These federations included Achaean, Delian & Amphictyonic--no National or American
leagues
Things on the up & up are "on" this tool, honest
the level (or the square)
Rawalpindi was selected as this country's interim capital while Islamabad was under construction
Pakistan
In a 1983 song, this singer heard "The strangled cries of lawyers in love"
Jackson Browne
This heavenly being, son of the prophet Mormon, appeared to Joseph Smith in 1823
the angel Moroni
A Hoplite was a soldier named for his hoplon, one of these that was round, heavy & made of wood & bronze
a shield
If you know the correct procedure, you "know" this tool
the drill