The Chain
Pocket ___ duty
watch
This French royal didn't say "Let them eat cake" after hearing that the people of France were starving for lack of bread. The phrase appeared in print when she was still an Austrian child.
Marie Antoinette
Bands of the Southern Sierra Miwuk include the Chowchilla and this group you may associate with Yosemite Valley.
Ahwahneechee
This structure makes up the longest Wonder at over 13,000 miles.
Great Wall of China
Tomatoes, eggplant, and peppers won't hurt you; even though they belong to this family of plants; it's the deadly variety you have to worry about, also known as belladonna.
nightshade
Pillow ___ club
fight
There are no cases of trick-or-treaters suffering harm from strangers placing drugs, poison, or sharp objects in this holiday confection. (There have been cases of adults spreading this story to cover up harming their own children.)
Halloween candy/apples
The SSMN were one of the first native groups to petition for formal recognition from the OFA, the Office of Federal this.
Acknowledgment
This city on a hill, a reminder of the Inca Empire, is located between the Amazon and the Andes of Peru.
Machu Picchu
Don't worry: only a trace amount of this poison can be found in apple, apricot, and cherry seeds.
cyanide
River __ robber
bank
If you picture these marauding warriors wearing horns on their helmets, thank Wagner, whose opera costumes featured helmet horns. In all historical likelihood, they were just helmets.
Vikings
Despite hopes that this first Native American Secretary of the Interior would be sympathetic to the cause, the DOI still does not formally recognize the SSMN.
Deb Haaland
This marble mausoleum commissioned by a Mughal Emperor stands in Agar, Uttar Pradesh.
Taj Mahal
"Leaves of three, let it be" is a mnemonic to help identify this local plant that deer love to eat but makes humans itchy.
poison oak
Light ___ blade
switch
This physicist did not flunk math class, but he did fail the entrance exam into Swiss polytechnic college (to be fair, he was two years younger than most of the applicants).
Albert Einstein
In 2018, the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs issued this statement denying that the SSMN had enough evidence from 1982-2011 to prove their existence as "a distinct Indian community at present".
Proposed Finding
They say of the Acropolis, where this temple is, that there are no straight lines. (Not saying it's true - just that they say that.)
Parthenon
Plants like coffee produce this insect-killing compound as an evolutionary defense against being eaten...oops.
caffeine
Paper ___ 66
route
A properly maintained car battery can be stored on your garage floor, even if if it's made of this, and not leak or corrode any faster.
concrete
One of Mariposa's many murals shows braided bunchgrass that spells out 'uuchum, the Southern Sierra Miwuk word for this.
home
Not in Giza, Egypt, but in Mexico's Yucatán are these structures, part of the Maya ruins of Chichén Itzá. Watch your "step"...
pyramids
The humble castor bean gives us medicinal castor oil, and its production process removes this poison that was used to assassinate communist defector Georgi Markov in 1978.
ricin