Reworded cliches
US City firsts
Ancient Gods
No Fly Zone
Marital bliss
100

Apply a crimson cover to the metropolis

Paint the town red

100

First hospital in America ,first public schools, first anti-slavery society and the first vessel to ever move by steam power was here on the Delaware river

Philadelphia

100

Where the Greek Gods where believed to live

Mount Olympus

100

These flightless birds actually fly underwater

Penguins

100

The high society married couple sleuthing away in NYC with the help of a Wire Fox Terrier

Nick and Nora Charles

200

Maintain interlocked digits

Keep your fingers crossed

200

First lighthouse in America, first brothel, first police force and first public park and public gardens

Boston

200

The Greek God of the sea

Poseiden

200

The only flightless bird native to Africa

Ostrich

200

"I have steak at home why would I go out for hamburger" was the quote of this Hollywood star of his also Hollywood star wife of more than 50 years. His "Hustler" and  her "3 Faces of Eve" may be there best known roles

Paul Neuman and Joanne Woodward

300

Obstinate illegal drug transporter 

Stubborn as a mule

300

First to have elevators, first ATM , first recorded murder trial and where George Washington was inaugurated as first president

NYC

300

The Roman Godess of love

Venus

300

The tallest of all flightless birds and native only to Australia

Emu

300

The Royal that abdicated his throne and his American wife

Edward the VIII and Wallis Simpson

400

Illumination from an underground passage

Light at the end of the tunnel

400

At 10 stories tall  the first skyscraper, at 110 stories the tallest building in the world until 1973,  the first Ferris wheel, in 1906 the first and last time the two city baseball teams would play each other in the World Series

Chicago

400

The messenger of the Gods, Hermes and Mercury, had what appears as this physical trait that made them fast.

Winged feet , actually winged sandals

400

Daily Double!!!!!     The smallest species of flightless bird about the size of a chicken can outrun a human but it is only found in this island country. People from there are called this the name of this bird

Kiwi

400

The couple that were executed for spying on the US during the Cold War. He was almost certainly guilty , she was almost certainly not.

Julius and Ethel Rosenburg

500

Lifeless score in horseshoes

Dead ringer

500

The first drive-in gas station, the first commercial radio station, the first commercial movie theater, first to actually address its air pollution problems

Pittsburgh

500

The two Greek Gods that are the Gemini twins, Castor and .....

Pollux

500

The rhea is only flightless bird found on this continent and commonly hunted with "bolos".

South America

500

This famous Brit said of his wife Clementine, I married her did live happily ever after!

Churchill