College Courses
Abraham Lincoln.
Eleven states seceded during Lincoln's term: seven before the Civil War and four after the war began.
Ag is a popular setting for earrings and necklaces as well as a finish when bonded to an underlying metal.
Silver.
This is stored in the vaults of Fort Knox in Kentucky.
Gold.
The official name is the United States Bullion Depository, but it's usually called the Gold Vault. According to the Radcliff/Fort Knox tourism site, no one person knows the combination to the vault. It takes a presidential order to visit the vault, and only two U.S. presidents have been there--Franklin Roosevelt and Harry Truman.
These inserts were all the rage in women's jackets, blouses, t-shirts, and tops.
Shoulder pads.
This state's license-plate slogan is "Garden State."
New Jersey.
In 1954, legislation was passed to add the slogan to license plates, despite Governor Robert Meyner's veto. According to New Jersey Monthly magazine, he said, "I do not believe that the average citizen of New Jersey regards his state as more peculiarly identifiable with gardening or farming than any of its other industries or occupations... Indeed many of our people regard the state as preemptively a residential community." Today, it's the most densely populated state.
This is the largest organ of the body.
Skin.
The thinnest skin is found on the eyelids, and the thickest skin is found on the soles of our feet.
Clinical, child, and behavioral courses fall under this department.
Psychology.
Au stands for the most popular choice in metals used in wedding bands.
Gold.
This ex-Beatle wrote "I am the Walrus" with intentionally confusing lyrics because he was amused that some high school English teachers were having students analyze his songs.
John Lennon.
The hunt for these hard-to-find dolls, named after a leafy green vegetable, sometimes sparked near-riots among customers who fought over them.
Cabbage Patch Kids (or Dolls).
The Hanging Gardens are thought to have been located here.
Babylon.
Although the gardens are listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, their existence remains in question.
The tibia is in this limb.
The leg.
The common name for the tibia is shin, and it connects the ankle to the knee. The fibula is the other bone that connects the ankle to the knee.
Students who study marketing, finance, and supply chain operations and management will probably receive a degree in this.
Business.
Some people prefer a wedding band made of Pt rather than yellow gold, white gold, or silver.
Platinum.
He leaked the Pentagon Papers to the press in the 1970s, and that helped build public opposition to the Vietnam War.
Daniel Ellsberg
This was the 1980s version of the bouffant, as exhibited by Melanie Griffith in the film Working Girl.
In classic Monopoly, you can buy these Gardens for $280.
Marvin Gardens.
It's the only property outside of Atlantic City. The housing development is in Margate City.
This is the outer layer of a tooth.
Enamel.
It's the hardest tissue in the body.
This field of study delves into language and includes topics such as syntax, semantics, and etymology.
Linguistics.
Zinc or copper.
This famous TV chef who specialized in French cuisine worked for the Office of Strategic Services, the CIA's predecessor, during World War II.
She was born in Pasadena, California.
These pants for women were easy to tuck into boots, thanks to the straps at the bottom of the legs that wrapped around each foot.
Stirrup pants.
He went to a "Garden Party."
Ricky Nelson.
In 1985, he and his fiance died in a plane crash along with five others en route to a New Year's Eve concert in Dallas, Texas.
Nails, skin, and hair are created from this building block.
Keratin.
Nails grow at about 1/10 inch per month, so it takes three to six months to grow a completely new nail.
Courses that study plants and animals fall under this broad category.
Biology.
Botany is the study of plant life, and zoology is the study of animal life.
An enduring type of frying pan, often handed down generation after generation, is made of the heavy element Fe.
Iron.
Track 61 was built far beneath this train station. It had a freight elevator to transport riders clandestinely to the Waldorf-Astoria's garage.
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt had a private car that used Track 61. The track and elevator were built to conceal the fact that FDR couldn't walk.
This trivia-themed board game was introduced in the mid-1980s and remains popular today.
Trivial Pursuit. Two Canadian journalists came up with the idea while playing Scrabble.
The Garden of Eden.
Fact or fiction: The tongue is the strongest muscle in the body.
Fiction.
The tongue is agile, but it's made up of many muscles. It doesn't get tired because of the redundancy of muscles.
This non-mathematic course is the closest thing to algebra.
Ne stands for the gas used to light signs and give them a stylish glow.
Neon.
During the early 1960s, the U.S. military concocted this code name for an operation to sink ships, hijack airplanes, and much more--and blame it on Fidel Castro.
Operation Northwoods.
According to ABC News, the plans for Operation Northwoods were drawn up by the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but the civilian leadership quashed the idea. ABC reports, "The Joint Chiefs even proposed using the potential death of astronaut John Glenn during the first attempt to put an American into orbit as a false pretext for war with Cuba, the documents show."
These signs began sprouting up in the back window of family cars used to transport infants.
"Baby on Board."
While its popularity peaked in the U.S. in the '80s, the sign is still used by many drivers in the U.K.
This is what we might call a seed that doesn't sprout, or a term used to describe a person who is disposed to wrongdoing.
A bad seed.
The 1956 film The Bad Seed portrays a young girl as a bad seed, suspected by her parents of murder.
The digestive system starts its work here.
The mouth.
It goes to work even before you take a bite. Just thinking about food can start saliva flowing.