International rhyme time
A peck on the lips from a Genevan
Swiss kiss
Live in this city & you too will want to "keep" it "weird"; there's even a festival devoted to that goal
What is Austin?
Making up group 18 on the periodic table, the 7 of these include neon & argon
What are noble gases?
While not as common today, throughout the 1800s, these women attended births & helped deliver the babies
What are midwives?
13th: This document debuts in 1215 but is reissued with changes in 1216, 1217 & 1225 under a new king
What is the Magna Carta?
Talk in the language of Athens or Thessaloniki
What is Greek speak
In this city near Dallas you can see your Cowboys & Rangers play home games
What is Arlington?
Vitamin K is essential for blood to be able to do this normally
What is clot?
Due to the smell, this person who cured animal hides into leather usually had his business on the outskirts of town
What is a tanner?
19th: This feat of engineering was completed in 1825, connecting the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean
What is the Erie Canal?
A Mexican midday nap party
What is a siesta fiesta
Baytown & Sugar Land are in the metro area of this big city
What is Houston?
This planet is less dense than water--but it's still 95 times the mass of the Earth
What is Saturn?
He was the 5-letter guy laying the bricks
What is mason?
20th: After a massive demonstration in Beijing in 1999, China banned this spiritual movement, calling it a heretical cult
What is the Falun Gong?
An overly pushy person from Sydney
What is a bossy Aussie?
You'll fit in with all the friendly people living in this big city named for a man buried in Padua, Italy
What is San Antonio?
First predicted in 1930, this particle with no charge goes through miles of matter without reacting with a proton or neutron
What are neutrinos?
A turnkey was a person who worked here
What is a jail?
17th: On this woman's death in 1617, a London writer referred to her as "The Virginian Woman"
Who is Queen Elizabeth I?
A barrel of wine from a group of people living in the Western Pyrenees of Spain & France
What is a Basque cask?
If you like the sound of living near the Trinity River, try this town that began as an Army outpost in 1849
What is Fort Worth?
Seed plants are divided into 2 main groups: angiosperms & these, which include the conifers
What are gymnosperms?
A common last name, it was one who made & repaired casks & barrels
What is a cooper?
18th: In 1723 Russia captures Baku from Persia in this leader's last great military campaign
Who is Peter the Great?