Ages
By this age, you can be a member of Parliament in England or legally drink in the U.S.
What is 21?
Cinematically speaking, word that precedes Harry, Dozen, or Dingus Magee.
What is Dirty?
Every Hawaiian word ends with one.
What is a vowel?
In Dec. 1952, about 4,000 Londoners died from this air pollution.
What is smog?
The Order of Lenin was this country’s highest decoration.
What is the Soviet Union?
The voting age was 16 in his original draft of constitution for Communist China.
Who was Mao Tse-Tung?
In 1969, California was the 1st state to permit this on a no-fault basis.
What is divorce?
Lycanthropy is the ability to change from a human to this.
What is a wolf?
In the early 19th c., a series of these caused the Mississippi & Ohio rivers to flow backwards.
What are earthquakes?
From 1813 through WWII, it was Germany’s highest military decoration.
What is the Iron Cross?
From this age on, you were eligible to receive a birthday telegram from Queen Elizabeth.
What is 100?
Nair, for instance.
What is depilatory?
At 23, America’s youngest general of his day, but he lost his stripes to the Sioux.
Who is Custer?
A firestorm destroyed 8 square miles of Hamburg, Germany in 1943 as a result of this.
What is Allied bombing?
This country awards the Order of St. Olaf.
What is Norway?
Girls between 6 & 10 were recruited as these temple guardians of Rome’s official “home fire”.
What are the Vestal Virgins?
The Eagles may have wrote the song, but Linda Ronstadt made us want to know “Why don’t you come to your senses, come down from your fences”.
What is “Desperado”?
Of dope, cap, & sick, the one that doesn’t mean “great” in teen slang.
What is cap?
In India in 1888, 246 people died as a result of this kind of “icy” storm.
What is a hailstorm?
A Briton who displays initials “V.C.” after his name has received this medal.
What is the Victoria Cross?
Though this comic strip is 70 years old, no character in it is older than 8.
Who are the Peanuts?
“Out”, “vein”, & “oil” all contain this kind of vowel sound.
What is a diphthong?
This big cat is the best swimmer out of them all.
What is the tiger?
Nearly a million people died when this Chinese river flooded in 1887.
What is the Yellow River (Hwang Ho)?
This country grants the Grand Cordon of the Supreme Court of the Chrysanthemum, but only to men.
What is Japan?