Word Origins
Brother Rezin, not Jim, invented this famous knife which carries the family name.
What is a Bowie knife?
What you'd be looking at if a woman showed you her casabas.
What are melons?
On May 16, 1866 Congress authorized this new coin, nicknamed for its metal composition.
What is a nickel?
From Latin for "banishment", which is just what it means.
What is exile (expelled)?
U.S. equivalent to the German Pfennig.
What is a penny?
Some say this term for a kind of shopkeeper is from German for "Do you have that?", "Hab' ihr das?".
What is a haberdashery?
The first fruit to be "gobbled" in the original Pac-Man game.
What are cherries?
It was formed when the Revenue Cutter Service combined with the Lifesaving Service in 1915.
What is the Coast Guard?
To a teacher, one can be, "My baby brother flushed my homework down the toilet".
What is an excuse (an explanation)?
Coin named for a late 19th c. president of Transvaal, a Dutch state in South Africa.
What is the Krugerrand?
The English thought flavors of cinnamon, cloves & nutmeg were combined in the 1 spice they named this.
What is allspice?
Belonging to the rose family, this bitter fruit sounds like it got up on the wrong side of the tree.
What is a crabapple?
To give Taft, his hand-picked successor, a little space, he went on an African safari.
Who was Roosevelt?
All too often, this involves a cold stethoscope on a warm body.
What is an examination?
In the summer of 1985, American Airlines fined passengers a total of $1.5 million for doing this.
What is for not showing up (canceling some of their tickets)?
Plain cotton cloth used for sheets, originally made in Mosul, in what is now Iraq.
What is muslin?
Indio, California has only U.S. festival dedicated to this desert fruit, so mark it on your calendar.
What are dates?
Young pastor in Montgomery, Alabama who organized city-wide bus boycott protesting Rosa Parks' arrest.
Who was MLK?
To disinter a body.
What is to exhume?
Of all the types of cryptocurrency, this most popular one dipped below $75,000 on Monday.
What is Bitcoin?
Describes someone important, based on the size of haircovering they wore.
What is a bigwig?
Some fruits, like pumpkins & cantaloupes, are classified as "pepos" because this part is hard.
What is the rind?
The "Tom Thumb", 1st tested in 1830, was the 1st of these built in the U.S.
What is a locomotive?
1/2 of breathing.
What is exhale?
Reason Uncle Sam added a $3,200 tax on that $90,000 Ferrari Testarossa back in 1985.
What is because it had poor gas mileage?