Dragons
Like leprechauns, dragons supposedly hoard this.
What is gold?
A German complaining "Das essen ist kalt!" is saying this about the food.
What is cold?
Sam Adams apparently felt disguising the raiders as these would heighten the dramatic effect.
Who are Indians?
The 1st of Disney's 7 Dwarfs alphabetically, though he'd be too shy to tell you so.
Who is Bashful?
Month, day & year which followed December 31, 999.
What is January 1, 1000?
In Babylonian myth, the dragon Tiamat's upper half becomes Heaven; the lower half, this.
What is the Earth?
Say "Kunnen we een biefstuk hebben," & you've asked for this in a Dutch restaurant.
What is May we have steak?
There is evidence that once the Patriots stormed aboard, the ships' crews helped them do this.
What is dump tea (overboard)?
Shelley Winters said this "Bus Stop" star secretly lusted after Albert Einstein.
Who is Marilyn Monroe?
A month was originally calculated to be the time between these astronomical events.
What are full moons?
Last name of King Arthur's father Uther, derives from the Welsh, meaning "head" or chief".
What is Pendragon?
To get this for breakfast, a Japanese visitor might ask for Quaker "karasumugi".
What is oatmeal?
American opposition centered on the monopoly given to this trading company, not the Tea Tax.
What is the (British) East India Company?
Chinese religion that teaches happiness & immortality, it has more deities than almost any other.
What is Taoism?
The first month without an "a" in its name.
What is June?
Peter Dickinson wrote that dragons could fly because their bodies were filled with this.
What is gas (hydrogen)?
"Calamares en su tinta" is squid prepared this way.
What is in its own ink?
Thousands met near this famed meeting house to support & spur on the raiders.
What is Faneuil Hall?
Of a watermelon, jellyfish, or infant human, the one whose weight has the highest percentage of water.
What is a jellyfish?
On the ancient Roman calendar, it always fell 9 days after the nones.
What are the ides?
Victorian game in which children snatched flaming raisins from a bowl of brandy, or a flower.
What is snapdragon?
Feel sorry for someone saying "Sono a regime devo dimagrire" meaning this, in an Italian restaurant.
What is I'm on a diet, I have to lose weight?
Closing the port until all tea was paid for was part of the Coercive Acts, better known as these.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
While hanging flower garlands on a willow tree, this Shakespearean woman fell into the brook & drowned.
Who is Ophelia?
3 of the 8 different types of calendar systems.
What is Gregorian, Julian, Islamic, Hebrew, Persian, Hindu, Chinese, and Mayan?