Groucho
In 1937, Groucho & his brothers spent “a day” here on film.
What is A Day at the Races?
Joyce Kilmer wrote it for Mrs. Henry Mills, not a lumberjack.
What is “Trees”?
Sheep provide this “wool grease” used in cosmetics.
What is lanolin?
No. of hills ancient Rome was built on.
What is 7?
Colors associated with the 2 armies that opposed each other in Russian Civil War.
What is red and white?
One of Groucho’s greatest thrills was to play Ko-ko, the lord high executioner in this operetta.
What is The Mikado?
Don Marquis defined poetry as what this poet saw “when he went blind”.
Who is Milton?
The only mammals that lay eggs are the spiny anteater and this.
What is the duck-billed platypus?
Pharaohs grew this as a sign of authority. With even female rulers wearing a false one.
What is a beard?
Lenin took power promising to pull Russia out of this war.
What is WW1?
One of his most famous roles was of this African explorer in “Animal Crackers”.
What is Captain Spalding?
In the Longfellow poem, her name means “laughing water”.
Who is Minnehaha?
If a man ate proportionately as much as this smallest mammal, he would consume over 500lbs a day.
What is the shrew?
The Egyptians began using these work animals after invaders brought them from Asia.
What are horses?
Fed enough poison to kill a cow, then shot & stabbed, Rasputin finally died of this.
What is drowning?
From 1947-1961, he introduced him as “the one, the only, Groucho!”.
Who is George Fenneman?
Generations of scholars have yet to figure out the identity of the “Mr. W.H.” to whom he dedicated his sonnets.
Who is Shakespeare?
The mammals with the least amount of body hair live in this type of environment.
What is the water?
It is believed astronomers from this Far East country observed sunspots as early as 28 A.D.
What is China?
Though they were only a small minority, the Communists took this name which means “majority”.
What is Bolshevik?
“She has eyes that men adore so, & a torso even more so...”.
Who is Lydia, the tattooed lady?
In John Howard Payne poem, line which follows, “No more from that cottage again will I roam…”.
What is “Be it ever so humble, there’s no place like home.”?
From bulldogs to giraffes, almost all mammals have this number of bones in their neck.
What is 7?
Country in which Shadrach, Meshach & Abednego were cast into a fiery furnace.
What is Babylon (Babylonia)?
John Reed’s eyewitness account.
What is Ten Days That Shook the World?