Fairy Tales
“The Ugly Duckling” was autobiographical for this shy author.
Who is Hans Christian Andersen?
They’ve been guarding British royalty since 1485 & gin bottles since 1820.
What is Beefeaters?
Arboreal symbol of strength.
What is oak?
October holiday which Mexicans call dia de la Raza is celebrated in the U.S. as this.
What is Columbus Day?
Wrinkled or furrowed, as cardboard or iron.
What is corrugated?
When Rapunzel did this, it wasn’t he way of being informal.
What is let down her hair?
Founder of the nursing profession, she was named after the city in which she was born.
Who is Florence Nightingale?
Of the Tree of Life, Tree of Knowledge, or the Tree of Righteousness, the 1 forbidden to Adam.
What is Knowledge?
Meaning “removal of meat’ it’s Rio’s 4-day pre-Lenten festival.
What is Carnival?
Mercy killing.
What is euthanasia?
“Not I” said the duck & the cat & the dog when she asked them, “Who will thresh the wheat”?
Who is The Little Red Hen?
First Roman army to invade Britian was led by this general.
Who was Caesar?
The cry “sap’s a runnin’” refers to this tree.
What is a maple tree?
O. Henry called it the most “purely American” holiday.
What is Thanksgiving?
At record companies, it’s what the “R” in “A & R” stands for.
What is repertoire?
To become the “Sleeping Beauty”, the princess picked her hand on this part of the spinning wheel.
What is a spindle?
The penultimate Anglo-Saxon king, Edward was known by this pious title.
What is Edward the Confessor?
Continent on which the densest, tallest & most valuable stand of timber is found.
What is North America?
Muslims fast during daylight hours for this entire month.
What is Ramadan?
In Latin, rosa, rosae, rosam, for example.
What is declension?
It lay in the house that Jack built.
What is malt?
Though it sounds like a grim volume, it’s just William the Conqueror’s survey of the British kingdom.
What is The Domesday Book?
Hindu for “trader” this unusual tree whose branches grown down can look like a mini-forest.
What is the Banyan?
Until 1752, the 13 colonies observed Annunciation Day, the 25th of this month, as New Year’s.
What is March?
From German for “rear”, it’s the region behind a coast or remote from other cities.
What is hinterland?