Word Origins
From Dutch “kaban huis”, meaning ship’s galley, in U.S. it came to mean last car on a train.
What is the caboose?
Composers known as “the 3 B’s”.
Who is Bach, Beethoven, & Brahms?
It’s what chewable “chocks” were.
What are vitamins?
According to Aesop, greed killed the goose that did this.
What is laid the golden egg?
On the average, this fills about 60% of U.S. newspaper space.
What is advertising?
Laboratory culture dish named for the German bacteriologist who invented it.
What is a Petri dish?
In 1810, the same year as Schumann, this Polish pianist & composer was born.
Who is Chopin?
Vanishing in the ‘60s, it’s what YUkon, KLondike & VAlencia were examples of.
What are telephones prefixes?
Though this diving bird has a weird, laughing cry, it isn’t really crazy.
What is a loon?
This paper has won more Pulitzer Prizes than any other.
What is the New York Times?
Chinese for “work together”, it was motto of U.S. marine raiders in WWII.
What is gung ho?
Mendelssohn wrote a series of 49 piano pieces which were appropriately titled “Songs Without” these.
What are words?
Turning down ABA offer of 3,500 head of cattle & 40,000 acre ranch in 1969, he signed with NBA Bucks.
Who is Lew Alcindor (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar)?
Name of this ugly, naked-headed bird can refer to someone disgustingly predatory.
What is a vulture?
Scandinavian country that leads the world in daily newspaper readership per 1000 pop., almost double the U.S.
What is Sweden?
Originally a brand applied to slaves & criminals, it has come to mean a mark of disgrace.
What is a stigma?
Vivaldi was known as “the red priest” due to his clerical rank & this.
What is the color of his hair?
The last #1 song of the ‘60s, it was Diana Ross’ last song with the Supremes.
What is “Someday We Be Together”?
Bird to which Shelley wrote, “Hail to thee, blithe spirit”.
What is a skylark?
The largest U.S. owned newspaper chain, it publishes "USA Today".
Who is Gannett?
Run-down part of town, from the rough forest paths along which newly-cut logs were dragged.
What is skid row?
There’s nothing fishy about his “Trout” quintet.
Who is Schubert?
In “Understanding Media”, he explained the Dodgers move to L.A. & fishnet stockings.
What is Marshall McLuhan?
With longest migratory flight, it spends winters in southern & summers in northern polar regions.
What is the arctic tern?
Well-known '20s sportswriter; "You Know Me, Al" was a collection of his masterful short stories.
Who was Ring Lardner?