Track & Field
Technically, this event is 42,195 meters long.
What is a marathon?
Boot-shaped Italy appears to be kicking this island.
What is Sicily?
Nails you can press with a thumb or what the IRS nails us all with.
What are tacks/tax?
Heavenly body most associated with Ra & Apollo.
What is the Sun?
In "The Famer In The Dell", it stands alone.
What is the cheese?
Though always measured by length, the long jump used to be called this.
What is the broad jump?
The major Italian city which has no major streets.
What is Venice?
A Yankee Hall of Famer, or a shelf over the fireplace where he can display his trophies.
What is a Mantle/mantel?
Palamedes, rival of Odysseus, is credited with inventing these cubes, maybe on a bet.
What are dice?
Follows the third "flies in the buttermilk, shoo, fly, shoo".
What is skip to my lou, my darling?
Number of tries contestants are allowed to get over the bar in the high jump.
What is 3?
You need wooden balls to play this Italian variation on lawn bowling.
What is bocce?
A pusillanimous weakling & what he did in the corner.
What is a coward/cowered?
The name of Homer's poem, "The Iliad", is from Ilion, the Greek name of this city it's set in.
What is Troy?
In "Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer", he follows Comet in the roster of Santa's deer.
Who is Cupid?
One lap around the track; some call it a sprint & others call it a middle distance.
What is the 440 (yards / 400 meters)?
Director of 3 foreign language film Oscar winners, he's perhaps best known for "The Bicycle Thief".
Who is Vittorio De Sica?
A Robin chirping among the rich & famous or a blood-sucking parasite.
What is a Leach/leech?
In "Xanadu", Olivia Newton-John played Terpsichore, one of these 9 sisters.
What are the Muses?
Disney film in which "a very merry unbirthday" was celebrated.
What is Alice in Wonderland?
Weight of the standard men's shot put.
What is 16 pounds?
Ancient Romans denuded this central mountain range in order to build wooden warships.
What is the Apennines?
What you might do if a partner leaves you without a single one of these centime pieces to your name.
What is sue/sou?
Though this maze held the Minotaur, it didn't stop its designer, Daedalus, from flying out.
What is the labyrinth?
Putting this on Frosty the Snowman made him come alive.
What is an old silk hat?