The '30s
According to the popular song, "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that...".
What is swing?
Before it is enacted, a suggested new law submitted to Congress is called this.
What is a bill?
What the "W" stood for on the brass plate which read "W. Rabbit" on the door of his house.
What is white?
From Latin "luna" for "moon", we get this moonstruck name for a maniac.
What is lunacy (or lunatic)?
Surname of Richard II, it's derived from "planta genista" meaning "sprig of broom".
What is Plantagenet?
In 1938 & '39 alone, Mickey Rooney made 7 of the 15 films in this series.
What is Andy Hardy?
According to the Declaration of Independence, the unalienable rights of people include these 3.
What is life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
Words written in currants on small cake Alice found under the table.
What is “eat me”?
The "capture" theory says before captured by Earth's gravity, the moon was this.
What is a planet (or asteroid)?
Banned 1968 play "Early Morning" suggested that this queen & Florence Nightingale were lovers.
Who is Queen Victoria?
Charles Curtis & John Nance Garner both held this post in the '30s.
What is Vice President?
The number of representatives a state sends to the House depends on this.
What is its population as determined by the census?
Of him, the Gryphon said, "it's all his fancy, that: he hasn't got no sorrow, you know".
Who is the Mock Turtle?
Serenity, Ingenuity, & Fertility.
What are the names of seas on the Moon?
James I's mother, played by K. Hepburn in 1936 & Vanessa Redgrave 35 years later.
Who is Mary, Queen of Scots?
The CCC, it's where youths between 18 & 25 made a $1 a day building dams & roads.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps?
Fraction of U.S. Senate seats up for election every 2 years.
What is a third?
This pair stood so still Alice forgot they were alive.
Who are Tweedledum & Tweedledee?
Moon goddess who was to the Romans what Artemis was to the Greeks.
Who is Diana?
Her father-in-law, the Duke of Northumberland, used her as a puppet to keep Mary Tudor off the throne.
Who is Lady Jane Grey?
NBC's 2 radio networks were distinguished by these colorful names.
What is red & blue?
The words on the Great Seal of the United States, "E Pluribus Unum," mean this.
What is from many, one?
According to Humpty Dumpty, you can receive them 364 days of the year.
What are unbirthday presents?
Phase the moon is in about 7 days after a new moon.
What is the first quarter?
He lost at Wimbledon in 1926, but won the English throne when his brother abdicated.
Who is George VI?