MELTDOWN
A historical nickname for America, or a chain of fondue restaurants
What is The Melting Pot?
A monastery courtyard is in this word meaning "shut in alone"
What is cloistered?
George Eastman said the letter K "had been a favorite with me", thus he created this name for his camera out of thin air
What is Kodak?
A tip
What is gratuity?
In Leviticus, God says every 50th year, proclaim this "throughout all the land"; someone decided to put those words on a bell
What is liberty?
In 1776, a statue of this royal was toppled in New York City & pieces of it melted down to make bullets for the Continental Army
Who is George III?
Seclusion, maybe "One Hundred Years of" it
What is solitude?
The name of this technology that allows local area networks to operate without wiring or cables just sounds cool--that's all
What is Wi-Fi?
Foliage used for decoration
What is greenery?
This event for Edward VIII was proclaimed in May 1936, with the big day slated for May 1937; it never happened
What is coronation?
In the last 50 years, some glaciers in Glacier National Park in this state have lost more than 80% of their ice
Where is Montana?
Delta's program for this type of "minor" offers a trackable wristband for the youngster traveling solo
What is unaccompanied?
Originally, the cartons of this luxury ice cream featured a map of Denmark although its name wasn't Danish, it was made up
What is Häagen-Dazs?
With Walt Disney's help, Roald Dahl published his first book in 1943, about these creatures who cause damage to aircraft
What are gremlins?
Screening "Pillow Talk", Cincinnati proclaimed Sept. 27, 2017 this repetitive occasion to honor a beloved star & hometown girl
What is Doris Day Day?
In Exodus 32 this was fashioned out of melted-down jewelry
What is a golden calf?
This word for a person who lives away from others and is in the name of a crustacean
What is a hermit?
In the mid-1990s Colombian Alberto Perez created this dance exercise class that uses Latin & world rhythms
What is Zumba?
It's the degree of inclination or the rate of ascent or descent of a highway
What is gradient?
Alarmed as Americans were recruited to aid revolutionary France, George Washington issued a proclamation of this position
What is neutrality?
At about -38 degrees Fahrenheit, it has the lowest melting point of any metallic element
What is mercury?
Meaning grief or sadness, it precedes "Row" in a song by Bob Dylan & "Angels" in a book by Jack Kerouac
What is Desolation?
Infomercials in the 1980s touted the quality of these kitchen knives with a "Japanese" name; they were actually made in Ohio
What is Ginsu?
In "To Helen", Edgar Allan Poe wrote, "To the glory that was Greece, and the" blank "that was Rome"
What is grandeur?
Manitoba was roiled by an 1814 proclamation forbidding food exports & named for this native-named dried meat
What is pemmican?