Talking to Zaydie Who’s Still in the Navy...
“O” Letha
1965
171 and beyond: Home is Where the Heart is
Before, During, and After
100

This good man, and Zayda’s friend, played baseball for 10 years and now on April 15th every single MLB players wears his number.

Who is Jackie Robinson?

100

Musician Savti can tell you that the most expensive flute in the world was the one owned and played by William Kinkaid. Later the flute was in the MET for a bit. Definitely a lot cooler than this larger woodwind relative.

What is the Oboe?

100

4 days after Savti and Zayda’s wedding, not THE Ohio State, but this “THE” country gained independence from Britain and is now the smallest country in mainland africa.

What is The Gambia?

100

This 1982 song about hope for the unemployed steel workers in the Lehigh valley region was on the top billboards for many weeks in a row. Although Billy Joel never lived there he said he had a strong connection to the place.

What is Allentown?

100

A Play about guilt and family by Arthur Miller read in the oldest shul in Allentown, and the biggest collection of Dead Sea Scrolls in the World.

What is All My Sons of Israel Museum?

200

This Supreme Court Justice appointed by Woodrow Wilson served for 23 years, and helped create the Federal Reserve System and the Federal Trade Commision. He lived in Boston, and became a lead activist in the Zionsim Movement and helped bring the Balfour Declaration into fruition.

Who is Louis Brandeis?

200

Savti and Amalya can tell you that this stately named broadway show by Hammerstein and Richard Rodgers (shoutout to Hamilton) won a Pulitzer Prize in the 1940s and a Tony 50 years later.

What is "Oklahoma!"?

200

 The day after Savti and Zayda’s wedding, this iconic natural object, which has been a national symbol of its country since 1868, was added to the countries official flag which was flown on Capital Hill, and no longer contained a Union Jack.

What is the Canadian Maple Leaf?

200

 Savti's past and current stomping grounds, this “wide” street, which turns onto both of Temple’s University campuses, and also Linden and route 4.

What is Broad?

200

Tom Hanks and Mat Damon war movie which won 5 oscars in 1999 watched by the 12 year Phillies first baseman whom Savti chastised, by the second to best NBCU.

What is Saving Private Ryan Howard University?

300

This school was pushed to be open by Penn Alumni saying there should be more than one medical schools in Philedelphia, in 1824 it was opened and named after a founding father.

What is Thomas Jefferson University Medical School?

300

 If you asked Savti or JK Rowling if they were pursuing a minor in college, they would both possibly respond with this Parisian one word.

What is Oui?

300

Still in Savti and Zayda’s shana rishona, this 96 million dollar stainless structure which represented Manifest Destiny was completed right near an old courthouse.

What is The Gateway Arch? (Booo)

300

 This city was the capital of The United States of America for a few months in 1784 and 1799. The famous Leutze, Washington Crossing the Delaware depiction, was George crossing into this city named for the battle taking place.

What is Trenton?

300

Where we are right right now (and where Zayda lives), watching a Kevin Spacey political TV drama about revenge, playing this risque non PC classic summer camp shabbos game.

What is Savti's House of Cards Against Humanity?

400

Zayda is a good advocate for The U.S Open, who titled Tennis the healthiest sport in the world due to its effects on the body, producing endorphins, and lowering this, causing less stress in one’s life.

What is Cortisol (Levels)?

400

 The famed Philadelphia Philharmonic, whom William Kincaid was the flutist for, is considered one of the “big five” American these. And also became the first of American these to ever visit Vietnam (Savti and Zayda, Unite!).

What is Orchestra?

400

A Few days before Savti and Zayda’s wedding, this man who had died had the largest state funeral in British history, one of the largest in the world, and had representatives from 112 different countries. He really “never never never gave in”.

Who is Winston Churchill?

400

Also known as “The World’s Borough” because of its Guiness World Record of being the most ethnically diverse urban place on the planet, this place for sure has people from the Stans.

What is Queens?

400

Singing the Eagles rally chant while Gandalf is telling you to run from the Balrog, holding this misleading shiny pyrite of iron and sulfur.

What is Fly Eagles Fly You Fools Gold?

500

Nicholas Andry, dubbed the father of orthopedics, studied “microscopic worms” as the cause of smallpox, and wrote extensively about this, an at the time still controversial scientific theory.

What is Germ Theory of Disease?

500

 Very possibly overlapping with Savti at Temple University and maybe even being in one of her music classes, this man who met Daryll Hall in college, started their music duo in the halls of Savti’s old stomping grounds.

Who is (John) Oates?

500

This man was shot and killed giving a speech rallying for muslim and black rights, a week after Savti and Zayda’s wedding. A TV show tracking down the assassin came out in 2020.

Who is Malcolm X?

500

Change one letter and Google Maps will take you 40 hours west to this Los Angeles region city instead of Shop rite or Ice Cream on Grand.

What is Inglewood?

500

How JFK Addressed the people when asking them what they can do for the country, in the Phillies current stadium, next to this most expensive monopoly property.

What is My Fellow Citizens Bank Park Place?