Beat-Up Cars
Ford’s 50’s flop with a family name.
What is an Edsel?
Sandburg’s weather phenomenon that “comes in on little cat feet”.
What is “Fog”?
His tearful 1962 prediction, “This is my last press conference”, didn’t prove true.
Who is Richard Nixon?
Central Africa’s short people.
Who are the Pygmies?
The opposite of a dominant trait.
What is recessive?
Among the victims of the Depression was this company’s Bearcat.
What is a Stutz?
New England’s “swinger of birches” who read his poetry for JFK’s inauguration.
Who is Robert Frost?
German who inspired the Russians to revolt by urging, “Workers of the world, unite”.
Who is Karl Marx?
S. Africa’s form of segregation.
What is apartheid?
A bad one is biting your fingernails, a good one is calling mom once a week.
What is a habit?
When production stopped in 1960, this Chrysler car had reached “de Endo”.
What is a DeSoto?
He said his poem “Kubla Khan” was inspired by an opium dream.
Who is Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The rattlesnakes warning on Revolutionary War flags.
What is “Don’t Tread on Me”?
Africa’s largest fresh-water lake, it’s main source of the Nile.
What is Lake Victoria?
1 who suffers from periods of depression alternating with periods of excitement.
What is manic depression/bipolar disorder?
Fans howled at Mel Blanc’s imitation of this, Jack Benny’s junker.
What is a Maxwell?
She herself could not stop for Death but believed he kindly stopped for her.
Who was Emily Dickinson?
Truman said it’s a recession when your neighbor loses his job, but this is a depression.
What is when you lose your job?
Tanganyika and Zanzibar joined to form this country.
What is Tanzania?
Sigmund Freud’s theoretical construct of personality.
What is ego?
In 1955, this steelmaker gave up making his namesake cars.
Who is Henry J. Kaiser?
Poetic device illustrated by “a peck of pickled peppers”.
What is an alliteration?
Ironically, Lincoln said this “is stronger than the bullet”.
What is the ballot?
Kenyatta was leader of this bloody movement to end British rule in Kenya.
What are the Mau Maus?
The common name for somnambulism.
What is sleepwalking?