U.S Government
3 Letter Nouns
Some timely Words
Colorful Geography
They played Wyatt Earp
Missouri History
400

In 1966 the Supreme Court ruled that these taxes in local & state elections were prohibited

Polls

400

It goes under your chin to protect your clothes

A bib

400

From Latin, it means "occurring before noon"

Antemeridian

400

Mount Mansfield, Vermont's highest point, lies in this range

The Green Mountains

400

Burt Lancaster took the role in the 1957 film that could only be called "Gunfight at" this place

O.K. Corral

400

In 1819 the Independence became the first vessel powered by this type of engine to travel the Missouri River

Steam

800

The Constitution says the president "shall have power to grant reprieves &" these "for offences against the United States"

Pardons

800

A small shelter, maybe of grass

a Hut

800

You've probably seen this adjective meaning delayed past the proper time on a birthday card or 2

Belated

800

Varna & Burgas are leading Bulgarian ports on the western coast of this body of water

The Black Sea

800

In 1993's "Tombstone", heplayed Earp to Val Kilmer's Doc Holliday

Kurt Russell

800

Under the terms of this 1820 legislation, Maine entered the Union as a free state & Missouri as a slave state

The Missouri Compromise

1200

On June 2, 1986 this network began regular live telecasts from the Senate chamber

C-SPAN

1200

The part of a bridle that goes in the mouth

A bit

1200

This 6-letter word means to go back in fictional time & rewrite the past of a character or narrative for a new work

Retcon

1200

You can swim with the dolphins on this island in the Bahamas that shares its name with a 1980 Brooke Shields film

The blue Lagoon

1200

Daily Double

In 1994's "Wyatt Earp", he played Earp to Dennis Quaid's Doc Holliday

Kevin Costner

1200

These 2 men joined together as full partners in a Missouri brewery in 1873

Anheuser and Busch

1600

Daily Double

While the National Park Service is a bureau of the Department of the Interior, the Forest Service is an agency of this department

Agriculture 

1600

A roll of bills, or a mass of gum

a wad

1600

This alliterative adjective applied to instant decisions came from stopwatches that had 2 separate fast-moving hands

Split-Second

1600

This eastern Alabama city was named for a line in an Oliver Goldsmith poem about the "loveliest village of the plain"

Auburn

1600

After he solved crimes in L.A. as Jim Rockford, he played the aging Earp doing the same in "Sunset"

James Garner

1600

62 different nations & 43 of the then 45 states were represented at this exhibition in Missouri in 1904

The World's Fair

2000

The chief officer of the Government Accountability Office is given this "General" title

Comptroller

2000

Projecting part of a wheel that transforms rotary into linear motion

a cam

2000

In 2004 Colin Powell called Fidel Castro one of these, a person or thing incongruously out of place in time

an anachronism

2000

This river rises in the Lesotho Highlands & crosses the Kalahari & Namib Deserts before emptying into the Atlantic

The Orange River

2000

Long before he was Grandpa Walton, he played Earp in "Winchester '73"

Will Geer

2000

The USA's first project in this road system to start construction under the 1956 act was in St. Charles County

The interstate System