American History
London Sprawling
"Off"erings
Black & White
The Largest in Area
400

Nixon's press secretary Ron Ziegler called the break-in at this complex a "third-rate burglary"

Watergate

400

This inner London borough is home to Buckingham Palace & Victoria Station, not just an abbey

Westminster 

400

It's the White House room where the president works

Oval Office

400

The black & white stripes on the endangered Grevy's species of this are narrow & closely spaced

Zebra

400

China,
Russia,
Canada

Russia

800

By the 1763 Treaty of Paris, which ended the French & Indian War, Britain got the land east of this river

The Mississippi

800

Run away & join this neon-lit intersection of 4 London streets first formed in 1819

Piccadilly Circus

800

Confidentially, it's a 3-word journalistic phrase meaning "not to be quoted"

Off the record

800

This black & white carnivore can get you even if you're standing 10 feet behind it

Skunk

800

Wales,
Scotland,
Northern Ireland

Scotland

1200

In 1977, on the 50th anniversary of their execution, a proclamation was issued saying this pair had been treated unjustly

Sacco & Vanzetti

1200

The British Museum is in this London neighborhood once home to a famous writers' "group"

Bloomsbury

1200

Differing from the usual or expected, or a description of bad drumming

Offbeat

1200

Founded in 1905, the DCA claims to have written the "official" book of this dog breed

Dalmatian

1200

Jordan,
Lebanon,
Israel

Jordan

1600

In his second inaugural, Pres. Obama name-checked this New York village, home to an 1848 women's rights convention

Seneca Falls

1600

A post-WWII planning act surrounded London with a ring of open land known by this colorful name

The Green Belt 

1600

It's the California rock group that asked us to "Come Out and Play" in '94

The Offspring

1600

Sea World San Diego's encounter for these has about 400 of them in a 25-degree indoor habitat

Penguins

1600

Sudan,
Algeria,
Libya

Sudan

2000

Feeling he had been called by God to lead his people out of bondage, he led an 1831 slave rebellion

Nat Turner

2000

This London neighborhood took its name from an old hunting cry; the one in NYC, from a street & a direction

Soho

2000

It's professional drama in NYC in small theaters; its awards are called Obies

Off-Broadway

2000

These spiral-tusked whales are a mottled black & white

Narwhals

2000

El Salvador,
Nicaragua,
Costa Rica

Nicaragua