Fibonaccio! November/December

APRIL IS THE CRUELLEST MONTH
5) American-born British author who wrote the line "April is the cruellest month" in The Waste Land
Ans: T.S. Eliot.
-"ISH"ES BUT NO ISH KABIBBLE
8) Something believed to have magical or spiritual powers
Ans: Fetish.
ONLY IF
13) 37th U.S. President who said: "If...the world's most powerful nation...acts like a pitiful, helpless giant, the forces of totalitarianism...will threaten free nations..."
Ans: Richard Nixon.
"JR." NOT SENIOR
21) Georgian who was the first and only golfer to win the Grand Slam of Golf, in 1930
Ans: Bobby Tyre Jones Jr.
DOWN HOME ALABAMA
34) City in which the Boll Weevil Monument is located
Ans: Enterprise.
HALF IS BETTER THAN NONE
55) Henry Hudson's ship on his 3rd voyage in 1609-1610 when he explored today's Hudson River while sailing for the Dutch East India Company
Ans: Half Moon.
MORE THAN JUST AN "ARROW"
TB) Soft substance in bones eaten by hunters of the Ice/Stone Age
Ans: Marrow.
2-LETTER WORDS
1) 16th letter of the Greek alphabet, or the transcendental number that is approximately 3.14159
Ans: Pi.
ANGRY RAISINS, OR GRAPES
1) Word completing the title of the Aesop fable "The _____ and the Grapes"
Ans: Fox.
F.F., BUT NOTHING VULGAR
2) Someone who establishes something, or a member of the convention that drafted the U.S. Constitution in 1787
Ans: Founding Father.
"MOTHERS"
3) Personification of the power seemingly controlling the physical universe
Ans: Mother Nature.
ARTISTS
5) Spanish surrealist artist noted for his painting The Persistence of Memory, popularly called Soft Watches or Melting Clocks
Ans: Salvador Dali.
CELEBRITY MOTHERS OF CELEBRITY FEMALES
8) Lorna Luft
Ans: Judy Garland.
IN A FOG
13) American artist who settled permanently on Prout's Neck on the Maine coast and painted The Fog Warning and The Gulf Stream
Ans: Winslow Homer.
NFL TEAMS UNLESS YOU ARE CLUELESS
21) Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, John Hancock
Ans: New England Patriots.
CATCH PHRASES/QUOTES/SLOGANS
34) Character played by Don Adams known for saying "Would you believe?" on TV's Get Smart
Ans: Maxwell Smart.
NORTH TO ALASKA
55) Its northermost town, the northernmost in the U.S.
Ans: (Point) Barrow.
ONLYS IN GEOGRAPHY
TB) Only active volcano on the mainland of Europe
Ans: Vesuvius.
NO DIFFERENCE
1) Most powerful chess piece and a female monarch
Ans: Queen.
WHO SAID IT?
1) Character on TV's The Simpsons whose expression of dismay is, "D'oh!"
Ans: Homer Simpson.
G.G., BUT NOT GIGI
2) Eugene Patton, "The Dancing Machine," on Chuck Barris's TV series The Gong Show
Ans: Gene Gene.
THE SPICE OF LIFE
3) Leaves of a wormwood plant used for seasoning, especially in vinegar, and whose name may be from the Greek for "dragon"
Ans: Tarragon.
NO "WAY"--YES "WAY"
5) Arch that Finnish-born American architect Eero Saarinen completed in 1965 as part of the Jefferson National Expansion Memorial
Ans: Gateway (Arch).
BERRA-ISMS (from Yogi Berra)
8) "A ______ ain't worth a dime anymore."
Ans: Nickel.
ELEPHANTS NEVER FORGET
13) British author whose Just So Stories include "The Elephant's Child"
Ans: Rudyard Kipling.
"THE STAR-SPANGLED BANNER"
21) Fort in Baltimore during whose bombardment it was written
Ans: Fort McHenry.
WHAT IN THE FLORA
34) _____ Ledger, the actor starring in A Knight's Tale and Brokeback Mountain
Ans: Heath.
WHAT DID ARKANSAS
55) Town where Sam Walton founded Wal-Mart and the company has its headquarters
Ans: Bentonville.
NATIVE AMERICANS
TB) Oglala Sioux chief who is depicted mounted on horseback in a memorial being constructed in South Dakota's mountains
Ans: Crazy Horse.
U.S. STATES
1) Largest state in area
Ans: Alaska.
CITIES FROM THEIR INHABITANTS
1) Hamburger
Ans: Hamburg (Germany).
NAMES ENDING IN -"EAU"
2) Henry David, the Massachusetts-born author who wrote Walden
Ans: Henry David Thoreau.
2- OR 3-WORD QUOTATION COMPLETIONS
3) Dwight D. Eisenhower's "We must stand guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-_____," in 1961
Ans: industrial complex.
PROPER NAMES ENDING IN THE LETTER "X"
5) Fort in Kentucky where the U.S. gold depository is located
Ans: Fort Knox.
CARS AND PLACES
8) Chevrolet mid-sized car and the French island that is the 4th largest in the Mediterranean, whose chief city is Ajaccio
Ans: Corsica.
A,B,C NICKNAMES SHARED BY COLLEGE TEAMS
13) New Mexico State University and Texas A&M University
Ans: Aggies.
WORDS ENDING IN AN "OH" PRONUNCIATION
21) System of fortification built by the French in the 1930s along their eastern border
Ans: Maginot Line.
RIDDLES
34) Puccini opera set in ancient Peking at which a suitor will be executed if he is unable to answer the Princess's 3 riddles
Ans: Turandot.
ARIZONA, BUT NO TEA
55) Year in which it became the 48th state
Ans: 1912.
3-LETTER WORDS
TB) Large, flightless Australian bird, considered to be the largest living bird after the ostrich
Ans: Emu.
COUNTRIES/CITIES AS FORMERLY NAMED
1) Persia
Ans: Iran.
WORDS ENDING IN THE LETTER "X"
1) Machine that plays records and compact disks when coins are inserted
Ans: Jukebox.
PURPLE, BUT NO PEOPLE EATERS
2) Purple teletubby with an inverted triangle on his head, the one the Rev. Jerry Falwell suggested was secretly gay
Ans: Tinky Winky.
L'E, NOT LE
3) French king who supposedly said, "L'etat, c'est moi," or "I am the state."
Ans: Louis XIV.
EXTINCT OR FLIGHTLESS BIRDS
5) Migratory bird that became extinct in 1914 at the Cincinnati Zoo, the last of which was named Martha
Ans: Passenger pigeon.
THINGS TO BE IRONED OUT
8) Nickname of Otto von Bismarck, the founder of the German Empire who served as its leader for 19 years
Ans: "The Iron Chancellor."
FIRSTS, NOT LASTS
13) North Carolina village where the Wright brothers first flew their heavier-than-air plane in 1903 on Kill Devil Hill
Ans: Kitty Hawk.
4-LETTER INITIALISMS
21) RCMP (Canada)
Ans: Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
APRIL IS NOT ALWAYS THE CRUELLEST MONTH
34) French king who issued the Edict of Nantes on April 13, 1598, extending religious freedom and full civil rights to the Huguenots
Ans: Henry IV.
CARS AND ANIMALS
55) Buick convertible and a Eurasian bird famous for singing while flying
Ans: Skylark.
RHYMES WITH ORANGE
TB) State whose Orange County includes the incorporated city of Aliso Viejo
Ans: California.
"SILVER" STREAK
1) Craftsman who makes and repairs articles of silver
Ans: Silversmith.
RING AROUND THE POSEY
1) Former U.S. President who in running for the presidency in 1912 said, "My hat is in the ring"
Ans: Theodore Roosevelt.
RANDOM NUMBERS
2) Only even prime number
Ans: 2.
A "FORD," BUT NOT EXACTLY
3) Only U.S. President with Ford in his first name
Ans: Rutherford B. Hayes.
USED CARS, ANYONE?
5) Better known alliterative name of Tom and Ray Magliozzi, hosts of the NPR radio show "Car Talk," started in 1987
Ans: Click and Clack.