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In 2023, the Rolling Stones named him the greatest of all time on the guitar
Jimi Hendrix,
a lefty who originally learning guitar by flipping a right handed one upside down Hendrix Pioneered the use a few back
Since early 2000s motto of Austin Texas
Keep Austin weird
Was a slogan originally pitched by college librarian red wassenich during a radio show in 2000
These days China’s Ming dynasty dynasty is most closely associated with what kind of item
Vase
During the Ming dynasty reign in China developed white and cobalt blue porcelain used for their signature vases
In golf a Mulligan is when a player does what?
Takes a do over
The term Mulligan likely comes from David Mulligan, who would hit replacement shots after bad ones
Who did Paul Revere say was coming during his famous midnight ride?
The redcoats
Paul Revere, famous line was immortalized in a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem
Rovers that NASA has landed on Mars
In 1997 Nassau landed the first ever wheeled rover on Mars so Joyner
Spirit, opportunity, curiosity
Perseverance is the latest Rover land on Mars in 2021
Before teaming with Hammerstein, Rogers wrote with this lyricist on such hits as blue moon and my funny valentine
Lorenz heart
With pride, she said the Montgomery boycott became the model for human rights throughout the world
Rosa Parks
Malala You sif zigh: I don’t want to be thought of as the girl who was shot by this group, but the girl who fought for education
The Taliban
A retort from her was you want me to tell you what my husband thinks? my husband is not the Secretary of State
Hillary Clinton Secretary of State at the time
You can lead a horticulture, but you can’t make her think is one of her snappy lines
Dorothy Parker
This expression meaning that the written word will defeat attempts to suppress contains two metronomes.
The pen is mightier than the sword
Proverbially you can’t fight it it being a metonym for local government
City Hall
And entrée may metonymically become what it’s served on as in revenge is this best served cold
A dish
This two word thoroughfare, traditionally reps regular ol middle-class folks
Main Street
Metonymy replaces a concept with a word associated with it like using this TV title headwear to mean queen
Crown
Obtained from beans, this fat that used to make chocolate is also used in a Nivea body lotion
Cocoa butter
Carrots were originally what color
Purple
in the 1700s Dutch growers cultivated, orange strains of carrots most likely just because they looked more appetizing
What country banned an episode of Peppa Pig that claimed spiders can’t hurt you
Australia
Australia spiders can definitely hurt you the white tailed, spider, red back, spider, and funnel web spider are all venomous
Mars is home to the solar system largest what
Volcano
Looming twice as tall as Mount Everest Olympus mons was first photographed in 1971 by NASA mariner nine probe
After twice leading the NFL in rushing Byron White spent more than 30 years doing this
Supreme Court Justice
He was a college football star who started at Oxford, then law school, then made it all the way to the Supreme Court
The Canary Islands get their name from the Latin word for what
Dogs
The name means island of the dogs possibly because they are popular with seals
Canary birds, though our name for the islands
What are New York City elevators required to have by law?
Mirrors,
the mirrors are mandated that anyone entering can see if there’s anyone hiding inside the elevator
The British monarch when he became president
Theodore Roosevelt
Edward the seventh
The British monarch when he became president,
Harry Truman
George the sixth
The British monarch when he became president
JFK
Queen Elizabeth II
After the selfish gene This British atheist evolved enough to published unweaving the rainbow
Dawkins
To avoid doing or saying anything because of nervousness
To pussyfoot
A green horn or a Boy Scout of the lowest rank
Tenderfoot
75,000 casualties among World War I British forces were distributed to this hitherto unknown condition
Hither 2
Trench foot
Habitual hurrier in a hot ride
Lead foot
a creature, not proven to actually exist e.g. like this one of western North America
Cryptid
Bigfoot
The British monarch when he became president
George Washington
King George the third
Her story is told in nine galleries through photos, drawings paintings, and personal possessions at her museum in downtown Santa Fe
Georgia O’Keefe
Able to produce enough dairy products for an entire logging camp Bestie the yeller cow was the mate of this other colossus
Babe, the blue ox
Kiefer Sutherland had to deal with meddling kids including two Corey’s in this 1987 thriller
The lost boys
This Game of Thrones actress excepted the invitation in 2022 and found her new family as kind of batty
Natalie Emanuel
In a 2004 film Hugh Jackman played the title vampire Hunter with this last name ;he headed to Transylvania
Van Helsing
Other famous roles in the spoofy 2012 flick include Harriet, Tubman, Jefferson Davis, and of course Mary Todd
Abraham Lincoln vampire Hunter
This African-American railroad man raced and defeated a steam drill in a contest, but died with his hammer in his hand
John Henry
Moses, the fireman once extinguished a raging NYC fire by tunnelling to New Jersey and using this water source to the flames
The Hudson
In an original tall tail by Pat Mora, dooown yuh Flor is a southwestern giant who makes these baked items that can be used as rafts
Tortillas
Boarding his Air Force One plane is a highlight of his library and museum in Simi Valley, California
Ronald Reagan
At Hawaii’s Bishop Museum you can see the still vivid yellow feathered cloak of this great warrior king
King kuh may uh may uh
In 2023 the national Museum of African-American history and culture acquired a major collection relating to this 18th century female poet
Phyllis Wheatley
The British monarch when he became president
Ulysses S grant
Queen Victoria
Outlining some of his philosophical ideas this German mathematician and rival of Newton published discourse on metaphysics
Lieb nidz
Perhaps a question for his theoretical cat what is life by this physicist, inspired Watson and crick and their DNA research
Schrodinger
Powerful, steel worker Joe magarac , bent that ally with his bare hands in tales from the city, the Paris of Appalachia
Mag uh rack
Pittsburgh
As the title character in this film, Wesley Snipes character rescues Karen Jensen a hematologist
Blade
His 1632 dialogue concerning the two chief world systems got him in hot water
Galileo
Robert Hook devised a compound one of these that helped him look at his subjects for his 1665 book micrographia
Microscope
