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The 3 initial requirements for adults 18-25 to be in the CCC were to be male, unemployed & this |
single
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It's the familial title of the recent hit comedy seen here |
Daddy Day Care
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In area it's the largest U.S. state that begins & ends with the same letter |
Alaska
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In 1997 China appointed Tung Chee-Hwa Chief Executive Officer of this newly acquired region |
Hong Kong
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The Nubian languages are mostly spoken along this river (between cataracts 1 & 4) |
Nile
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Happy songbird (4) |
a lark
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Of 25 cents, $1.10 or $1.60, the hourly wage minimum set by the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act |
25 cents
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In one of Burt Lancaster's last films, a boat originally called "Rock of" this becomes "Rocket" this |
Gibraltar
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We freely volunteer the information that at 6,643 feet, Clingman's Dome is this state's highest point |
Tennessee
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In August 1999 this Russian President fired his fourth Prime Minister in 18 months |
Boris Yeltsin
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Hausa, one of the few Chadic languages with a written form, switched from the Arabic alphabet to this one |
Roman
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In 1935 the REA was set up to supply cheap this (indicated by its "E") to some rural areas |
(Brian: What is energy?)
electricity
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This state was admitted to the Union on Valentine's Day 1912 |
Arizona
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In 1992 Ron Carey, an ex-UPS driver, was elected president of this organization in its first secret ballot |
the Teamsters Union
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The dialect of Lamu in Kenya has produced classic poetry in this Bantu language |
Swahili
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Odysseus' father, or Ophelia's brother (7) |
Laertes
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When it began in 1933, it protected bank accounts up to a whopping $5,000! |
(Renie: What is the FCIC?)
the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation)
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Steve Martin was a lip-synch & dance man in this 1981 movie musical |
Pennies From Heaven
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During the 1980s this large southern state had the highest-percentage growth in the Union |
(Jeffrey: What is Georgia?) (Brian: What is Texas?)
Florida
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This artist, who began with wrapping bottles & a tree, wrapped the old German Parliament building in 1995 |
(Jeffrey: Who is Christos?)
Christo
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Semitic languages are named for Shem; this group of languages, for another of Noah's sons |
Hamitic
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Noah Webster, for example (13) |
(Brian: What is a legislator?)
lexicographer
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The Farm Security Administration's pictorial record of rural America includes this woman's photo of the migrant mother seen here |
Dorothea Lange
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This seasonal 1971 film with Jennifer O'Neill tapped into nostalgia for the WWII era |
Summer of '42
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Vidalia onions, some of the world's sweetest, hail from this U.S. state |
Georgia
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Born Faith Plotkin, this Nostradamus of marketing burst on the scene in 1991 |
Faith Popcorn
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A disapproving sound using the tongue is a version of this sound for which some Afr. tongues are named |
the click
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Shirley Jackson's game (7) |
lottery
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