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Barbados has a Trafalgar Square, too & its statue of this hero is older than the one in London |
Nelson
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On Sept. 10, 1955, John Wayne introduced the 1st episode of this western set in Dodge City, Kansas |
(Alex: The western was called [*]. John Wayne was considered, was asked to be the lead, but he recommended Jim Arness instead.)
Gunsmoke
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By the mid-1950s this country had about 375 subs in various oceans & seas |
(Andrew: What is the United States?)
the Soviet Union
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Patricia Ann Reagan uses this name professionally |
Patti Davis
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Lengths of these include cap, short, three-quarter, seven-eighths & long |
sleeves
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Not surprisingly, the word koala comes from a native language of this continent |
Australia
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Stuttgart in this country is so named because it used to be the site of a stud farm, or stuotgarten |
Germany
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Its theme song began, "Rollin' rollin' rollin', tho' the streams are swollen, keep them dogies rollin'..." |
Rawhide
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After WWI the Allied Submarine Detection Investigation Committee developed this to detect subs |
sonar
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Princess Julia Cantacuzene, a granddaughter of this president & Civil War general died in 1975 at the age of 99 |
Grant
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If the fabric has a nap, you should lay out the pieces of this in one direction & cut them out |
the pattern
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This word meaning something not fully understood is from the Greek musterion, "secret rite" |
mystery
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These 2 European countries whose names begin with "Sw" were both neutral during WWI & WWII |
Switzerland and Sweden
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This TV western was set on the Barkley Ranch in the 1870s |
(Adam: What is the Pond-- um, what is the Vir-- what is Ponderosa?
The Big Valley
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Until this arrived in the 1950s, almost all subs used diesel-electric power |
nuclear power
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Writer Jessamyn West babysat this cousin from Calif. who grew up to become president in the 1960s |
Nixon
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Types of these include running & back |
stitches
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The name of this 2- or 3-toed mammal comes from Middle English for "slow" |
a sloth
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The name of this South American city is Portuguese for "River of January" |
Rio de Janeiro
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This sidekick of the Cisco Kid was played by Leo Carrillo, who was in his 70s when he began the role |
(Andrew: What is Hopalong Cassidy?)
Pancho
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Subs usually have 2 of these optical devices, 1 for general use, 1 for the attack |
periscopes
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It was the first name of William Henry Harrison's father & grandson |
Benjamin
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Numbers on spools of thread refer to this; to work on material like organdy or net, use no. 100 |
thickness
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This title of prince Siddhartha comes from Sanskrit for "awakening" |
Buddha
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Medieval poet Snorri Sturluson wroth the Prose Edda, one of this country's greatest literary works |
Iceland
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Roy Rogers rode Trigger, Dale Evans this horse |
(Alex: Neat name for her horse. [*].) [laughter]
Buttermilk
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Air trapped in these tanks makes a sub float |
ballast tanks
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Unopened six-packs of this beverage named for Jimmy Carter's brother are now a collector's item |
Billy Beer
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An early version of this notion was Whitcomb Judson's "clasp locker" |
(Alex: ...is the Daily Double. And it's always better, or perhaps worse, if it comes late in the round, because it means the player's had an opportunity to accumulate a lot of money, and that is certainly the case with you, Bev.)
a zipper
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Lepos, meaning "scale", gave us this word for a pariah |
leper
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