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Founding father who was called "Father of the Declaration of Independence" |
Thomas Jefferson
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This city's annual marathon was 1st run back in 1897 |
Boston
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A book, "Follies & Foibles", says these coats, a college fad in the '20s, were cut up in the '50s for a hat fad |
(Paul: What are beavers?)
raccoon coats
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The sequel to this film about game wardens in Kenya was called "Living Free" |
Born Free
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His father fought against Napoleon in 1812, which he wrote about in "War and Peace" |
Tolstoy
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The 1st line of "America the Beautiful" |
O beautiful for spacious skies
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This famous frontiersman was a colonel in the Virginia militia |
Daniel Boone
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He was world heavyweight champ from 1937-49, longer than anyone else |
Joe Louis
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These 19th century skirt expanders were made of horsehair, "crino", & flaxcloth, "lino" |
crinolines
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In film of Agatha Christie's book, Angela Lansbury & Mia Farrow both found "Death on" this river |
the Nile
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In 1936, W.H. Auden married Thomas Mann's daughter so she could escape this country |
Nazi Germany
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Subtitle of "This is All I Ask", they were asked to "walk a little slower when you walk by me" |
"Beautiful Girls"
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Born in Connecticut, Nathan Hale was a graduate of this Ivy League university |
Yale
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In soccer, only a goalie can touch the ball with his hands; in team handball, only a goalie can do this to the ball |
(Jenny: What is catch it?)
kick it
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1978 movie that revived the college party fad for toga fashions |
Animal House
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A TV movie with Charles Bronson dramatized the 1976 Israeli commando "Raid on" this Uganda airport |
Entebbe
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He exhibited his watercolors internationally but was more famous for "Tropic of Cancer" |
Henry Miller
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This '75 song was Joe Cocker's last solo single to make the charts |
(Jonathan: What is [*] to me?)
"You Are So Beautiful"
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This was once moved from Philadelphia & hidden in Allentown's Zion Reformed Church |
(Paul: What was the Declaration of Independence?)
Liberty Bell
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Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color line; Earl Lloyd was the 1st black to play in this pro league |
(Paul: What is uh, football?)
NBA (National Basketball)
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It was this sporting fad of the 1890s that brought back the 1850s fashion of bloomers for women |
(Jenny: What is tennis?)
bicycling
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Legend says this "Decameron" author was in love with the illegitimate daughter of the King of Naples |
Boccaccio
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In this song Ray Stevens says "We shouldn't care about the length of his hair or the color of his skin" |
(Alex: In its own way.)
"Everything Is Beautiful"
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Cousin to our 2nd President, this rebel leader was Massachusetts governor from 1793-1797 |
(Alex: We've got less than a minute to go, Paul.)
Sam Adams
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Named for the Georgia mountain where his father was wounded in the Civil War, he was baseball's 1st commissioner |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis
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In the 1984 film "Sahara", this teen star dressed up as a man to race across the desert |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
Brooke Shields
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"Little Prince" author who disappeared while flying a WWII reconnaissance mission & was never found |
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
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Charlie Rich came out from behind closed door with this, his only #1 pop hit |
(Alex: Hey, did you happen to see [*] in the world?)
"The Most Beautiful Girl"
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