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There are rumors this Chrysler Corp. head may run for president in 1988 |
Lee Iacocca
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Thomaston, named for Seth Thomas, is where he set up his first factory making these |
clocks
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Father of Cleopatra's child, he's believed to have been her first lover |
Caesar
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The largest ever made measured 10 X 30 feet & used over 20,000 eggs |
(Marian: What is a pancake?)
an omelette
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This new-world marsupial is famous for "playing dead" |
opossum
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Chardonnay, Rhine wine & Reisling are all this color |
white
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This Japanese co. famous for motorcycles is world's biggest maker of musical instruments |
Yamaha
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King Charles II's charter defined Conn.'s boundaries as running west to this body of salt water |
(Alex: That's why Connecticut apparently claimed the Northwest territories.)
the Pacific Ocean
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Saluting the emperor, gladiators used this phrase to describe themselves |
[The phrase is more commonly known as "Those who are about to die salute you", or Ave Imperator, morituri te salutant.]
"We who are about to die salute thee
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The thickest is Houston's with over 3,500 pages |
a phone book
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When hunting in packs. sex of the lion that usually "makes the kill" |
the female
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Recommended course with which you should serve a Spanish cream sherry or Italian asti spumante |
dessert
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451 million telephones have been made in Indianapolis by this AT&T subsidiary |
Western Electric
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Though much more is grown in N.C. & Ky., it's also Connecticut's leading field crop |
(Alex: Tom, how much?) (Tom: A thousand?) (Alex: No, oh, that's right, you can risk up to the maximum amount on the board, and you want to risk a thousand?) (Tom: Absolutely.) (Alex: Good man. I suddenly forgot the rules of our game, I haven't been doing the show long enough, obviously.)
tobacco
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Emperor Hadrian had a wall built across the northern end of this country |
(Alex: [*] is right. Albion.)
England
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Margot Fonteyn & Rudolf Nureyev took 89, the record for these, after doing "Swan Lake" in 1964 |
curtain calls
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Pigging out makes this cousin of the pig 3rd largest living land animal by weight |
the hippopotamus
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It's the most prolific native grape in U.S. east of the Rockies |
(Alex: And we've got less than a minute to go in the round.)
the Concord grape
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Baltimore suburb of Towson is home of this largest U.S. maker of power tools |
Black & Decker
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In 1975, she became 1st woman elected Gov. anywhere whose husband hadn't formerly held the office |
Ella Grasso
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In 63 B.C., this rival of Julius Caesar conquered Jerusalem |
(Lionel: Who is Hannibal?)
Pompey
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In 1930, Charles Creighton & James Hargis drove roundtrip from N.Y. to L.A. this way |
backwards (in reverse)
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It was 1st discovered in 1869 by a French missionary who thought it an abnormally colored bear |
(Marian: What is the gorilla?)
the giant panda
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Brandy ages only as long as it remains in this |
in cask
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Standard Oil of Indiana, which pioneered sale of unleaded gas, is now known by this name |
(Alex: You did excellent in that category!)
Amoco
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This famed Connecticut tree was blown down in 1856 |
the Charter Oak
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"It is human nature to hate those whom you have injured", said this most famous Roman historian |
(Lionel: Who is...) (Alex: Oh, sorry, you ran out of time. That's too bad.)
Tacitus
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Common name of Nasalis larvatus, a monkey much in demand at primate parties for its Durante imitations |
[The end-of-round signal sounds.]
a proboscis monkey
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