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ANIMAL, VEGETABLE OR MINERAL ANAGRAMS |
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ON THE SCIENTIST'S RÉSUMÉ |
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Major League Soccer's top scorer gets the Golden this piece of footwear |
Boot
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The S train has but 2 stops, shuttling across 42nd Street between Times Square & this landmark with much train activity |
Grand Central Station
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This brand of little breath mints was launched in 1969 |
Tic Tacs
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Vegetable: FAILURE COWL |
cauliflower
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c. 1491-94: Student of astronomy & astrology, U. of Krakow; c. 1515: invited to Fifth Lateran Council to aid calendar reform |
Copernicus
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He ended a poem, "I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference" |
Frost
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Given out on Memorial Day weekend, the Borg-Warner Trophy goes to the winner of this race |
(Max!: What is the America's Cup?)
the Indianapolis 500
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Flatbush Avenue! The No. 2 train's stop for the college named for this borough! Please step away from the closing doors |
(Max!: What is Queens?) ... (Ken: There we go, yes, the eternal rivalry.)
Brooklyn
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Toss across is basically this pencil-&-paper game but with bean bags |
tic-tac-toe
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1978: T.A., science at Stanford; 1979: completed her NASA training; 1983: made history aboard Challenger |
Sally Ride
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"What immortal hand or eye, dare frame thy fearful symmetry?" ends the poem about this beast |
Tyger
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The NHL's Selke Trophy goes to the forward who's best not at scoring but at this |
(Max!: What are assists?)
defense
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Give my regards to Broadway, remember me to this square, named for an old-time newspaper, & its stop on the D train |
Herald Square
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This social media platform was originally called musical.ly |
TikTok
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1927: Italy's first professor of theoretical physics |
(Connor: Uh... who's Cassini?)
Enrico Fermi
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Sandburg finished a poem titled for this city, "player with railroads and freight handler to the nation" |
Chicago
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Serena Williams is a 3-time winner of the Coupe Suzanne-Lenglen, given to the women's singles champ at this Grand Slam event |
the French Open
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Head downtown on the 1, 2 or 3 train to hit this street, the "Ho" in SoHo, & note its pronunciation |
(Suzanne: What's "HOE-stun"?) (Ken: Yeah, "HOW-stun" Street.)
Houston (Street)
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Andrew Garfield played composer Jonathan Larson running out of time in this 2021 film |
Tick, Tick... Boom!
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Vegetable: TACO HIKER |
artichoke
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1929: Bachelor's in bio from Penn. College for Women; 1962: published "Silent Spring", first serialized in the New Yorker |
(Rachel) Carson
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In "Harlem" he asked of a "Dream Deferred", "Does it explode?" |
Langston Hughes
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Named for a onetime Brisbane Lions coach, the Leigh Matthews Trophy goes to the MVP of the AFL, this |
the Australian Football League
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If you want a day at the museum, take the C train to 81st Street to enjoy this "Night at the Museum" museum |
the Museum of Natural History
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Rudyard Kipling described him as "a mongoose, rather like a little cat in his fur and his tail" |
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi
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Mineral: CUR MOUND |
(Ken: Very good, wow.)
corundum
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1916: University of Copenhagen, professor of theoretical physics; 1922: Nobel Prize |
Niels Bohr
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The events of Homer's "Iliad" conclude with a funeral for this hero, "tamer of horses" |
Hector
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