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PRESIDENTIAL MIDDLE NAMES |
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Close to half of Alaska's population lives in this one city |
Anchorage
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On May 20 1899, a New York cab driver became the 1st person arrested for breaking this law |
(Bill: What is running a stoplight?) ... (Alex: Yeah, he was going 12 miles per hour. Glad they caught him.)
speeding
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This comedy duo's split-up was big news in 1956 |
(Molly: Who are [**] and [*]?) (Alex: Yes. Normally referred to as [*] & [**].) (Molly: Sorry, I don't know.) (Alex: You took me by surprise.) (Molly: I was just a kid.)
Martin & Lewis
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Number of pins across the back row in 10 pin bowling |
(Alex: We've got a minute to go in the round.)
4
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Delano |
Franklin Roosevelt
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For American Catholics it was Friday, November 18, 1966 |
(Bill: What was the last day that they were... didn't have to eat fish on Friday?) (Alex: How about we say [*]?) [Laughter]
the last meatless Friday
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Though Vitus Bering was a Dane, he was working for this country when he discovered Alaska |
Russia
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When accused of doing this, famed attorney Melvin Belli replied, "I get there before the ambulance" |
ambulance chasing
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It's said the Beat Generation began in poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti's "City Lights" bookshop in this city |
San Francisco
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Game a kid would be playing if he hits a "spauldeen" 2 sewers |
stickball
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Elizabeth Taylor's last husband |
Senator John Warner
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From 1879-1884 this branch of the military ruled Alaska |
(Alex: Yes, because the Army was too busy fighting those Indian wars.)
the Navy
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3-word Latin term for a law that's passed & then enforced retroactively |
ex post facto
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It wasn't until 1959 that full text of this 1928 D.H. Lawrence novel was published in U.S. |
Lady Chatterley's Lover
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He outran a racehorse in a hundred-yard dash in 1936 |
Jesse Owens
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Calvin |
John Calvin Coolidge
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To date, Britain's last king |
George VI
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Over 90% of Alaska's oil is found in vicinity of this bay on the Arctic coast |
(Molly: What is Prudhome Bay? [*]?) [Originally ruled correct; reversed before Final Jeopardy!] (Alex: Yeah, [*]. I thought I heard you say Prudhome first, but go ahead.)
Prudhoe Bay
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Only state whose civil laws are not based mainly on English common law but on the "code Napoleon" |
Louisiana
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In 1959, this int'l figure appeared on CBS' "Person to Person" in pajamas rather than fatigues |
(Bill: Who is Hugh Hefner?) ... (Alex: His advisors told him he looked a little more human if he didn't wear the Army uniform. Show up in pajamas.)
(Fidel) Castro
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3 of the 6 NFL teams that have won the Super Bowl more than once |
(Bill: Who are the [*]?) (Alex: Right.) (Bill: Who are the [**]?) (Alex: Right.) (Bill: Who are the Baltimore Colts?) [The end-of-round signal sounds.]
(3 of) Pittsburgh Steelers, Miami Dolphins, Green Bay Packers, Dallas Cowboys, San Francisco 49ers, Oakland/Los Angeles Raiders
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It was the last completed film for both Clark Gable & Marilyn Monroe |
The Misfits
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The Indians called the Inuit people "Eskimos" meaning eaters of this |
(Bill: What is blubber?)
raw meat (or raw flesh)
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Anti-segregation lawyer in 1954 landmark case, in 1967, he became 1st black Supreme Court justice |
Thurgood Marshall
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Ezra Taft Benson, now prophet & pres. of the Mormon church, held this cabinet post in the '50s |
Secretary of Agriculture
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Of our 1st 8 presidents, the only 1 to have a middle name |
John Quincy Adams
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Martha, who died of old age in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914, was the last of these birds |
(Bill: What is the dodo?) (Stanton: What is the platypus?)
passenger pigeons
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