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A PENNY FOR YOUR THOUGHTS |
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20th CENTURY SONG, 21st CENTURY AD |
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Also called Didymus or the twin, he refused to believe his fellow Apostles after missing an important visitation |
(Andrew!: Who is Judas?)
(Doubting) Thomas
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Sometime in the mid-1400s, this man from Mainz had the idea for printing from movable type |
Gutenberg
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By definition, these "activities" take place outside the scope of regular school instruction |
extracurricular
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Georges Braque's paintings made in the summer of 1908 including "Houses at l'Estaque" are among the first of this -ism |
Cubism
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To the British this fearmongering fowl in children's literature is known as Henny Penny |
Chicken Little
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"You're The One That I Want" from this musical sells NexGard flea treatment |
Grease
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This king gave his daughter Michal as a wife to David, but later married her off to another |
Saul
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In 1831 Pedro I, emperor of Brazil, gave up the throne & returned home to this country |
Portugal
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In this legal situation, a person or institution is designated to take over & protect the interests of one deemed unfit |
(Gino: What is... [*]?) (Ken: Can you say it again?)
conservatorship
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In 1887, before heading to Tahiti, Paul Gauguin was in Central America working briefly on a French attempt to build this |
(Mark: What's a canal?) (Ken: Can you be more specific?)
the Panama Canal
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When going to a hardware store, it might be helpful to know that these are usually sold in penny lengths |
(Mark: What's a ruler?)
nails
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A 2024 Volkswagen Super Bowl ad was set to this man's song "I Am... I Said" |
Neil Diamond
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With a name perhaps meaning "man of the javelin", this son of Enoch lived almost 1,000 years |
(Ken: That's [*], oldest guy in the Bible.)
Methuselah
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He completed the conquest begun by his grandfather & became the first Mongol to rule over all of China |
Kublai Khan
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The subtitle of the young people's nonfiction book "Eyes of the World" includes this word for reporting news through pictures |
photojournalism
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This artist's 1899 painting "Blue dancers" is a prime example of his pastels |
Degas
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This director was the onetime daughter-in-law of Carl Reiner |
Penny Marshall
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The Lincoln Navigator, driven on Earth, was advertised with a version of this band's 1979 "Walking On The Moon" |
The Police
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This prophet whose name became a word for an angry rant: "They proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord" |
Jeremiah
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Around 620 B.C. this Greek introduced his code of laws with penalties so severe, it was said the laws were written in blood |
Draco
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This noun means the relegation of someone to an unimportant position within a society or group (or piece of lined paper?) |
marginalization
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This leader of the Fauvists began painting when he was recovering from appendicitis |
Matisse
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This musical drama was first produced in Germany in 1928 as "Die Dreigroschenoper" |
The Threepenny Opera
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Pat Benatar sang, do this title, "fire away" & her challenge has been used to advertise Applebee's loaded fajitas |
hit me with your best shot
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Publius, a leader on this Mediterranean island, was kind to Paul, who was shipwrecked there, after Paul healed Publius' father |
Malta
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Edward the Confessor was the son of this king the Unready |
Æthelred
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A synonym for metamorphosis, in religion it refers to an exalting or glorifying change like that of Jesus in Matthew 17 |
transfiguration
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In 1838 Eugene Delacroix painted a double portrait of Chopin at the piano while this lover sat to his right |
George Sand
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The world's first adhesive postage stamp, it was issued on May 6, 1840 but is not rare; over 68 million were printed & a million survive |
a Penny Black
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Expedia made an ad using this group's "I'll Be Your Mirror"; we await "I'm Waiting For The Man" & "Venus In Furs" |
The Velvet Underground
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