|
|
TRAINS & THE PEOPLE WHO LOVE THEM |
|
|
THE TITLE'S NOT IN THE LYRICS |
|
|
|
Stealing these round covers on car wheels was once a rite of passage for young delinquents like Evel Knievel & Steve McQueen |
hubcaps
|
|
|
As a group, the 4 largest of Jupiter's moons are named for this Italian |
Galileo
|
|
|
This train-loving president said, "I'm probably the most pro-rail guy in America. I've ridden over 1,300,000 miles" |
(Ken: AMTRAK Joe, yes.)
Biden
|
|
|
Georgian architecture was all the rage in colonial America, as seen in the old statehouse that's now on this city's Freedom Trail |
Boston
|
|
|
You'll hear "I wanna show you off" repeatedly in this Doja Cat hit, but not the title place |
"Agora Hills"
|
|
|
This New York borough was actually named for but one woman, Catherine of Braganza |
Queens
|
|
|
One way to say "start eating" is "strap on" this, usually attached to a horse's head |
a feed bag
|
|
|
Marked by its billowy surface, pahoehoe is a term for a flow of this |
lava
|
|
|
In 1975 Jackie Kennedy Onassis stepped in to save this Beaux-Arts New York City landmark |
Grand Central Station
|
|
|
This product once called "white gold" has been made in Meissen, Germany since 1710; before that, you had to get it from China |
porcelain
|
|
|
You'll hear the album title but not the song title in this Nirvana breakthrough smash; whatever, nevermind |
"Smells Like Teen Spirit"
|
|
|
Westernmost of the prairie provinces, it was named for the wife of the Marquess of Lorne, a Canadian governor general |
(Eileen: What is Victoria?)
Alberta
|
|
|
Four-letter word for a raised platform, like the one for the veep & speaker at the State of the Union address |
a dais
|
|
|
This end-of-the-alphabet word is the term for the spot in the celestial sphere directly above you |
zenith
|
|
|
Tiktoker Francis Bourgeois gained 3 million followers sharing this hobby, also the name of a Danny Boyle film |
trainspotting
|
|
|
This furniture style with curved ornamentation got big in the mid-1700s; nice time to be a Chippendale |
Rococo
|
|
|
A classic by The Who is titled "Baba O'riley", not "Teenage" this place, as the chorus might suggest |
Wasteland
|
|
|
Maryland is named for Queen Henrietta Maria, the wife of this man for whom the Carolinas are named |
(Dave: Who is George II?)
Charles (I)
|
|
|
It's the full-length robe worn by Catholic clergy: white for popes, red for Cardinals, black for priests |
(Eileen: What is a--what is an alb?)
the cassock
|
|
|
Immunoglobulins is another word for these, produced in the body to fight foreign invaders |
(Dave: What are... white blood cells?)
antibodies
|
|
|
The company relaunching this train describes it as a "dream on wheels"; it first puffed east from Paris in 1883 |
(Ken: Correct, with less than a minute to go.)
the Orient Express
|
|
|
A landmark of Neoclassicism, this Jacques-Louis David painting features, among other things, a cup of hemlock & a bummed-out Plato |
The Death of Socrates
|
|
|
We can't repeat many of the words in her No. 1 hit "Hiss", but the title's OK |
Megan Thee Stallion
|
|
|
This capital of South Australia was named for a consort of William IV |
(Klay: What is Victoria?)
Adelaide
|
|
|
Basically meaning "little moon", it's the style of window seen here |
a lunette
|
|
|
These microscopic pores in leaves & stems are opened & closed to exchange gases & reduce water loss |
(Klay: What are stigmata?)
stomata
|
|
|
This "commodore" didn't just love the sea; by 1873 he owned 4 railroads, including the New York Central |
Vanderbilt
|
|
|
In contrast to the weightier fare of "opera seria", this genre of light comic opera emerged in Naples in the mid-18th century |
opera buffa
|
|
|
Am I just paranoid, or do you not know that the title of a 1994 hit by this popular punk trio is actually "Basket Case"? |
Green Day
|
|
|
Yamoussoukro, a capital of this African nation, was named for a great-aunt of President Félix Houphouët-Boigny |
Côte d'Ivoire
|
|