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The Canadian legislature has 2 houses: the upper house, or Senate, & the lower house called this, as in the U.K. |
House of Commons
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It's the only New York City borough that's entirely on the mainland |
the Bronx
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On July 20, 1999 the opening bell was rung off of Wall Street; way off, it was on one of these in San Francisco |
cable car
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About 3% of the popular vote in the 2000 presidential election went to a candidate from this party |
(Alex: Ralph Nader was the candidate.)
Green Party
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This Paul Simon song begins, "I'm sitting in the railway station, got a ticket for my destination" |
"Homeward Bound"
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About 80% of Canada's oil & natural gas comes from the plains of this westernmost prairie province |
Alberta
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It's the big puddy tat seen here |
lynx
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In an alligator spread in the options market, these of the broker are so big they eat all your profit |
(Guy: What are options?)
commissions
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There were 3 Progressive Parties in the 20th century; only the one in 1912 had this animal nickname |
Bull Moose Party
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In 1964 Indiana governor Matthew Welsh declared this Kingsmen song to be "pornographic" |
"Louie Louie"
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This province's port of Churchill is the "Polar Bear Capital of the World" |
(Guy: What is Ontario?)
Manitoba
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It's the arrangement of the relationship among words in a sentence, or the study of it |
syntax
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Davy Crockett |
San Antonio
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Dow Jones has 3 big stock averages: transportation, utility & this |
(Jim: What is energy?)
industrial
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John Schmitz in '72 was American; Perot in '92 was Independent, & this man in 1968 was American Independent |
(Jim: Who was Anderson?)
George Wallace
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"Hello, I Love You" was the first track on "Waiting for the Sun", this group's only No. 1 album |
the Doors
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Canada has over 20,000 miles of railroad tracks, but this smallest province has none |
Prince Edward Island
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The original Dutch title of Anne Frank's diary was "Het Achterhuis", translated as this "secret" place |
annex
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Peter the Great |
St. Petersburg, Russia
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It can be a sharp, short price decline that interrupts a persistent upward trend, or a fluid for typos |
(Alex: Minute to go now.)
correction
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Some say the Democratic Party can be traced back to a 1790s coalition with this hyphenated name |
Democratic-Republican Party
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This quartet leader died young & mysteriously in 1966, but his music lives on
"I fought the law and the law won..." |
Bobby Fuller
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This peak, Canada's highest point, was named for the founder of the Geological Survey of Canada |
Mount Logan
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Next to Achilles, he was the strongest & bravest of the Greeks in the Trojan War |
Ajax
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The P/E of GE or any company is this ratio |
price to earnings ratio
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The slogan of this party that nominated Martin Van Buren in 1848 included "Free Speech, Free Labor, & Free Men" |
(Guy: Who are the Know-Nothings?) (Donna: Who are the Whigs?)
Free Soil Party
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In 1990 Rod Stewart sang, "All my dreams fall like rain on" one of these |
"Downtown Train"
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