|
|
|
MYTHOLOGICAL WORDS & PHRASES |
|
|
|
|
In November 1936 it began carrying traffic between San Francisco & Oakland across the water it's named for |
|
|
Starring Jane Fonda: "____ Ballou" |
|
|
Minted in 1767, he did enough to get his mug on our $20 bill |
|
|
Placed on top of a pillar, a herm is a bust of this god for whom it's named |
|
|
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, Tuesdays are dedicated to this man who foreshadowed the arrival of Jesus |
|
|
Waka taua are these boats that can be more than 100 feet long & hold 80 paddlers |
|
|
In between stints as California's governor, he served 2 terms as Oakland's mayor |
|
|
A movie with "true grit": "____ Cogburn" |
|
|
Met life in 1879, wrote 6 books & never met a man he didn't like |
|
|
An ocean sponge known for its lattice-like skeleton is called this love goddess' flower basket |
|
|
On "Black Tuesday", Oct. 29 of this year, the Dow Jones Industrial Average crashed & lost 23% of its value |
|
|
Maori ceremonial cloaks called korowai are made with the feathers of a rare albino variety of this flightless bird |
|
|
What's now East Oakland was once a city called this, like a borough southeast of Manhattan |
|
|
Technology tracks & controls Shia LaBeouf: "____ Eye" |
|
|
Born in Simbirsk in 1870, founded the Comintern with comrades |
|
|
A Phrygian king is the source for this 2-word phrase for the talent for making wealth out of any business endeavor |
|
|
In rhyme "Tuesday's child is full of" this |
|
|
Seen before rugby games, a haka is one of these & is performed "so that the whole body should speak" |
|
|
Huey Newton & Bobby Seale founded this radical party in Oakland in 1966 |
|
|
A fantasy film by Tim Burton: "Big ____" |
|
|
Born in England but moved left to the U.S. (& right politically), told us about it in "Hitch-22" |
|
|
A source of unforeseen troubles, it's derived from a container that held all the world's evils |
|
|
Every 4 years a politically important day is dubbed this; in 2012 it was March 6 |
|
|
|
Francis Smith, the 19th c. "king" of this mineral soap additive, helped build Oakland's streetcar system |
|
|
Based on a true Australian story: "____-Proof Fence" |
|
|
Born in 1892, military man, into Spain management, still dead since 1975 |
|
|
A project that is, by design, never finished is called the web of this woman, Ulysses' wife |
|
|
For Greeks, Tuesday is considered unlucky; it was the day of the week this city fell in 1453 |
|
|