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| This injury got its name from the snapping motion of the neck seen in some car collisions |
whiplash
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| Her husband Vincente Minnelli directed her musical numbers in "Till The Clouds Roll By" |
Judy Garland
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| The Norwegian Pumpkin Rolling Festival & the Kalamazoo Kitefest are annual events in this state |
(Lance: What is Minnesota?)
Michigan
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| This is a stick with attached horsehairs drawn across the strings of a violin |
a bow
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| Another name for Phys Ed, or the building in which it's held |
Gym
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| A baseball catcher wears it on the field; a cook wears it in the kitchen |
a mitt
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| Swollen lymph glands are a symptom of this disease that's also known as the three-day measles |
(George: What are the mumps?)
German measles
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| Mickey Rooney & Spencer Tracy "electrified" audiences when they both played this inventor in 1940 |
Thomas Edison
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| Lincoln, New Mexico was the site of this "juvenile" outlaw's last escape, & it's reenacted there every year |
Billy the Kid
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| A 3-note one of these is also called a triad |
a chord
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| Tardy is just being late for class; if you're playing this, you're skipping school entirely |
hooky
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| "Imitation is the sincerest form of" it |
flattery
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| It's what the GI stands for in an upper GI series |
gastrointestinal
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| In her last film, "The Sun Comes Up", this singer co-starred with Lassie, not with Nelson Eddy |
Jeanette MacDonald
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| A swap & sell meeting for folks who collect this kind of wire is held annually in La Crosse, Kansas |
barbed wire
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| This soft, relaxed style of singing is associated with Bing Crosby |
crooning
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| It doesn't take a CPA to figure out a student's GPA, which stands for this |
grade point average
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| This hyphenated word describes the sound of lightly falling rain |
pitter-patter
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| Christmas disease is a type of this inherited disease in which blood does not clot normally |
hemophilia
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| Fred Astaire was tapped to star in "Easter Parade" after this fellow dancer hurt his ankle |
Gene Kelly
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| New Glarus, Wisconsin, which was founded by Swiss settlers, holds a pageant named for this "Straight Arrow" |
William Tell
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| This florid style of operatic singing comes from the Italian word for coloring |
coloratura
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| In a graduating class, the salutatorian is second to this student |
the valedictorian
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| Used for trellises, it's an open framework, usually in a crisscross pattern |
lattice
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| Epinephrine, a hormone released when you're angry or scared, is more commonly called this |
adrenaline
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| This 1945 film was shot mainly in black & white, but the Metamorphic title portrait is in color |
(David: What is [*]... Portrait of Dorian Gray?) (Alex: Ooh. sorry. You added something to what was very close to being an incorrect response.) [David used an indefinite leading article instead of the definite leading article in his first response attempt.]
The Picture of Dorian Gray
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| In 1977 opera composer Gian Carlo Menotti founded this Southern city's Spoleto Festival U.S.A. |
Charleston, South Carolina
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| This country's classical music is based on arrangements of notes called ragas |
India
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| The names of the students with the top grades are put on this |
the Dean's List (or honor roll)
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| A diplomatic official, or his briefcase |
an attaché
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