No, not the good kind of four-letter words. These particular words I’m describing as “stately” because all of them can be spelled by smushing the postal abbreviations of two U.S. states together.
Use the clues, and your knowledge of U.S. geography to come up with the answers:
Questions:
- A Disney animated feature character who was voiced by Jeremy Irons (or an outcropping of bare rock on a mountain face)?
- As of 2018, the cultivar of apple most produced in the United States (or a fancy black-tie occasion)?
- An archaic unit of land measurement (or half of a favorite children’s game)?
- The stage surname of a rapper who was born Radric Davis (or something a horse and a lion have in common)?
- First name of a well-known U.S. religious figure (or a way to deliver both medicine and an argument)?
- The type of agreement that created NATO (or the original title of the 2018 film “Blockers”)?
- A slang term for a foolish or useless person (or a tag used by two different well-known graffiti artists from Pittsburgh and Portland)?
- A tough outer layer (or a giantess in Norse mythology who bore a son, Vali, for Odin)?
- A long, plaintive cry of grief (or part of a Louis Prima song title covered by the Brian Setzer Orchestra)?
- The German-derived English word for anti-aircraft artillery (or a kind of criticism you don’t want to catch)?
Answers up after the Thanksgiving episode of “Friends” where Ross tries to remember all 50 states. A classic.
Answers:
- Scar (South Carolina, Arkansas)
- Gala (Georgia, Louisiana)
- Hide (Hawaii, Delaware)
- Mane (Massachusetts, Nebraska)
- Oral (Oregon, Alabama)
- Pact (Pennsylvania, Connecticut)
- Mook (Missouri, Oklahoma)
- Rind (Rhode Island, North Dakota)
- Wail (Washington, Illinois)
- Flak (Florida, Alaska)
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