Liberty Mutual is an insurance company based in Boston. Personally, I’m no believer in Bieber … 76 Bird in Liberty Mutual commercials : EMU Fans of Bieber call themselves “Beliebers”. Bieber was actually discovered on YouTube by talent manager Scooter Brown. Justin Bieber is a young pop singer from London, Ontario. 75 Nickname of a 2010s pop idol, with “the” : BIEB Jimmy Kimmel is the host of the late-night talk show “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Kimmel also co-hosted “The Man Show” and my personal favorite, “Win Ben Stein’s Money”. 72 Cousin _ (“Jimmy Kimmel Live” regular) : SAL That said, I think that the term “outback” is sometimes reserved for the more remote parts of the bush. In Australia, the land outside of urban areas is referred to as the outback or the bush. 67 Drive a getaway car through Australia’s outback? : ABET AROUND THE BUSH (from “beat around the bush”) If so, then the z-coordinate is referred to as the “applicate”. Those same terms are rarely used in 3-dimensional plots. When something is plotted on a graph with x- and y-coordinates, the x-coordinate is called the “abscissa”, and the y-coordinate is the “ordinate”. 64 What the abscissa and ordinate are measured from : AXIS The “Looney Tunes” character known as the Tasmanian Devil, or “Taz”, first appeared in a cartoon short with Bugs Bunny called “Devil May Care” in 1954. Esau had three wives, Adah, Aholibamah and Bashemath. 54 Hairy hunter of Genesis : ESAUĮsau is a son of Isaac, and someone whose story is told in the Bible’s Book of Genesis. The first use of “ace” was during WWI, when the French newspapers dubbed pilot Adolphe Pegoud “l’as” (French for “the ace”) when he shot down his fifth German plane. The qualifying number of kills seems to vary, but five is common. 48 “The elite fighter pilots may skip the rest of the lecture”? : ACES DISMISSED (from “case dismissed”)Ī flying ace is an aviator who has shot down a number of enemy planes during combat. 43 Some somber music : DIRGEĪ dirge is a slow and mournful piece of music, like perhaps a funeral hymn. The term “dime”, used for a 10-cent coin, comes from the Old French word “disme” meaning “tenth part”. Regulus is a multiple star and what we see as one entity is actually made up of four stars rotating around a common center of mass. Regulus is the brightest star in the constellation of Leo. The term “emcee” comes from “MC”, an initialism used for a Master or Mistress of Ceremonies. 33 Emcee during a power outage? : HOST IN THE DARK (from “shot in the dark”) 25 With 81-Across, flashy basketball play : ALLEY-…Īn alley-oop is a play in basketball in which one player lobs the ball close to the basket for a teammate who usually scores with a slam dunk. The “Spumante” was dropped in a marketing attempt at rebranding associated with a reduction in the amount of residual sugar in the wine. The wine used to be called Asti Spumante, and it had a very bad reputation as a “poor man’s champagne”. 24 Sparkling Italian wine : ASTIĪsti is a sparkling white wine from the Piedmont region of Italy, and is named for the town of Asti around which the wine is produced. The blocks were originally sold under the name “Automatic Binding Bricks” but I think “Lego” is easier to remember! The name “Lego” comes from the Danish term “leg godt” meaning “play well”. The company was founded by a carpenter called Ole Kirk Christiansen in 1934 and the now-famous plastic interlocking blocks were introduced in 1949. Lego is manufactured by the Lego Group, a privately held company headquartered in Billund, Denmark. 22 Facial feature of a Lego man? : SQUARE CHIN (from “square inch”) Flora was the Roman goddess of plants, flowers and fertility. The term “fauna” comes from the Roman goddess of earth and fertility who was called Fauna. The fauna is the animal life of a particular region, and the flora is that region’s plant life. the Southeast Crater Complex (of two craters).There are five distinct craters at the summit of Mount Etna: The Oldsmobile Alero was the last car made by General Motors under the Oldsmobile brand. The word “grub” has been used in this sense since way back in the 1600s, and is possibly derived from birds eating grubs. The larvae of stag beetles are commonly known as grubs, and the pupa known as the chrysalis. Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies Across
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