Homophones | Poets and Poems | Their Main Musical Instrument | "Water" You Saying | Whiskey Business |
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What is waste/waist
Garbage, or where a belt goes
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What is a nightingale
In an ode, John Keats called this bird, renowned for its song, light-winged Dryad of the trees
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What is piano
Alicia Keys
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What is a water sign
Scorpio or Pisces, for example
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What is Kentucky
It's a myth that whiskey labeled bourbon must be distilled in this U.S. state but most of it is
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What is suite/sweet
That fancy lodging at your favorite hotel, or the "saccharine" word that describes it
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What is the poet laureate
As holder of this job in the 1970s, John Betjeman wrote verses honoring Elizabeth II's silver jubilee
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What is saxophone
Kenny G
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What is water skiing
This was one of the sports Henry Winkler could do, so it's how Fonzie jumped the shark
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What is Irish whiskey
Most scotch is distilled twice; this type of whiskey like Bushmills & Tullamore D.E.W. 3 times
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What is compliment/complement
A statement of admiration for another, or a "full" number of soldiers to do a job
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What is Emily Dickinson
This Belle of Amherst wrote, "I'll tell you how the sun rose--a ribbon at a time"
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What is banjo
Earl Scruggs
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What is watercress
Peppery salad vegetable
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What is Jack Daniel's
Forbes says India's Officer's Choice is the world's top-selling whiskey; America's is this Lynchburg libation
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What is taut/taught
The opposite of slack, or what slackers weren't getting in school
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What is Ogden Nash
This American's verses include "Behold the duck. It does not cluck. A cluck it lacks. It quacks"
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What is drums
Rock Hall of Famer Hal Blaine
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What is Waterford
Irish city famous for its crystal
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What is Angel's Share
A small percent of whiskey maturing in barrels evaporates each year a portion called the share of these celestial beings
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What is rood/rude
An old word for the Christian cross, or a description of one's impolite disposition
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What is John Donne
John Dryden said this other 17th century man "affects the metaphysics"; in fact he's the leading metaphysical poet
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What is violin
Sarah Chang & Midori
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What is a watershed
Type of plain in Spain from which the rain mainly drains to one main vein
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What is highland, lowland, Islay, Campbletown and Speyside
Name the five whisky regions of Scotland
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