1. 1945
2. the Washington Monument
3. Ophelia
4. Harvard University (founded in 1636)
5. the collar bone
6. Cervantes
7. the meter
8. Mount Ararat
9. meteors
10. 31 square inches
11. Huckleberry Finn
12. cigarettes
13. at the tomb of Lazarus
14. four movements
15. the pancreas
16. Condaleeza Rice
17. Mudville
18. polonium (named after Poland)
19. the brother (since the French word frere means "brother.")
20. crossbow
21. cedilla
22. a double-hulled canoe
23. a tail
24. greenhorn
25. Nectar was what the gods on Mount Olympus drank. (They ate ambrosia.)